Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Award
In service to OWU
The Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Award is given to alumni who demonstrate outstanding service to and/or philanthropic support of OWU. View the list of recipients below, or nominate someone for this award with the online nomination form.
2020s
| 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Andrew Morrison '85 | Sheila Fagan Plecha '84 |
| Anand Philip '00 | |
| Annie Griffith Seiler '75 | |
| Jonathan Woods '85 |
| 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Belinda Brown Fouts '73, P'08 | James "Jim" Goode '67 |
| David Fouts '73, P'08 | Diana Roach '72 |
| Jim Mendenhall '73 | |
| Ann Muenster-Nuiry '73, P'17 | |
| Mary Beth Sommer '88 |
| 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Cathleen "Catie" Butt '91 | Margaret McDowell Lloyd '70 |
| Carol Hilkirk Latham '61 | Hillary Panas Pember '85 |
| Diane Petersen, M. D. '66 | Lana Rucks '95 |
| Morton V. "Pete" Smith Jr. '71 |
2010s
| 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Grant Kurtz '64 | |
| David Livingston '94 | |
| Bob Morrill '59 | |
| Carleton Palmer '64 | |
| 2018 | 2017 |
| Patricia Belt Conrades '63 | Lloyd Ferguson '62 |
| Harry N. Faulkner '63 | J. Patrick Huber '62 |
| Aaron L. Granger '93 | Jim Pry '67 |
| Denis B. Nock '58 | Nancy Seiwert Williams '72 |
| 2016 | 2015 |
| Evan R. Corns '59 | Andres Duarte '65 |
| Robert W. Gillespie '66 | Mary Steele Holm '60 |
| Michael G. Long '66 | Craig A. Luke '85 |
| 2014 | 2013 |
| Kathy Butler '74 | Walter "Skip" Auch '68 |
| Dick and Ann Colson Cassell '64 | Dan Bennington '68 |
| Kathe Law Rhinesmith '64 | Laura Pierce Bump '58 |
| John Kercher '63 | |
| 2012 | 2011 |
| Richard Gordon '62 | Marsha Tilden '81 |
| John "Jack" McKinnie '54 | Jackson Winters '61 |
| Ellen Simpson '77 | |
| 2010 | |
| Nancy Morgan Giles '60 | |
| Pete Lee '65 | |
| Steve Sherwood '70 | |
2000s
| 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Howard M. Austin '69 | E. Gay Johnson Grossman '88 |
| Wendy McCall Johnson '74 | |
| Barbara Wiltshire Timmons '54 | |
| 2005 | 2003 |
| Robert A. Holm '60 | Michael Alan Flack '68 |
| 2002 | 2001 |
| Dorothy Seiller Baldwin '36 | Sally Christiansen Harris '76 |
| Dale James Bruce '52 | Ann Wieser Keller '71 |
| Janice Kaye Fritz '57 | |
| Eleanor Seiller Tarbutton '39 | |
| Mary Poe Timmons '22 | |
| 2000 | |
| Gregory John Dyson '80 | |
| Virginia O'Grady Shipps '70 | |
| Carolyn Carrigan Wells '55 |
1990s
| 1999 | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Laurie McGregor Connor '77 | Lillian Flickinger Bernhagen '38 |
| Susan Gormley Harrington '74 | Robert S. Mauck '48 |
| Richard William McClintock '53 | |
| Virginia Carter McClintock '54 | |
| 1997 | 1996 |
| William Travis Blair '50 | Charles Archie Carmichael '51 |
| Mark Hubbart Shipps '70 | Bruce Richard Clash '86 |
| Frank Edward Timmons '52 | Norma Osborne Gerlach '46 |
| David Elwood Papoi '65 | |
| Patricia Frasher Papoi '66 | |
| 1995 | 1994 |
| A. Robert Davies '55 | Terry L. Deibel '67 |
| Robert D. Nims '63 | |
| Wesley Henry Poling '68 | |
| Eloise Comstock Rosser '36 | |
| Duncan Alex White, Jr. '54 | |
| H. Lee Williams '89 | |
| 1993 | 1992 |
| Mary Anne Denison Cummins '48 | Tanya Hudgel Griffith '53 |
| Douglas Harper Dittrick, Jr. '55 | Betsy Barrett Pry '64 |
