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L. E. Norton Higher Education Student Award
Norton served as President of the Illinois Speech Association in 1950. He spent his career at Bradley University where he was a Professor of Speech and served as the Director of Forensics. His status among speech educators is legendary. Norton was responsible for inventing many of the events we compete in today, including duo interpretation and informative speaking. While at Bradley, he founded Pi Kappa Delta, the honorary speech fraternity. The annual Bradley University Individual Events Invitational is named in his honor and is considered one of the most prestigious college individual events tournaments in the nation. He also coached the national championship GE College Bowl Team in 1969.This award is presented to an outstanding college major in speech or theatre who has made significant contributions to the college, community and discipline.
Past Winners of the L. E. Norton Higher Education Student Award
1995 Ari Fisz, University of Illinois
1996 Ann O’Connell
1997 Adam Jenkins, McKendree College
1998 No award presented
1999 Angela Townley, Illinois State University
2000 Chad Kaffer, McKendree College
2001 No award presented
2002 Kristen Linde, Illinois State University
2003 Jamie Hines, Illinois State University
2004 Mark Adams, Illinois State University
2005 Jennifer Shelton, Illinois State University
2006 Lindsay Sank, Illinois State University
2007 Christopher J. Schmid, Illinois State University
2008 Christine Doman, Illinois State University
2009 April Lowry, Illinois State University
2010 Anna Wright, Illinois State University
2011 Camille Yameen, Bradley University & Scott Pyle, Illinois State University
2012 Brian Rohman, Illinois State University & Lisa Roth, Northern Illinois University
2013 Kaybee Brown, Bradley University & Chandler Johnson, Illinois State University
2014 Clinton Brown, Eastern Illinois University
2015 Marques Brown, Eastern Illinois University & Yanelly Villegas, Northern Illinois University
2016 Emily Vajjala, Eastern Illinois University & Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2017 Allison Metz, Illinois State University
2018 Matt DuPuis, Northern Illinois University
2019 Harry Bodell, Highland Community College
2020 No Award Given
2021 Starr Lee, Northern Illinois University
2022 Lavontae Morrow, University of Illinois Chicago
2023 Brenna Bretzinger, Northern Illinois University