2010 Distinguished Service Award
Carmela Kranz
Minnesota Medical Foundation
A longtime Minnesota advancement professional — and 20-year CASE V volunteer — has been named this year’s top volunteer to the district. Carmela Kranz, associate vice president of development of the Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis), will receive the honor at the CASE V Extravaganza Opening Session.
Kranz, who joined CASE V in 1990, was invited to join the Conference Committee in 2000. Program Chair in 2003 and 2008, Kranz was Conference Chair in 2009. She also has served on the district’s Board of Directors and the Nominating Committee.
A 1984 graduate of Augsburg College (Minneapolis), Kranz served as program director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation from 1984 to 1986. After four years with the Minnesota Medical Association, she was senior director of outreach programs at the University of Minnesota Alumni Association from 1990 to 2001. Since, she has worked at the Minnesota Medical Foundation where she was initially a director of development with major gift fundraising responsibilities. Today, she provides leadership, strategic direction and oversight of the Foundation’s central development operations.
Kranz also has served on the Minneapolis Citywide Community Education Board of Directors and the Augsburg College Alumni Board of Directors.
Past Distinguished Service Award Recipients
- Teresa Exline, Indiana State University, 2009
- John P. Newton, Indiana State University, 2008
- Mike Ziemianski, 2007
- Ralph Amos, 2006
- Jennifer Hamlin-Church, 2005
- Gene Haberman, 2004
- Dan Heinlen, 2003
- Mary Kay Karzas, 2002
- Jeffrey Todd, 2001
- Harry Lovell, 2000
- Karen Engelhard, 1999
- Michael Malone, 1998
- Not awarded, 1997
- Dick Sollmann, 1996
- Vaughn Dann, 1995
- Jamie Jeremy, 1994
- Tom Peters, 1993
- Linda Crossley, 1992
- Bob Forman, 1991
- Ron Stephany, 1990
- Carl Magel, 1989
- Jan Augenstein-Miller, 1988
- Barbara DeBoer, 1987
- Royster Hedgepeth,1986
- Ray Rowland, 1985
- Arnette Nelson, 1984
- Ray Willemain, 1983
- Gayle Langer, 1982
- Bob Odaniell, 1981
- Fred Volkmann, 1980