Kenyon T. Payne Award

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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