The Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize outstanding graduates who are esteemed
by their peers as “the brightest and most distinguished” in their field.
- 1978 - William H. Byler ’27
- 1978 - J. Lawrence Walkup ’36
- 1979 - Ucola Collier Katzentine ’25
- 1979 - James C. Kirkpatrick ’29
- 1980 - James W. Evans ’26, ’28
- 1980 - E. Gene Ferguson ’53
- 1980 - Alma Rae Benney Greenwood ’49
- 1980 - Glenn W. Stahl ’32
- 1981 - Harold P. Brown ’28
- 1981 - Emerson D. Fowler ’38
- 1981 - Joe Herndon ‘34
- 1982 - Marvin M. Millsap ‘27
- 1982 - James H. Pendleton ‘55
- 1982 - James S. Whitfield ‘50
- 1983 - Ralph C. Bedell ’26
- 1983 - Wallace H. Graham
- 1983 - Joseph E. Kallenbach ’26
- 1983 - Vernon Kennedy ’29
- 1983 - William B. Peck ’63
- 1983 - Janice Gudde Plastino ‘60
- 1984 - Louis Alley ’35
- 1984 - R. C. Bradley ’50
- 1984 - Sam D. Hoeper, Sr. ’31
- 1984 - Edna P. Gehlken ’25
- 1985 - William H. Klingenberg ’55
- 1985 - Rita L. Youmans ’37
- 1986 - Robert P. Foster ’39
- 1986 - Bonnie Foster Kelley ’27
- 1986 - Leonard E. Goodall ’58
- 1987 - James Appleberry ’60, ’63, ’67
- 1987 - Tony Eberwein ’63
- 1987 - James McDowell ’62
- 1988 - Thomas Hollyman ’40
- 1988 - Edna Mae Whitsitt ’46
- 1989 - Brice B. Durbin ’49
- 1989 - Billy Key ’49
- 1990 - Fred E. Cameron ’28
- 1990 - David Laughlin ’50
- 1991 - Bonnie Fitterling Braun ’68, ’71
- 1991 - A. L. Folkner ’52
- 1992 - David Baker ’76, ’77
- 1992 - Joey Ford ’76
- 1993 - Dorothy Diemer Hendry ’39
- 1993 - Joseph Sellman ’65
- 1994 - Homer H. Kempfer ’33
- 1994 - Rex R. Taggart ’46
- 1995 - William Bradshaw ’50
- 1995 - Ruthanne Marr Jones-Wise ’62
- 1996 - Donald Kelsey ’68
- 1996 - Charles Pace ’59
- 1997 - Helen Hocker ’37
- 1997 - William F. Fulkerson ’64
- 1997 - Mary Ann Hart ’70, ’73
- 1998 - D. Mitchell Wheeler ’79
- 1999 - John R. Clark ’68
- 2000 - Robert G. Hartley ’82
- 2000 - John W. White ’60
- 2001 - D. Kent King ’64
- 2001 - Everett H. Thomas ’85
- 2002 - George H. Alvord ’84
- 2002 - Timothy J. Doke ’74
- 2003 - Thomas Kunz ’61, ’62
- 2003 - John Romito ’69
- 2004 - Paula Mitchell Derks ’79
- 2004 - David Steward ’73
- 2005 - Jerry D. Osborn ’66
- 2005 - William H. Parrish ’71
- 2006 - James Crane ’76
- 2006 - Joe Vandepopuliere ’51
- 2007 - Mike Davidson ’72
- 2007 - Betty Henks Meyer ’60, ’65
- 2007 - Ted Meyer ’62, ’67
- 2007 - Phil Sumrall ’61
- 2008 - Michael Quimby ’73, ’75
- 2008 - James W. Hill Jr. '74
- 2009 - Robert Buhrkuhl ’69, ’71
- 2009 - Bryan Burns ’72
- 2010 - Clifton Baile ’62
- 2010 - Steven, ’72, ’73, and Susan Dye, '73, Beebe
- 2011 - Mark Schupp ’78
- 2011 - Mike Webb ‘67
- 2012 - Glenn Chambers ’58
- 2012 - Arnold Neil Gordon-Bray ’78
- 2013 - L. Marlene Mawson ‘62
- 2013 - Gavin Tade ‘94
- 2014 - Meryl Lin McKean ‘80
- 2014 - C. David Turner ‘84
- 2015 - Troy Kok ‘86, ‘87
- 2016 - Adrian Andrews ‘85, ‘86
- 2016 - Richard Mustion ‘81
- 2017 - Barry Davis ‘81
- 2017 - Karen LeDoux ‘82
- 2018 - Randall Harbert ’85
- 2018 - Rebecca Teeters ’93
- 2019 - Debby Ballard ’74
- 2019 - Pat Cavanaugh ’70
- 2020 - Donna Lake ’92
- 2020 - Melissa Willis ’92
- 2021 - Russ Ball ’81
- 2021 - Joseph Dandurand ’77
- 2022 - Richard Wilson Bennet III '74
- 2022 - Beth Tankersley-Bankhead '83
- 2023 - David and Jerrilyn Hoffmann, both class of '74
The Distinguished International Alumni Award recognizes alumni who attended UCM as
international students and have achieved professional distinction.
