Alumni Award Recipients

The following award recipients embody the spirit of the Willamette alumni community across the generations.

Young Alumni Leadership Award Recipients

  • 1998 Eric Friedenwald-Fishman '88
  • 1999 David Bertholf '90, MAT'92
  • 1999 Jaroen Swanborn '89
  • 1999 Sara Swanborn '91
  • 2000 Rob Patridge '90, JD'93
  • 2001 Jay F. Booth '91
  • 2001 Dale Miller '91
  • 2002 Sanh Chiet S. Lim MAT '96
  • 2003 Bryan Boehringer '93
  • 2003 Carrie Lee Patterson '93
  • 2004 Carol Suzuki '94
  • 2005 Claire Howell Bonilla '95
  • 2005 Laila J. (Cook) Umpleby '98
  • 2005 Heather C. Dahl '95
  • 2005 Jason Hunter '95
  • 2005 Jennifer Miller '97, MBA/JD'01
  • 2006 Kent Campbell '96
  • 2007 Tobias J. Read '97
  • 2008 Tara (Wilson) Graham '98
  • 2009 Julie (Trott) Kennedy '99
  • 2011 Scott Tomlins '01
  • 2012 Noah Horton '02
  • 2013 Nick Symmonds '06
  • 2014 Dawn Albert '08
  • 2015 Elizabeth Phillips '05
  • 2015 Yesenia Gallardo '09
  • 2016 Amanda Helfer '08
  • 2017 Reyna Lopez '09
  • 2018 Colby R. Takeda '11
  • 2018 Brandon Adams '08 & Kara Adams '08
  • 2019 Manuel Velazquez-Garay MBA'14
  • 2020 Rebecca Alexander '10

Sparks Medallion Recipients

  • 1981 Marion Sparks '22
  • 1982 Sue Juba '52
  • 1982 Marion Morange '30
  • 1982 Paul Trueblood '28
  • 1983 Warne Nunn '41
  • 1984 Robert Miller '53
  • 1985 Otto Wilson '38
  • 1986 Lloyd Girod '32, MEd'40
  • 1987 M.E. "Gus" Moore '33
  • 1988 Dale R. Gustafson '56
  • 1989 John Ross '36
  • 1990 Marvin Case '65
  • 1991 Dorothy Taylor Patch Garlinghouse '30
  • 1992 Robert Blanding '42
  • 1992 June Elizabeth (Woldt) Cone '42
  • 1993 William Kilkenny '41
  • 1994 Robert C. Notson '24
  • 1995 Dwight Lear '29, JD'32
  • 1996 Richard A. "Buzz" Yocom '49
  • 1997 Jim Vidal '67
  • 1998 Loren Winterscheid '48
  • 1998 Muriel Winterscheid '48
  • 1999 Jean Carkin Donovan '45
  • 1999 Robert Donovan '47, MEd'48
  • 2000 Russ Tripp '50
  • 2000 Tom Yates '50
  • 2000 Betty Starr Anderson '40
  • 2000 Robert F. Anderson '38
  • 2001 Rich Buck '66
  • 2001 Charles R. Peter '56
  • 2002 Jacquoline Johnson Mader '52
  • 2002 Phil Thom '62
  • 2002 Marian Hauke Thom '62
  • 2003 Ralph Bolliger '53, JD'55
  • 2003 Ednamae (Hopfer) Bryan '43
  • 2003 Steve Fullmer '78
  • 2004 Donna (King) Tyner '79
  • 2004 Jim Bergmann '54, JD'56
  • 2005 Edward "Nick" Allis '70
  • 2005 Elizabeth Geiger Hartman '80
  • 2005 John Jelderks '60, JD'64
  • 2006 Gino Pieretti Jr. '56, JD'58
  • 2007 Doug Houser '57
  • 2008 George Hoyt '58
  • 2009 Jim Booth '64
  • 2009 Joan (Sherrill) McNamara '59
  • 2011 Peter Kremer '62
  • 2012 Julie Branford '67
  • 2013 Rocky Johnson '70
  • 2014 Teresa Hudkins '69
  • 2015 Paul Boaden '77
  • 2016 Donald G. Brown '68 & Carol Anne Brown '67
  • 2016 Peter Wallmark '68
  • 2017 Mark Hoyt JD'92
  • 2017 Colonel John Rogers '63
  • 2018 Russ Beaton '60
  • 2019 Mike Bennett '70
  • 2020 Jeff Heatherington '65
  • 2020 Sue Rauch '75
  • 2022 Martin Wolf BA'57 JD'60

