Kansas Master Teacher Previous Winners

2019 Kansas Master Teachers

• Paula Barr (Lawrence)
• Dedra Braxmeyer (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Laura A. Gaughan (Hays)
• Michelle Hilliard (Maize)
• Lisa Jarvis (Morris County)
• Carolynn Phalen (Salina)
• Linda Vena (Blue Valley)

2018 Kansas Master Teachers

• Constance Allmond (El Dorado)
• Deanna K. Burton (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Abby Cornelius (Blue Valley)
• Todd Flory (Andover)
• Chitra Harris (Wichita)
• Matthew Irby (Emporia)
• Kimberly S. Schneweis (Hays)

2017 Kansas Master Teachers

• John Butcher (Blue Valley)
• Melinda Eitel (Salina)
• Joan Hayden (Geary County)
• Jennifer Hendrix (Dodge City)
• Kimberly Hett (Andover)
• Brandy Lane (Topeka)
• Laura Schwinn (Emporia)

2016 Kansas Master Teachers

• Jessica Butte (Hays)
• Nikki Chamberlain (Salina)
• Adriane Falco (Blue Valley)
• Keri Lauxman (Lawrence)
• L. Raymond Linville (Andover)
• Jenny Wilcox (Auburn-Washburn)
• Laura Woolfolk (Dodge City)

2015 Kansas Master Teachers

• Carmen Cantrell (Shawnee Mission)
• Barbara Clark (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Kori E. Green (El Dorado)
• Leslie McAfee (Piper)
• Bill McFarland (Auburn-Washburn)
• Reed Uthe (Blue Valley)
• Ginger Whiteside Steck (Andover)

2014 Kansas Master Teachers

• Bonnie Austin (Dodge City)
• John V. Bode (Lawrence)
• Lori Gunzelman (Andover)
• Signe Truelove (Emporia)
• Carla Varner (El Dorado)
• Kathleen Wilhite (Olathe)
• Maria Worthington (Blue Valley)

2013 Kansas Master Teachers

• Juliann Bliese (Olathe)
• Michelle Lynn Bogner (Dodge City)
• Kathleen Bowen (Lawrence)
• Kacie Evans (Morris County)
• Kelley Norman (Topeka)
• Michele Palmgren (Salina)
• Tara Walrod (Blue Valley)

2012 Kansas Master Teachers

• Shelley Aistrup (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Cindy Ehrstein (Andover)
• Sandra Gonsher (Blue Valley)
• Kendra Metz (Lawrence)
• Katrina Paradis (Salina)
• Jodi Testa (Junction City)
• Marc Woofter (Dodge City)

2011 Kansas Master Teachers

• Sonda Copeland (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Teresa Disberger (Morris County)**
• Martha Hadsall (Anthony-Harper)
• Rick Hildebrand (Barnes-Hanover-Linn)
• Nancy Pence (Blue Valley)
• Janice Romeiser (Emporia)**
• Marcia Troutfetter (Salina)

2010 Kansas Master Teachers

• Eleanor Browning (Emporia)
• Kathy Doussa (Dodge City)**
• Michael Dunlap (Blue Valley)
• Lou Ann Getz (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Sheila Lewis (Shawnee Heights)
• Andrea Sayler-Siefkes (St. John/Hudson)**
• Kassie Shook (Lawrence)
• Scott Irwin, Professor, Emporia State University*

2009 Kansas Master Teachers

• Kenneth J. Bingman (Blue Valley)**
• Christy Boerner (Wamego)
• Barbara Cole (Shawnee Heights)
• Beverly Furlong (Gardner Edgerton)
• Jeline Harclerode (Emporia)
• Barbara McCalla (Augusta)
• Sarah Meadows (Topeka)**

2008 Kansas Master Teachers

• Alice Bertels (Auburn Washburn)
• Lisa Colwell (Hays)
• Lori Goodson (Wamego)
• Ronda Hassig (Blue Valley)
• Deborah Nauerth (Manhattan)**
• Shannon Ralph (Dodge City)**
• Kenna Reeves (Emporia State University)

