Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

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Recipients of the GW Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

1937

• May P. Bradshaw, B.A. 1909, M.A. 1913
• Harry C. Davis, B.A. 1878, M.A. 1881, L.H.D 1894
• Frank A. Hornaday, B.S. 1907, M.D. 1910, M.S. 1920
• Sarah T. Hughes, LL.B. 1922
• Paca Oberlin, LL.B. 1903, LL.M. 1904, M.Dip 1905, D.C.L. 1911
• James M. Proctor, LL.B. 1904, LL.D. 1933
• H. Gordon Strong, LL.B. 1890, LL.M. 1894

1938

• Alfred Clum, LL.B. 1883, LL.M. 1885
• Jessie F. Evans, B.A. and T.D.1913, Ed.D 1932
• Malcolm G. Gibbs, Phar. D. 1902
• Alfred G. Karger, AT.T. 1920
• F. Howard Seely, B.S. 1888
• Leon Tobriner, LL.B. 1877, LL.M. 1878
• Walter E. Wiles, LL.B. 1924, LL.M. 1925, B.A. 1925

1939

• Charles R. Arundell, LL.B. 1908
• Karl M. Block, B.A. 1906
• Ella A. Enlows, B.A. 1915, M.S. 1916, Ph.D. 1923
• J. Edgar Hoover, LL.B. 1916, LL.M. 1917, LL.B. 1935
• Fritz Von Briesen, LL.M 1901, DC.L. 1902

1940

• Helen R. Carloss, LL.B. 1923
• Wilbur J. Carr, LL.M. 1899, LL.D. 1925
• Ida M. Lind, B.A. and B. Dip. In Education 1924
• William J. Mallory, M.D. 1903, M.A. 1914
• Theodore W. Noyes, M.A. 1877, LL.B. 1882, LL.M. 1883, LL.D. 1917
• Edwin A. Schmit , B.S. 1934

1941

• Hugh H. Clegg, LL.B. 1926
• Conway P. Coe, LL.B. 1923
• William T. Davis, M.D. 1901
• Samuel L. Hilton, Phar.D. 1888
• Elmer L. Kayser, B.A. and T.D. 1917, M.A. 1918, LL.D. 1948
• Lella W. Patch, B.A. 1921

1942

• Watson Davis, B.S. 1918, D.Sc. 1959
• Harold F. Enlows, LL.B. 1915
• Nevil M. Hopkins B.S. 1899, M.S. 1900, Ph.D. 1902
• Luther H. Reichelderfer, M.D. 1899, LL.D. 1932
• Alexander W. Weddell, LL.B. 1923
• Elizabeth W. Wilson, B.A. 1917

1943

• Mary A. Brown-Grover, B.A. 1924, LL.B. 1932, S.J.D. 1942
• David E. Finley, LL.B. 1913, LL.D. 1960
• Bernard Mayo, B.A. 1924, M.A. 1925
• H. Arthur Schoenfeld, B.A. 1907, M.A. 1909
• Frank L. Yates, LL.B. 1922

1944

• J. William Fulbright, LL.B. 1934, LL.D. 1939
• Robert L. Haycock, B.A. and T.D. 1911, M.A. 1912
• Richard M. Hewitt, M.D. 1924
• William S. James, B.S. 1917
• Ruth O'Brien, LL.B. 1931

1945

• Catherine C. Coblentz, B.A. 1930
• Ewin Lamar Davis, LL.B. 1899
• Alexander Wetmore, M.S. 1916, Ph.D. 1920, Sc.D. 1932

1946

• Special Awards made to alumni "who served in the Armed Forces of our country during World War II"

1947

• Philias H. Girouard, B.S. 1926
• Sterling V. Mead, D.D.S. 1914
• Helen C. Newman, LL.B. 1925, LL.M. 1927, M.D. 1935
• Martha B. Pate, M.A. 1935
• Rudolph E. Schoenfeld, B.A. 1915
• Clyde A. Tolson, B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927

1948

• Mildred M. Coughlin, M.A. 1922
• Donald D. Shepard, LL.B. 1918
• William C. Thom, B.S. in C.E. 1904, C.E. 1905
• William C. Van Vleck, B.A. 1908; LL.B. 1911, LL.D. 1948

1949

• Robert H. Harmon, M.D. 1929
• Edith M. Haydon, B.A. 1927
• Robert D. Murphy, LL.B. 1920, LL.M. 1928
• Syngman Rhee, B.A. 1907 , LL.D. 1954

1950

• Harry F. Dowling, M.D. 1931
• Robert E. Freer, B.A. 1931
• Vivian V. Simpson, B.A. 1925, J.D. 1927

1951

• Carlos N. Brin, M.D. 1916
• Elizabeth K. Draper, B.A. and B.Dip 1924, M.A. in Education 1933
• John Russell Mason, B.A. 1923, M.A. 1925

1951

• Presentation of Award for Administrative Service, Ulysses S. Grant 3d, Retiring Vice President of the University.