Distinguished Alumni Citation Recipients

  • 1958 Frank E. Brown 1898
  • 1958 Margaret Lewis Hathaway '28
  • 1958 Claude A. Kells '33
  • 1958 Myrtle Mason McKittrick '21
  • 1958 Marion "Gus" Moore '33
  • 1959 Reeve H. Betts '29
  • 1959 John F. Cramer '20
  • 1959 Martha McKeown Dana '23
  • 1959 Lucile Kuntz Schramm '15
  • 1959 Ivan B. White '29
  • 1960 Herman Clark '14
  • 1960 Joseph B. Felton '31
  • 1960 Beryl Holt '16
  • 1960 Edward J. Winans '07
  • 1960 Vera Wise '20
  • 1961 Bernice Orwig Cochran '32
  • 1961 S. Marie Corner '22
  • 1961 Merton R. Delong '12
  • 1961 Rein E. Jackson '21
  • 1962 Vern D. Bain '23
  • 1962 Gertrude Eakin '15
  • 1962 Mary E. Eyre '18
  • 1962 Sinforoso Padilla '24
  • 1962 William C. Redding '28
  • 1963 Betty Lewis Frewing '31
  • 1963 H. Leslie Frewing '31
  • 1963 Rose Weatherell Nelson '27
  • 1963 Arlie B. Walker '18
  • 1964 Ruth H. Hall '28
  • 1964 John S. Laughlin '40
  • 1964 William S. Laughlin '41
  • 1964 Hugh McGilvra '28
  • 1964 Sophia E. Townsend '03
  • 1965 Hugh M. Bell '26
  • 1965 Gurnee A. Flesher '29
  • 1965 Victor Hicks '25
  • 1965 Jennell Vandevort Moorhead '25
  • 1965 Eugenia Savage '28
  • 1966 Dwight B. Adams '33
  • 1966 Harry S. Mosher '37
  • 1966 Warne H. Nunn '41
  • 1966 Helen Pearce '15
  • 1966 Richard Wicks '45
  • 1967 Frank J. Healy '44
  • 1967 George A. Rhoten '27
  • 1967 Ruth Hill Viguers '24
  • 1967 Taul Watanabe '41
  • 1967 Everett E. Wilcox '41
  • 1968 Elliott D. Becken '39
  • 1968 Margery E. Hannah '32
  • 1968 Joanne Jene '57
  • 1968 William W. Mumford '30
  • 1968 Dean Pollock '22
  • 1969 Dale Cleaver '50
  • 1969 Genevieve Thompson Dyer '26
  • 1969 Joy Hills Gubser '28
  • 1969 Kenneth V. Mackenzie '34
  • 1969 Treval C. Powers '25
  • 1970 George Birrell '29
  • 1970 Neil Hutchinson '61
  • 1970 Clara Jasper Simerville '28
  • 1970 Robert F. Smith '53
  • 1970 Rachael D. Yocom '37
  • 1971 M. Patricia Farnes '53
  • 1971 Frances McGilvra Litchfield '30
  • 1971 G. Kenneth Litchfield '29
  • 1971 William A. Manning '00
  • 1971 Lestle J. Sparks '19
  • 1972 Thomas Bartlett '51
  • 1972 L.B. Day '58
  • 1972 Ellen Christiansen Lowe '52
  • 1972 Eugene Lowe '49
  • 1972 Margarette Walker '19
  • 1973 William Kilkenny '41
  • 1973 Marion Morange '30
  • 1973 Thomas L. Stern '47
  • 1973 Frank J. Van Dyke JD'31
  • 1973 Frank M. Washburn '50
  • 1974 Betty Starr Anderson '40
  • 1974 Robert Anderson '38
  • 1974 Hayes Beall '32
  • 1974 David Bristow '49
  • 1974 Howard Ennor '35
  • 1975 Wallace Bjorke '48
  • 1975 William MacDougall '52
  • 1975 Charles Patterson Jr. '50
  • 1975 Paul Pemberton '25
  • 1975 Paul Trueblood '28
  • 1976 John S. Ambler '53
  • 1976 Laura P. Corner '26
  • 1976 Fred H. Paulus '26
  • 1976 Ina V. Potter '21
  • 1976 Scott D. Thompson '51
  • 1976 Russell Tripp '50
  • 1977 John C. Brougher '23
  • 1977 Barney Cameron '33
  • 1977 Paul L. Day '21
  • 1977 James A. McClintock '27
  • 1977 Dorothy Taylor Patch '30
  • 1978 Arthur J. Gallon '39
  • 1978 Will J. Henderson '49
  • 1978 Mildred Kester March '34
  • 1978 William M. McAllister '28
  • 1978 Reid Shelton '48
  • 1978 Clyde E. Wiegand '40

Distinguished Alumni Citation Recipients (cont.)

