Career Achievement
(Listed in Class Year order)
1956 Warren White ‘04
1955 Dora Beggs Shields ‘07
1956 William Knight ‘07
1956 Otto Smith ‘07
1963 Allan S. Humphreys ‘10
1953 Faye Steinmetz ‘10
1953 Harry A. Shuder ‘11
1955 Joseph Williams ‘11
1951 Jean Laubenheim Shephard ‘12
1953 Arthur "Duff" Allen ‘13
1952 Marion Hines ‘13
1963 Lois Hall ‘14
1982 Dorothy Van Dyke Leake ‘14
1953 Edward Mason ‘14
1952 Erwin E. Nelson ‘14
1962 Bruce Joseph Brown ‘15
1951 Kenneth B. Elliott ‘16
1952 James E. Ruffin ‘16
1967 Joseph King Vivion ‘16
1954 John T. White ‘16
1951 William A. Beiderlinden ‘17
1957 Walter Brunkhorst ‘17
1951 Lester E. Cox ‘18
1954 Louise Trimble Foster ‘18
1955 Otto C. Egdorf ‘20
1963 Dorsey D. Jones ‘20
1959 Samuel Dawson ‘21
1954 Paul W. Barrett ‘24
1973 Adelaide Haseltine Jones ‘24
1965 Virgil W. Adkisson ‘25
1977 J. York Johnson ‘25
1955 Paul Leonard ‘25
1976 R. R. Watson ‘25
1962 Guy Raynor Hill ‘27
1961 Morris E. Garnsey ‘28
1958 David McKnight ‘28
1974 Minnie Mae Prescott ‘28
1960 Walter Thompson ‘28
1944 Edward L. Clark ‘29
1979 John Geyer ‘29
1966 Helen Malin Reuber ‘29
1959 Rollin Gillespie ‘30
1964 C. Robert Mitchell ‘30
1954 Frank McDowell ‘32
1957 David Robertson ‘32
1961 Gordon A. Riley ‘33
1975 William Fred Schaeffer ‘33
1956 Reba Staggs ‘34
1983 C. Truman Steele ‘34
1967 William D. Hackett ‘36
1962 Charles F. Robinson’36
1987 Sterling Newberry ‘37
1962 Jeanne Meador Schwarz ‘37
1977 James Ewing ‘38
1968 Archie Russell ‘39
1995 Andrew Jackson Wann ‘40
1994 Charles E. Fritz ‘42
2008 Dorothy "Dottie" Dillard '45
1996 Nancy Hasler Watsling ‘46
1960 Bob Barker ‘47
1981 John P. Edwards ‘47
1992 Robert H. Hurlbutt ‘47
1980 Leonard C. Pronko ‘47
1977 Frank W. Clippinger ‘48
1970 Eugene Everett ‘48
1978 F. Marion Bishop '49
1975 Betty Cole Dukert ‘49
1973 Ralph K. Manley ‘49, ‘69 MBA
1979 Robert McKinnell ‘49
1968 Lois Jennings DeNauw ‘50
1975 Rabbi Walter Jacob ‘50
1997 Rev. Elton O. Smith ‘50
1982 John T. Carlson ‘51
1980 Carol Junge Loomis ‘51
2003 Revs. John and Paula Bowman Sandford '51/'53
1975 Ralph L. Andreano ‘52
1981 Susanne Logan O’Neal ‘53
1988 Jerry Poe ‘53
1973 William C. Virdon ‘53
1978 Delmar E. Caywood ‘55
1984 David E. Sweet ‘55
1993 Donald C. Flesche ‘56
1978 James R. Buchholz ‘57
2007 Jerry L Redfern '57
1991 Richard C. Dunn ‘58
1999 Tom Kellogg ‘58
2004 Dr. William R. Schiller '58
1973 Mary Ruth Cuddy ‘59, ‘62 MEd
1999 Richard French ‘59
1996 Ellen Gray Massey ‘60 MEd
1986 Gary L. Matthews ‘60
1976 Billie Crawford Davis ‘61
1979 Sandra Kennon Harrison ‘61
1990 Emily Haymes ‘61
2009 The Hon H. Dean Whipple '61
2007 Dr. Carol Gevecker Graves '62
1988 Willard Graves, Jr. ‘62
1994 Georgia Clark Sadler ‘62
1980 Jeanine Smith ‘63
1989 John W. Hammon ‘64
1994 J. William Langston ‘65
2005 Paul Stillwell '66
1991 Margaret H. Cooper ‘66
1980 Jerry Von Rohr ‘66
1997 Larry Wallis ‘66
1992 Kenneth L. Fitts ‘67
1993 J. Regan Thomas ‘68
2000 James R. Silkenat '69
1994 Fred S. Gorelick ‘70
2003 Russell Robinson '74
1998 Thomas R. Whitlock ‘76
2001 John D. Burczak '76
2002 Michael Mallory '77
2008 Lisa Farmer '82
2009 Judge H. Dean Whipple ’61
2010 Walter George '79
Community Service Award
(Listed in Class Year order)
1961 Leonard F. Bush ‘31
1991 Ralph Turner ‘31
1969 Walter H. Hoffman ‘39
1988 Ben Parnell ‘39
1986 Mitsuo Aoki ‘40
1976 Charles H. Brown ‘41
1993 Charles Sheppard ‘41
1991 Mary Rose Sweeney ‘41
1992 Vernon K. Ausherman ‘42
2002 Bill H. Cantrell '42
1959 J. Charles Grosskreutz ‘43
1996 Hope E. Harris ‘43, ‘57 MEd
1981 John C. Herweg ‘43
1989 Betty Jane Rathbone Turner ‘45
1996 Rosemary Sullivan Bane ‘46
1961 Mary Jane Pool ‘46
1987 Rev. Robert H. Challinor ‘47
1969 Virgil E. Fieker ‘47
1999 Dorothy Gay Warren ‘47
1999 W. Warren Kallenbach ‘49
2001 Joan E. Gilmore '51