1952

• Mary M. Connelly, LL.B. 1922
• Luis P. Nervo, LL.B. 1929
• Ernest L. Wilkinson, LL.B. 1926

1953

• Elsie E. Green, B.A. 1914, M.A. 1928
• Bertram Groesbeck, Jr., M.D. 1917

1954

• Helen T. Durkee, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1939
• Kenneth R. Iverson, LL.B. 1934
• James M. Mitchell, B.A. 1932, M.A. 1933
• Helen Louise Trembley, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1939

1955

• W.Paul Briggs, Phar.G. 1927, B.S. in Phar. 1927
• Joseph H. Roe, Ph.D. 1923
• Anna K. Wiley, B.S. 1897

1956

• James V. Bennett, LL.B. 1926
• Lucile M. Herrick, M.A. 1938, Ed.D. 1942
• Alfred C. Richmond, J.D. 1938
• Frank H. Weitzel, B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1935

1957

• Florence S. Berryman, B.A. 1924
• William S. Derrick, A.A. 1938, B.A. 1949, M.D. 1942
• George S. Hastings, B.A. 1921, LL.B. 1927

1958

• Helen M. Dyer, M.D. 1929, Ph.D. 1935
• Laurence B. Hays, LL.B. 1922

1959

• Arthur S. Flemming, LL.B. 1933
• Anna R. Hawkes, B.A. 1912, M.P. 1924
• Charles S. Rhyne, LL.B. 1937, D.C.L. 1958

1960

• Vance Brand, B.A. 1927, LL.B. 1929
• W.Cameron Burton, LL.B. 1921
• Irving S. Cooper, B.A. 1943, M.D. 1945
• F. Royce Franzoni, Jr., B.S. in Pharmacy 1936
• Elva C. Wells, B.A. 1920, M.A. in Education 1938

1961

• Helena Z. Benitez, M.A. 1939
• Thelma Hunt, B.A. 1924, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1927, M.D. 1935
• Daniel K. Inouye, J.D. 1952
• Walter T. McCarthy, LL.B. 1923
• Benjamin C. Willis, B.A. 1922, D.P.S. 1964

1962

• Eva B. Adams, LL.M. 1952
• Edgar R. Baker, A.A. 1939, B.A. 1941
• Orville E. May, B.A. 1924, M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1929
• James L. Snyder, M.D. 1933
• Hillory A. Tolson, B.A. 1924, M.A. 1927 (LL.B. 1930, LL.M. 1931, M.P.L. 1931, National University)

1963

• Charles L. Critchfield, B.S. 1934, M.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1939
• Antonio Gonzalez-Revilla, Jr., M.D. 1936
• David M. Kennedy, LL.B. 1935, B.A. 1937
• Frank E. Moss, J.D. 1937
• Elizabeth T. Parker, M.A. 1930, M.D. 1932

1964

• John F. Dulles, LL.B. 1912
• Allen W. Dulles, LL.B. 1926, LL.D. 1959
• William W. McPeak, B.A. 1934
• Veryl G. Schult, M.A. 1938

1965

• Robert Ash, LL.B. 1918
• Joel Barlow, J.D. 1935
• Daniel W. Bell, LL.B. 1923
• Francis M. Bird, LL.M. 1925
• George A. Butler, LL.B. 1925
• Sheldon S. Cohen, A.A. 1948, B.A. 1950, J.D. 1952
• Oswald S. Colclough, LL.B. 1935, D.S.C. 1961
• Donald C. Cook, J.D. 1939, LL.M. 1940
• F. Elwood Davis, A.A. 1938, J.D. 1943
• Oliver Gasch, LL.B. 1932
• Jonathon C. Gibson, LL.B. 1923
• Patricia R. Harris, J.D. 1960
• Louis M. Hopping, B.A. 1924, J.D. 1927
• Joseph D. Hughes, J.D. 1934
• L.Eldon James, J.D. 1937
• Leon Jaworski, LL.M. 1926
• Catherine B. Kelly, J.D. 1951
• David A. McCandless, Jr., LL.B. 1931, LL.M. 1936
• Philbrick McCoy, LL.B. 1922, LL.M. 1923, LL.D. 1957
• Louis B. Nichols, J.D. 1934
• Bernard I. Nordlinger, B.A. 1929, J.D. 1933
• Donald W. Nyrop, LL.B. 1939
• Marguerite Rawalt, B.A. 1933, J.D. 1933, LL.M. 1936
• Arthur V. Snell, LL.B. 1905
• Ernest W. Stephens, B.A. 1922, J.D. 1923
• Isaac M. Stewart, J.D. 1928
• Stanley J. Tracy, J.D. 1925
• Emilie M. White, B.A. (W.d.) 1907, M.A. 1910
• William Gregg White, B.S. in C.E. 1936
• Glen A. Wilkinson, J.D. 1938
• John J. Wilson, LL.B. 1921, LL.D. 1978
• John T. Wilson, A.A. 1940, B.A. 1941
• James O. Wright, J.D. 1938

