Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
Amy Knopps, BSEd ’01 Music Education
Svitlana Mayboroda, Ph.D. ’05 Mathematics
Wade Davis, Ph.D. ’03 Statistics
Thomas Curtright, BS, MS ’70 Physics
Pattiann Rogers, BA ’61 English
Terri Speiser, BSHE ’83 Clothing & Textiles
Jay Nouss, BA ’76 Economics
Jim Simon, MA ’78, PhD ’80 Chemistry
Azeema Akram, BA ’08 International Studies
Gloria Newton Logsdon, BA ’63 Sociology
Bryan Watson, BA ’93, Political Science, Geography, JD '96
Sally Williams, BA ’93 Communication
Gregory J. Dennis, MD, BA ’76 Biological Sciences
Michael A. Middleton, BA ’68 Political Science, JD ’71
Angie Wojak, MFA ’92 Art
Marcia Chatelain, BA ’01 religious studies, BJ ’01
Thomas B. Fomby, MA ’73, PhD ’75 economics
Elizabeth Howard Snyder, BFA ’02 art
James Hadley Williams, BA ’51, MA ’52 geology
Paul L. Leath, BS '61, MS '63, PhD '66 Physics
Rick Ross, BS '91 Chemistry, BFA '91, MA '97 Philosophy
Mark Wilkins, BA '90 Political Science
Beth McCarter, BA '84 Political Science
Larry McMullen, BA '53 Political Science, JD '59
Major Garrett, BA ’84 Political Science, BJ ’84
Kenneth R. Mares, BA ’65 Zoology
Martin Sanders, BA ’75 Microbiology
Caroline Worra, MM ’93
Edward Buckler, PhD ’97 Biological Sciences
Sabra Tull Meyer, BA ’49, MA ’79, MFA ’82 Art
Cindy Mustard, BA ’65 History
Jane M. Robert, MA ’73 French
William A. Brock, BA ’65 Mathematics
June McAllister Fowler, BA ’78 Psychology
Chris Fuldner, BA ’73 Pre-med chemistry
Howard Richards, BA ’88 Communication
William F. Brinkman, BS ’60, PhD ’65 Physics
Jeanette W. Mann, BA ’57, MA ’63, PhD ’69 English
Ryan Yantis, BA ’83 History
Tyrone J. Flowers, BA ’93 Sociology, JD ’98
Dan L. Lindsley, BA ’47 Zoology, MA ’49 Biological Sciences (deceased)
Matt Taylor, BFA ’99 Art
Walter Bargen, BA ’70 Philosophy, MEd ’90 English Education
Steve Ellebracht, BS ’74, MS ’77 Chemistry
James F. Hoffmeister, BA ’67 Mathematics
Martha George, BS ’76 Geology
Tarek Mansour, PhD ’82 Chemistry
Michael Mulvihill, BA ’94 Communication
Ethel Pitts Walker, PhD ’75 Theatre
Allen Day Grimshaw, BA ’50 Anthropology/Sociology, MA ’52 Sociology (deceased)
Darwin Hindman, BA ’55 Political Science, JD ’61 (deceased)
Dandi Daley Mackall, BA ’71 French
Ron Mann, BA ’58 Art
Cecil M. Phillips, BA ’68 History
Eddie A. Williamson, MA ’73 Geological Sciences
Janet Campbell, BA ’74 Spanish
Jack Fishman, BA ’71 Mathematics
Thomas D. Holland, BFA ’79, MA ’85, PhD ’91 Anthropology
John Shaw, BA ’73, MA ’77 English, JD ’77
James H. Amos Jr., BA ’68 Political Science
Tyrone J. Christian, BA ’77 Speech and Dramatic Art (deceased)
Earl Coleman, BS Ed ’70 Music, MM ’76 Vocal Performance, MM ’81 Violin Performance
Flake L. McHaney, BA ’42 Economics (deceased)
Donald Packwood, PhD ’71 Physics
Naoma Powell, BA, BS Ed ’47, MA ’51 Art (deceased)
Andrew R. Sackin, BA ’73 Sociology
Jeffrey P. Bonner, BA ’75 Anthropology
Stuart A. Fraser, BA ’83 History
Diane Hall Glancy, BA ’64 English
Helgi Gunnlaugsson, MA ’85, PhD ’92 Sociology
Christopher A. Jensen, BJ ’89, MA ’91 Communication
Kathryn N. McFarland, MA ’71, PhD ’76 Chemistry
Sandra W. Rackley, BS Ed ’59, MA ’60 Speech and Drama
Gary A. Tatlow, BA ’62 Psychology, JD ’64, and Marilyn Silvey Tatlow, BA ’62 French (deceased)
