Brute Award Recipients from St. Bernard

1997 - Alfred & Mary Reising
1998 - Steve & Pat Hall
1999 - Marlene Obert
2000 - Walter & Lorine Nurrenbern
2001 - Paul & Jeanne Vieke
2002 - Marcia Reising
2003 - Jeff & Tammy Meny
2004 - Mary Ealine Lefler
2005 - Greg & Rose Obert
2006 - Mary McKinney
                                                 2007 - Herlinda Weber
                                                 2008 - Winfrid & Marian Obert
                                                 2009 - Frank & Roberta Silva
                                                 2010 - David & Dolores Ziliak
                                                 2011 - Tony & Janet Sevier
                                                 2012 - Fred and Kathryn Fuhs
                                                 2013 – Carl and Marge Weber
                                                 2014 – John Moll
                                                 2015 – Steve and Kelly Obert
                                                 2016 - Gerald & Mary Allen
                                                 2017 - John & Diane Hasenour
​                                                 2018 - Leroy & Sauny Seib
                                                 2019 - Gloria Sterczer
                                                 2020 - Bernie & Lori Spindler
                                                 2021 - Jim & Jan Schmitt
​                                                 2022 - Melvin & Terri Ziliak
                                                 2023 - George & Brenda Ankenbrand
​                                                 2024 - Susan Smith



​Bruté Society 
 
In 1990, the Office of Stewardship & Development introduced an annual celebration to its menu of activities to promote parish stewardship conversion: The Ceremony of Induction into the Bruté Society of the Catholic Diocese of Evansville.
That year, the charter Bruté Society members numbered 58, and 32 parishes chose to participate. In 2000, the tenth anniversary celebration featured 130 candidates from 56 parishes. As we hoped in 1990, membership in The Bruté Society has become the most prestigious diocesan honor for lay Catholics in southwestern Indiana.
The purpose of the Society is to celebrate parish stewardship heroes, parishioners whose devotion and dedication to their parishes can be simply described as extra-ordinary. Bruté Society members are people who give selflessly of their time, talent and treasure. They know that God is the source of all that they have and, overwhelmed with gratitude, they joyfully return a substantial portion of their God-given gifts to support God's work in their parishes.

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