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Distinguished Service Citation
Awarded to alumni on the basis of overall achievements, personal growth in career, and outstanding civic, cultural, and professional/business service in such ways as to reflect credit on Beloit College.
Chosen by the Alumni Association Board of Directors and presented on campus during Reunion each year.
Making a Nomination
Restrictions: If selected, recipients will be awarded during their 25th or 50th reunion, though nominations never expire. Nominations may also include alumni who are no longer with us.
2024 Nomination Deadline: January 31, 2024
Congratulations to the 2023 Recipients:
2022 Recipients:
Previous Recipients
- None awarded yet (25 years have not passed)
- Dr. Jai Balkissoon’80 (awarded in 2005)
- Stephen Gregg’80 (awarded in 2015)
- Dr. Philip R. Christian’81 (awarded in 2006)
- John Erikson’82 (awarded in 2007)
- John T. Hailer’83 (awarded in 2013)
- Thomas J. O’Neill’83 (awarded in 2008)
- Robert D. Allen’84 (awarded in 2009)
- Michele Belvitch Erikson’84 (awarded in 1998)
- Shamshad Rashid’85 (awarded in 2010)
- Bill Fitzgerald’86 (awarded in 2011)
- Matt Tolmach’86 (awarded in 2016)
- Dr. Alison M. Fry’87 (awarded in 2012)
- Margaret Nygren’87 (awarded in 2017)
- Debra Hass’88 (awarded in 2013)
- Stephanie Klett’89 (awarded in 2014)
- David Goodfriend’90 (awarded in 2015)
- Daniel Aimes’91 (awarded in 2016)
- Jamey Brumfield’92 (awarded in 2017)
- Anne Mahle’92 (awarded in 2017)
- Raj Fernando’93 (awarded in 2018)
- Dr. Sudha Pavuluri Quamme’94 (awarded in 2019)
- Joanna Kutter’95 (awarded in 2020)
- Vicky Selkowe’96 (awarded in 2021)
- Amy O’Neill Grant’97 (Awarded in 2022)
- Stacie Rosenzweig’97 (Awarded in 2022)
- Timothy Dalton, Jr.’60 (awarded in 2010)
- Walter E. Duka’60 (awarded in 1985)
- Harry L. Hamilton’60 (awarded in 2000)
- Constance Leuer Golden’61 (awarded in 1991)
- Robert G. Houdek’61 (awarded in 2001)
- Tom Mullaney’61 (awarded in 2011)
- Barbara Brown Zikmund’61 (awarded in 1986)
- Dr. William Bennett Galloway’62 (awarded in 2012)
- Paul Stitt’62 (awarded in 1987)
- Eugene W. Zeltmann’62 (awarded in 1993)
- William A. Boyd’63 (awarded in 2013)
- Jack Richard Dukes’63 (awarded in 1993)
- Linda Treat Hisgen’63 (awarded in 1998)
- Craig Heiser’64 (awarded in 2014)
- Harold Mayer’64 (awarded in 2004)
- Gene Banucci’65 and Phyllis Wolff Banucci’65 (awarded in 2005)
- Dick Niemiec’65 (awarded in 2015)
- William C. Putnam’65 (awarded in 1985)
- Dr. Arthur J. Elman’66 (awarded in 2006)
- Bob Norris’66 (awarded in 2016)
- A. Lanier Gordon, Jr.’67 (awarded in 1996)
- Katherine Austin Mahle’67 (awarded in 2007)
- Stephen H. Mahle’67 (awarded in 1996)
- Robert C. Nowinski’67 (awarded in 1992)
- John Pasquin’67 (awarded in 2017)
- Martha “Marty” Dyer Feltus’68 (awarded in 2018)
- Rosemary Widmann Gruber’68 (awarded in 2018)
- John A. Thorn’68 (awarded in 1993)
- J. Edson Way’68 (awarded in 2008)
- Richard Brooks’69 (awarded in 2014)
- Thomas Casadevall’69 (awarded in 2019)
- Robert Lee Morris’69 (awarded in 1988)
- Marsha R. Williams’69 (awarded in 1994)
- Michael D. Young’69 (awarded in 2009)
- Linda Gregorin Clifford’70 (awarded in 2010)
- Ellen Phillips Frohnmayer’70 (awarded in 1995)