Joseph W. Westphal, PhD ’80 Political Science
Gary Williams, BA ’73 Biological Sciences, MD ’78, MA ’79 Medical Physiology
June S. Hamra, MA ’59 Music
Judith Wangelin Scott, BA ’65 English
Beryl W. Sprinkel, BS PA ’47 Economics, LLD ’86 (deceased)
Albert “Bert” Winemiller, BS ’64, MS ’65 Statistics
Sam B. Cook, Arts ’41–’43 (deceased)
Paul C. Jackson, MFA ’92
Barbara J. Molette, PhD ’89 Theatre (deceased)
Jack Smith, BA ’62 Speech and Dramatic Art
M. Ray Thomasson, BA ’52, MA ’53 Geology
James L. Fergason, BS ’56 Physics (deceased)
Jim Goodrich, MA ’64, PhD ’74 History (deceased)
Katherine K. Hanley, BA ’65 French, BS ’65 Education
Charles A. Harbert, PhD ’67 Chemistry
Sidney Larson, BA ’49, MA ’50 Art (deceased)
Josephine Rosa Beatrice Wright, BM ’63, MA ’67 Music
Richard Bishop, MA ’69 Geological Sciences
Irwin Deutscher, BA ’50 Philosophy; MA ’53 Statistics, Sociology; PhD ’58 Sociology
Joel J. Gold, BA ’55 English, Sociology (deceased)
John A. Gordon, BS ’68 Physics
Sally Shelton Colby, BA ’66 French (deceased)
Brenna Hafer Bry, MS ’66, PhD ’69 Psychology
Larry D. Clark, MA ’61 Speech and Dramatic Art (deceased)
Chris Cooper, BGS ’76
Robert Gex, PhD ’78 Romance Languages (deceased)
Robert Lindholm, BA ’57 Speech and Dramatic Art; JD ’64 (deceased)
Richard G. Boehm, BS Ed ’60; MA ’62 Geography
Gus Giordano, BA ’50 English (deceased)
Winifred Bryan Horner, MA ’61 English (deceased)
Gary Kendall, BS Ed ’65; MM ’67
Gerald P. Koocher, MA ’70, PhD ’72 Psychology
Richard G. Miller, BA ’70 Mathematics
Edward H. Blaine, BA ’63 Chemistry; MA ’67 Zoology; PhD ’70 Physiology
James D. Freeman, BA ’32 English (deceased)
Kent Q. Kreh, BA ’57 Political Science
R. Bruce McMillan, MA ’63 Anthropology
Jonathan Staggers, BA ’70 Sociology
Susan R. Van Dyne, BA ’67 English, French
Jess Bushyhead, BA ’78 Communication
Gerald J. Fishman, BS ’65 Physics
Claire McCaskill, BA ’76 Political Science; JD ’77
Sonja Steptoe, BA ’82 Economics; BJ ’82
Paul Waltman, MS ’60, PhD ’62 Mathematics (deceased)
Seymour Weintraub, BA ’47 Spanish; BJ ’47 (deceased)
J.O. Davis, PhD ’42 Physiology, BS ’43 Medicine (deceased)
Alvin M. Liberman, BA ’38, MA ’39 Psychology (deceased)
Herman Ponder, BA ’55, PhD ’59 Geology (deceased)
Eugenie C. Scott, PhD ’74 Anthropology
Gene Watts, BM ’59
James Irwin, BA ’64 Speech and Dramatic Art (deceased)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, BA ’61 History
Ike Skelton, BA ’53 Political Science; JD ’56 (deceased)
Hugh Stephenson, BA ’43 Zoology; BS Medicine ’43 (deceased)
Jack N. Thornton, BA ’54 Psychology
William Trogdon, BA ’61, MA ’62, PhD ’73 English; BJ ’78
Suk-Ryul Yu, MA ’70, PhD ’74 Political Science
Jean Becker, BA ’78 Political Science; BJ ’78
Dai-Chul Chyung, MA ’76, PhD ’84 Political Science
Walter D. Keller, BA ’21, MA ’24, PhD ’33 Geology (deceased)
William V. Miller, BA ’62 Biology; MD ’66
A. Mort Walker, BA ’48 Arts (deceased)
James C. Wang, PhD ’64 Chemistry
John R. Whitmore, BA ’54 Political Science; JD ’58
Neil S. Bucklew, BA ’62 History
Robert A. Burnett, BA ’48 Economics (deceased)
Victoria Corcoran, BA ’73 Art History and Archaeology
Linda M. Godwin, MS ’76, PhD ’80 Physics
B. Ray Holifield, BS Ed ’59; MA ’64 Geology (deceased)
Mary Lago, PhD ’69 English (deceased)