2007 Kansas Master Teachers

• Rob Davis (Blue Valley)**
• Robin Dixon (Auburn Washburn)
• Shelley Faerber (Manhattan)
• Diane Ladenburger (Pratt)
• Marilyn McComber (Emporia)**
• Angela Miller (Junction City)
• Elouise Miller (Hay)
• Tes Mehring, Dean, Emporia State University*

2006 Kansas Master Teachers

• Jo Ellen Dambro (Emporia)
• Karla Ewing (Pratt)
• Elaine Fasulo (Olathe)
• Sherry Hutchcraft (Dodge City)
• Vicki O'Neal (Baxter Springs)
• Bob Peterson (Butler Community College)**
• Marilyn Vaughan (Blue Valley)**
• Kay Schallenkamp, President, Emporia State University*

2005 Kansas Master Teachers

• Ken Garwick (Manhattan)
• Sandy Hardesty (Auburn Washburn)
• Connie Neneman (Dodge City)**
• Kathryn Reschke (Olathe)
• Kimberly Thomas (Wichita)
• Mary Van Dyke (Atchison)
• Larry Wayland (Blue Valley)**

2004 Kansas Master Teachers

• Mary Elizabeth Baker (Andover)
• Luana (Lu) Bitter (Pratt)
• Patricia Grzenda (Lawrence)
• Nicki Hancock (Olathe East)
• Greg Mittman (Valley Center)**
• Devra Parker (Medicine Lodge)**
• Patricia (Trish) Weidert (Emporia)
• William Samuelson, Professor, Emporia State University*

2003 Kansas Master Teachers

• Tina Buck (Medicine Lodge)**
• Matt Copeland (Auburn Washburn)
• Connie Ferree (Emporia)
• Connie Healy (Blue Valley)**
• Pamela Kilgariff (Pratt)
• Barbara Tims (Pittsburg)
• Carol Woydziak (Dodge City)

2002 Kansas Master Teachers

• Bev Bertolone (Blue Valley)
• Barbara Fowler (Emporia)
• Sue Givens (Pratt)**
• Christine Herald (Manhattan)
• Dee A. Moxley (Andover)
• Jan Prather (El Dorado)
• Alexander Specht (Osawatomie)**

2001 Kansas Master Teachers

• Cathy Esquibel (Dodge City)**
• Jeanne Evans (El Dorado)
• Betty Lavery (Stilwell)**
• Leona Madden (Hays)
• Margaret McClatchey (Overland Park)
• Rosemary A. Riordan (Lenexa)
• Jane Sak (Overland Park)
• Jerry Long (Associate Dean, ESU)*

2000 Kansas Master Teachers

• Kay Parks Bushman Haas (Ottawa)
• Tracy Jo Kerth (Overland Park)**
• Michael R. Schainost (Osawatomie)**
• Roberta (Robbie) Thomas (Andover)
• Robert James Tindel (Pittsburg)
• Deborah B. Wertin (Overland Park)
• Goldie Wood (Dodge City)

1999 Kansas Master Teachers

• Michelle DiLisio (Chanute)**
• Mary Hemphill (Manhattan-Ogden)
• Judy Humburg (Andover)**
• Mary Porterfield (Goodland)
• Linda Stelzer (Pratt)
• Phillip Theis (Butler County Community College)
• Curt Vajnar (Hays)
• Andy Tompkins (Topeka)*

1998 Kansas Master Teachers

• Brian “Chip” Anderson (Lawrence)
• Janeen Brown (Wakeeney)
• Candy Birch (Olathe)
• Elizabeth Cronemeyer (Tonganoxie)
• Floyd “Stan” Standridge (Salina)
• Shirley Stein (Ulysses)
• Carol Strickland (Emporia)