| Laura Gnagi Newman '46 | C. Nicholas Pry '63 |
| Robert Mahlon Roach '68 | |
| 1991 | 1990 |
| Carol Young Poling '68 | Marjorie Smith Ginaven '32 |
| Ronald John Stephany '66 | Frazier Paul Shipps '37 |
1980s
| 1989 | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Taggart Durant '84 | Richard G. Ison '50 |
| Robert E. Eichhorn '19 | M. Ann Armstrong Knodt '61 |
| Don E. Saliers '59 | Lowell Jack Wells '53 |
| Elizabeth B. Taggart '84 | |
| 1987 | 1986 |
| Robert G. Connors '49 | David E. Griffiths '51 |
| Margaret Ray Giroux '55 | Suzanne Sutter Sumner '75 |
| Earl Everett Warner '26 | |
| Nancy White White '54 | |
| 1985 | 1984 |
| Frances Mowry Benes '30 | Donferd William Berg '51 |
| Sally Reiff Dickey '59 | William E. Farragher '49 |
| Nancy Allen Wenzlau '50 | |
| Thomas Eugene Wenzlau '50 | |
| 1983 | 1982 |
| Ardyce Reisner Asire '53 | John Stidger Peckinpaugh '53 |
| 1981 | 1980 |
| Robert Lee Milligan '22 | Maribeth Amrhein Eiken Graham '55 |
1970s
| 1979 | 1978 |
|---|---|
| Ida Grigg McKenney '47 | Marjorie Smith Leach '48 |
| Mildred E. Newcomb '41 | Robert James Simonds '47 |
| 1977 | 1976 |
| Ruth G. Davies '27 | Otto William Carpenter, Jr. '27 |
| Grant Hunter Young '30 | Virginia Williams Peck '42 |
| Mary Thornton Van Pelt '26 | |
| Richard Van Pelt '27 | |
| 1975 | 1974 |
| Helen Janney Brown '30 | Nancy La Porte Meek '59 |
| Howard James Brown '29 | Phillip J. Meek '59 |
| William Henry Horr '36 | Alline Pierce Roberts '23 |
| George Charles Sternad, Jr. '48 | James Crawford Roberts '23 |
| Harold A. Rosser '27 | |
| Margaret Whitacre Rosser '28 | |
| 1973 | 1972 |
| William Edgar West '23 | Caroline Redrup Adams '30 |
| Donald Chester Eyssen '25 | |
| Lincoln Field Parker '27 | |
| Helen Yeatman Taggart '28 | |
| 1971 | 1970 |
| Benjamin Franklin Crawford 1906 | Charles Eckley Bodurtha '24 |
| Robert E. Eastman '35 | Anne Mendenhall Denison '23 |
| William E. Strasburg '50 | Lonnis Denison '15 |
| G. Robert Klein '30 |
1960s
| 1969 | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Miriam B. Booth '16 | Hal Avery Fausnaugh '48 |
| John Ladd Dean '26 | Howard Emil Strauch '50 |
| Jane Stewart Mapes '39 | Howard Swink '23 |
| Florence Altman Thomas '42 | |
| Vaughn William Volk '33 | |
| 1967 | 1966 |
| Homer C. Lucas '21 | Edward Lee Cawood '28 |
| John Sagan '48 | Eleanor Greene Daugherty '33 |
| Betty Nilson Smith '36 | Paul J. Daugherty '33 |
| Elden T. Smith '32 | A. Louise Wilson Davidson '21 |
| Clarke L. Fauver '36 | |
| 1965 | 1964 |
| Wayne W. Hilborn '36 | Edwin P. Brooks '39 |
| Henry Clay Littick '15 | Anna Blackford Child 1913 |
| Alice Crawford McCurdy '45 | Josephine Niblick Edwards 1903 |
| Ruth Wertenberger Melvin '32 | W. Early Edwards 1903 |
| Sally Kimmel Young '54 | Harriet Edwards Gamper '36 |
| Clyde Cashman Shively '19 | |
| Gordon Victor Smith '54 | |
| Helen Crider Smith '56 | |
| 1963 | 1962 |
| Lillian Austin Ferguson 1906 | F. Norton Kern '41 |
| Howard Leroy Ginaven '32 | Dorothy Crates Long '22 |
| Lois Harbage '21 | Catherine Bradley Moore '25 |
| Raymond Ellis Scroggins '48 | Elmer Roy Rike, Jr. '40 |
| Donald Burton Watkins '18 | |
| 1961 | 1960 |
| William Richard Domer '26 | Mr. and Mrs. S. George Boyd 1910 |
| Goldie Opal McCue '16 | Alice Bailey Breese '34 |
| Adelaide Shull '21 | Bartlett E. Emery '16 |
| Josephine Spencer Wilson '29 | Francis Montgomery Hughes '31 |