  • 1979 Walter Erickson '33
  • 1979 Donald Grant '29
  • 1979 Evelyn High Grant '31
  • 1979 Alice Rose Jones '47, MME'62
  • 1979 R. Gregory Nokes '59
  • 1979 Ancil Payne '43
  • 1980 Lucille Clark '66
  • 1980 Fred J. Cummings '54
  • 1980 Harold Hauk '30
  • 1980 Sue Mellor Juba '52
  • 1980 Otto R. Skopil '41, JD'46
  • 1981 Robert C. Goff '54
  • 1981 J. Roy Harland JD'32
  • 1981 Jane Fitzsimons Huston '46
  • 1981 Gerald Henry Kangas '56
  • 1981 Peter K. Manning '61
  • 1982 Edith Findley Brydon '32
  • 1982 Mary Anne Schoessler Guggenhelm '57
  • 1982 Kenneth H. Mosher '30
  • 1982 David O. Poindexter '51
  • 1982 William B. Smullin '29
  • 1983 George C. "Bill" Hanauska '46
  • 1983 Frederick W. Paul '33
  • 1983 Dick B. Tatro '41
  • 1983 Marie Bendiksen Tatro '40
  • 1983 David B. Welch '67
  • 1984 Nancy Hoak Akeson '47
  • 1984 Edna Jennison Ellis '24
  • 1984 Tyrus Hillway '34
  • 1984 Roberta Mills Price '34
  • 1984 Bruce E. White '23
  • 1985 William Alberger '67
  • 1985 Wesley F. Brownton 'JD 35
  • 1985 Paul Warren Ellis '31
  • 1985 Barbara Woodworth Saigo '64
  • 1986 Joseph Blanchard '37
  • 1986 Wendell Keck '30
  • 1986 Tony Meeker '61
  • 1986 Thomas Oye '41
  • 1986 Robert Voigt '42
  • 1987 Frank N. Bash '59
  • 1987 Frances Miller Batchelder '56, MEd'62
  • 1987 Richard Drake '55
  • 1987 Randall Kester '37
  • 1987 Dale Parnell '51
  • 1988 Douglas H. Bosco '68, JD'71
  • 1988 Vernon Casterline '41
  • 1988 Janice Paterson Cate '46
  • 1988 William Cate '45
  • 1988 C.S. "Pat" Emmons JD'31
  • 1989 David Doerksen '56
  • 1989 Sam Farr '63
  • 1989 Caroline Duby Glassman JD'44
  • 1989 Ward Miles '48
  • 1989 Charles Scott Neville '38
  • 1990 Arlene Rice Dietz '65
  • 1990 Edwin C. Everts '58
  • 1990 Laurie J. Hall '66
  • 1990 Robert E. Joseph '57, JD'63
  • 1990 James R. Robinson '61
  • 1991 Rodney K. Beals '52
  • 1991 Alan J. Beardsley '64
  • 1991 Sharon Paulsen Beardsley '64
  • 1991 Donald W. Empey '54
  • 1991 Griffith Frost '79
  • 1991 Susan M. Hammer JD'76
  • 1992 William E. "Bill" Bissell '52
  • 1992 David E. Good '67
  • 1992 Jane K. Mink '67
  • 1992 G. Richard Olds '72
  • 1992 Charles E. Wicks '46
  • 1993 Mary Bennett '45
  • 1993 James Cuno '73
  • 1993 James Hicks '68
  • 1993 Sue Leeson '68, JD'81
  • 1993 Alice Eastman Simpson '61
  • 1994 Nancy Bearg Dyke '69
  • 1994 Alonzo "Lonnie" Jackson '79
  • 1994 John Mistkawi '64
  • 1994 James A. Smith '74
  • 1994 Paul L. Stritmatter JD'69
  • 1995 Barbara Bentley '64
  • 1995 Heather Flynn '65
  • 1995 John Jelderks '60, JD'64
  • 1995 Joan Priscilla Payne Kilbourn '58
  • 1995 Wilma Froman Sheridan '45
  • 1996 Bruce Anderson '66
  • 1996 Jeff Cain '81
  • 1996 Rod Frederick '78
  • 1996 Lin Sue Glass '80
  • 1996 Hikaru Kerns '69
  • 1997 Mark F. Campbell '67
  • 1997 Robert Donovan '47
  • 1997 Loren Hicks '42, JD'49
  • 1997 Doric McCain Loder '52
  • 1997 Claris Poppert '57
  • 1997 Allan Voigt '47
  • 1998 G. Thomas Edwards '53
  • 1998 Bob Packard '73
  • 1998 John Rogers '63
  • 1998 Dixie Ruud '58
