Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients, 1955-1980
Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize Washington University alumni for their outstanding achievements, contributions in area of public service, exceptional service to Washington University, or any combination of the three. Awards are presented every fall, at the University's Founder's Day celebration.
In the lists below, schools are referred to by their most recent names:
- Arts and Sciences rather than Liberal Arts
- Engineering and Applied Science rather than Engineering
- Business rather than Business and Public Administration
- Art rather than Fine Arts
- Dental Medicine rather than Dentistry
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1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 |
1955
- Robert L. Aronson (Law 1928)
- William C. E. Becker (Engineering and Applied Science 1915)
- Edward L. Bowles (Engineering and Applied Science 1920)
- John L. Bracken (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1926)
- Otto W. Brandhorst (Dental Medicine 1915)
- James B. Brown (Medicine 1923)
- Mary DeGarmo Bryan (Arts and Sciences 1912)
- Lee D. Cady (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1921, Medicine 1922)
- Richard R. Caemmerer, Sr. (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1933 and 1944)
- Josephine J. Cannon (Arts and Sciences 1933)
- Morris Carnovsky (Arts and Sciences 1920)
- Fred Green Carpenter (Arts and Sciences 1904)
- Henry S. Caulfield (Law 1895)
- Albert B. Chandler (Arts and Sciences 1900, Law 1904)
- Hal Chase (Business 1926)
- Clark M. Clifford (Law 1928)
- Warren H. Cole (Medicine 1920)
- Glover H. Copher (Medicine 1918)
- Harriet S. Cory (Arts and Sciences 1906)
- Charles H. Danforth (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1912)
- Merle Fainsod (Arts and Sciences 1928, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1929)
- Hugh M. Ferriss (Manual Training School 1906, Architecture 1911, Graduate Architecture 1928)
- Richard B. Fowler (Business 1925)
- Arthur J. Freund (Arts and Sciences 1914, Law 1916)
- Ralph F. Fuchs (Arts and Sciences 1922, Law 1922)
- McCune Gill (Law 1904)
- Roy S. Glasgow (Engineering and Applied Science 1918)
- Albert P. Greensfelder (Engineering and Applied Science 1901)
- W. Gustave Haenschen (Engineering and Applied Science 1912)
- Henry Frederick Hagemann, Jr. (Business 1926)
- Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (Law 1927)
- Albert G. Hill (Engineering and Applied Science 1930 and 1934)
- Joseph C. Hinsey (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1927)
- Edgar H. Keys (Dental Medicine 1907)
- Jacob M. Lashly (Law 1907)
- Benno E. Lischer (Dental Medicine 1900)
- George J. Maguolo (Architecture 1917, Graduate Architecture 1920)
- John S. Marsalek (Law 1911)
- Sherwood Moore (Medicine 1905)
- Howard J. Morgens (Arts and Sciences 1931)
- Stratford Lee Morton (Arts and Sciences 1910)
- Alton Ochsner (Medicine 1920)
- Alfred C. Parker (Art 1927)
- Arthur W. Proetz (Arts and Sciences 1910, Medicine 1912)
- Louis H. Renfrow (Dental Medicine 1917)
- Robert E. Schlueter (Medicine 1895 - posthumous award)
- Shirley Seifert (Arts and Sciences 1909)
- S. Richard Silverman (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1938 and 1942)
- Julian A. Steyermark (Arts and Sciences 1929, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1930 and 1933)
