Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award

The Lyman A. Ripperton Award, established by resolution of the Board of Directors on November 13, 1980, is for distinguished achievement as an educator in some field of air pollution control. It is awarded to an individual, who by precept and example, has inspired students to achieve excellence in all their professional and social endeavors. It recognizes the abilities that only a few in the education profession possess - to be able to teach with rigor, humor, humility, and pride.

The recipients of this award are representative of the educators we would have chosen if we had a choice. They are known by the accomplishments of their students.

Lyman A. Ripperton (1921-1978) was a practitioner in education and research for the control of air pollution during his entire professional career. He left the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District in 1958 to assume a teaching and research assignment in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program in air pollution education he initiated at UNC developed into one of the foremost in the United States. His students numbered in the hundreds, and they assumed positions in every segment of the air pollution control profession. The Lyman A. Ripperton Award may be awarded to members and nonmembers of the Association.