University Awards & Recognition
Distinguished Service Award Recipients
The Distinguished Service Award was established by the Board of Trustees in 1952 to recognize individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the university. Awards are not made on the basis of long, faithful, or loyal service alone, but rather for service that is truly distinguished. Recipients of this award have provided a broad spectrum of services to the university in both official and unofficial capacities.
1952
Ervin G. Bailey
Robert Lazarus
Joe Wood Morrison
Hugh E. Nesbitt
Bland L. Stradley
Jacob B. Taylor
1954
Frederic Heimberger
Robert W. Laylin
William C. McCracken
Warner Pomerene
Donald C. Power
Clara Raynor Rader
1955
Helen M. Clarke
Paul H. Elleman
Charles A. Kuntz
Charles Wells Reeder
Howard Dwight Smith
Katherine A. Vogel
1956
Stanley MacRae Hanley
Russell Garrett Means
Alpheus Wilson Smith
Carl Eckert Steeb
Frank Ransom Strong
John Woodworth Wilce
1957
James Wylie Huffman
Chester Watson McClintock
Robert Meiklejohn
1958
George Blair Crane
Edward Sims Drake
Willard Monroe Kiplinger
Wendell Dean Postle
Walter Crothers Weidler
1959
Rlio Clyde Baker
Robert Fager Black
James Finney Lincoln
1960
Charles Grosvernor Bond
Carlton Spencer Dargusch
Leo Leavitt Rummell
Eugene John Weigel
1961
Fred Albert Cornell (in absentia)
Helen H. Hosford
Herbert S. Warwick
Robert Nestor Gorman
Charles Austin Doan
1962
George W. Eckelberry
Ernest R. Godfrey
William S. Guthrie
Herschel W. Nisonger
1963
Thomas Alvin Boyd
Harold Ernest Burtt
Dan Harrison Eikenberry
Forrest Guy Ketner
Samuel Renshaw
1964
Viva Belle Boothe (in absentia)
John Bernis Brown
Josephine Sitterle Failer
Fred Andrews Hitchcock
Everett David Reese
1965
James E. Pollard
Smith L. Rairdon
G. E. Tenney
1966
Charley R. Miller
Henry L. Wagner
1967
Kenyon S. Campbell
Thomas E. Davis
Alan B. Loop
Jean Waid Reilly
1968
Christine Y. Conaway
Jacob E. Davis
Mylin H. Ross
1969
John B. Fullen
James R. Hull
Thomas B. Meek
Delbert Oberteuffer
Dorothy D. Scott
1971
Ralph L. Boyer
Grace Fern Heck
Virgil Overholt
1973
Harold Fawcett
Alfred B. Garrett
John H. Herrick
Frederick Stecker
1974
Lilyan B. Bradshaw
Max Drake
Erwin E. Dreese
Robert M. Estrich
Richard C. Larkins
1975
Charles H. Cook
Robert S. Dorsey
J. Wesley Leas
Julia L. Marine
1976
Elinor M. Bayer
Oliver D. Diller
A. Elliott Kimberly
Howard E. LeFevre
Cecil Robinson
Morris S. Rosenblum
Lewie C. Stephens
1977
John H. Dunlap
Gordon B. Carson
Frances E. Naylor
Ralph S. Paffenbarger
1978
Harold J. Grimm
James R. McCoy
Edwin L. Mitchell
Edward F. Wagner
1979
Richard H. Bohning
Beatrice J. Cleveland
John B. Conard
Jeannette LaRocque
J. Paul McNamara
1980
Camille Joseph DeLor
Barbee William Durham
Lawrence E. Kunkle
James W. Phillips
Jacqueline D. Sisson
(in absentia)
Grady Smith
Leo G. Staley
T. Scott Sutton
I. Keith Tyler
Francis P. Weisenburger
1981
Francis R. Aumann
John Drinko
Audrey P. Enarson
Jack O. Evans
Richard P. Goldwait
John A. Prior
Walter C. Reckless
Arnold Ross
Clarence E. Taft
J. Edward Weaver
1982
Donald P. Cottrell
Sydney N. Fisher
Wayne Woodrow Hayes
William E. MacDonald
Robert C. Ringer
Everett Shimp
1983
Richard D. Altick
William "Ziggy" Coyle
M. Merle Harrod
Walter L. Hartman
Ross L. Mooney
William F. Rounds
1984
Morgan L. Allison
Roy H. Bowen
W. Arthur Cullman
Stanley E. Harrison
William J. Holloway
L. Neal Smith
Charles H. Summerson
Clara G. Weishaupt
1985
Molly B. Caren
F. Miles Flickinger
George G. Greenleaf
John W. Nelson
D. Ransom Whitney
1986
Arthur E. Adams
Richard P. Anderson
Virginia S. Conn
Paul G. Craig
Weldon A. Kefauver
Arthur E. Shepard
1987
John F. Havens
Toni Mendez
William Poland
Maybelle L. Ruppert
Seward D. Schooler
Faye S. Smith
Marion L. Smith
1988
Raymond S. Bugno
Eugene C. D'Angelo, Jr.
