Awarded to alumni, faculty and friends of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated outstanding service or contributions that further the mission of the college.
Nominees may include alumni and friends who have contributed time, effort and financial help to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and faculty members who have been outstanding teachers on the graduate and/or undergraduate level.
Recipients
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. Jacobson
2014 Robert and Diane Stupka
2013 John G. Verkade 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 / Kathleen Manatt, ’58 family and consumer sciences Thomas Phelps, ’59 government / Elizabeth Phelps
2003 Bruce Hach
2002 Carl Vondra
2001 J.D. Beatty, ’64 English
2000 Steven Mores, ’67 journalism (science and technical) George Knaphus, MS ’51 plant pathology, Ph.D. ’64 Jean Lassila
1999 Dale Anderson Ron Peters John Dobson
1998 Herbert David Kathryn Hach Darrow, ’07 liberal studies
1997 James Ruebel, Steffen Schmidt Robert Greenlee, ’63 distributed studies, MS ’68 journalism and mass communication / Diane Greenlee, ’66 English and speech, journalism
1996 Sam Hamilton, ’29 civil engineering / Louise Hamilton, ’30 home economics Dale Ross
1995 Ralph Anderson, ’33 economics / Irene Anderson Karl Fox, ’62 mathematics Bernard White
1994 Charles Knapp, ’68 economics
1993 Dwight Ink, ’47 government and history
1992 Sharon Rodine, ’71 political science