Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
Induction Year

Looking for a specific DAA winner? Use the list below to find DAA winners by the decade and year that they were inducted in. Recipients whose names are italicized are deceased. (Induction date in parentheses)

1960s
Geraldine Townsend Fitch, ’17 (1966)
Dexter Horton, ’36 (1966)
Ella Meinke Kuhn, ’08 (1966)
Richard G. Toncray, ’19 (1966)

Richard W. Calkins, ’60 (1967)
Marian Clark Corwin, ’35 (1967)
Gilbert A. Currie, ’47 (1967)
Keith J. Leenhouts, ’49 (1967)
Charles A. McKenny, ’42 (1967)
Hugh D. McLeese, ’19 (1967)
Leroy E. Perine, ’96 (1967)
Leigh Prettyman, ’36 (1967)  

Clarence H. Blanchard, ’22 (1968)
Kenneth Borland, ’59 (1968)
J Harlen Bretz, ’05 (1968)
James L. Curtis, ’44 (1968)
Clarence H. Elliott, ’25 (1968)
Marvin F. Pahl, ’30 (1968)
Audrey K. Wilder, ’18 (1968)

Hira E. Branch, ’29 (1969)
William A. Niles, ’98 (1969)
Gary R. Noble, ’57 (1969)
Richard G. Smith, ’43 (1969)
Louise Jean Walker, ’17 (1969)
Margaret Zolliker, ’43 (1969)

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1970s
Robert H. Bartlett, ’60 (1970)
Margaret E. Berry, ’35 (1970)
Elkin R. Isaac, ’48 (1970)
Wallace M. Pearson, ’17 (1970)
John W. Porter, ’53 (1970)
Andrew W. Sunyar, ’42 (1970)
Raymond A. Wauthier, ’46 (1970)

Jack C. Bedient, ’25 (1971)
Philip J. Gannon, ’47 (1971)
George E. Hardy, Jr., ’61 (1971)
Polly Ruth Mosteller Hughes, ’47 (1971)
Stanley C. Penzotti, ’30 (1971)
Winston J. Schuler, ’30 (1971)

James G. Crane, ’51 (1972)
W. W. Diehl, ’24 (1972)
Michael G. Harrison, ’63 (1972)
D. Nolan Kaiser, ’56 (1972)
Ray B. Loeschner, ’53 (1972)
Paul Rood, ’16 (1972)
Gordon B. Wheeler, ’24 (1972)

D. Hale Brake, ’16 (1973)
Alice F. Campbell, ’29 (1973)
C. Morse Huffer, ’16 (1973)
Elsie E. Munro, ’26 (1973)
Richard M. Smith, ’68 (1973)

Jeffery W. Barry, ’60 (1974)
Helen M. Desjardins, ’14 (1974)
Donald J. Dunham, ’23 (1974)
Burley F. Lamb, ’13 (1974)
Floyd Starr, ’10 (1974)

W. Clark Dean, ’21 (1975)
Emerson J. Elliott, ’55 (1975)
Ruth Holland Scott, ’56 (1975)
Norma G. Sleight, ’24 (1975)
Harold R. Spiegel, ’32 (1975)

Wayne H. Fleenor, ’24 (1976)
Phyllis Harrison-Ross, ’56 (1976)
Richard L. Humphrey, ’56 (1976)
John S. Ludington, ’51 (1976)
Richard D. Mange, ’25 (1976)

Patricia McKean Dick, ’48 (1977)
G. Bruce Feighner, ’42 (1977)
Richard M. Fluke, ’56 (1977)
Eva A. Moore, ’19 (1977)
Lawrence L. Wade, ’50 (1977)

John E. Bromley, ’29 (1978)
Patricia Sanford Brown, ’53 (1978)
Bernard T. Lomas, ’46 (1978)
Sherry Hood Penney, ’59 (1978)
William J. Smith, ’35 (1978)

Charles E. Anderson, ’56 (1979)
Vivian Johnson Bull, ’56 (1979)
Wendell Cole, ’36 (1979)
Rex B. Martin, ’38 (1979)
Lewis L. Redmond, ’50 (1979)
Robert Stoppert, ’39 (1979)

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1980s
Edward M. Brigham, ’25 (1980)
E. Lee Feller, ’47 (1980)
Robert W. Freligh, ’47 (1980)
Betty Jones Neberman, ’50 (1980)
Helen Sparling Terpenning, ’45 (1980)

E. Maynard Aris, ’37 (1981)
Russell B. Babcock, ’27 (1981)
Dennis O. Cawthorne, ’62 (1981)
Karen Johnstone, ’60 (1981)
Andrew G. Sharf, ’44 (1981)

Jack C. Curtis, ’51 (1982)
Jack C. Dart, ’34 (1982)
Lois Skagerberg Heller, ’64 (1982)

Roy W. Battenhouse, ’33 (1983)
Mildred Oberlin Bennett, ’58 (1983)
Vinod L. Doshi, ’53 (1983)
James C. Kingsley, ’63 (1983)
Gordon L. Thomas, ’36 (1983)

Roy E. Heath, ’36 (1984)
David W. Hills, ’48 (1984)
John A. Krsul, ’59 (1984)
William R. Peterson, ’45 (1984)
Florence “Dinghy” Spalding Sharp, ’50 (1984)

