Past Distinguished Alumni

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
• 2024 - Stephen R. Jenne '69

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
• 2024 - Joel F. Swift '14

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
• 2024 - LaTonia Collins Smith '95