Kenyon T. Payne Award
Kenyon T. Payne was Chairperson of the Department of Crop Science until 1969 when he took over the Two Year Ag. Tech Program for Golf Turfgrass Management. While there he worked with Professor Beard to get the program on solid ground. Approximately 800 students have graduated under Dr. Payne's leadership. He was an avid supporter of excellent golf turf and did work on breeding Red Fescue resistance to Leaf Spot disease. Dr. Payne also served as treasurer of the Michigan Turfgrass Foundation for a number of years and was very well known in the University and in the industry nationwide. In his honor, what was the Outstanding Student Award, was renamed the Kenyon T. Payne Outstanding Student Award.
YEAR | RECIPIENT |
1968 | Scott Sincerbeau |
1969 | Tom Gauthier |
1970 | James Donahue |
1971 | Joseph Yoder |
1972 | N/A |
1973 | Donald Ratcliff |
1974 | Tom Mason |
1975 | James Wile |
1976 | Carl Jacobs |
1977 | Bruce Williams |
1978 | Les Rutan |
1979 | Patrick Klein |
1980 | Patrick Berger |
1981 | Brad Emerick |
1982 | Dan Garson |
1983 | Frank Dinelli |
1984 | David Schwall |
1985 | Kenneth Zack |
1986 | Niall Fraser |
1987 | Jeff Dorrell |
1988 | Douglas Palm |
1989 | Robert Warner |
1990 | David Faucher |
1991 | Steven Southard |
1992 | Gary Krokker |
1993 | Mike Powers |
1994 | Bob Marshall |
1995 | Mark Wallace |
1996 | Michael Lyons |
1997 | David Datema |
1998 | Dennis Cook |
1999 | Troy Rice |
2000 | Joel Comstock |
2001 | Kevin Kuehne |
2002 | Mick Ide |
2003 | Charlie Romines |
2004 | Brian Roberts |
2005 | Trevor Thorp |
2006 | Dan Koops |
2007 | Eric David |
2008 | Dominic Cercone |
2009 | Ryan Gage |
2010 | William Keister |
2011 | Justin Doran |
2012 | Blaine Burch |
2013 | Eva Sanchez-Cespedes |
2014 | Trent Limban |
2015 | Gerald Navarre |
2016 | Evan Stoddard |
2017 | Timothy LeBlanc |
2018 | Reid Rahoi |
2019 | Thomas Quisenberry |
2020 | Alex Scott |
2021 | Colin King |
2022 | David Parker |
2023 | Connor McBride |