Recognition and Honors
In 1981 Washburn School of Law awarded Morris an honorary doctorate of laws. The Southwestern Legal Foundation awarded him the John Rogers Award in 1990. The Tulsa Historical Society inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1991. This was followed in 1994 by Washburn University bestowing on him its Distinguished Service Award. In 2008 Washburn Law awarded Morris its Distinguished Alumni Award. At Washburn Law School, The Honorable Joseph W. Morris Endowment Fund recognizes his service to the legal profession.
Read more about this topic: Joseph Wilson Morris
Famous quotes containing the words recognition and, recognition and/or honors:
“In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)