Distinguished Alumni Award Winners, 1981 - present.
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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1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
2007
1981
- Judith Meador Carter (Graduate Business 1966)
- Alan J. Dixon (Law 1949)
- Charles M. Fullgraf (Engineering and Applied Science 1939)
- Arthur L. McWilliams (Business 1949)
- Michael Peters (Art 1965)
- Edward J. Williams (University College 1949)
1982
- Thomas M. Adams (Arts and Sciences 1956, Law 1960)
- John P. Diesel (Engineering and Applied Science 1951)
- Michael N. Newmark (Arts and Sciences 1960, Law 1962)
- Laura E. Root (Social Work 1968)
- Ben H. Senturia (Arts and Sciences 1931, Medicine 1935)
- Merle T. Welshans (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1947 and 1951)
1983
- Leonard Berg (Arts and Sciences 1945, Medicine 1949)
- William L. Brown (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1940 and 1941)
- Girard T. Bryant (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1963)
- Oliver Goralnik (Business 1930)
- Paul O. Hagemann (Arts & Sciences 1930, Medicine 1934)
- Kathryn Walker Huelster (Arts and Sciences 1959)
1984
- Dennis P. Long (University College 1962)
- Carolyn W. Losos (Arts and Sciences 1954)
- Joseph J. Mikecin (University College 1961)
- W. Wayne Ritchie (Engineering and Applied Science 1973
- Earl E. Shepard (Dental Medicine 1931)
- Jane B. Spoehrer (Arts and Sciences 1930)
1985
- Jerome F. Brasch (Engineering and Applied Science 1944, Sever Institute 1947)
- Paula J. Limberg Clayton (Medicine 1960)
- E. Thomas Coleman (Law 1969)
- Lawrence P. Klamon (Law 1958)
- A. Wellborne Moise (Law 1933)
- Judy Friedman Schnitzer (Law 1967)
1986
- Frank J. Bush, Jr. (Business 1930)
- I. Jerome Flance (Arts and Sciences 1931, Medicine 1935)
- Sam Fox (Business 1951)
- Ray W. Hacker (Arts and Sciences 1957)
- Carlos A. Ott (Graduate Architecture 1971 and 1972)
- Joseph M. Palecek (University College 1958)
1987
- Henrietta Freedman (Arts and Sciences 1975)
- John E. Gilster (Dental Medicine 1944)
- Earle H. Harbison, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1948)
- Fred L. Kuhlmann (Arts and Sciences 1938, Law 1938)
- Mark J. Schnall (Arts & Sciences 1971, Law 1974)
1988
- Robert C. Drews (Medicine 1955)
- Robert L. Harmon (Business 1949)
- Walter E. Massey (Graduate A&S 1966)
- Harold A. Ramis (Arts and Sciences 1966)
- Jack N. Unruh (Art 1957)
- John K. Wallace, Jr. (Graduate Business 1957)
1989
- William S. Brandhorst (Dental Medicine 1943)
- Kenneth J. Cooper (Arts and Sciences 1977)
- Thomas F. Frist, Jr. (Medicine 1965)
- Mark S. Gold (Arts and Sciences 1971)
- Marvin E. Levin (Arts & Sciences 1947, Medicine 1951)
- James V. O'Donnell (Business 1974, Graduate Business 1974)
1990
- Harold Guller (Engineering and Applied Science 1939)
- Sydney H. Guller (Business 1947)
- Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. (Art 1953)
- Shi Hui Huang (Medicine - Former House Staff 1959)
- Bertram W. Tremayne, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1935, Law 1938)
- Olly W. Wilson (Arts and Sciences 1959)
1991
- Donald L. Bryant, Jr. (Law 1967)
- Tom Cori (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1966 and 1970)
- Robert B. Karn III (Business 1965)
- Wilfred R. Konneker (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1950)
- Chia-Wei Woo (Graduate Arts & Sciences 1961 and 1966)
1992
- John B. Biggs, Jr. (Arts and Sciences 1966, Graduate Business 1971)
- Dwald W. Busse (Medicine 1942)
- Barney A. Ebsworth (Business 1956)
- Donald P. Gallop (Law 1959)
- Eric P. Newman (Law 1935)
- William G. Tragos (Arts and Sciences 1956)
1993
- Allyn V. Essman (Business 1953)
- Robert W. Meyer (Engineering and Applied Science 1974, Sever Institute 1976 and 1978)
- Norman G. Moore (Arts and Sciences 1933)
- Barbara Schaps Thomas (Arts and Sciences 1976)
- Mitchell Yanow (Medicine 1941)
- Milton L. Zorensky (Business 1940)
1994
- Lattie F. Coor (Graduate Arts and Sciences, 1960 and 1964)
- George Eberle, Jr. (Social Work 1958)
- Terry L. Lengfelder (Business 1961)
