Scholarship to Ashland College (now Ashland University) (1965-6)

First Annual Sarah E. B. Adams Sonnet Competition First Prize, (1967)

Second Annual Sarah E. B. Adams Sonnet Competition, First Prize,
and the Second Annual Sarah E. B. Adams Non-Sonnet Competition, First and Third Prizes (1968)

Runner-up in WCLV-Cleveland bumper sticker contest for "Schubert Procrastinated" (Prize was 2 full opera albums:  Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini"; and 60 boxes of Cracker-Jack, each of which had the same inane prize, so inane I can't remember what it was.) (ca. 1972)

Rival (friendly) station WCRB published both "Casey Jones was a track star" and "Cleveland is an Erie place" as a result of their bumper-sticker competition (ca. 1976-8)

Navigator for first team in safely in night-time Escape and Evasion exercise at Camp Bullis, Texas (1978 -- no actual prize awarded, but we were first)

Member of team with highest score in 4-man scramble held at Ireland Army Hospital, Fort Knox, Kentucky (1985 -- certificate) -- this is golf, remember.

Load-Runner Champion Certificate (ca.1986)

Technology Innovation Grant, Palo Alto College (1998)

Coach of Palo Alto College Ethics Bowl team, 2d place in First Annual South Central Texas Regional Ethics Bowl (November, 1998)

Coach of Palo Alto College Ethics Bowl team, 2d place in Western Division, Fifth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (February, 1999)

Coach of Palo Alto College Ethics Bowl team, 1st place in Second Annual South Central Texas Regional Ethics Bowl (November, 1999)