Lewis Atherton, BA ’27, MA ’31, PhD ’37 History (deceased)
Daniel Brenner, BA ’25 Political Science (deceased)
Diane Brukardt, BA ’50 Biology; BS ’52 Medicine (deceased)
Carolyn Cochran Clark, BA ’63 Political Science
James A. Heeter, BA ’70 Political Science
Judy Stewart Heeter, BA ’71 English
Fred G. Moore, BA ’70 Mathematics, MA ’71 Geography
William J. Schwartz, BA ’67 English, BJ ’67
Henry J. Waters III, BA ’51 Political Science
James R. Wiseman, BA ’57 Classical Languages, Archaeology
Bruce Barkelew, BA ’84 Computer Science
Tom Berenger, BA ’71 Speech and Dramatic Art
Dan Coffey, BA ’72 Russian
Robert C. Dickeson, BA ’62, MA ’63, PhD ’68 Political Science
Linda Garmon, BA ’78 Biology, Geography; MA ’80 Journalism
Martha E. Griffiths, BA ’34 English (deceased)
Thomas R. Smith, BA ’84 Computer Science
Clifford Tompson, BA ’51, PhD ’59 Physics
J. Rhoades Foster, BA ’28, MA ’29, PhD ’33 Economics (deceased)
T. Robert Castle, BA ’53 Political Science (deceased)
Margaret S. Peden, BA ’48, MA ’63, PhD ’66 Spanish
Ronald Barbie, BA ’67 Chemistry
Larry Smarr, BA ’70 Physics and Mathematics, MS ’70 Physics
John Hall Dalton, BA ’49 History (deceased)
Distinguished Service Award Winners
Textile and Apparel Management Industry Advisory Board
Mary Phillips, MPA ’93 Public Administration
Bill Moyes, ’75 BSEd,’79 MEd, ’83 EdSp, ’92 EdD
Scott Raymond, BA '72 MA '74 Geological Sciences
Theodore A. Tarkow, Professor of Classics
Yvonne Lou Murray Clark, BGS '76 (deceased)
Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield
W. Dudley McCarter, JD '75
Donald L. Flora, BS ’66, MS ’68 Engineering, MS ’71 Health Sciences Management
Larry Clark (deceased)
Milton D. Glick (deceased)
Richard B. Schwartz
Richard L. Wallace
Armon Yanders (deceased)
Michael Ching
James Morgan
Lucille Salerno, PhD ’92 Psychology
Mary Nell Porter, BS ’69 Business (deceased)
Walter L. Pfeffer II, BGS ’89 General Studies
Joseph E. Warden, BS ’67 Business, (deceased), and Linda C. Warden
Col. Arthur C. Allen (Ret.) (deceased)
Charles L. Atkins, BS ’50 Business; MS ’64 Agriculture (deceased)
Richard D. Ross, MA ’75 History
Amy Tillman, BA ’99 Art & Communication
Kay Bonetti Callison, MA ’68 English
Gertrude Marshall (deceased)
John Marshall Jr., BA ’49, MA ’50 Geology (deceased)
Mary McCleary Posner, BA ’61 Speech & Drama
Soon Sung Cho
Thomas P. Battistoni, BA ’75 History
Robert J. Selsor, BA ’82 Economics, JD ’85 Law
Chung Uk Park, PhD ’74 Biological Sciences
Jean J. Madden, BS ’50 Education, MA ’51 English (deceased)
Ferd LaBrunerie
Recent Alumni Awards
Jerica Leiby, BSHES ’15 Textile and Apparel Management
Fares Akremi, BA ’15 Geography and Political Science
Mary Fama, BFA ’12 Graphic Design and Photography
Anne Marie Coultrap, BS ’16 Economics, Mathematics, Statistics
Michael A. Williams, BA’95 Political Science, JD ’98
Melanie Moore Paxson, BA ’94 Theatre
Dennis Barnes Jr., BA ’93 English
V. Penelope Pelizzon, PhD ’98 English
Grant Weber, BA ’91 Economics, History
Honorary Alumni Award
Jeff Zumsteg
Honorary Alumni
Wilma King
Vicky Riback Wilson, M Ed ’81
Richard L. Wallace
John Patterson, BS Ed ’59, M Ed ’64 Music
Christopher “Kit” Bond
Burt Reynolds (deceased)
Dean's Enduring Excellence
Sonja Steptoe, BJ, BA ’82 Economics
Spirit of Philanthropy
Ted Tarkow