1997 Kansas Master Teachers

• Lisa Artman Bietau (Manhattan)
• JoLene Rae Bloom (Seneca)
• Patricia Gnau (Blue Valley)
• Mike Harvey (Pratt)
• Darla J. Mallein (Emporia)
• Renita Ubel (Ottawa)
• Randall J. Warner (Olathe)
• Dr. Jack D. Skillett (Emporia State University)

1996 Kansas Master Teachers

• Doyle D. Barnes (Manhattan)
• Margaret Coggins (Lawrence)
• Catherine Ecroyd (Ottawa)
• Jacquelyn Faye Feist (Dodge City)
• Millie P. Moye (Salina)
• Janice Reutter (Medicine Lodge)
• Nancy Robohn (Emporia)

1995 Kansas Master Teachers

• Cathy Colborn (Medicine Lodge)
• Joseph P. Glotzbach (Council Grove)
• John B. Harclerode (Emporia)
• Diana E. Harris (Pratt)
• Patrick R. Lamb (Manhattan)
• Tom Schwartz (Abilene)
• Jo Ann Schuette (Wichita)

1994 Kansas Master Teachers

• Garold R. Billionis (Fort Scott)
• Anne Nettleton (Salina)
• Diane Prell (Derby)
• Myron E. Schwinn (Manhattan)
• Kathryn E. Taylor (Emporia)
• Connie J. Viebrock (Olathe)
• Norma Bynum West (Dwight)
• Dr. Robert Glennen, President, Emporia State University

1993 Kansas Master Teachers

• Mickey L. Bogart (Manhattan)
• Carol J. Brandert (Salina)
• Mary Alice Gordon (Lawrence)
• Kathy Ann Ramsour (Dodge City)
• William M. Scott (Wakeeney)
• Alice M. Shaffer (Overland Park)
• Glenda S. Watkins (Paola)
• Dr. Daryl Berry, Emporia State University

1992 Kansas Master Teachers

• Beth Bergsten (Junction City)
• Ernest L. Brown (Wakeeney)
• Irma Jean Fallon (Manhattan)
• Diane Low (Lawrence)
• Ethel Marie Peterson (Dodge City)
• Alana Kay Sewell (Pratt)
• Joyce Ann Sinn (Fort Scott)

1991 Kansas Master Teachers

• Deena L. Horst (Salina)
• Kenneth R. Kennedy (Pratt)
• Sherryl L. Longhofer (Auburn-Washburn)
• Susan F. McKinney (Emporia)
• Kenneth R. Stith (Dodge City)
• Valarie S. Tims (Pittsburg)
• Helen A. Wagner (El Dorado)

1990 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dr. Thomas Christie (Lawrence)
• Gretchen Davis (Overland Park)
• Dr. E. Sutton Flynt (Pittsburg State University)
• James Gardner (El Dorado)
• Ralph E. Mock (Council Grove)
• Allen K. Scheer (Westmoreland)
• Beverliann Wolf (Derby)

1989 Kansas Master Teachers

• Tanya Channell (Hays)
• Max Ferguson (Medicine Lodge)
• Lois Schweitzer Gray (Pratt)
• Carolyn Koch (Emporia)
• Ada Ligia R. Paquette (Junction City)
• Mary Anne Trickle (Salina)
• Gary Wilkerson (Derby)
• Dr. Darrell Wood (Emporia State University)

1988 Kansas Master Teachers

• Carol S. Adams (Manhattan)
• Donald G. Buhler (Pratt)
• Robert Hottman (Anthony)
• Carolyn Clevenger Kuhn (Emporia)
• Michael S. Rush (Osawatomie)
• Bonnie Weingart (Fort Riley)
• Martha Zakrzewski (Hays)

1987 Kansas Master Teachers

• Roger D. Brannan (Manhattan)
• Jackie Engel (McPherson)
• Dr. Nick Henry (Pittsburg State University)
• Dr. Eloise Beth Lynch (Salina)
• Marie Peterson (Oakley)
• Joyce Rucker (Pratt)
• Dr. Sandra J. Terril (Salina)
• Dr. John Webb (Emporia State University)

