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2024 Shamrock Award Recipient - James R. Murphy

2024 Sons of Erin Award Recipient - Diocese of Gary High Schools (Bishop Noll, Andrean, Marquette)

Past Recipients of FSOE Awards

Sons of Erin Award Winners

Sons of Erin Award Winners

Sons of Erin Award Winners

2024  Diocese of Gary High Schools (Bishop Noll, Andrean, Marquette)

2023  The Mercy Fund - Catholic Foundation for Northwest Indiana

2022  St. Joseph's Carmelite Home

2021  St. Patrick's Day Observance Cancelled due to Pandemic

2020  Safe Haven Baby Boxes (St. Patrick's Day Observance Cancelled)

2019  The Grace Project - Franciscan Health Foundation Northwest Indiana

2018  Camp Lawrence - NW Indiana Catholic Youth Organization

2017  St. Anthony Village - Franciscan Communities

2016  St. Nazareth Home

2015  Knights of Columbus / St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Council #7473

2014  The St. Clare Clinic

2013  The Notre Dame Club of the Jersey Shore

2012  The Northwest Indiana Catholic Youth Organization

2011  Catholic Ministries Prison Ministry

2010  Catholic Relief Services for Haitian Relief

2009  Catholic Charities

2008  Catherine McAuley Clinic

2007  St. Joseph's Home for Boys

2006  Campaign for Priestly Vocations

2005  Catholic Relief Services

2004  Catholic Services Appeal

2003  Marquette High / Andrean Found. / Bishop Noll Inst.

2002  Sojourner Truth House

2001  St. Monica Home

2000  St. Clare Family Clinic

1999  St. Agnes Adult Day Service Center

1998  Share Foundation, Fr. Dennis Blaney

1997  St. Elizabeth Seton New Parish, Winfield Twp., Fr. Murphy

1996  St. Jude House, St. Anthony's, Crown Point

1995  Angela House, Michigan City, IN

1994  Albertings Fathers in Memory of Bishop A. Grutka

1993  Catholic Charities

1992  St. Vincent DePaul

1991  Little Company of Mary Home, San Pierre, IN

1990  St. Teresa's of Avila, Catholic Student Center

1989  St. Joseph's Parish

1988  The Pontification North American College

1987  Northwest Indiana Catholic

1986  Albertine Home for Retired Priests

1985  Carmelite Sisters of East Chicago

1984  Camp Lawrence 25th Anniversary

1983  Hospice of Northwest Indiana

1982  Diocese of Gary 25th Anniversary

1981  Bishop Noll Institute

1980  Apostolate for the Handicapped

1979  Thunderhouse Campus Ministry of Valparaiso University

1978  CYO of Northwest Indiana

1977  Carmelite Sisters of East Chicago

1976  Andrean Athletic Association

1975  Carmelite Sisters of Hammond

1974  Bishop Noll Institute

1973  Andrean Foundation

1972  Our Lady of Perpetual Help/Lake County Association for the Retarded

1971  St. Joseph College, Calumet Campus

1970  Cursillo Movement

1969  Little Company of Mary Home, San Pierre, IN

1968  Hoosier Boys Town, Father Campagna

1967  Diocese of Gary

1966  Catholic Relief Services

1965  Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Monica's Parish

1964  St. Mary Mercy Hospital


Shamrock Award Winners

Sons of Erin Award Winners

Sons of Erin Award Winners

2024  James R. Murphy

2023  Deacon Dennis Guernsey

2022  Michael Connor Whelan 

2021  St. Patrick's Day Observance Cancelled due to the Pandemic

2020  St. Patrick's Day Observance Cancelled due to the Pandemic

2019  Joseph Niall McShane

2018  James Francis Burns

2017  Terrence M. Quinn

2016  Jerry A. Keough

2015  Kevin Gerard Doolin, Sr.

2014  Father Joseph V. Murphy

2013  John Francis Quinn

2012  John S. Walsh

2011  Albert Joseph LaMere

2010  C. Jerome Smith

2009  Past and Present Members

2008  Joseph H. McShane

2007  Edward W. Morrissey

2006  Arnold G. Gough

2005  Richard J. Conroy

2004  William C. Kennedy

2003  James J. Keough

2002  James F. Quinn

2001  Dr. John King

2000  Paul L. Doherty

1999  Robert J. Doyle

1998  William A. Schooler

1997  James Mulloy

1996  Robert J. Welsh

1995  Regis McMahon

1994  James L. Dandurand

1993  Thomas O. Walsh

1992  Charles E. Daugherty

1991  George Burns

1990  Charles Yast

1989  Michael Gaffigan

1988  John R. Barrett

1987  Tom Higgins

1986  James W. O'Neal

1985  Leo McGrath

1984  John F. Foley

1983  William O'Connor

1982  Timothy Sullivan

1981  Joseph B. Radigan

1980  Dr. Thomas Tyrrell

1979  Thomas J. Lynch

1978  John T. Scully

1977  James J. Buckley

1976  William J. Regan

1975  George E. Kiernan

1974  William J. Curley

1973  Edward J. Burns

1972  Ambrose B. McGinnis

1971  Patrick J. Mulloy

1970  Edward J. Flannery

1969  Patrick Maloney

1968  John R. Walsh

1967  Michael J. Crabtree

1966  Thomas H. Clifford, Sr.

1965  James M. Morrison

1964  Col. Walter J. Riley

1963  Timothy P. Galvin

1962  Edward Dowling, Ray J. Madden, Joseph Finnerty

1961  John Radigan, Fr. John Sullivan, Fr. Gerald Kenealy & Fr. Joseph Barry

1960  Fr. John Burke 

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

2023  Philip E. Comerford

2022  Theodore "Ted" Fitzgerald

2020  James R. Connelly (Recognized in 2022)

2019   William E. "Inks" McLaughlin

2019   Duane C. O'Donnell

2014   Jim Sullivan

2009   Terry Burns

1995   Jim McNamara

1991   Jack Mehan

Radigan Awards

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

2016  Terry Mehan

2010  Jim Sullivan

2009  Ted Fitzgerald

2006  Terry Burns

2004  John Quinn

2002  Duane O'Donnell

1998  James Knight

1996  John Foley & John Lynch

1995  Joe Radigan


St. Patrick Award

Shillelagh "Memorial" Awards

St. Patrick Award

2015  Bishop Dale Joseph Melczek


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