- Erwin P. Stupp (Engineering and Applied Science 1918)
- Norman J. Stupp (Engineering and Applied Science 1922)
- Raymond R. Tucker (Engineering and Applied Science 1920)
- Charles Van Ravenswaay (Arts and Sciences 1933, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1934)
- William E. Vaughan (Arts and Sciences 1936)
- Dorothy V. Wheeler Nursing 1935)
- Mary I. Wickes (Arts and Sciences 1930)
- Frederick C. Woermann (Engineering and Applied Science 1899 and 1906)
- Frederick E. Woodruff (Medicine 1897)
1956
- J. Floyd Alcorn (Dental Medicine 1906)
- Russell J. Blattner (Arts and Sciences 1929, Medicine 1933)
- John W. Calhoun (Law 1907)
- Estelle D. Claiborne (Nursing 1915)
- William W. Crowdus (Law 1922)
- Benedict Farrar (Architecture 1908)
- David C. Garroway, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1935)
- John L. Gillis (Business 1933)
- Joseph J. Gravely (Law 1917)
- Ralph L. Gray (Engineering and Applied Science 1916)
- Mary Taussig Hall (Social Work 1938)
- Gene C. Hutchinson (Business 1928)
- Irma Starkloff Rombauer, (Art 1897)
- Joseph E. Smadel, (Medicine 1931)
1957
- Daniel Bartlett (Law 1920)
- George Edward Egger (Business 1925)
- Hyman J. Ettlinger (Arts and Sciences 1910)
- Lester J. Evans (Medicine 1921)
- Edward Bayard Fay (Engineering and Applied Science 1891)
- Edward A. Harris (Arts and Sciences 1910)
- Forest Merrill Hemker (Law 1927)
- Eugene Roland Kellersberger (Medicine 1915)
- Helmut Richard Niebuhr (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1917)
- Lucille Stuart Spalding (Nursing 1935)
- Marion Wilson Weir (Social Work 1928)
- Arnold DeMerritt Welch (Medicine 1939)
1958
- Axel N. Arneson
- Nick T. Cave
- S. Douglass Crockwell
- Frederick L. Deming
- Charles Eames
- Leonelle C. Gamble
- Leo Gluck
- Mary Myers Hildreth
- William B. Kountz
- Alexander Langsdorf, Jr.
- Isaac Lippincott
- David L. Millar
- Leo M. Shanley
1959
- William Robert Alstadt (Dental Medicine 1938)
- Frank R. Bradley, (Medicine 1928)
- Steuart Henderson Britt (Arts and Sciences 1931, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1932)
- Howard Samuel Eichenbaum (Architecture 1924)
- Elizabeth Lenore Fackt (Arts and Sciences 1912, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1913)
- Harry Wilmer Jones (Law 1934)
- Max Lerner (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1925)
- Leo C. Miller (Arts and Sciences 1908)
- Marvin E. Miller (Arts and Sciences 1934)
- Fred E. Meuller (Law 1907)
- Paul Erwin Robinson (Arts and Sciences 1926, Medicine 1928)
- Joseph E. Vollmar (Engineering and Applied Science 1913)
1960
- J. Garrott Allen (Arts and Sciences 1934
- Frank Philip Aschemeyer (Law 1924)
- Robert H. Barclay (Engineering and Applied Science 1910)
- Robert B. Brooks (Engineering and Applied Science 1910)
- Cornella Catlin Coulter (Arts and Sciences 1907
- Thomas B. Curtis (Law 1935)
- John H. Dawe (Dental Medicine 1915)
- Virginia Barrett Elliman (Nursing 1928)
- John Kyle Gustafson (Arts and Sciences 1927)
- Douglas Vass Martin, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1915)
- Oliver K. Niess (Arts and Sciences 1925, Medicine 1927)
- Wendell G. Scott (Medicine 1932)
1961
- Bea Adams
- Albert H. Baum
- Brian B. Blades
- Clinton Brown Burnett
- Max Kornfeld
- Oliver Rufus McCoy
- I.E. Millstone
- Charles A. Naylor
- Chloe Owings
- A.P. Stone, Jr.