1986 Kansas Master Teachers

• Jill Burk (Manhattan)
• Richard G. Dawson (Kansas City)
• Frank B. Evans (Dodge City)
• Dr. Jim Gill (Stilwell)
• Harry Heckethorn (McPherson)
• Sally Six Hersh (Lawrence)
• Helen Owens (Derby)
• Dr. Fred Markowitz (Emporia State University)

1985 Kansas Master Teachers

• Bob Anderson (Manhattan)
• Ken Carothers (Wellington)
• Thomas Fowler (Emporia)
• Charlotte McDonald (Olathe)
• Lana Scrimsher Oleen (Manhattan)
• Barbara Shinkle (Pratt)
• Sharon Willis (McPherson)
• Dr. John E. King (Emporia State University)

1984 Kansas Master Teachers

• Robert Coffman (Chase)
• Frances Lou Disney (Great Bend)
• Stephen R. Germes (Dodge City)
• Thomas Hedges (Pittsburg)
• Don L. Mason (Kingman)
• Dottie McCrossen (Ottawa)
• Joan Spiker (Manhattan)
• Dr. John Visser (Emporia State University)

1983 Kansas Master Teachers

• Catherine Ann Brown (Emporia)
• Elaine Fowler Bryant (Pittsburg)
• Betty Holderread (Newton)
• Lois McClure (Kingman)
• Barry L. Schartz (Kingman)
• Sally Shipley (Kansas City, MO)
• Doris Velen (Manhattan)

1982 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dorothy Arensman (Dodge City)
• Frances Kohrs (Fort Scott)
• Bill Saunders (Garden City)
• Marjory Pease Sharp (Pittsburg)
• Patricia Tippin (Manhattan)
• Kenneth Trickle, Jr. (Salina)
• Elizabeth Voorhees (Emporia)

1981 Kansas Master Teachers

• Mary Chase (Andover)
• Mary Lou Davis (Dodge City)
• Marguerite Flick (Winfield)
• Don Miller (Fort Scott)
• Deloris Jean Osger (Eureka)
• Chester Peckover (Buhler)
• Byron Smith (Anthony)

1980 Kansas Master Teachers

• Harold Balzer (Buhler)
• Raymond Goering (Salina)
• Lucille Luckey (Dodge City)
• Mary Remington (Pittsburg)
• Patricia Samuelson Bonds (Emporia)
• James R. Smith (Olathe)
• Paul Willis (Topeka)

1979 Kansas Master Teachers

• Gerald E. Barkley (Galena)
• Wendell Hodges (Anthony)
• Eleanor Kee (Coffeyville)
• Clifton McWaid (Kansas City)
• Loren E. Riblett Sr. (Wamego)
• Cynthia Schrader (Alta Vista)
• William Warner (Manhattan)
• Dr. Everett Rich (Emporia State University)

1978 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dennis L. Ary (Auburn-Washburn)
• Erma Lang Dow (Eureka)
• Harold Hardy (Pittsburg)
• Dr. Robert R. Noble (Pittsburg State University)
• Milton Senti (Pratt)
• Patricia J. Teel (Columbus)
• Eugene Wiltfong (Norton)
• Dr. A. Truman Hayes (Emporia State University)

1977 Kansas Master Teachers

• Jean Curl (Kansas City)
• Fred Deyoe (Dodge City)
• Joan Hanna (Winfield)
• Shirley Longfellow (El Dorado)
• Martha McReynolds (Burlington)
• Gene Russell (Galena)
• Dan Tewell (Pittsburg)
• Dr. William Edwards (Emporia State University)