- 2002 - Issam J. Merei ’74
- 2003 - Banchar Patrasuwan ’91
- 2004 - Ching-Sheng Ho ’86, ’90
- 2005 - Subashini Nadarajah, ’93, ’94
- 2006 - Don Nissanka ’91, ’93
- 2007 - Samira Hussein ’83, ’86
- 2008 - Asenath Sigot ’78, ‘79
- 2009 - Charles Olaiya ’93
- 2010 - Shree Loya ’74
- 2012 - Immanuel Barshi, ’87, ’88
- 2013 - Paulo Guerra ‘89
- 2014 - Anand S. Mehta ’75
- 2015 - Ashvin Vibhakar ’73
- 2017 - Chang Bin Yim ’64
- 2018 - Rafie Hamidpour ’94
- 2019 - Paul Hsu ’78
- 2020 - Faruk Capan ’92
- 2023 - Srinija Amisthapur '17
The Distinguished Alumni Award for Early Achievement (formerly the Outstanding Recent
Alumni Award) recognizes graduates who achieve early career success at 40 years of
age or younger.
- 1998 - Todd L. Schnake ‘91, ‘01
- 1999 - Roger B. Schupp ‘88, ‘90
- 2001 - Arthur E. Rosser ‘92
- 2002 - Grant C. Curtis ‘97
- 2004 - William M. Scully ‘95, ‘97
- 2005 - Wade A. Eyerly ‘02
- 2007 - Courtney L. Cooper ‘00
- 2008 - Summer D. Ott ‘99, ‘01
- 2009 - Keena N. Arbuthnot ‘99
- 2009 - David R. Cook ‘06
- 2010 - Jeremy R. Garrett ‘00
- 2012 - Lucas D. Boyce ‘03
- 2012 - Tiffany L. LaFleur ‘03
- 2013 - Roger L. Bell ‘06
- 2013 - Allison H. Jaslow ‘04
- 2014 - Greggory J. Favre ‘08
- 2017 - LaTanya Buck ‘01, ‘04
- 2018 - Sarah Osborne ‘02
- 2020 - Derek Wiseman ’11
- 2022 - Allison H. Jaslow ‘04
- 2023 - Marcela Rodriguez-Gonzalez '17
The Distinguished Alumni Award for Service honors individuals who have given their
time, talent and resources to exemplify the university’s motto of “Education for Service.”
- 2012 - Dale Carder ’72
- 2013 - Frank Fendorf ’47
- 2014 - Susan Arthurs ‘93
- 2015 - Tom Wyrsch ‘78
- 2016 - Dan D. Power ‘73, ‘74
- 2017 - Robert Ruth ‘75
- 2018 - Richard Phillips ’65, ’67, ‘72
- 2019 - Larry W. Jennings ’81
- 2020 - John Culp ’69, ’75
- 2022 - Dred Scott '00
- 2022 - Barry, '84, and Diane, '77, Whitworth
- 2023 - Bill Keen '91
- 2023 - Major General Levon Cumpton '92