Alumni & Friends

Alumni Awards

Your alma mater is seeking nominations for the Distinguished Service Awards and the Emerging Alumni Award, which will be presented each year during Homecoming weekend.

Nominate an alumna/alumnus for a Distinguished Service Award.

Nominate an alumna/alumnus for a Emerging Alumni Award.

Previous Award Recipients:

2023
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Jillian Von Gunten '09
Justin Kume '06
Michael Klamo '15
Taylor Loos-Little '16
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Distinguished Service Award Recipients:

James McDonald '73
John Fisher '76
Dr. Debra Clausing Sudan '85

2022
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Luke Lloyd '19
Matthew Hott '07
Bonnie Whitt Rusch '08
Bonnie Taylor '06

Distinguished Service Award Recipients:

Philip Davies ‘71
Dan Hughes ‘77
Linda Burlingame McElroy ‘97
Gretchen Post Prichard ‘58

2021
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Dustin Eubanks '07
Landel Shakespeare '12
Madee Stones '18
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Distinguished Service Award Recipients:
Bill Baker '57
Dr. Kathleen Lee '76
John Hoopingarner '76
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2020
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Allison Avolio '06
Sarah Anderson Goehrke '07
Nathan Strum '06

Distinguished Service Award Recipients:
Jill Schue Cuthbert '93
Dorothy Caccamo Humm '67
Edward A. Pesicka '89
Jim Schmotter '69

2019
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Eric Anderson '08
Sarah McBeth '04
Julie Travaglini '09
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Distinguished Service Award Recipients:
Ramone Davenport '98
Jane Marshall '75
Alicia “Kaye” Matthews '89
Dennis O’Neil '69
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2018
Emerging Alumni Award Recipients:

Luke Ford ’03
Rob McBurney ’05
Rachael Hrisak Gorsuch ’06
William Sherry ’13
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Distinguished Service Award Recipients:
Craig Anderson ’73
John Bollinger ’68
Bev Coen ’68
Ruth Wasem ’76
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2017
Bill P. Lovejoy '51
Benjamin O. Shaver '50
James R. Wooolard '63 
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2016

R. Gregory Adams '81
Lady Marjorie Hlavacek Crockett '64
Lawrence R. Triplett '80
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President's Medal
William Denzter '66
Paul J. Stankard '66 
Donna Newberry 

2015
Gordon F. Litt '80
Barbara Young Morris '67
Kim Ronald Smith '77
Maurice E. Wilber '68
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President's Medal
Perry Lee Reese, Jr. '88 

2014
William F. Accorsi '54
Laura Klema Hill '74
Marshall C. Phelps, Jr. '66
Wiley W. Souba, Jr. '75
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2013
Robert Owen Jones '63
Steve Kokovich '63
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President's Medal
Susanne Hussey Burlingame '63

2012
Frederick Otto Bonkovsky ’61 
Dennis D. Grant ’62
Wayne F. Miller ’56
David H. Resler ’69
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2011
William A. Cooper '61
Frank G. Helman '51
Jan A. Levy '60
John C. Taylor '37
Leonard M. Thomas '52
(read more)

2010
Keith S. Campbell '77
Brockton J. Hefflin '84
Marilyn Woodyard Lockhart '56
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2009
Ruth Ann Moore Duff '59
Rev. Frank Edward Hare '52
Demetrios Lignos '64
C. Barry Montgomery '59, Esq.
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2008
Elizabeth Topping Mainiero '57
Rev. Dr. W. Terry Schoener '60
Robert Jennings Reveley '65
Walter R. Young, Jr. '66
(read more)

2007 
Ralph W. Van Sant, Jr. '35
Dr. Paul L. Morris '48
Dr. Donald H. Williams '60
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2006
Dr. Doris Lee Raymond McCoy '51
Reverend Dr. A. Bruce Henderson '56
Donald L. McKendry '62
Dr. Richard M. Brown '62 