- Jerome T. Loeb (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1964)
- Jack D. Minner (Business 1950)
- Marie Prange Oetting (Arts and Sciences 1949)
- Christian B. Peper, (Law 1935)
1995
- Thomas L. Bugnitz (Business 1974, Graduate Business 1974)
- August H. Homeyer (Arts and Sciences 1930)
- Deborah Stewart Kent (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1977)
- Robert L. Scharff, Jr. (Business 1965)
- Arnold B. Zetcher (Business 1962)
1996
- John D. Davidson (Medicine 1952)
- Donald R. Frahm (Business 1953)
- Koichi Fujii (Medicine - House Staff member in surgery, 1957-1962)
- Jean C. Hamilton (Law 1971)
- Howard L. Wood (Business 1961)
- Judy Pfaff (Art 1971)
1997
- Jack Bodine (Engineering and Applied Science 1949, Graduate Business 1955)
- William Terry Fuldner (Engineering and Applied Science 1949)
- Edward Hager (Medicine 1955)
- Lynne Cooper Harvey (Arts and Sciences 1934, Graduate Arts and Sciences 1935)
- E. Desmond Lee (Business 1940)
- Lawrence Thomas (Business 1977)
1998
- Charles A. Buescher, Jr. (Engineering and Applied Science 1959, Sever Institute 1961)
- Arnold W. Donald (Engineering and Applied Science 1977)
- Joyce A. Ladner (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1966 and 1968)
- Jane Sauer (Art 1959, University College 1960)
- Robert L. Virgil, Jr.(Graduate Business)
- Roger L. Weston (Graduate Business 1967)
1999
- Dolores Baja-Lasán (Social Work, 1959)
- John Davis Ezell (Art, 1954)
- Mark J. Ginsburg (Arts & Sciences, 1973, Medicine - Former House Staff, 1981)
- W. Patrick McGinnis (Business, 1972)
- William F. Patient (Engineering and Applied Science, 1957)
- David L. Shores (Business, 1967)
2000
- Jamie Cannon (Architecture 1960)
- Virgil Carr (Social Work 1968)
- Charles Lebens (Engineering and Applied Science 1957)
- Ned Lemkemeier (Law 1962)
- Allan Rappaport (Medicine 1972)
- Bradley Siegel (Arts and Sciences 1979)
2001
- Santanu Das (Graduate Engineering 1973)
- John Eisenberg (Medicine 1972)
- Dexter Fedor (Art 1979, Business 1979)
- Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg (Arts and Sciences 1966)
- Robert J. Messey (Business 1968)
- William J. Shaw (Graduate Business 1972)
2002
- F. Gilbert Bickel (Business 1966)
- Zhangliang Chen (Graduate Arts and Sciences 1987)
- Joseph M. Davie (Medicine 1968)
- Mark Levin (Engineering and Applied Science 1973, Graduate Engineering 1974)
- Thomas E. Lowther (Law 1962, University College 1999)
- Richard B. Teitelman (Law 1973)
2003
- Geoffrey E.H. Ballard (Ph.D 1963)
- Norman Foster (Engineering and Applied Science 1960, Graduate Engineering 1964)
- Caryn Mandabach (Arts & Sciences 1971)
- Melvin L. Oliver (Graduate Arts & Sciences 1974, Ph.D 1977)
- Harry J. Seigle (Arts & Sciences 1968)
- Bennett A. Shaywitz (Arts & Sciences 1960, Medicine 1963)
2004
- Joyce Barnathan (Graduate Arts & Sciences 1975 and 1976)
- Thomas R. Green (Law 1955)
- Alphonso Jackson (Law 1973)
- William J. Marshall (Business 1970, Graduate Business 1973, Ph.D 1977)
- William T. Shearer (Medicine 1970)
- Jerome J. Sincoff (Architecture 1956)
- Jess Yawitz (Arts & Sciences 1968, Graduate Arts & Sciences 1969, Ph.D 1972)
2005
- James F. Barker (Graduate Architecture 1973)
- John Gianoulakis (Arts & Sciences 1960)
- Leonard Jarett (Medicine 1962)
- Stanley I. Proctor (Engineering and Applied Science 1957, Graduate Engineering 1962, Ph.D 1972)
- Susan S. Stepleton (Arts & Sciences 1973, Social Work 1979)
- James M. Talent (Arts & Sciences 1978)
2006
- Jon H. Feltheimer (Arts & Sciences 1972)
- Marylen Mann (Arts & Sciences 1957, Graduate Arts & Sciences 1959)
- Gordon W. Philpott (Medicine 1961)
- James E. Schiele (Arts & Sciences 1952, Graduate Arts & Sciences 1985)
- James D. Weddle (Graduate Business 1977)
- George Zimmer (Arts & Sciences 1970)
2007
- Nathan O. Hatch (Graduate Arts & Sciences 1972 and 1974)
- Charlotte D. Jacobs (Medicine 1972)
- Steven F. Leer (Graduate Business 1977)
- William B. Pollard III (Arts & Sciences 1970)
- Philip D. Shelton (Law 1972)
- J. J. Stupp (Graduate Business 1983)
Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients, 1955-1986
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