Distinguished Service Award

Alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the College with outstanding contributions that further the educational mission of the college.

Year Recipient Name ISU Degree(s) and Graduation Year
2022 Mary Greeley Medical Center and McFarland Clinic
2021 Jeff White ’92 Journalism and Mass Communication
2020 Richard R. Phillips ’78 journalism and mass communication
2019 Dianne Bystrom
2018 Arthur Slusark
2017 George Strawn Ph.D. ’69 mathematics
2016 Thomas A. Connop ’76 history
2015 Carl E. Jacobso
2014 Robert and Diane Stupka
2013 John G. Verkade
2013 Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
2012 Gillian Murphy ’83 distributed studies
2011 Gary L. Krull ’67 English and speech
2010 Wayne A. Fuller, ’55 agricultural economics
MS ’57, Ph.D. ’59
2009 Mark Fleming ’70 physics
MS ’73
2008 Dennis Banasiak Ph.D. ’77 organic chemistry
2007 Carol Elliott ’72 political science
2006 Kent Fritz ’58 psychology
2004 Charles Manatt ’58 rural sociology
2004 Kathleen Manatt ’58 family and consumer sciences
2004 Thomas Phelps ’59 government
2003 Bruce Hach
2002 Carl Vondra
2001 J.D. Beatty ’64 English
2000 Steven Mores ’67 journalism (science and technical
2000 George Knaphus MS ’51 plant pathology
Ph.D. ’64
2000 Jean Lassila
1999 Dale Anderson
1999 Ron Peters John Dobson
1998 Herbert David
1998 Kathryn Hach Darrow ’07 liberal studies
1997 James Ruebel
1997 Steffen Schmidt
1997 Robert Greenlee ’63 distributed studies
MS ’68 journalism and mass communication
1997 Diane Greenlee ’66 English and speech, journalism
1996 Sam Hamilton ’29 civil engineering
1996 Louise Hamilton ’30 home economics
1996 Dale Ross
1995 Ralph Anderson ’33 economics
1995 Irene Anderson
1995 Karl Fox ’62 mathematics
1995 Bernard White
1994 Charles Knapp ’68 economics
1993 Dwight Ink ’47 government and history
1992 Sharon Rodine ’71 political science