Douglas Kleiber, a recreation and leisure professor, received the Society for Park and Recreation Educators’ Distinguished Colleague Award-the group’s highest recognition-during the National Recreation and Parks Association Congress Oct. 16.
Kleiber was recognized for meritorious and distinguished service to the organization and to recreation, leisure and park education and research. He was among the first scholars to explore personality differences in leisure behavior and the contributions that people’s leisure could make to their mental health.