Award Honorees


Alumnus of the Year

  • '74 - Floyd Thomas / '38
  • '75 - Paul Kienel / '55
  • '76 - Joseph A. Bogue / '21
  • '77 - Robert Pirtle / '42
  • '78 - Loren Triplett / '46
  • '79 - Forrest Beiser / '49
  • '80 - Paul H. Pipkin / '38
  • '81 - Gladys A. Balliet / '31
  • '82 - William Pickthorn / '32
  • '83 - Melvin W. Streward / '49
  • '84 - Melvin T. Johnson / '54
  • '85 - Alex Akimoff / '69
  • '86 - Don Stevens / '68
  • '87 - Richard Adams / '63
  • '88- Ronald Shaw / '68
  • '89 - Robert Pagett / '59
  • '89 - (Fall) - Curtis A. Myers / '59
  • '90 = Margaret Heath Myers / '58
  • '91 - Everett Wilson / '55
  • '91 - Lois Wilson / '72
  • '92 - Doris P. Johnson / '69
  • '93 - Gary Bruegman / '70
  • '94 - Ray Oliver / '50
  • '95 - Donnel & Venda McLean / '64
  • '96 - Reuben Sequiera / '65
  • '97 - Byron D. Klaus / '72
  • '97 - Ted & Raelene MacDowell / '65
  • '98 - Harold D. Donaldson / '97
  • '99 - William L. Carmichael / '64
  • '00 - Norman Arnesen / '67
  • '00 - Robert Cook / '72
  • '01 - Pam Seaward / '73
  • '01 - Cecil Melvin Robeck, Jr. / '70
  • '02 - Kenneth ('60) & Janie Olson ('58)
  • '02 - Jerry ('72) & Janice ('92) Smith
  • '03 - William Mathews / '69
  • '04 - Dr. George Nagato / '70
  • '04 - Faith Steward / '87/MA '02
  • '05 - Doug Holck / '65
  • '06 - Lewis Shelton / '65
  • '07 - Katie McNely Atwood / '78
  • '08 - Dan ('72) & Kathy Stump ('71)

Outstanding Young Alumnus

  • '94 - Lynda Heiden / '74
  • '95 - Mike Joens / '77
  • '96 - Gloria Orengo Taylor / '71
  • '97 - Angie Thomson / '86
  • '98 - Jerry R. Bernhardt / '73
  • '99 - James C. Heden / '83
  • '00 - Steven Roberts / '88
  • '01 - Sharon Fruh / '80
  • '02 - Greg ('83) & Kathy ('83) Fairrington
  • '03 - Karen Hurston / '75
  • '04 - Nick Garza / '91
  • '05 - Tanya & Jeff DeVoll / '93
  • '06 - Connie Hadley / '77
  • '07 - Rhonda Garcia Pritikin / '95
  • '08 - Jay Swartzendruber / '90 

Founders Award

  • '74 - Eric M. Johnson / '22
  • '75 - Franks M. Boyd / '44-'47 (Dean at G.T.B.I)
  • '76 - Robert Harrison / '53
  • '77 - Alex C. Shevchuk / '59
  • '78 - Walter Erickson / '25
  • '79 - John Bueno / '58
  • '80 - Rueben A. Wilson / '50
  • '81 - Fred Greve / '55-'75 (Professor)
  • '82 - Ruth C. Rogers / '26
  • '83 - Martha Merrill Simpson / '23
  • '84 - Harold Lehmann / '31
  • '85 - Charlotte Heetebry / '24
  • '86 - Lowell Dowdy / '37
  • '87 - Classes of 1921 -1924
  • '88 - Leland R. Keyes / '54 - '59 (President, B.B.C.)
  • '89 - Ferne Robertson Murray / '38
  • '89 - Will & Fon Balch / '43
  • '90 - Goldie Runyon / '40
  • '92 - Gerald Boyd / '53
  • '93 - Gail Winters / '34
  • '94 - Kenneth Brown / '38
  • '95 - Lewis Wilson / '50
  • '96 - James Samuel Kessler / '46
  • '97 - Mark J. Bell / '42
  • '98 - Joseph E. Prettyman / '40
  • '99 - Naomi Hall Lehmann / '31
  • '00 - Atwood Foster / '30
  • '01 - Theodore Ness / '36
  • '02 - Leonard ('45) & Mary ('47) Couchman
  • '03 - James R. Adkins / '49
  • '04 - Calvin Zeissler / '49
  • '05 - Buster C. Martin / '62
  • '06 - Doug  ('53) & Mary ('52) Fairington
  • '07 - Rev. Pike Robinson / '54
  • '08 - Alice Alford / '51

Heritage Award

  • '94 - Peter Shields / '34
  • '95 - Vernon Gararden / '37
  • '96 - Philip W. Sondeno
  • '97 - Dorothy Field
  • '98 - Donald E. Annas
  • '99 - Warren E. McNely
  • '00 - Douglas McRee
  • '01 - L. Thomas Holdcroft
  • '02 - William O. & Ernestine Vickery
  • '03 - Russell Ferrante
  • '04 - Lew & Donna Ritz / '57
  • '05 - Waymon P. Ruthledge / '50
  • '06 - Garland Covington / '51
Last Updated: 2/27/08