1966

• Harold K. Bradford, LL. B. 1942
• Meta N. Cohn, B.A. 1917, M.A. 1923
• James L. Goddard, M.D. 1949

1967

• William J. Driver, LL.B. 1952, M.S. in P.A. 1965
• Julian Goodman, B.A. 1948
• Leon Jacobs, M.A. 1938, Ph.D. 1947
• Robert M. Page, M.A. 1933
• Cynthia C. Wedel, Ph.D. 1957

1968

• David W. Amram III, A.A. 1950, B.A. 1952
• Julius Axelrod, Ph.D. 1955
• Frederick C. Belen, LL.B. 1942
• Burnita S. Matthews, LL.B. 1919, LL.M., M.P.L. 1920, LL.D. 1950, National University
• Joseph S. Wright, LL.B. 1937

1969

• Leighton E. Cluff, M.D. 1949
• Joseph B. Danzansky, B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1936
• Benjamin H. DeMott, A.A. 1948, B.A. 1949 (w.d.)
• Winifred G. Thompson, B.A. in Education 1950
• Harold A. Wheeler, B.S. in Physics 1925, D.S.C. 1972

1970

• Everett H. Bellows, B.A. 1939, M.A. 1941
• Zelda D. Fichandler, A.A. 1943, M.A. 1950, D.H. 1975
• Francis R. Kirkham, B.A. 1930, J.D. 1931
• Francis P. Scott, B.A. 1934

1971

• Arnold J. Auerbach, A.A. 1940, B.S. in P.E. 1940, M.A. 1941
• Frederick E. Davison, M.A. in I.A. 1963
• Harold H. Greene, A.A. 1949, J.D. (w.d.) 1952, LL.D. 1985
• Gilbert Gude, M.A. in P.A. 1958
• Sam M. Lambert, Ed.D. 1955
• Jimilu Mason, A.A. 1952, B.A. 1953
• Harden McConnell, A.A. 1946, B.S. (w.d.) 1947
• Milton E. Mermelstein, B.A. 1930, J.D. 1931
• Richard E. Palmer, B.A. 1944, M.D. 1944

1972

• Harry L. Carrico, A.A. 1938, J.D. 1942, LL.D. 1947
• Mark H. Lepper, B.A. (w.d) 1937, M.D. (w.d.) 1941
• Mildred S. Reid, M.A.E. 1938, Ed.D. 1942
• Hans H. Strupp, B.A. 1945, M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1954

1973

• Dee Brown, B.A.L. 1937
• Geoffrey F. Chew, A.A. 1943, B.S. 1944
• Thomas S. Jackson, B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1935
• Irene S. Parsons, M.S. in P.A. 1965
• Lorenz E. Zimmerman, A.A. 1942, B.A. 1943, M.D. 1945

1974

• Paul F. Hannah, J.D. 1933
• Michael G. Kammen, A.A. 1956, B.A. 1958
• John B. Moloney, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1959
• Abraham Pollin, B.A. 1944
• Miriam T. Rooney, J.D. 1942

1975

• Robert C. Brasted, A.A. 1937, B.S. 1938, M.A. 1939
• William E. Casselman, II, J.D. 1968
• Von Russel Eshleman, B.E.E. 1949
• Harry A. Feldman, B.A. 1935, M.D. 1939
• Joyce H. Green, J.D. 1951

1976

• Norris C. Hekimian, B.E.E. 1949
• Spencer B. Reid, M.D. 1946
• David W. Richmond, J.D. 1937
• Marjorie R. Townsend, B.E.E. 1951
• Michael Yachnis, M.S.E. 1956, M.E.A. 1962, D.SC. 1968

1977

• Thomas A. Clingan, Jr., J.D. 1963
• William H. Cooper, M.D. 1949
• Solomon Kullback, Ph.D. 1934
• Doris Margolis, A.A. 1956, B.A. 1958
• John P. Walsh, Ed.D. 1958

