Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

1946
Augustus Davis Cloyd x1880
John Wallace Head 1896
Ivy Shelton McClure CCW ’11
Duncan Daniel Monroe x1895
Benjamin G. Shackelford 1884
1966
No awards presented

 

 

 

 

1990
Anne Raine Joyce ’62
John Robert Smart, Jr. ’40
Huston Cummings Smith ’40
Roger Byron Wilson ’71
1947
Frank Guilford Crandall, Jr. x18
William Harvey Emmons 1897
Oliver Clarence Lester 1897
Charles Orrin Ransford, Jr. ’21
Son Rone ’14

 

1967
Billy Joe Crigler ’51
Austin Hill x41
William Leonard Hungate x44
Lewis Manning Means x14
Marilyn Gaddis Rose ’52
Robert Leonard Siler ’47
1991
Robert Louis Hahne ’60
Billie Eugene “Gene” Michie x45
James Howard Steele ’64
Richard Gregory Wyatt ’64

 

 

1948
Frank E. Burcham 1895
James Auburn Chiles 1895
David Martin Key 1898
Catherine Dines Prosser HP x05
Ira Richardson 1897
L. Parker Siceloff, Jr. ’00
1968
William Noble Clark, Jr. ’48
Oliver Baker Ferguson ’37
John Franklin Kincaid ’34
George Edward Schaaf ’53
Richard Harry Swaim ’37

 

 

1992
Robert Morris Heyssel x50
William Richard Nelson, Jr. ’67
Doyne Ernest Michie ’42
Harold Cooke Sunoo ’67
1949
Roy Prentice Basler ’27
Horace Macaulay Ivy ’03
Keen Johnson x18
Ernest Byron Riegel ’28
George W. Scaling ’05
Chenault Todd, Jr. ’03

 

1969
William Cecil Allen x42
Roy Combs Eberhard ’38
John Redmond McDaniel ’35
Robert Eugene McHenry ’52
Edward Ewin Rich ’15
Martha Alice Rowland ’31
Farris Harden Woods ’20
1993
Florence Moser Downing
Cushman ’32
William Sherwood Holman ’47
James Franklin Slutz ’59

 

 

1950
Herbert Bascom Bruner ’13
Arthur Elmore Diggs ’20
Mary Louise Givens HP ’01
Marvin Loyd Gosney x12
Garland G. Greever ’04
Urner Liddel ’26
1970
Neil Magruder Blair ’42
Clayton Fowler Callis ’44
Dixie Jean Davidson ’49
Paul Allen Grigsby ’22
Beulah Mae Suter Woodward ’55
Ralph Lee Woodward ’31
1994
Don Vernon Allemann ’60
Richard Lee Parker ’74
Nancy Corcoran Schmidt ’54
Donald Guy Sheets ’44

 

 

1951
Carolyn Wells Alexander HP 1899
Logan Johnson Bennett ’30
Eugene Stephen Briggs ’12
Samuel William Downing III ’29
Boone Tarleton Guyton ’35
Kennerly Woody ’24
1971
Margo Youngstrom Chapman ’51
William Grant Guerri ’43
Glenn L. McElroy ’40
Charles William Meinershagen x31
Fulton Moore ’16
Louise Myers Westen ’33
1995
Roland Eugene Banaka ’50
Keith Edward House ’49
John Wesley Nelson ’40

 

 

1952
Edward Gordon Alexander ’23
Hamako Hirose ’29
William Wallace Lessley ’29
Martha Smith Luck ’31
Samuel Lee Stedman ’35
Martin Thomas Van Studdiford ’14
1972
Beverly Seehorn Brandt ’29
Arthur Elwell Crissey x22
Nelson Wayne Dwight ’41
Helen Louise Panigot ’37
Pearl Potter x24
Jack Stapleton x22
1996
David Wendell Butler ’51
Mary Morrison Stitt x46
Laurence Robert Tucker ’69

 

 

1953
William Denny Baskett ’00
Lena Simmerman Chase HP ’04
Wellborn Estes x18
Ira Earl Johnson ’32
Wirt McClintic Mitchell ’34
Charles Samuel Shoup ’27

 

1973
William Harold Bailey x29
Nancie Peacocke Fadeley ’52
Andrew Jackson Higgins ’43
Robert Henry Hodge x42
Raymond R. McIntyre ’32
Samuel Lewis Meyer, Jr. ’30
John William Sutton ’44
1997
John Keith Danner ’78
John Capers Glenn, Jr. ’40
Jack Bloom Kubisch x42

