Distinguished Alumni Past Recipients

2023 Recipients

Cynthia Eisenhauer

Carolyn Hernandez

Courtney Knaup

John Masterson

M. Alexandra Vuyk

Chris Waldeck

2021-2022 Recipients

Nancy Briefs

Ken Hush

Ruth Jones

Muhammad Nashatizadeh

Luis Rodriguez

2020 Recipients

Ron Frierson

Daria Bossman

Karen Clegg

Steve Coen

2019 Recipients

DeWayne Backhus

Phyllis Ericson

Christie Nixon

Mark Scoles

Robert “Robbie” Young

2018 Recipients

Cheryl Brown-Henderson

Brian Cathers

Rose Haggerty

James “Jim” Johnson

Leo Pauls

2017 Recipients

Ross Bjork

Dan Deines

Duane French

Sue Givens

Jim Trecek

2016 Recipients

Ronald Fredrickson

Shirley Johannsen

Herman Jones

Michael Law

Steve Sauder

2015 Recipients

Guy C. Beougher

Richard C. “Dick” Hawk

Ilene Kleinsorge

John D. McPherson

Lana Oleen

2014 Recipients

Daniel Busby 

Diane DeBacker

Rosemary Kirby

Tony Forcum

2013 Recipients

Linda Bluth

Anita Evans

J.D. Schramm

Tom Thornbrugh

2012 Recipients

Dale Cushinberry

Norma Lu Hafenstein

Floyd Hoelting

Dianne Welsh

2011 Recipients

Kevin Leonard

Ron Loewen

Teresa Markowitz

Don Reichardt

2010 Recipients

H. Edward Flentje

Robert J. Gress

Omar G. Rogers, Sr.

2009 Recipients

Becky Hayes Boober

Randy Scott

Harold See, Jr.

Sue Swaim

2008 Recipients

Louis Burns

Lonnie Clark

Thomas Fincken

Ben R. Leedle, Jr.

2007 Recipients

Donna L. Clopton

Karen Kelly

Herb B. Kuhn

Victor Spinski

2006 Recipients

Jeremy C. Kohomban

Marshall McNott

Russell E. Meyer

David L. Robertson

Jackie I. Snyder

2005 Recipients

Mary E. Devin

William J. Greene, Jr.

Peggy Lamm

John “Andy” Tompkins

Deryl Wynn

2004 Recipients

Mark Austenfeld

Raymond Blackwell

Wallace Fujii

Evan Lindquist

2003 Recipients

Ed Eilert

Barbara Fowler

Robert Hartsook

Ramon Littell

Richard Zahn

2002 Recipients

Betty "Kepka" Belton

William Blaufuss Jr.

Ronald Fundis

Susan McCollum

Corinthian Nutter

2001 Recipients

Richard Daniel "Dan" Lumley

James D. Meyer

Curtis Pickert

Janet Schalansky

2000 Recipients

Walter Boles

Robert Fisher

Ronald Poplau

1999 Recipients

Ted E. Bilderback

William Charles Kloefkorn

Ralph W. Laster, Jr.

Lloyd A. Stone

Carol J. Swinney

1998 Recipients

Bruce E. Koel

Charles W. Lindahl

Clyde F. Martin

Howard Ray Moses

1997 Recipients

Reginald Boothe

Ronald Epps

Edward H. Hammond

Dennis Neff

Forrest A. Newlin

1996 Recipients

Michael C. Manning

Thomas Moon

Lea Follis Plarski

Philip Reed Rulon

Jacquelyn Silberg

1995 Recipients

Stephen M. Archer

Ray Rust

Yasunori Watanabe

William H. Wunder

1994 Recipients

Clair Hutchinson

Ronald Iman

Marc Johnson

Gary Sherrer

Rita Riggin Swan

1993 Recipients

Monroe Fordham

Ronald F. Krueger

Richard W. Mawdsley

Calvin T. Roberts

David A. Waite

1992 Recipients

Kay Alden Nelson

James R. Bowen

James F. Harter

Samuel Walter Wine

Mark L. Witten

1991 Recipients

Glen K. Andrews

Robert F. Clarke

Linda Gerber

Vernard Johnson

Elva McLin

1990 Recipients

Leone Buyse

Jack Carter

Carl E. Powell

Calvin Lee Pritner

M. Kay Royse

1989 Recipients

Bob Abbott

D. Stanley Eitzen

Francis K. McGowan

Claire L. Schelske

Larry H. Toburen

1988 Recipients

Louis L. Bangs

Michael A. Barbara

Fred Burchinal

Charles W. Dieker

Florence E. Wilson

Panayiotis M. Zavos

1987 Recipients

Gary Bitter

Scott Cram

David M. King

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

1986 Recipients

Robert E. Bays

G. Wayne Johnston

Kenneth C. Skeen

Ron Slaymaker

Julian H. Taylor

1985 Recipients

William Jackson Bell

William A. Bloomer

Forrest Frease

Vaughn Nelson

James W. Pickert

1984 Recipients

Arthur Adrian

Marshall S. Hiskey

Raymond C. Koch

Rainer Martens

Rose Ann Shorey

1983 Recipients

Helen Case

Manuel J. Justiz

R. Wilford Riegle

Gail Shannon

1982 Recipients

Don Ingwerson

Don Peters

Alfred Philips

John Sarracino

Richard J. Williams

1981 Recipients

Bill Brown

Darrel Mase

Ivan C. Smith

1980 Recipients

Ted Andrews

Dorothy Gropp

Arlo Hermreck

John R. Zimmerman

1979 Recipients

Richard Hiskey

Ruth Irwin

Jim Pogue

1978 Recipients

Paul Del Brinkman

Robert Mott

Alice VanLandingham

Archie SanRomani

1977 Recipients

Herman Berg

James Fraley

Burt Harrison

Virgil Stout

1976 Recipients

Ben Day

Alma Eikerman

Jean Leblon

Helen Johnson Whitla

1975 Recipients

Frank A. Beach

Stuart Cram

Erma L. Stewart

John J. Zimmerman

1974 Recipients

Josephine Bates

George Blair

Roy Burns

John McCormally

Dale Saffels

1973 Recipients

Samuel Estep

Noel Gist

Mary M. Graye

Alvin Morris

Dwight Newberg

R. Russell Porter

1972 Recipients

August Eberle

Everett “Gus” Fish

Ray C. Maul

Ann King Reynolds

Robert W. Stauffer

Lloyd Percy Young

1971 Recipients

Thomas P. Butcher

Emory Lee Cox

Eugene Savaiano

Lewis Worth Seagondollar

Elijah Williams

1970 Recipients

Margaret L. Burke

Arthur E. Gropp

Homer W. Hargiss

Francis C. Welch

1969 Recipients

Hugh Edwards

Byron Eshelman

Robert H. McFarland

1968 Recipients

Don Davis

Minnie Miller

1967 Recipients

Harry Levinson

O. Everett Rich

1966 Recipients

William Larkin

Vic Trusler

1965 Recipients

Paul Johnson

Bill Martin, Jr

1964 Recipients

Ray G. Cremer

Guy E. Finkle

Delore Gammon

1963 Recipients

Edwin “Ed” John Brown

Alfred C. Hill

Kathryn Kayser

Fred Messenger

Katherine Morrison

1962 Recipients

Susan Friend

Edna McCullough

John Rufi

Hugo Wedell

1961 Recipients

Ellsworth C. Dent

Clifford H. Nowlin

1960 Recipients

F. L. Schlagle