Awards and Honours
The National Speleological Society made Bretz an honorary member in 1954.
Bretz received the Penrose Medal; the Geological Society of America's highest award, in 1979, at the age of 96. After this award, he told his son: "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over."
Each year at Albion College, the J Harlen Bretz Award is given to the most outstanding senior in the geology department.
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