1978

• L. Stanley Crane, B.S.E. 1938
• Robert G. Dixon, Jr., J.D. 1956
• Richard S. Hunter, B.A. 1937
• Arthur R. Miele, M.B.A. 1967
• Frank Proschan, M.A. 1948

1979

• Stephen R. Graubard, B.A. 1945
• Gunther K. Kessler, A.A. 1951, B.S. 1953
• Alphonse E. Leemans, A.A. 1937, B.S.P. 1937
• E. Clarence Rice, Jr., M.D. 1916
• Jonas R. Robitscher, J.D. 1948, M.D. 1955

1980

• Marvin A. Jolson, B.E.E. 1949
• E. William Lavery, M.A. 1959
• Malcolm E. O'Hagan, D. En. 1966
• LeGrand G. Van Uitert, A.A. 1948, B.S. 1949

1981

• John W. Dixon, B.A. 1949
• Lloyd Fletcher, J.D. 1939
• Thomas B. Hayward, M.S. 1967
• Harry R. Hughes, LL.B. 1952
• J. Dallas Shirley, A.A. 1935, B.S.P. 1936, M.A.E. 1945

1982

• Murray Berdick, B.S.E. 1942
• Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., LL.B. 1950
• Charles T. Manatt, J.D. 1962
• Edward C. Meyer, M.I.A. 1967
• Eileen J. Shanahan, A.A. 1942, B.A. 1944

1983

• Jacob Burns, LL.B. 1924, LL.D. 1970
• Anthony Cardinale, M. A. E. 1958, Ed.D. 1966
• Mary S. Coleman, J.D. 1939
• Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. 1961, D.SC. 1984
• Ming Hsu, A.A. 1947, B.A. 1949
• John W. Vessey, Jr., M.S.B. 1966

1984

• Henry G. Cisneros, D.P.A. 1976, LL.D 1984
• Vincent L. DeQuattro, M.D. 1960
• Charles A. Gabriel, M.E.A. 1964
• William R. Howard, A.A. 1950, B.A. 1954, LL.B. 1956
• Roxie S. Laybourne, M.A. 1950

1985

• A. Huda T. Farouki, B.E.E. 1966, M.E.A. 1974
• Edward J. Feeney, M.A.E. 1958, Ed.D. 1971
• Lewis H. Kuller, M.D. 1959
• Lawrence S. Margolis, J.D. 1961

1986

• Ralph A. Alpher, B.S. 1943, M.S. 1945, Ph.D. 1948
• Robert A. Altman, J.D. 1971
• Michael D. Barnes, J.D. 1972
• Mary H. Futrell, M.A.E. 1968, D.P.S. 1984
• Frederick D. Gregory, M.S.A. 1977

1987

• Emilie A. Black, B.S. 1942, M.D. 1945
• Walter J. Frost, III, M.B.A. 1966
• Bruce S. Mencher, A.A. 1955, B.A. 1957, J.D. 1960
• Jeanne P. Miles, B.A. 1931
• Charles B. Reed, B.S.P. 1963, M.A.E. 1964, Ed.D. 1970

1988

• Robert P. Casey, J.D. 1956
• Emilio A. Fernandez, M.E.A. 1976
• Sandra C. Holley, A.A. 1963, B.A. 1965, M.A. 1966, HUM 1989, D.P.S. 1989
• Ronald G. Kuntzman, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962
• John P. Whalen, J.D. 1977

1989

• Chikara T. Higashi, D.P.A. 1982
• Elizabeth A. Lerman, M.A.E. 1982
• Frank E. Peterson, Jr. B.A. 1967, M.I.A. 1973
• Colin L. Powell, M.B.A. 1971
• Walter R. Stokes, LL.B. 1924, M.D. 1928

1990

• Elsie M. Carper, A.A. 1940, B.A. 1941
• Donald O. Castell, B.A. 1958, M.D. 1960
• Edward F. Mitchell, M.E.A. 1961
• J. Clay Smith, Jr., LL.M. 1970, S.J.D. 1977
• Kenneth W. Starr, B.A. 1968

1991

• Luther W. Brady, Jr., A.A. 1944, B.A. 1946, M.D. 1948
• Elmer T. Brooks, M.S.A. 1973
• Sidney O. Dewberry, B.C.E. 1951
• Earle H. Harbison, Jr., J.D. 1957
• Richard F. Wallis, A.A. 1944, B.S. 1945, M.S. 1948

1992

• Teddy G. Allen, M.A. 1974
• Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. B.A. 1966, M.A. 1968
• Thomas F. Meaney, M.D. 1953
• Patricia A.E. Rodgers, B.A. 1975, M.A. 1984
• John W. Snow, J.D. 1967