2005
James F. Burson '63 
Lota Echols Mitchell '56 
Shirley Kimmel Wagner '51 

2004
Gerald L. Draper '63
Alison White MacConnell '49
Dorothy J. Montgomery '53

2003
Carol Williamson Kinsley '59
J. Stark Thompson '63
Howard S. Zwelling '59

2002
Elizabeth Leitch Bonkowsky '62
Robert W. Patin '64
Thomas K. Tewell '70

2001
Dr. Gladys T. McGarey '41
William B. Anderson '50

2000
Christine McGuire-Masserman '37
Dr. Ross R. Black II '70

1999
Samuel Alvin Bell '31
Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner '74
Samuel W. Speck '59

1998
Tom Johnson '71
John L. Kohl '63
John W. McCormac '51

1997
William R. Phillippe '52
Kim Gage Rothermel '71
David R. Sturtevant '50
Ruth Gullyes Watermulder '44

1996
Nelson L. "Lin" Carter '53
R. William Geyer '52
Charleen G. Kirkpatrick '50
David E. Riechle '60

1995
Homer T. Borton '25
Kay Paisley Callander '60
William T. Dentzer '51
Robert E. Gray '49

1994
Frank L. Graves '60
Carl E. Taylor '37
James W. White '49
Jacqueline Dudek Woods '69

1993
Harold W. (Hal) Burlingame '62
Christine Mills Carlson '59
William L. Gordon '48
Marjorie Sims Lincoln '50

1992
Mary White Evans '42
Myron Ernest Moorehead '58
Richard Pipes '44
Jane Stepp Warren '49

1991
W. Wilson Caldwell '38
Anne Marshall Saunier '68
Suzanne Rucker Tate '52
C. William Fischer '53

1990 
John C. Datt '49 
Clinton H. Heacock '38 
Wilbur F. Simlik '43 
Robert M. Warner '49

1989 
R. Douglas Brackenridge '54 
Robert F. Conley '41 
William M. Garrett '28 
Everett L. Woodcock '41

1988
Jaime Bermudez, Sr. '44
Martha A. Roy '35
Kenneth L. Vaux '60
Nancy L. (Niki) Mason Wenger '62

Special Sesquicentennial DSAs
Harold W. Kaser '41
L. Margaret McCandless Richert '28

1987
Richard O. Johnson '52
John G. Lorimer '45
Joseph E. McCabe '37
Mary Louise Wagner Shelley '47

1986
Wilson M. Laird '36
Martha C. Moore '40
Robert H. Nesbitt '28
R. Ellis Smith '33

1985
Thomas M. Buck '42
John G. Hepler '39
Christian Kenneweg '23
Mary Wilson Kenneweg '30
Alfred S. Warren, Jr. '48

1984
John T. Galloway '30
Ada Margaret Hutchison '45
Frank A. McKinley '37
Robert M. Smock '30

1983
A. Boyd Anderson '38
Roy D. McKinley '33
Joseph H. Taber '42
John C. Taylor '37

1982
George Atha '27
Gottlieb C. Friesinger '51
Donald E. Smith '43
Marion Swern Wells '39

1981
Walter K. Chess '43
Anna Castor Glenn '42
John B. (Jack) Hanna '69
Donald V. Wilson '31

1980
Edwin M. Clark '24
Richard K. Giffen '52
Irene Forsythe Hanson '19
Mary Lowry Lowery '16

1979
Cheri L. Florance '69
Robert W. Gibson '18
Elmer C. Lusk '37

1978
Homer A. Anderson '35
Philip Caldwell '40
Charles J. Pilliod, Jr. '41
Mary Louise Somers '37

1977
J. Wallace Cleland '21
William L. Fisk '41
Ruth McKnight Nichol '31

1976
J. Harvey Moore '29
John W. Reynard '35

1975
Edgar L. Ralston '33
Robert T. Secrest '26
Edgar C. Sherman '36
Carle Wunderlich '45

1974
Alfred B. Garrett '28
John C. Smith '25

1973
Naomi G. Albanese '39
H. Kenneth Carmichael '28

1972
John H. Glenn, Jr. '43
Lewis W. Hays '38
J. Knox Montgomery '14
Beulah Clark Van Wagenen '24

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