- Meyer Wiener
1962
- Clyde L. Cowan (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1947 and 1949)
- Fred A. Eppenberger (Law 1928)
- Emil Frei, Jr. (Art)
- Frank Glenn (Medicine 1927)
- Edward G. Hampp (Dental Medicine 1936)
- Ernest Carl Havemann (Arts and Sciences 1933, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1934)
- Jean Browning Madeira (Arts and Sciences)
- Kendall Perkins (Engineering and Applied Science 1928)
1963
- Harris Armstrong (Architecture)
- John Fox
- Alfred Gellhorn
- J. Howard McMillen
- Robert H. McRoberts
- Ruth Ellen Moore (Arts and Sciences)
- Robert K. Mueller
- William Jay Smith (Arts and Sciences, Graduate Arts and Sciences)
1964
- Alice Taylor Davis (Social Work 1932)
- Russell H. Doerner (Law 1929)
- Edwin C. Ernst, Sr. (Medicine 1912)
- Arthur W. Melton (Arts and Sciences 1928)
- John R. Moore (Engineering and Applied Science 1937)
- Gyo Obata (Architecture 1945)
- Gerald V. Williamson (Engineering and Applied Science 1922 and 1930)
1965
- Gene Kerwin Beare (Engineering and Applied Science 1937)
- George W. Burnett (Dental Medicine 1943)
- James G. Conzelman (Arts and Sciences 1920)
- James Marsh Douglas (Law 1921)
- James H. Forsee (Medicine 1929)
- Samuel B. Grant (Arts and Sciences 1918, Medicine 1920)
- Louis V. Huber (Social Work 1949)
- Chloethiel Woodard Smith (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1933)
- S. Edward Sulkin (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1939)
- Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. (Medicine 1942)
- Arthur B. Tillman (Engineering and Applied Science 1933, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1935)
1966
- Katherine Bain (Medicine 1925)
- Jesse Bernard (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1935)
- George H. Capps (Arts and Sciences 1939, Law 1939)
- Clair Stephens Cullenbine (Law 1928)
- Bernard Fuchs (Art 1954)
- Mildred Mathias Hassler (Arts and Sciences 1926, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1927 and 1929)
- William J. Hedley (Engineering and Applied Science 1925)
- C. Avery Mason (Arts and Sciences 1926)
- Robert Allan Phillips (Medicine 1929)
- Orville W. Richardson (Arts and Sciences 1929, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1930, Law 1933)
- Sol Spiegelman (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1944)
1967
- Roy Lee Brandenburger (Business 1934)
- Vaughan P. (Bing) Devine (Arts and Sciences 1938)
- Charles Herbert Dolson (Engineering and Applied Science 1928)
- Rosalind Weil Harris (Arts and Sciences 1927)
- Aaron E. Hotchner (Arts and Sciences 1940, Law 1940)
- Paul Jans (Social Work 1949)
- Milton Levy (Engineering and Applied Science 1925)
- Margaret McLaughlin (Nursing 1937)
- Crawford Fountain Sams (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1927, Medicine 1929)
- Arthur P. Schellenberg (Engineering and Applied Science 1930)
- Morris A. Shenker (Arts and Sciences 1932, Law 1932)
- James A. Singer (Law 1930)
- Cornelia M. Thompson (Dental Medicine 1922)
- A. Carl Weber (Engineering and Applied Science 1930)
- Nathan Anthony Womack (Medicine 1924)
1968
- Philip M. Arnold (Engineering and Applied Science 1932)
- Ronald J. Foulis (Law 1927)
- W. Alfred Hayes (Law 1928)
- George Francis Hellmuth (Architecture 1928, Graduate Architecture 1931)
- Harvey J. Jablonsky (Business 1930)
- Joseph C. Robnett Licklider (Arts and Sciences 1937, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1938)
- Robert T. Schwartz (Engineering and Applied Science 1938)
- Doyle J. Smith (Dental Medicine 1936)
- Betty Henby Sutter (Arts and Sciences 1931)
- Gershom Joseph Thompson (Medicine 1925)
- Pearl Larner Willen (Arts and Sciences 1925)
1969
- C. Clifford Duncan (Engineering and Applied Science 1927)
- E. G. Hamilton (Architecture 1943)
- Ferrel Heady (Arts and Sciences 1937, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1938 and 1940)
- Guy N. Magness (Medicine 1928)
- Charles Dallan Maxvill (Engineering 1962)
- E. Anne Jarvis Moller (Arts and Sciences 1936)
- Lieutenant General Kenneth E. Pletcher (Medicine 1936)
- Siegfried G. Reinhardt (Arts and Sciences 1950)
- Felicia Weathers (Arts and Sciences 1957)