Ilsedore M. Edse
Robert L. Evans
John B. Gerlach
Ruth M. Kessler
Ruth W. Mount
Robert W. Wagner
Eva D. Wilson
1989
James E. Chapman
Dale T. Friday
Noel F. George
Robert E. Georges
Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr.
Thomas B. Smith
Mary Anne Southard
Stuart A. Summit
Richard W. Trott
Leon I. Twarog
Alex and Betty Schoenbaum
James V. Warren
1991
Wendell W. Ellenwood
Albert J. Kuhn
Paul E. Watkins
Robert J. Watkins
1992
Lena Bailey
Shirley Brooks Jones
Thomas E. Cavendish
Leonard J. Immke, Jr.
1993
Shirley Dunlap Bowser
Andrew J. Broekema
Dorothy M. Davis
John G. Kramer
John G. McCoy
John T. Mount
Marlene Owens Rankin
Chalmers Wylie
1994
Daniel Galbreath
Anne Hayes
Ralph Howard
Roy Kottman
Richard Leet
Grayce Sills
Joseph Stranges
William Willis
1995
Charles Babcock
John W. Berry, Sr.
Sheila Castellarin
Charlotte L. Immke
Charles Y. Lazarus
Colleen McMurray
Kathryn T. Schoen
C. William Swank
1996
Richard J. Denman
Simon Dinitz
Dr. Wilbur Gould
Billy A. Hill
Susan J. Insley
Sally M. Nitschke
John J. Schiff
Arthur I. Vorys
1997
Judy Barker
John T. Eby
David L. Meeker
Florence Zacks Melton
J. Gilbert Reese
Madison Scott
Dorothy Teater
J. Robert Warmbrod
1998
John J. Barone
Vernon R. Cahill
Gay B. Hadley
Frank W. Hale, Jr.
Joan Huber
Joanne Wharton Murphy (posthumous)
Richard J. Solove
Frank Wobst
1999
Frederic Beekman
Loann Woods Crane
G. Edwin Johnson
Isabel F. Miller
Kathryn M. Moore
Alex Shumate
Alberta Banner Turner
Wilburn H. Weddington
2000
Donna M. Alvarado
Daniel G. Amstutz
Robert A. Barnes
Ben E. Espy
Ben M. Jones, III
Everett B. Laybourne
Theodore "Ted" B. Myers
Nancy A. Patterson
William E. Arthur
Dr. David Cole
Ray Groves
Dr. E. Leonard Jossem
Clark Kellogg
Floradelle A. Pfahl
Dr. Ron Racster
Thekla R. Shackelford
2002
Jane Fawcett-Hoover
George Hairston
Richard M. Hill
Joan Leitzel
Charles Lifer
Curtis J. Moody
Barbara Trueman
Richard I. Wells
2003
Kenneth L. Coleman
Rodney J. Harrison
Gerald M. Reagan
Robert F. Reusché
Ralph A. Rockow
Norman M. Stanley
Charles C. Warner
Micki Zartman
2004
Frank E. Bazler
Virginia Hutchison Bazler
Yvette McGee Brown
Clarence R. Cole
Donald D. Glower
Elaine H. Hairston
Raymond A. Miller
Manuel Tzagournis
2005
Daniel Heinlen
Richard D. Johnson
James J. Mager
Lou Ann Moritz
Anne Pruitt
Ronald St. Pierre
Richard Stander, Sr.
2006
Vince Aveni
Vera Blaine
Barbara Fergus
Arthur Heckler
Dr. Ernest Johnson
W. Ray Persons
Edward Ray
Richard Smith III
2007
Herbert Asher
Ted Beattie
James Patterson
Patricia & Thomas Robinson
Rodney Sharp
Judy Tuckerman
Paul Young
2008
Edwin M. Cooperman
Alice Galloway
Anne K. Jeffrey
Bruce W. Lavash
Corbett A. Price
Barbara J. Tootle
George Paulson
2009
Mildred L. Chavous
John W. Creighton, Jr.
Earnest L. Mazzaferri
Erin Moriarty
Richard Rosen
John M. Shepherd
Carl D. Smallwood
Christine Warner Powell and
John L. Warner
2010
John J. “Jack” Chester, Sr.
John E. “Jack” Lucks, Jr.
John O. Riedl
Chris Spielman
Stefanie Spielman
Ellen Tressel
William D. Wells
Virginia Zirkle
2011
Bill Ingram
Marci Ingram
William J. Lhota
Tamala “Tammy” Longaberger
Randall B. Ripley
Barbara R. Snyder
Elizabeth J. Watters
Joel Weaver
2012
Ann “Tanny” B. Crane
John “Jack” W. Kessler
Keith D. Monda
Trella Hemmerly Romine
Stephen A. Sterrett
James R. Tootle
Alec Wightman
Jon Woods
Past Honorary Degree Recipients
