Year

Individual

Organization

School

Student

2003

·         Bret Princen,

      Audubon Council

      of Illinois, Peoria,

      IL.

·        Tri-Country

      Riverfront Action

      Forum, Peoria, IL (Don Meinen)

·        Audubon Council of Illinois

Lawrenceville HS,

Lawrenceville, IL

(Joan Clark)  

Jenni Kemp,

Dundee Crown HS,

Carpentersville,

IL

2002

·         Frank Bellrose, Illinois Natural History Survey

·         Corinne Wood,

       Lt. Governor

·        Friends of the Illinois River (Dora Dawson)

·        Tazewell County Health Department (Pat Welch)

·         Boylan Catholic HS, Rockford, IL (Larry McPheron)

·         Jackson Heights HS, Holton, KS (Gary Keehn)

Goeff Petzel, Student at Dundee Crown High School, Carpentersville, IL

2001

·         Susan Seacrest, Groundwater Foundation

·         Ray Lahood, US Congressman.

Illinois American Water Company

(Sue Atherton)

Ursuline Academy, Springfield, IL

(Sheila Walk)

2000

·        Chad Pregracke

·         Dr. Bob Williams

       (Rivers Project)

       SIUE

U.S. Geological Survey, 

(Bob Holms, Bob Hirsh)

Dundee-Crown  HS, Carpentersville, IL (Gary Swik)

1999

Tom Edwards, Peoria, IL

Sun Foundation (Bob & Joan Erickson)

Chester HS, Chester, IL

(Allen Burbank)

1998

·         IEPA Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (Mary Gade, Director)

·         Chicago Tribune (Editorial Dept.)

·         Peoria Notre Dame HS (Tom Pilat)

·         E. Peoria Community HS (GeorgeAnn Siwicke)

1997

Bob Kustra, (Lt. Governor, IL)

·         Illinois League of Women Voters

·         Heartland Water Resources Council (Mike Platt)

1996

Bill Rutherford

Senator Paul Simon, IL

1995

James Taylor

Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Director