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