  • 1998 Ron Saxton '76
  • 1999 Heather Birnie '64
  • 1999 Sherman Bliss '52
  • 1999 Gwendolyn Harper '49
  • 1999 Thomas J. Mathiesen '68
  • 1999 Steve Wynne '74, JD'77
  • 2000 Vic Backlund' 58, MEd '61
  • 2000 Charles Foster '60
  • 2000 Faith Ireland JD'69
  • 2000 Vic Snyder '69
  • 2000 Leslie Ann Wickman '80
  • 2001 Don Carpenter '51
  • 2001 Jim Fitzgerald '50, JD'51
  • 2001 Bruce Harmon '66
  • 2001 Mark Harmon '66
  • 2001 Janis Rue '81
  • 2002 Jim Albaugh '72
  • 2002 Elizabeth Harchenko '72, JD'76
  • 2002 Thomas Hemingway '62, JD'65
  • 2002 Jay Inslee JD'76
  • 2002 Robert Kaplan '52
  • 2002 Jack Wilson '52
  • 2003 John Erickson '67
  • 2003 Elling Halvorson '55
  • 2003 Merle Palmer '43
  • 2003 Ann Stackhouse Rule '53
  • 2003 Lorenzo Williams JD'77
  • 2004 Grace Crunican MBA'79
  • 2004 Clayton Fujie '68
  • 2004 Brian Gard '68
  • 2004 Bobby Griffin '59
  • 2004 Merlin D. Schulze '54
  • 2004 Gene Dale Timms '54
  • 2005 Charles Carter '55
  • 2005 Paul De Muniz JD'75
  • 2005 Mary Jaeger '80
  • 2005 Lisa Murkowski '79, JD'85
  • 2005 Sally (Grimm) Schaefer '55
  • 2006 Page Bailey '56
  • 2006 Thomas Carr '56
  • 2006 Larry Liebenow '66
  • 2006 Donna Dunbar Mason '70
  • 2006 Larry Paulson '68, JD'71
  • 2006 Kerry Tymchuck '81, JD'84
  • 2006 Ann Stackhouse Rule '53
  • 2006 Lorenzo Williams JD'77
  • 2007 Susan Warren Fratt '72
  • 2007 Carla C. Piluso '77
  • 2007 Richard J. Pine '82, MBA'82
  • 2008 Suzy Platt '58
  • 2008 Marlene Anderson '68
  • 2008 Robert Schaefer '52, JD'55
  • 2008 Robert C Seeger '62
  • 2009 Laurie Monnes Anderson '68
  • 2009 Gary Beck '64
  • 2009 William (Bill) Long '59
  • 2011 Dorr Dearborn '61
  • 2011 Dale Mortensen '61
  • 2012 Adam Messinger '94
  • 2012 Steve Sloop '87
  • 2013 Punit Renjen MM'86
  • 2013 Paula Casey '69, JD'72
  • 2013 Tinh Mahoney '86
  • 2014 Curtis Acosta '94
  • 2014 Astrid Dabbeni '01
  • 2014 Jeff Heatherington '65
  • 2014 Jennifer Sasser '89
  • 2015 Harold Bugado '66
  • 2015 Cindy Bunker '80, JD'83
  • 2015 G. Elton Graves '69
  • 2015 Mary Sue Gellatly Short '64
  • 2016 Roy Chapin '61
  • 2016 Nancy Weeks Federici '60
  • 2016 Catherine Newbury '66
  • 2017 Jan Bennetts JD'92
  • 2017 Jay Desai MBA'89
  • 2017 Robert "Rob" Sassor '02
  • 2017 Trina Roy '88
  • 2018 Mark Hanken '93
  • 2018 Ashley Holmer '02
  • 2018 Daniel P. Santos JD'86
  • 2018 Jon Steiner '63
  • 2019 Madge Bauer '69
  • 2019 Nikolas Caoile '00
  • 2019 Melvin Henderson-Rubio '74
  • 2019 Dmitri Palmateer '96
  • 2020 Barbara '59 and Bobby Griffin '59
  • 2020 Paul Broucek '74
  • 2020 Virginia Linder JD'80
  • 2020 Luis Guerra '11
  • 2021 Kandra Yee '99
  • 2021 Anna Osland '99
  • 2021 Christine Sleeter '70
  • 2021 Gordon Greathouse '70
  • 2021 Salomé Chimuku '13
  • 2022 Allison Muhlendorf BA'05
  • 2022 Jim Cuno BA'73
  • 2022 Heather Flynn BA'65
  • 2022 Nick Footer MBA'11
  • 2022 Samantha Kaulsen JD'20
  • 2022 Liani Jeanheh Reeves BA'98 JD'01
  • 2022 Tyler Starr BA'12
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