 

 

Pre-Centennial Convocation, Nov. 14, 1953
W. H. Ayers
Charles B. Baker
Floyd Vee Brower ’26
Francis Gano Chance x27
Clarence Albertus Clingenpeel ’15
Victor Brewer Corey ’37
Joseph William Dyson ’10
James Monroe Heying ’38
Starr Blasingame Holt
Joseph Fisher Jacobs x42
T. Leslie Johnson
Stanley Sebastian Kresge
Sydney Boswell McClanahan ’24
Robert Greenleaf Mayfield
Anna Pryor Puckett HP ’05
William Leonard Spencer ’32
1974
John William Blattner ’51
Humphrey Denny Davis x48
John Willard Hutcheson ’39
Kenneth Keith Innes ’47
Leland Duebbe Schaperkotter ’37
Winfield Roy Utz, Jr. ’41

 

1998
Omer Dean Ehlers ’51
William L. “Barry” Orscheln ’72
1999
Robert Joel Harris ’57
William Alexander Jenner ’38
Ann Romines ’64
1975
Carl Frederick Bergsten ’61
Charles Edward Clowe ’25
Warren Taylor Kingsbury ’25
Joseph Anthony Labuta ’53
James Pleasant Thogmorton ’43
Willis Jay Winn ’39

 

 

2000
Fred Howell Thornton ’59
Lawrence Donald Ashby x42
2001
Don Spencer Browning ’56
Ronald Allen Johnson ’69
Charles Richard Oldham x44
Manford Ben Tate x39

 

1954
Harold Elmore Bingham ’33
Cecil Jurey Burger ’16
Edgar Milford Crigler ’24
Mary E. Carroll Lawrence Jacobs ’33
Herbert Milton Penick ’27
Morgan Ward Redus ’30
1976
Emma Neal Boggess ’31
William Long Hairston ’33
Roy Robert Hornyak ’48
Clifton Francis McCormick ’26
Max Allen Nickerson ’60
2002
Milton David Dealy III ’76
Thomas Edward Pundmann ’70

2003
Mark Quayle Barton ’50
David Rex Holsinger ’67
George Webster Kessinger x64
Henry Walter Lahmeyer ’69
Centennial Convocation, Nov. 13, 1954
Frank Clinton Barnhill x42
Emmett Bryan Carmichael x18
Lessie Bates Davis CCW x01
Andrew Hunter Dowdy ’29
Arthur H. Elliott
Ruth Kindred Kirk HP ’22
Frances Davis McMurry
Adah Elizabeth Peckenpaugh ’35
George Henry Seiberling
Dale P. Summers
William Henry Utz, Jr.
Robert Vanatta ’42
1977
Harvey Raymond Butcher, Jr. ’41
Ivan Lee LaTurno ’50
Francis Walker “Felix” Mann ’25
Frank Everett Steinman x36
Catherine Stouffer Strickler x27

 

2004
Kay Callison ’63
Arthur Ray Cushman ’30
John Hert ’42
2005
William M. Crist ’65
Maurice P. Leech ’34
1955
Frederic Arthur Culmer ’16
E. Verne Dyson ’05
Ralph Russell Guenther ’38
Lawrence Holman x28
Benjamin G. Strehlman ’25
Mary Agnes Swinney CCW ’17
Addie Louise Downey Tiley ’34
Francis Emmett Williams x1898
1978
Elbert Carl Cole, Jr. ’39
Norman Earl Drissell ’51
Linda Sue Hartsock ’62
Nancy Heitmann Seward ’52
Raymond Kenneth Seward ’51
Richard Earl Symmonds ’43
Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. ’55
2006
Maurice Graham ’60
Judith (Engel) Rethwisch ’65
2007
John O. Gooch '60
Hisako Murakawa '73
1956
Lewis Grover Abernathy ’12
Forrest Ferguson Bell x21
Clarence Lillard Dorris x21
Ellen M. Machin ’24
Daniel Carle Rogers ’15
Hugh Miller Spencer x19
Ralph William Yoder ’35
1979
Jean Smith Collins ’35
James Clinton Denneny, Jr. ’47
Samuel William Downing IV ’56
John Wesley “J. W.” Hord ’43
Raymond Henry Lahmeyer x41
Claude Thomas Smith x54 

 