2003 Jean Short Coday '52
2004 John H. Simmons '60
1980 Donald Ray Hodge ‘61
1994 Dale Creach ‘63
1992 Eleanor Barstow White ‘64, ‘70 MEd
1990 H. Wes Pratt ‘73
1998 Carolyn Lambert Teter ‘73
2003 David Clohessy '78
2005 Mona Tourlentes '50
2006 Marcia Williams Johnson ’70
2009 Kirk Presley '80
2010 Patsy Shean Summers '64
Distinguished Service to the University Award
(Listed in Class Year order)
1981 Dr. Oscar Fryer ‘25
1952 Dean James F. McKinley ‘25
1978 Frank Ross ‘25
1986 Hilbert Keisker ‘26
1959 Dr. George Melcher ‘26
1958 Bert Goss ‘28
1989 Helen Jones Stoneman ‘28
1978 Maurice Wilson ‘28
1957 Helen Wiemer James ‘29
1974 Durward Hall ‘30
1973 Elizabeth Grinstead Mallory ‘31
1957 Robert Cummings ‘32
1979 Flavius Freeman ‘32
1968 William Collinson ‘33
1968 Edgar E. Martin ‘33
1989 Harold Stoneman ‘33
1974 John K. Hulston ‘36
1957 James Hartford Robertson ‘36
1966 Thornton Smith ‘36
1985 Ray Aton ‘37
1972 Clarence R. Haflinger ‘38
1965 David Brand Woodruff ‘38
1964 R. William Greer ‘39
1972 Robert Heimburger ‘39
1995 Joel N. Gamel ‘40
1969 William C. Hayes ‘41
1958 Rev. Thomas Shipp ‘41
1999 William E. Pettit ‘42
1968 David Weiser ‘42
1971 Henry C. Duncan ‘43
1960 Margaret Johnson Bosworth ‘45
1967 James Trig Brown ‘46
1960 Rev. Don Newby ‘47
1997 Patsy Witherspoon Poulos ‘47
1987 Wallace Springer ‘47
1998 Don Akers ‘48
1971 Marvin VanGilder ‘48
1978 F. Marian Bishop ‘49
1983 Allen V. Eikner ‘49
1991 Thomas S. Gambill ‘49
1984 Henry S. Schneider ‘49
1976 James Findlay ‘52
1990 Janet Steinmetz Trotter ‘53
2000 John R. Johnson '55
1990 Marthe Drummond Close ‘57
1990 Barbara Cook Hall ‘57
1972 John B. Haseltine ‘60
1964 Connie Hjelmeng Johnson '64
2001 Lyle D. Reed '70
2001 John D. Beuerlein '76
1993 Sally Bodlovich Tharp ‘90
2008 Lewis T. "Johnny" Johnson
Outstanding Service Award
1978 Helen Koch
1982 Leeson C. Meador
1985 Donald C. Dailey
1994 Ormal Creach
1997 Dr. James W. Clawson
2004 The Women's Auxiliary
2006 Darline Dill
2008 Lewis T. “Johnny” Johnson
Distinguished Young Alumni Award
(Listed in Class Year order)
1979 Glenn Richardson ‘65
1978 Mark Anschutz ‘66
1985 Sue Carter Porges ‘66
1976 Marcia Mobley Mitchell ‘67
1992 Susan Montgomery McCammon ‘73
1987 James Wesley Mitchell ‘73, ‘81 MEd
1977 Frances Presley Rice ‘73
1991 Wayne Schrier ‘75
1990 Susan West ‘75
1985 Brian Gendece ‘79
2001 Brian R. Reynolds '83
1997 James R. Dunlap ‘84
1995 Charlotte C. Hardin ‘85
2004 Karen L. Williams '85
1993 Michele Reeves Smith ‘88
2005 Marci Bowling '95
2008 Michael Wehrenberg '99
Special Merit Award
2002 Betty Herndon Meyer '40
2000 William C. Dannevik '67
2001 Ronald A. Neville '69
1992 Mercedes Freeman Smith ‘89 MEd
Distinguished University Family Award
2000 The O'Reilly Family
Distinguished Faculty Award
1986 Dr. Lora Bond, Biology
1987 Dr. W. Curtis Strube, Business Administration
1988 Dr. Willard Graves ‘33, Mathematics
1989 Dr. Jorge Padron, Chemistry
1990 Dr. Charles Mercer, Accounting
1991 Dr. Victor Agruso, Psychology
1992 Dr. Ruth Bamberger, Political Science
1993 Dr. Rabin Roy, Chemistry
1994 Dr. Richard D. Killough, Religion and Philosophy
1995 Dr. Richard Mears, Language and Literature
1996 Dr. Tijuana Julian ‘81, Music
1997 Dr. Harriett Mears, Art
1998 Dr. William D. Rohlf, Jr., Economics
1999 Dr. Wayne Holmes, Literature
2000 Dr. Joseph P. McAdoo, Communication
2001 Dr. Peter D. Browning, Philosophy and Religion
2002 Dr. Harvey Asher, History
2003 Eltjen Flikkema, Ph.D., German, Literature, Director of Honors Program
2004 Joyce A. Roberts, Special Instructor of Dance and Choreography/Dramatics Productions
2005 Dr. Thomas E. Russo, Art
2006 Dr. Barbara Wing, Biology
2007 Dr. Donald Weber, Physics
2008 Dr. Penny Clayton '83 MBA,Accounting]
2009 Dudley Murphy, Design Arts
2010 Alkis Tsolakis