- Dr. Dianne Gerber Nielson’70 (awarded in 2020)
- Beth Flickinger Padon’70 and Chris Padon’71 (joint 2020/2021 award)
- Donald P. Carson’71 (awarded in 1996)
- Janine P. Geske’71 (awarded in 2002)
- Alisan Goldfarb’71 (awarded in 2016)
- Dr. Lynne Goldstein’71 (awarded in 2021)
- F. Jameson Parker II’71 (awarded in 1985)
- John Sall’71 (awarded in 2011)
- Leah Burns’72 (Awarded in 2022)
- Judith Ann Miller’72 (awarded in 1997)
- James R. Sullivan’72 (awarded in 1991)
- Arthur K. Thexton’72 (awarded in 2012)
- Erica Ueland’72 (Awarded in 2022)
- Thomas W. Dickinson III’73 (awarded in 2013)
- Phee Boon Kang’73 (awarded in 2002)
- Marca Bristo’74 (awarded in 1989)
- Peggy Robinson’74 (awarded in 2014)
- Steven Cohen’75 (awarded in 2015)
- Michael J. Koss’76 (awarded in 2001)
- Ann Bausum’79 (awarded in 2004)
- Horace W. Gerarde’40
- Milan E. Hapala’40 (awarded in 1975)
- Arthur L. Luebke’40
- June Bjorklund Martin’40 (awarded in 1970)
- Richard Retter’40 (awarded in 1980)
- Louis A. Toepfer’40 (awarded in 1965)
- Arline Robbins Bernard’41 (awarded in 1976)
- John Biester’41 (awarded in 1991)
- Douglas R. Morton’41 (awarded in 1966)
- Donald A. Sandro’41 (awarded in 1971)
- Adolph Dubs’42 (awarded in 1972)
- H. Hurst Gibson’42 (awarded in 1977)
- Paul K. Giloth’42 (awarded in 1982)
- Albert R. Hough’42 and Lois Malone Hough’42 (awarded jointly in 2008)
- Robert H. Kline’42 (awarded in 1992)
- Philip E. Nethercut’42 (awarded in 1967)
- Carla Shriner Williams’42 (awarded in 1967)
- Edward D. Gates’43 (awarded in 1968)
- Paul E. Hodgson’43 (awarded in 1973)
- Jean E. Koehler’43 (awarded in 1978)
- Barbara Ellett Taylor’43 (awarded in 1983)
- Arnold A. Sio’44 (awarded in 1969)
- Paul H. Thomas’44 (awarded in 1984)
- Jane Foster Doud’45 (awarded in 1995)
- Carl M. Grip’46 (awarded in 1970)
- Betty-Jane Jones’46 (awarded in 1980)
- Philip A. Sprague’46 (awarded in 1971)
- Ardis Candy Tolstedt’46 (awarded in 1971)
- Virginia Workman Bremberg’47 (awarded in 1987)
- Richard E. Burow’47 (awarded in 1972)
- Eldridge H. Gilbert’47 (awarded in 1983)
- Verna King Gruhlke’47 (awarded in 1972)
- Maybeth Shaffer Martin’47 (awarded in 1997)
- William O. Nelson’47 (awarded in 1987)
- Jean Anderson Robinson’47 (awarded in 1977)
- Ruane B. Hill’48 (awarded in 1978)
- Arthur T. Johnson’48 (awarded in 1998)
- Pete Kostantacos’48 (awarded in 2007)
- Elizabeth Kaatz Mooney’48 (awarded in 1973)
- William H. Wallace’48 (awarded in 1973)
- William D. Bechill’49 (awarded in 1969)
- James E. Duffy’49 (awarded in 1999)
- John E. Erickson’49 (awarded in 2005)
- James J. Flood’49 (awarded in 1989)
- Malcolm L. Martin’49 (awarded in 1974)
- David M. Myers’49 (awarded in 2004)
- Richard D. Nethercut’49 (awarded in 1999)
- Merrill C. Rueppel’49 (awarded in 1974)
- Xiao-Xuan (Edward) Tang’49 (awarded in 1989)
- F. Caleb Blodgett, Jr.’50 (awarded in 1990)
- Donald F. Bolles’50 (awarded in 1975)
- Lewis D. Dalvit’50 (awarded in 1975)
- Lowell Ericsson’50 (awarded in 2010)
- Jacqueline Dougan Jackson’50 (awarded in 2000)
- O. Vernon Shaffer’50 (awarded in 1981)
- William B. Crawford’51 (awarded in 1986)
- Veronica Bunk Gayle’51 (awarded in 1976)
- Charles R. Goulet’51 (awarded in 1976)
- Lyle Gramley’51 (awarded in 2011)
- Joe Kobylka’51 (awarded in 2006)
- Marta Sutton Weeks’51 (awarded in 2011)