- Russell Charles Wheeler (Dental Medicine 1919)
1970
- Turner Alfrey Jr. (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1940)
- William L. Bradford (Medicine 1923)
- Martin Brofenbrenner (Arts and Sciences 1934)
- Sam Elson (Arts and Sciences 1927, Law 1930)
- Harold D. Jolley (Engineering and Applied Science 1911)
- C. Alan McAfee (Medicine 1942)
- David Merrick (Arts and Sciences 1934)
- Alvin L. Schorr (Social Work 1943)
- Russell J. Seibert, (Arts and Sciences 1937, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1938 and 1947)
1971
- Frances Hackmann Allen (Arts and Sciences 1929)
- Tommie F. Brown (Social Work 1964)
- Jack Westley Cole (Medicine 1944)
- Aaron Fischer (Engineering and Applied Science 1928)
- Roger Hombs (Dental Medicine 1945)
- Oliver Edward Nelson (Arts and Sciences 1954-1957)
- Albert J. O'Brien (Arts and Sciences 1935)
- Alvin Z. Rosenfeld (Arts and Sciences 1941
- Ray D. Schaefer (Manual Training School 1914)
- William K. Y. Tao (Sever Institute 1950)
- Charles H. Winner (University College 1949, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1950)
- Sanford J. Zimmerman (Business 1951)
1972
- Walter W. Barker (Art 1948)
- G. Duncan Bauman (Law 1948)
- Scott Briar (Social Work 1952)
- Harold E. Clark (Arts and Sciences 1936, Graduate Arts and Sciences--1937 and 1948)
- Sidney S. Cohen (Business 1922)
- Betty Grossman (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1951 and 1959)
- John Hartford (Arts and Sciences 1960)
- George E. Kassabaum (Architecture 1947)
- Milton Klein (Engineering and Applied Science 1944)
- Edwin G. Krebs (Medicine 1943)
- Robert A. Roessel, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1949, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1950)
- William H. Webster (Law 1949)
1973
- Carroll Behrhorst (Arts and Sciences 1943, Medicine 1947)
- Homer Charles Bishop (Social Work 1948)
- David M. Blumberg (Arts and Sciences 1936, Law 1936)
- Max C. Brewer (Engineering and Applied Science 1950)
- Sidney P. Colowick (Engineering 1936, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1939 and 1942)
- James Deakin (Arts and Sciences 1951)
- Stifel William Jens (Engineering and Applied Science 1932, Sever Institute 1933)
- John Knowles (Medicine 1951)
- Lionel H. Newsom (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1956)
- Adolph G. Schlossstein, Jr. (Business 1932, Graduate Arts & Sciences 1941)
1974
- Henry Lewis Barnett (Arts and Sciences 1934, Medicine 1938)
- Robert J. Gorlin (Dental Medicine 1947)
- Lee Harrison, III (Art 1952, Engineering 1959)
- Samuel E. Sachs (Engineering and Applied Science 1924)
- Oliver G. Wetterau (Business 1929)
1975
- Bernard M. Barenholtz (Arts and Sciences 1935, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1937)
- Eleanor T. Kenney (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1965)
- Robert H. Silber (Arts and Sciences 1937, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1941)
- John F. Yardley (Sever Institute 1950)
1976
- Lois J. Blackwell (University College 1968)
- John Gardner (Arts and Sciences 1955)
- Jui Hsin Wang (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1949)
- Louis I. Zorensky (Business 1941, Law 1941)
1977
- Samuel Aftergut (Business 1931)
- Warren Madison Brown (Arts and Sciences 1949)
- Dan Broida (Engineering and Applied Science 1936)
- C. Barber Mueller (Medicine 1942)
1978
- Florence S. Cromwell (Occupational Therapy 1949)
- A.T. Cummins (University College 1924)
- George Matsumoto (Architecture 1944)
- Fred C. Reynolds (Arts and Sciences 1931, Medicine 1934)
1979
- Patricia Du Bose Duncan (Art 1954)
- Carol Tucker Foreman (Arts and Sciences 1960)
- Tilford C. Gaines (Business 1948)
- John Joseph Kelly Jr. (Law 1947)
- Stanley L. Lopata (Arts and Sciences 1935)
- Elizabeth Gay Degginger McCauley (Business 1948)
1980
- Carl L.A. Beckers (Business 1928)
- Floyd E Bloom (Medicine 1960)
- Ted Bowen (Medicine 1948)
- Sally Richards Gnaegy (Arts and Sciences 1952)
- Arlene Kramer Jarrett (Arts and Sciences 1959)
Distinguished Alumni Award
Recipients, 1981-present
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