1957
Robert Denning Crowe ’22
Joseph Burroughs Davis ’17
Wilbur Burton Hughes ’32
Frances Hay Park ’29
Martha C. Ricketts HP x05
Nina M. Stallings HP ’12
Forrest Grove Stith ’23
Sanford Cresap Wise ’22
1980
George Rodgers Adams ’59
Clifton Enyart Denny, Jr. x45
Jeffrey Atkinson Fleece ’41
Sarah Frances Koontz Forbes ’41
James Robert Murphy ’40
Albert Frederick “Felix” Mutti III ’60
Doris Jean Nichols ’38

 

 

 

1958
Anna Lee Briggs ’32
Richard Franklin Deming x37
Heber Ulric Hunt ’21
Bertram Isaac Lawrence ’14
John Wilson Randolph ’32
Mary Field Arehart ’39
Roland Ralph Walton ’09
1981
Ross Edward Benjamin ’60
Robert Cameron Clark ’52
Marion Sherman Cooley ’51
William Edward Cooley ’51
Glenn Andrew Cox, Jr. x51
Willoughby Spurlock Dade ’31
James Donald Jackson ’43
Clyde Graves Lear ’66
Winan Edgar Mayfield x47
Orion Campbell Shockley ’38
Jerry Lee Schwab ’58
Lyman Ralph Wood ’48
 

 

 

 

 

 

1959
George Williams Hooker ’25
Joy William Kistler x20
Orpha Ochse ’47
Charles William Ray x30
Abe Silverman ’38
John Robert Walker x47
1982
Sam Sebree Baskett ’41
Howard Edward Carson ’52
Charles Dwight Fricke ’50
Robert Milton Garst x41
Sidney Johnson Kimbell, Jr. ’41
Earl Thomas Layton ’57
Hubert Wayne Short ’35
Jane Fife White ’40
 
1960
Delmar Lee Coffman ’30
Lowell Conrad Doak ’34
Ercel Sherman Eppright HP ’20
Bertie McClintic Mitchell HP ’11
A. Perry Philips ’30
Paul Rowland Whitener ’18

 

1983
Robert Houston Clark x42
Kenneth Dale Corwin x61
Charles Elmer Magruder ’51
 

 

 

 

 

 

1961
James Merton England ’36
Joseph Albert Frank ’36
Opal Louise Hayes HP ’12, ’25
Hartland Henry Helmich ’45
Helene Norwood Lammers ’20
Grafton Moore Potter ’30
1984
John Enid Blomquist x36
Claude Lewis, Jr. ’49
Lloyd Lyttleton Penn ’29
Jeannette Lois Scahill ’50
Burton Paul Smith, Jr. x31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1962
Overton Thomas Ballard ’23
Floyd Hugh Blaske ’35
Vincil Penny Crowe ’18
William Doss Hargis x15
George W. Kline ’25
1985
Viginia Wood Bergsten ’59
George Marvin Rayburn x41
Henry Albert Totzke ’54
Wendell William Weber ’45

 

 
1963
Paul Baker Burcham ’35
Louis Elwood Craig ’43
James Tucker Eaton ’28
E. Glenn Featherston x24
Mary Edna Glendinning ’26
Lew Wallace Jacobs, Jr. ’19
Lilburn Adkin Kingsbury x07
Edward Vernon Nash ’13
Kenneth Eugene Pletcher ’32
Lycurgus Monroe Starkey, Jr. ’48
Charles W. J. Wende ’34
Nancy Mitchell Wende ’32
1986
Logan Johnson Bennett, Jr. ’61
Gladden V. Elliott ’43
Elizabeth Durley Meals ’38
William Edward Schoening ’64

 

 
1987
Maurice Leon McGill x58
John Anthony Stephens ’69
Harold Ross “Red” Weir ’50
Scott Olin Wright x44
1964
Norman Adair ’36
Thomas Sebree Baskett ’37
James Allan Mitchell ’37
Lynda Hardy Moore ’31
Rex William Ross ’37
Martha Louise White ’29
1988
Ralph Henry Anderson, Jr. ’58
Anna Mae Besgrove Hodge ’44
Keith Hugh Knost ’62
Paul Wilbur Schlapbach ’53

 

 
1965
Thomas Dudley Brower ’45
Elbert Edwin Hansbrough ’29
J. D. Robins, Jr. ’38
Lester Crane Shell ’34
Robert Earl Stepp, Jr. ’40
1989
Kenneth Worley Doak ’38
Wendell Lee Evans, Jr. ’53
Richard Alan Lemen ’67
William Roy Morrow, Sr. x43
Donald Guy Spalding, Jr. ’56

 

 

 

HP – Howard-Payne College
CCW – Central College for Women at Lexington
x – Attended but did not graduate

 

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