1976 Kansas Master Teachers

• Charlotte Doyle (Manhattan)
• Harry Hart (Emporia)
• Glennis Lindsey (Hutchinson)
• Dr. James A. McCain (Kansas State University)
• Frances Raines (Winfield)
• Dr. Richard Roahen (Emporia State University)
• Darlene Theno (Basehor)
• Eleanor White (Dodge City)

1975 Kansas Master Teachers

• Rozella K. Cadwell Swisher (Kansas City)
• Betty Dutton (Alta Vista)
• Vernon Hastert (Ulysses)
• Paul Jewell (Kansas City)
• Marion Klema (Salina)
• Ernest Nelson (Pittsburg)
• Irma Teichgraeber (Chapman)

1974 Kansas Master Teachers

• Wanda Franzen (Emporia)
• Arlene Garrett (Hugoton)
• Ruben Grose (Hutchinson)
• Louis Hayward (Eureka)
• Clyde Johnson (Leavenworth)
• Esther Overman (Columbus)
• Norris Sayre (Ensign)

1973 Kansas Master Teachers

• Mildred Barber (Concordia)
• Dr. Elton W. Cline (Pittsburg State University)
• Marie Hieger (El Dorado)
• Anna Hurty (Hutchinson)
• Rachel Leist (Fort Scott)
• Allen L. Unruh (Ottawa)
• Marjorie Vieux (Atwood) 

1972 Kansas Master Teachers

• Joseph L. Bournonville (Pittsburg)
• Robert Burnett (Colby)
• Gerald Goacher (Topeka)
• Carl A. James (Emporia)
• Catherine Johannsen (Kansas City)
• Dr. Margaret Parker (Pittsburg State University)
• Leona Velen (Manhattan)
• F. Floyd Herr (Kansas State Department of Education)

1971 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dr. Kenneth Anderson (University of Kansas)
• Earl Bevan (Pittsburg)
• Helen Case (El Dorado)
• Carl Clinesmith (Fort Scott)
• Herman Grundy (Kansas City)
• Betty Jackson (Colby)
• Margaret Jagger (Minneapolis)
• F. L. Schlagle (Kansas City)

1970 Kansas Master Teachers

• Ralph Dennis (Olathe)
• John England (Pittsburg)
• Gladys Kaump (Dodge City)
• Thomas Kelly (Hutchinson)
• Lois Patton (Great Bend)
• Albert Riedel (Hays)
• Mary Ellen Sissman (Eureka)

1969 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dr. Alex Daughtry (Emporia State University)
• Kelso Deer (Hoisington)
• Marguerite Hackney (Iola)
• Joe W. Ostenberg (McPherson)
• Theodore Palmquist (Turner)
• Maxine Sebelius (Northern Valley)
• Joy Wigginton (El Dorado)
• Lonnie Wood (Independence)

1968 Kansas Master Teachers

• Arley A. Bryant (Concordia)
• Lottie Carver (Mulvane)
• Alice Ham (Hutchinson)
• Hazel Miller (Emporia)
• Irma Minden (Paola)
• Gladys Peterson (Lindsborg)
• Doris Stith (Bonner Springs)

1967 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dr. J. W. Breukelman (Emporia State University)
• Lois Hogue (Pratt)
• Dr. Perva M. Hughes (Pittsburg State University)
• Winifred Jennings (Shawnee)
• Jean Jones (Topeka)
• Florence Miller (Iola)
• Cecil E. Smith (Pittsburg)
• Adel F. Throckmorton (State Superintendent)

1966 Kansas Master Teachers

• Eva M. Chalfant (El Dorado)
• Louis A. Coppoc (Belpre)
• Helen Glaser (Coffeyville)
• Evelyn Harper (Atchison)
• Maurice Little (Goodland)
• Ione Ramey (Olathe)
• Wesley E. Simpson (Salina)

1965 Kansas Master Teachers

• Rebecca Bloodworth (Kansas City)
• Bryce H. Gleckler (Dodge City)
• Mabel Lacey (Gorham)
• Hazel Lee Simmons (Lawrence)
• Floyd C. Smith (Iola)
• Dorothy Vaughn (Neodesha)
• Ethel Yantis (Howard)

