The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award was established in 1979 by the

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Alumni/ae Association "to honor among its graduates one who exhibits a passionate and helpful interest in the lives of other people, an informed and realistic faithfulness, an embodiment of the idea that love is not so much a way of feeling as a way of acting, and a reliable sense of humor."Harvard Divinity School Website
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of Students when he died in 1970 and was passionately involved with the school for many years.

Past recipients

*2012: Professor Dudley Rose, M.Div. '83 *2011: Rev. Carl R. Scovel, STB '57 *2009: Lynne Landsberg, MTS '76 *2008: Mary E. Hunt, MTS '74 *2007: John Rugge, MTS '69 *2006: Joe R. Feagin, BD '62, Ph.D. '66 *2005:

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, BD '61 *2004: Elyn MacInnis,

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'77 *2003: Dr. Oscar Allan Rogers, STB '53 *2002: Paul D. Kennedy, STB '61 *2001:

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Iakovos, STM '45 *2000: Carl R. Scovel, STB '57 *1999: Archie C. Epps III, BD '61 *1998: Letty Mandeville Russell, STB '58 *1997: Richard Unsworth, Th.M. '63 *1996: Janet Cooper Nelson, M.Div. '80 *1995: Victor H. Carpenter, Jr., Merrill Fellow '74, B.Div. '75 *1994:

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, M.Div. '75 *1993: Samuel McMurray Keen, STB '56, Th.M. '58 *1992: Charles G. Adams, BD '64 *1991: Ruth B. Purtilo, MTS '75, Ph.D. '79 *1990: Yehezkel Landau, MTS '76 *1989: Henry C. Gregory, III, Th.M. '68 *1988: Harry H. Hoehler, STB '54; Judith L. Hoehler, B.Div. '58 *1987: James Luther Adams, STB '27 *1986: Ralph Lazzaro, STB '40, STM '41 *1985: Professor Amos N. Wilder, '30 *1984: Jack Mendelsohn, STB '45 *1983: Professor

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, HDS Faculty *1982: Professor John B. Carman, HDS Faculty *1981: Elinor (Bunn) Thompson *1980: Henry V. Richardson, STB '32

References and footnotes

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Past recipients

See also

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