- John M. Eldred’52 (awarded in 1972)
- John A. Grande’52 (awarded in 1997)
- J. Harry Jones’52 (awarded in 1981)
- William R. Leonard’52 (awarded in 1977)
- Robert H. Beeby’53 (awarded in 1984)
- Joan Sullivan Berna’53 (awarded in 1993)
- Lawrence C. Pakula’53 (awarded in 2003)
- Stanley York’53 (awarded in 1978)
- Gerald G. Fox’54 (awarded in 1994)
- Wanda Peterson Hollensteiner’54 (awarded in 2009)
- Thomas C. Pinney’54 (awarded in 1984)
- Robert M. Royalty’54 (awarded in 1979)
- Clyde L. Boutelle’55 (awarded in 2005)
- Suzanne Gross Reed’55 (awarded in 1975)
- Daniel J. Schroeder’55 (awarded in 1980)
- Ruth Vosburgh Smith’55 (awarded in 1995)
- Fredarick L. Gobel’56 (awarded in 2000)
- H. Daniel Green’56 (awarded in 1981)
- Robert E. Porter’56 (awarded in 1996)
- David Threinen’56 and Jane Karr Threinen’56 (awarded jointly in 2006)
- Robert L. Virgil’56 (awarded in 1981)
- Charles W. Woodford’56 (awarded in 1976)
- Nancy Wormley Boutelle’57 (awarded in 1982)
- John W. Freeman’57 (awarded in 1972)
- Ed Hoerr’57 (awarded in 2007)
- Ronald D. Orndorff’57 (awarded in 2012)
- Kenneth J. Beeby’58 (awarded in 2008)
- Douglas B. Baily’59 (awarded in 1990)
- Loraine Smith Gates’59 (awarded in 2009)
- Marcus F. Franda’59 (awarded in 1999)
- John D. Payne’59 (awarded in 1979)
- Sara Moore Robinson’59 (awarded in 1979)
- Peter F. Tufo’59 (awarded in 1999)
- Raymond Adams 1920 (awarded in 1960)
- Alan A. Boyden 1920 (awarded in 1970)
- Carl Kesler 1920 (date of award unknown)
- William H. Stead 1920 (date of award unknown)
- Archie S. Crawford 1921 (awarded in 1971)
- Herbert Helble 1921 (awarded in 1951)
- Richard L. Kozelka 1921 (date of award unknown)
- Pliny A. Porter 1921 (awarded in 1971)
- Evelyn Faye Wilson 1921 (date of award unknown)
- Stillman Wright 1921 (awarded in 1941)
- Stanton E. Hyer 1922 (awarded in 1972)
- Bertram E. Rathje 1922 (awarded in 1972)
- Frederick W. Schacht 1922 (awarded in 1942)
- William H. Short 1922 (date of award unknown)
- William Bunge 1923 (date of award unknown)
- Anna Brandsmark Hedges 1923 (awarded in 1973)
- Louis Van Ess 1923 (date of award unknown)
- A. King McCord 1924 (date of award unknown)
- Esther I. Seaver 1924 (date of award unknown)
- Mary R. Wheeler 1924 (awarded in 1974)
- Charles Bacon 1925 (date of award unknown)
- Rex Blankinship 1925 (awarded in 1975)
- Edward J. F. Young 1925 (date of award unknown)
- Paul H. Nesbitt 1926 (date of award unknown)
- Philip L. Ralph 1926 (awarded in 1976)
- Adolph H. Toepfer 1926 (awarded in 1946)
- Charles E. Gates 1927 (awarded in 1962)
- Stanley D. Noble 1927 (date of award unknown)
- Robert H. O’Brien 1927 (awarded in 1977)
- Arthur B. Adams 1928 (date of award unknown)
- James B. Gage 1928 (date of award unknown)
- Arthur R. Kemmerer 1928 (date of award unknown)
- Charles E. Nieman 1928 (date of award unknown)
- Richard A. Thayer 1928 (awarded in 1978)
- Charles C. Donovan 1929 (awarded in 1979)
- Eaton V. W. Read 1929 (date of award unknown)
- Frank I. Spangler 1929 (date of award unknown)
- Arthur M. Weimer 1929 (date of award unknown)
- Velma Bell Hamilton 1930 (awarded in 1965)
- Elizabeth Golosinec Reinholz 1930 (date of award unknown)
- Richard B. Warren 1930 (awarded in 1980)
- Douglas C. Williams 1930 (date of award unknown)