| Fanny Hagerman Laylin 1907 |
1950s
| 1959 | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Doris Brooks Marting '34 | Richard W. Baird '26 |
| Mary Corinne Rosebrook '16 | Nina J. Baker '25 |
| G. Carter Thornburg '30 | Bessie Robinson Beal 1903 |
| Ebert Weidner '44 | Chads Oden Skinner '27 |
| 1957 | 1956 |
| John Alfred Eckler '35 | Richard W. Darrow '36 |
| Carl Stitsel Fuller '29 | Ruby Dixon De Voist 1908 |
| Frank J. Prout 1906 | Franklin Roy Dove 1902 |
| Glee Holverstott Murray '21 | |
| James J. Nance '23 | |
| Faith Hubbart Shier '40 | |
| 1955 | 1954 |
| George M. Austin '29 | T. Chad Dunham '29 |
| John Vernon Burns '40 | Gladys Harbage Hibbert '18 |
| Alexander Burns Cook '49 | Fred Don Learey '28 |
| Helen Beetham Havighurst '30 | William H. Rice 1901 |
| James W. Havighurst '30 | Herman M. Shipps 1913 |
| Ruth Young Sieg '48 | Ina Wheeling Thompson '21 |
| 1953 | 1952 |
| Allen Clifton Conger 1908 | Elsie Castor Chrisman 1893 |
| Adelbert A. Henderson 1895 | Thelma Skiff Fuller '29 |
| Lena Weisman Henderson 1895 | John J. Joseph '20 |
| Edith Burford Kelly YYYY | John G. Koontz '29 |
| A. Wallace Morrison '15 | |
| 1951 | 1950 |
| Ralph E. Hasemeier '15 | John Secrest Pyke '27 |
| Opal Reames Martin 1912 | Mary Ramsey Ritter '16 |
| James Barnes Rike, Jr. '42 | Mary Nichols Stauffer 1912 |
| Mildred Stinchcomb Smith '22 | Cecily Jones Wilkinson '44 |
1940s
| 1949 | 1948 |
|---|---|
| R. G. Beattie '18 | Chester A. Kerr '17 |
| Orville B. Littick YYYY | Clyde B. Longsworth 1905 |
| Eleanor Ward McClain '21 | Chalmer Field Lutz '25 |
| Raymond A. Swink 1913 | F. Marie Reiff '16 |
| Sarah C. Stevenson 1910 | |
| 1947 | 1946 |
| Eugene Whitman Annis '15 | George K. Hoffman '14 |
| Charles H. Eichhorn '20 | Leon Wilbur Miller '15 |
| Stanley R. Mauck '16 | Eunice Rockey Roudebush '14 |
| Edwin W. Mitchell 1876 | George H. Saville '22 |
| Kathryn Sisson Phillips 1901 | |
| 1945 | 1944 |
| Helen F. Barnes 1889 | Mary McVay Austin 1882 |
| D. Raymond Brothers '18 | Robert S. May 1906 |
| George B. Harris 1900 | Charles Bright Mills '19 |
| Sallie T. Humphreys 1899 | Carl F. Slavosky '28 |
| Edgar A. Kolb 1901 | Allen B. Whitney 1899 |
| 1943 | 1942 |
| Gayle Howard Howey '20 | Mabel Salisbury Benson '23 |
| Charles G. Laughlin 1895 | Wilbur G. Carlisle 1909 |
| Andrew Penn Martin 1910 | Jay W. Hartsock 1913 |
| Stanley C. Roettinger 1903 | Russell B. Miller 1895 |
| Anna McGregor Smith '16 | Will D. Redrup 1895 |
| Paul Elder Smith '17 | |
| 1941 | 1940 |
| Lenita Reddish Betts 1909 | William V. Frazier, Jr. '21 |
| James Wilbur Bridge '22 | Helen Pritchard 1911 |
| Burleigh E. Cartmell 1903 | Sallie Reed Semans 1887 |
| Homer C. Fulton 1896 | Donald Jacob Sherbondy '30 |
| Charles S. Huffman 1909 | Norman W. Taylor '34 |
| Grace McCarty Whitehead 1907 |
1930s
| 1939 | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Edwin H. Hughes 1889 | Katherine Timmons Allen '25 |
| Benjamin L. McElroy 1883 | Mabel Anna Dawson 1907 |
| John W. Pontius 1906 | Philip C. Ebeling '28 |
| Pansy K. Rauhauser '15 | John R. Goodall 1879 |
| Edward T. Reed 1893 | Charles M. Lewis 1895 |
| Harrison J. Weaver 1909 | Rollin M. Walker 1888 |
| 1937 | |
| William R. Bass 1896 | |
| William F. Bigelow 1906 | |
| John E. Brown, M.D. 1884 | |
| Branch Rickey 1904 | |
| Amelia Watson 1879 | |
| Harvey Overholt Yoder 1903 |