B.G. “Bill” Brown, ’23 (1985)
Peter J. Christ, ’55 (1985)
Keith J. Fennimore, ’39 (1985)
Willard L. Meader, ’54 (1985)
Hazen G. Werner, ’20 (1985)

Wallace A. Bacon, ’35 (1986)
Gary L. Jones, ’66 (1986)
William Henry Perkins, ’49 (1986)
James R. Sebastian, ’32 (1986)
Joseph B. Serra, ’56 (1986) 

John G. Batsakis, ’51 (1987)
William Cargo, ’37 (1987)
O. James Clark, ’51 (1987)
Helen Harton Manning, ’43 (1987)
Myrtle R. Crouse Reul, ’47 (1987)

Judyth Fetzer Dobbert, ’69 (1988)
Nancy Carpenter Hammond, ’68 (1988)
Robert Hargreaves, ’36 (1988)
Frederick E. Shideman, ’36 (1988)

Blair C. Bedient, ’49 (1989)
Joyce Ann Livak Benjamins, ’63 (1989)
Harry T. Cook, ’61 (1989)
Margaret Drake Elliott, ’24 (1989)
Phyllis Wagner Houghton, ’41 (1989)

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1990s
Nelda Kurtz Balch, ’37 (1990)
David M. Barrett, ’64 (1990)
Michael S. David, Jr., ’64 (1990)
John E. Joyner, ’55 (1990)
Roger L. Landrum, ’59 (1990)

Daniel Boggan, Jr., ’67 (1991)
Joseph H. Britton, ’46 (1991)
Philip C. Curtis, ’30 (1991)
Richard C. Johnston, ’59 (1991)

Truman H. Cummings, Jr., ’43 (1992)
T. John Leppi, ’59 (1992)
George S. Weston, ’52 (1992)
James M. Wilson, ’77 (1992) 

Cedric W. Dempsey, ’54 (1993)
Philip R. Glotfelty III, ’55 (1993)
Thomas E. Sagendorf, ’62 (1993)
Shirley Brattin Wirt, ’47 (1993)

John P. Hummon, ’53 (1994)
Karin McClow Orr, ’64 (1994)
James L. Reutter, ’55 (1994)
Richard K. Vitek, ’56 (1994)
Judith Koch Wilcox, ’60 (1994)

Robert W. Bemer, ’40 (1995)
Sally Lynas Lamkin, ’54 (1995)
Norman R. Sleight, ’40 (1995)
James A. von der Heydt, ’42 (1995)

Charles W. “Bud” Ricker, ’50 (1996)
Lawrence B. Schook, ’72 (1996)
Marvin J. Vann, ’40 (1996)
John N. Vournakis, ’61 (1996)

Bruce C. Berndt, ’61 (1997)
Richard W. Huff, ’54 (1997)
Denise Cortis Park, ’73 (1997)
Michael E. Williams, ’78 (1997)

Melvin S. Larimer, ’53 (1998)
George R. Reed, ’53 (1998)
Thomas G. Schwaderer, ’56 (1998)

Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64 (1999)
Garry G. Carley, ’61 (1999)
Roy C. “Bud” Johns, ’51 (1999)
Larry J. Robson, ’59 (1999)
C. Thomas Wilson, ’51 (1999)

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2000s
David L. Camp, ’75 (2000)
Emilio De Grazia, ’63 (2000)
James J. Leisenring, ’62 (2000)
Jon R. Scieszka, ’76 (2000)
Karen Munro Vournakis, ’66 (2000)

Frank L. Joranko, ’52 (2001)
Paul A. Sandford, ’62 (2001)
Jennifer L. Trost, ’79 (2001)
William C. Wadland, ’69 (2001)

Ronald A. Knief, ’67 (2002)
William C. Lauderbach, ’64 (2002)
Nancy Graham Roush, ’72 (2002)
James A. Welton, 1904 (2002)

Kenneth C. Ballou, ’47 (2003)
Julie Brigham-Grette, ’77 (2003)
James N. Garber, ’55 (2003)
Michael C. Halbig, ’68 (2003)
Susan I. Pellowe, ’61 (2003)
Justin L. Sleight, ’43 (2003)

Herold "Mac" Deason, '64 (2004)
B. June Luke Dempsey, '54 (2004)
Mary Ann Stokes Egnatuk, '76 (2004)
Richard B. Krueger, '67 (2004)
Robert W. Mutch, '56 (2004)
Glenn A. Powell, '58 (2004)

Duncan M. Beagle, '70 (2005)
Faith E. Fowler, '81 (2005)
George K. Heartwell, '71 (2005)
Margaret "Peg" Mitchell Turner, '69 (2005)

Robert A. Armitage, '70 (2006)
Theodore H. Fleming, '64 (2006)
Paul R. Lawrence, '43 (2006)
Ann M. Lewicki, '56 (2006)
David G. Moore, '68 (2006)
Richard B. Smith, '60 (2006)

Gregory L. Eastwood, '62 (2007)
Debra Frey Fadool, '85 (2007)
John E. Pickelman, '67 (2007)
Paul L. Stewart, '53 (2007)

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