- Kenneth H. Williams 1930 (awarded in 1980)
- Edythe Daniel 1931 (awarded in 1976)
- James K. Gray 1931 (awarded in 1981)
- Frank C. Hildebrand 1931 (awarded in 1966)
- Thomas E. Keys 1931 (date of award unknown)
- Victor R. B. Oelschlager 1931 (date of award unknown)
- Allen M. Thomas 1931 (date of award unknown)
- Robert B. Voight 1931 (date of award unknown)
- Eugene P. Boardman 1932 (date of award unknown)
- Otto K. Jonas 1932 (awarded in 1982)
- Vernon E. Keye 1932 (awarded in 1972)
- H. Dudley Porter 1932 (date of award unknown)
- Richard W. Blakey 1933 (awarded in 1983)
- Robert G. Fergusson 1933 (date of award unknown)
- Clifford S. Liddle 1933 (date of award unknown)
- John Kendrick Strong 1933 (date of award unknown)
- W. Willard Wirtz 1933 (awarded in 1955)
- Edgar M. Branch 1934 (awarded in 1979)
- Ann Armstrong Carr 1934 (awarded in 1984)
- Dorothy Buell Gilbertsen 1934 (date of award unknown)
- Kenneth W. Haagensen 1934 (date of award unknown)
- J. Leslie Kuplic 1934 (awarded in 1964)
- John H. Martin 1934 (date of award unknown)
- Laurence A. Raymer 1934 (awarded in 1969)
- Emily M. Gray 1935 (awarded in 1985)
- Karl E. Limper 1935 (awarded in 1960)
- Doris H. Platt 1935 (awarded in 1965)
- William Swisher 1935 (awarded in 1995)
- Douglas E. Wade 1935 (date of award unknown)
- Jane Quisenberry Wirtz 1935 (date of award unknown)
- Harold G. Johnson 1936 (date of award unknown)
- Walter A. Strong II 1936 (date of award unknown)
- Robert B. Wolcott 1936 (awarded 1986)
- Ruth Zimmermann Adams 1937 (date of award unknown)
- Wilda June Dailey 1937 (awarded in 1987)
- Milan D. Fiske 1937 (awarded in 1962)
- John R. Kinley 1937 (date of award unknown)
- Dorothy Vale Kissinger 1937 (awarded in 1977)
- Ward P. Lidbetter 1937 (date of award unknown)
- Barbara Roth 1937 (awarded in 1982)
- Harper W. Boyd 1938 (awarded in 1963)
- Robben W. Fleming 1938 (awarded in 1963)
- Robert P. Gates 1938 (awarded in 1988)
- W. Donald Knight 1938 (awarded in 1978)
- Robert S. Meyer 1938 (date of award unknown)
- J. Bennet Olson 1938 (date of award unknown)
- Robert C. Strong 1938 (date of award unknown)
- Fred J. Ascani 1939 (awarded in 1952)
- Roswell K. Boutwell 1939 (awarded in 1974)
- Avery O. Gage 1939 (awarded in 1979)
- Robert H. Irrmann 1939 (date of award unknown)
- Chester McCullough 1939 (date of award unknown)
- Chandler W. Rowe 1939 (date of award unknown)
- Mary J. Booth 1900 (date of award unknown)
- Paul Burchard 1900 (date of award unknown)
- Jay N. Darling 1900 (date of award unknown)
- Merlin Ennis 1900 (date of award unknown)
- Jessie Short 1900 (date of award unknown)
- Lucius C. Porter 1901 (date of award unknown)
- Von Ogden Vogt 1901 (awarded in 1951)
- Katherine B. Whitney 1901 (date of award unknown)
- Edward S. Merrill 1902 (date of award unknown)
- Marshall C. Pease 1902 (date of award unknown)
- W. Thaw Clark 1903 (awarded in 1963)
- William H. Bradshaw 1904 (date of award unknown)
- Ethel Bird 1905 (date of award unknown)
- Arthur H. Parmelee 1905 (date of award unknown)
- Franklyn B. Snyder 1905 (date of award unknown)
- Arthur W. Crawford 1906 (date of award unknown)
- Mac Harvey McCrady 1906 (date of award unknown)
- W. Bradley Tyrrell 1906 (date of award unknown)