1993

• Henry C. Duques, B.B.A. 1965, M.B.A. 1969
• Stephen J. Korcheck, B.S. 1954, M.A. 1966, Ed.D. 1970
• John L. Madden, M.D. 1937
• Carolynn Reid-Wallace, Ph.D. 1981
• John M. Shalikashvili, M.S. 1970
• Neil B. Shulman, A.B. 1967

1994

• William P. Barr, J.D. 1977
• Lydia Simone Bond, Ed.D 1984
• Pete L. Manos, M.C.S. 1962
• Herbert Weissbach, M.S. 1955, Ph.D. 1957
• Louise C. Wilmot, M.A. 1978

1995

• Nancy Brennan, M.A. 1975
• Russell E. Carlisle, J.D. 1955
• Merrill A. McPeak, M.S. 1974
• Margaret M. Richardson, J.D. 1968
• Clarence B. Rogers, Jr. M.B.A. 1962

1996

• Ann W. Brown, B.A. 1959
• Robert M. Davidson, J.D. 1967
• Gerald S. Lazarus, M.D. 1963
• J. Phillip London, D. B.A. 1971
• David A. Longanecker, M.A. 1971
• Charles R. Sitter, B.A. 1954
• Clifford B. Stearns, B.S. 1963

1997

• Archer L. Durham, ESIA, M.S., 1975
• Alan Kay, CSAS & Law School, B.A., 1957, J.D. 1959
• Patrick J. Martin, CSAS & SEAS, M.A., 1966, D.S.C. 1972
• Floretta Dukes McKenzie, GSEHD; Ed.D., 1985
• John Wallace McMeel, CSAS & School of Medicine, A.B., 1949, M.D. 1953
• Nakyun Shin, GSEHD, M.A., 1984, Ed.S., 1991

1998

• David B. Falk, GW Law, J.D., 1975
• General Charles C. Krulak, SBPM, M.S., 1973
• Judge Judith C. Chirlin, CSAS, B.A., 1969
• Ruth Helm Osborn, GSEHD, M.A., 1946 Ed.D., 1963
• Mansfield F.W. Smith, SMHS, M.D., 1956

1999

• Donna M. Christian-Christensen, SMHS, M.D., 1970
• Abby Joseph Cohen, CSAS, M.A., 1976
• Edward M. Liddy, SBPM, M.B.A., 1972
• Mary Schapiro, Esq.,Law, J.D., 1980

2000

• Peggy Cooper Cafritz, B.A. 1968, J.D. 1971
• Jack Morton, A.B. 1936
• David I. J. Wang, B.S. 1951

2001

• Frederick L. Brown, M.B.A. 1966
• Dee J. Kelly, J.D. 1954
• Virginia R. Kirkbride, Ed.D. 1959
• Joseph W. Prueher, M.S. 1973
• Ronald J. Zlatoper, M.S. 1970

2002

• Ruth C. Burg, B.S. 1945, J.D. 1950
• Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D. 1971
• William A. Owens, M.B.A. 1976
• Elliott C. Roberts, Sr., M.B.A. 1964
• Ya-Qin Zhang, D.Sc. 1989
• James W. Ziglar, B.A. 1968, J.D. 1972

2003

• Penelope Starratt Duffy, M.A. 1984
• Mark V. Hughes, B.A. 1969, M.S. 1977
• Marisa Rose Lino, M.A. 1972
• Charles K. Watt, M.S. 1973, D.Sc. 1986

2004

• James C. Cacheris, J.D. 1960
• Nancy B. Jackson, B.S. 1979
• Allyn E. Kilsheimer, B.S. 1963
• Jung-Sook Kim, Ed.D. 1988

2005

• Robert Ames Alden, CCAS B.A. 1965, M.A. 1968
• Pradman Kaul, SEAS, B.S. E.E., 1967
• Walter M. Bortz III, Ed.D., 1998
• Floyd D. Loop, M.D. 1962
• Diana B. Henrigues, ESIA, B.A., 1969
• Christine E. Seidman, M.D., 1978
• James F. Humphreys, J.D., 1978
• George W. Wellde, Jr., M.B.A., 1976

2006

• Thad Allen, M.P.A., 1986
• Barbara Joan Pariente, J.D., 1973
• Michael B. Enzi, B.B.A., 1966
• Harold C. Pillsbury III, B.A., 1970, M.D. 1972
• Jordan M. Hadelman, M.A. in H.C.A., 1978
• Frederick (Fritz) J. Scheuren, Ph.D., 1972

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