Past Distinguished Award Winners

Alumni Recognition

The Distinguished Alumni Award, given since 1973, recognizes alumni who have reached the pinnacle of their careers and have brought credit to the University and themselves through their professional accomplishments or community service at local, state, or national levels and extended meritorious service for the advancement and continued excellence of WIU.

2008

  • Samuel Nicholas Oliva
    

2005

  • Michael P. Kelly
  • Zack Stamp

2006

  • Larry Mortier
  • Lorraine Epperson

2007

  • Charles P. Carey
  • James M. Clary

2002

  • Bill Epperly

2003

  • John Blackburn
  • Bruce Gebhardt

2004

  • Alfred D. Boyer
  • Mary K. O'Brien

1999

  • Nancy C. Pechloff
  • John Rosemond

2000

  • William Hamman

2001

  • Dr. Margaret "Moppy"
  • Puricelli Lavery
  • George H. Stege

1996

  • Gary Baise
  • Richard D. Friichtenicht

1997

  • Kirk Dillard

1998

  • Jim Shipp

1993

  • David Collins
  • David A. Crouse

1994

  • Roger K. Miller
  • M. Bernadine Porter Mings

1995

  • Stephen B. King

1990

  • Josephine L. Johnson
  • C. Robert Leininger

1991

  • Everett L. Buckardt
  • Art Chown

1992

  • Dan K. Webb

1987

  • Robert L. Ferguson
  • James R. Garner

1988

  • J. Victor Hopper
  • William M. Hughes

1989

  • Harry F. Mussato
  • Ron G. Peterson

1984

  • Russell R. Dohner
  • William H. Lizdas

1985

  • Loren K. Dittus
  • Clifford Latherow

1986

  • Ralph C. Wagner

1981

  • James F. Whalen

1982

  • Daisy Marie Hines
  • Robert G. Schramm

1983

  • Dorothy W. Holland
  • Maurice G. Kellogg

1978

  • Amy F. Brown
  • Teresa F. Glazier
  • Helen L. Wear

1979

  • Kathryne Pennington
  • Clyde K. Watson

1980

  • G. Allan Laflin
  • Donald W. Marshall (posthumously)

1975

  • H. Waldo Horrabin
  • Harry Patia
  • Ethel Ray

1976

  • John Keys

1977

  • George Gazda
  • Adrian Hainline Jr.

1972

  • Philip W. Myers
  • Alvin B. Roberts
  • Hazel VanArsdale

1973

  • Dorothy L. Dunn
  • Rena L. Hodgen
  • Vernon H. Holmes
  • Leroy T. Morley

1974

  • Robert N. Miller
  • Harry Newburn (posthumously)
  • Miss Irene Parrotte
  • Joseph J. Stipanowich

1969

  • George Baird II
  • Ted McCarrell

1970

  • Thomas Booth Jr.
  • Mary O'Neal

1971

  • Charles Banks (posthumously)
  • Marjorie Rich Bordner
  • Lowell Fisher
  • John Mowbray

1968*

  • James Grigsby
  • Ray Page
  • J. Harold Voshall
  • C. Rubin Wright

1965

  • Camilo Osais (Class of 1908)

 

* University archives show Camilo Osais was the first recipient of the WIU Distinguished Alumni Award in 1965. Records indicate the next presentation of the award was in 1968.