- Alfred G. Wilson 1906 (date of award unknown)
- John Anson Ford 1907 (date of award unknown)
- Gilbert Smith 1907 (date of award unknown)
- Lloyd D. Heth 1908 (date of award unknown)
- Elizabeth Morrissy 1908 (date of award unknown)
- Frank J. Platt 1908 (awarded 1958)
- Benjamin M. Powers 1908 (awarded in 1968)
- T. George Allen 1909 (awarded in 1969)
- Alfred A. Brace 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Edmund H. Haeger 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Paul Josselyn 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Irving S. Kull 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Bryce L. Schurman 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Margery Nichols Steward 1909 (date of award unknown)
- Jessie M. Austin 1910 (awarded in 1960)
- Paul W. Boutwell 1910 (date of award unknown)
- Mabel Huschka 1910 (date of award unknown)
- Guernsey Orcutt 1910 (date of award unknown)
- John D. Wickhem 1910 (date of award unknown)
- Sherman L. Dudley 1911 (awarded 1961)
- Holman D. Pettibone 1911 (date of award unknown)
- Valerie Wickhem 1911 (date of award unknown)
- Lloyd V. Ballard 1912 (date of award unknown)
- Robert H. Becker 1912 (date of award unknown)
- Harold J. Bruce 1912 (awarded 1962)
- George W. Simons 1912 (date of award unknown)
- Walter W. Hammond 1913 (date of award unknown)
- Percival W. Hutson 1913 (awarded in 1963)
- Charles L. Hyde 1913 (date of award unknown)
- Lynn E. Aldrich 1914 (awarded in 1964)
- Cyril C. Thompson 1914 (awarded in 1964)
- Bessie M. Weirick 1914 (date of award unknown)
- Leavitt R. Barker 1915 (date of award unknown)
- Ellis H. Denney 1915 (date of award unknown)
- John H. Nair 1915 (date of award unknown)
- Alvin E. Rutenbeck 1915 (awarded in 1975)
- Maurice T. Van Hecke 1915 (date of award unknown)
- Glenne R. McArthur 1916 (awarded 1961)
- Lyle L. Richmond 1916 (date of award unknown)
- Elwood Aldrich 1917 (date of award unknown)
- Joseph P. Gibson 1917 (awarded in 1962)
- Orson E. Loomis 1917 (date of award unknown)
- Paul L. Frederick 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Evelyn Gardner 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Ralph E. Hersey 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Alonzo Pond 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Earl D. Power 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Paul A. Pratt 1918 (awarded in 1968)
- Maude S. Staudenmayer 1918 (date of award unknown)
- Esther Atkinson Loomis 1919 (awarded in 1969)
- Myrtle A. Shaw 1919 (awarded in 1974)
- Loren L. Whitehead 1919 (date of award unknown)
- Emmert L. Wingert 1919 (date of award unknown)
- George L. Collie 1881 (date of award unknown)
- Roger Leavitt 1882 (date of award unknown)
- Joseph G. Dudley 1892 (date of award unknown)
- James Benson 1893 (awarded in 1963)
- Alvin B. Carpenter 1893 (date of award unknown)
- Wilford W. DeBerard 1896 (date of award unknown)
- Charles B. Olds 1896 (date of award unknown)
- Elbert E. Lochridge 1898 (date of award unknown)
- Philip H. Ralph 1898 (date of award unknown)
- Charles D. Rosa 1898 (awarded in 1958)
- Kathryn N. Adams 1899 (date of award unknown)
- Charlotte Ingersoll Morse 1899 (date of award unknown)
- Wilfrid A. Rowell 1899 (date of award unknown)