1964 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dan Foster (LaCrosse)
• Mary Hunholz (Manhattan)
• Erdman Johnson (Turner)
• Loma Mack (Madison)
• Bernadine Sitts (Garden City)
• Lillie Elizabeth Studt (Glasco)
• Dewey E. Wolgast (Marysville)
• Ruth Stout Wright (Topeka)

1963 Kansas Master Teachers

• May Gruver (Augusta)
• Alta Hendrickson (Oakley)
• Walter M. Ostenberg (Salina)
• Pearl Peterie (Kinsley)
• Phebe Scott (Derby)
• Martha Steele (Goodland)
• Charles E. Strange (Wichita)

1962 Kansas Master Teachers

• Dr. William A. Black (Pittsburg State University)
• Eunice McGill (Sterling College)
• Nellie McGuinn (Kansas City)
• Owen R. McNeil (Peabody)
• Ella C. Shearer (Beloit)
• Marie Therkelsen (Independence)
• William D. Wolfe (Lawrence)

1961 Kansas Master Teachers

• Reba Anderson (Hutchinson)
• George D. Caldwell (Iola)
• Lydia Haag (Dodge City)
• Larry Ling (Liberal)
• Dorothy McPherson (Coffeyville)
• Jane E. Roether (Junction City)
• Ruth Socolofsky (Manhattan)

1960 Kansas Master Teachers

• Eula Bridger (Kansas City)
• Mary Louise Gritten (Bird City)
• Lena Carl (Holcomb)
• Owen E. Hodgson (Salina)
• Opal Jayne Kennedy (Lawrence)
• Pauline Shockey (Wellington)
• Blanch Smith (Pittsburg)
• C. O. Wright (Topeka, KSTA)

1959 Kansas Master Teachers

• Henrietta Courtright (Arkansas City)
• Nettie May Davis (Winchester)
• Paul R. Dick (Oakley)
• Ethlyn Hamlin (Fort Scott)
• Robert H. Pool (Larned)
• Dr. Ruth Thompson (Sterling)
• Jane Townsend (Girard)

1958 Kansas Master Teachers

• Mildred Cunningham (Parsons)
• Myrrl Houck (El Dorado)
• Julian A. Johnson (Buhler)
• Edward D. Kroesch (Hoisington)
• Dr. Minnie M. Miller (Emporia State University)
• Elsie N. Parrish (Concordia)
• Maude Thompson (Marion)

1957 Kansas Master Teachers

• Teresa McDonald Coffey (Axtell)
• Dr. Maud Ellsworth (University of Kansas)
• Una Funk (Council Grove)
• Mildred P. Parker (Hutchinson)
• Dr. Clyde U. Phillips (Fort Hays State University)
• Ruth Flory Sexton (Howard)
• Katherine A. Tucker (Topeka)

1956 Kansas Master Teachers

• Florence K. Belding (Iola)
• Dr. Jane M. Carroll (Pittsburg State University)
• Clifford H. Dresher (McPherson)
• John E. Humphreys (Ashland)
• Mamie D. Mellinger (Emporia)
• Katie Puls (Attica)
• Audrey Smith (Goodland)

1955 Kansas Master Teachers

• Redicia Engholm (Topeka)
• Edna Mason Golladay (Wichita)
• Gaye Iden (Arkansas City)
• Gussie Mootz (Dodge City)
• Elsie Olson (Marysville)
• M. F. Stark (Hiawatha)
• Dr. John Twente (University of Kansas)

1954 Kansas Master Teachers

• Laura M. Beichley (Ulysses)
• Harry H. Brown (Peabody)
• Lucy Headrick (Winfield)
• Ira Laidig (Oberlin)
• Edith Ellen Means (Princeton)
• Violet Randolph (Atchison)
• Grace E. Stewart (Salina)