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Past Distinguished Alumni

Past Distinguished Alumni Recipients

See the full list of past Distinguished Alumni, in chronological order by award year, by clicking on the title of the award category below. 

Distinguished Alumni Award

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

Distinguished International Alumni Award

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

Distinguished Alumni Award for Early Achievement

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

Distinguished Alumni Award for Service

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

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