Award Recipients - Geneva College

Award Recipients

Award Recipients

DSA Life G Alumni Award Young Alumni Award

DSA Award Winners

2025
Adel (Gallagher) Aiken '75
Randy Buckwalter '80
Steve Warden '81

2024
Timothy Meneely '80
Terry Norris '74, DMD

2023
Mark Fiscus '77
Robert Shaw '85
Walter Mueller lll '78

2022
Douglas J. Carson ’75, ’04
Kathleen C. McIntyre ’73
Stanley T. Omland ’79*

2021
Richard L. Witherite ’62
Jay Fricker, M.D. ’66

2020
COL Claire E. Brittain Jr. (USAF Ret.) ’60
Gregory N. Postma, MD ’80
Rev. Timothy L. Russell ’79*

2019
Lois R. (Ramsey) Gross '59
Jay D. Aldridge '52

2018
Dr. Linda (Breuninger) Marshall '71*
Dr. James D. Evans '68

2017
Hon. Kathryn A. (McFarland) Gardner ’78
Virginia Rae (Hughes) Hill Ed.D. ’90

2016
Rachel L. Cypher ’06
Titus K. Martin ’01
Dr. Gregory Beechaum ’86
James L. Andrews ’76

2015
Holly L. (Fowlow ’70) Miller
Annette L. Townley ’85
Jeffrey S. Ingros ’90
Dr. Michael G. Schneider ’80
Jeremiah P. Wright ’09

2014
Thomas A. Johnson '64
Linda C. (High '79) Bomberger
Dwight E. Wagner '68
Rev. Loran W. Veith '58

2013
Joyce A. (Ciletti ′75) Bender
Charles Ross Hartzell III ‘63, Ph.D.
David B. Layton ‘88 (MAHE ‘98)

2012
Dave Carver ‘82
David Howell ‘82
Ann O′Data Lawson ‘87
Andrew McCracken ‘87
Scott South ‘82
William Sterrett ‘67

2011
Joyce Lynn ′61
Wendy (Schwedler) Allman ‘91

2010
Andrew Bernard '83
Larry Hardesty '90
Carolyn Metcalfe Mollenkopf '62
John E. Pinkerton '60*
Kenneth Smith '80

2009
Carl Wood Brown '59
Virginia Wilson List '59

2008
M. Howard Mattsson-Boze - PhD
Marjorie (Mitchel '55) Russell
John D. Russell '58

2007
Robert S. Strock '47*

2006
Elias M. Awad '56
Louise Edgar Copeland '66
Robert M. Copeland '66
Donald E. Hollerman '71
Sandra Joseph '81
Ralph A. Kessler '66

2005
Joel Adams '80
David A. Carter ′95
Lois Tyson Cummings '55
Paul Haynie ′70
Jeffrey Mathews '80
Lorrie Reyle Meneely '80

2004
Margaret Robb ′69 Andrews
Kenneth P. Carson ′79
Ruth Ann Graybill ′69
Eleanor Cupp Robb '39*
John W. Stahl ′79

2003
Winifred Coleman Elliott '38
Kenneth Hartman ′63, PhD
Foster McCarl Jr.*
Muriel Phillips McCarl
Debbie Melone ′78
Barbara Pawk Pupi '63
Louis J. Radnothy ′53 OD
John Wick ′78

2002
Craig Steven Carter ′77, MD
Frances Eleanor Fischer ′77
Laree Riley ′52*
Barbara Baltzell Steele ′52*
C. Ray Steele ′52

2001
George Lewis Arnold ′41
Theodore O. Kay ′71
Richard Stache ′76

2000
W. Leslie Douglas ′35*
Frank J. Jute ′54
Alice Proudfit Sterrett ′40*
Susan Perrin Rooke ′75
Douglas Smith ′75
Thomas M. Yancy ′60

1999
Theresa Love Edwards ′41
Mitzi Ganelin ′69
Ann Birdsall O′Neill ′69
Jerry R. O′Neill ′69
Harry F. Reid ′39 *
Jane Reed Smith ′49
Vernon C. Smith ′49*
Nancy Story Somers ′74, MD

1998
James P. Campbell ′68
Fanny Yellock Farmer ′66
Mary Jane Park ′58
Herbert S. Skuba ′78
M. John Tino ′58
David C. Thompson ′69, MD
Robin Ware ′81, PhD
John H. White ′58, PhD

1997
David Chamovitz ′47, MD
Sara Edna King ′37*
Howard Peters ′62, PhD
Sally Brown Peters ′64
Wilbert S. Richardson ′84
William John Weir ′73

1996
Lutitia Myles Clipper ′75
Faith McBurney Martin ′63
Gary N. O′Data
Elizabeth Gissel Orr ′46
Bernard F. Spielvogel ′59, PhD*

1995
James A. Crozier ′70, MD
Beth Robb Lamont ′50
Reynold A. Peduzzi ′55
Ronald Peduzzi ′55

1994
Madelyn Woods Adams ′44
Peter Kane ′44*
Gerald J. LaValle ′56
Martha Irons Russell ′44
David L. Steed ′69, MD
Donald E. Sheffield ′69, EdD

1993
Norman Carson ′47, PhD
Samuel DePaul ′73, PhD
Gene Manzetti ′68, MD
Doris McIntosh Webb ′53

1992
Robert Atkinson ′41*
Richard Eakin ′60, PhD
Gwendolyn Farmer ′72, PhD
Harry Hartley ′58, PhD
Francis Matika ′50, PhD
Charles Sterrett ′42*
James Wetzel Jr. ′74

1991
Charles R. Aley ′78, JD
Sally Twinem Erath ′49
Harry W. Reith ′41*
Amelia Sirianni Rock ′36, PhD*
Robert A. Smith ′49
Rev. John H. Tweed ′51

1990
G. Reynolds Clark ′65
Antoinette Parisi Eaton ′52, MD
Rev. Robert H. McFarland ′55
John L. Parrish ′58, EdD
Paul R. Vochko ′48, PhD*
Joseph D. Zagorski ′66

1989
Geri D. Bass ′39*
Kenneth W. Creasman ′73
Rev. J. Paul McCracken ′51
Scott R. O′Donnell ′72
Phyllis Sahli Snedden ′51
Carol Emrick Westby ′65, PhD

1988
Mary Ann Eppinger ′66, MD
Rev. Robert A. Henning ′44
Paul W. Jewell ′67
Donald C. McCune ′38
Joseph S. Walko ′52, JD*

1987
Samuel V. Cooper ′35*
Yvonne Sharon Getzler ′75, PhD
J. Richard Kelso ′48
Ralph E. Kilpatrick ′40, DDS*
Rev. Elmer L. Parks ′37, DD*
Paul A. Pupi ′62, MD

1986
Charles A. DeVenzio ′47*
James E. Fleming ′56, MD*
Richard H. Garber ′47, PhD*
Robert K. McConaughy ′36*
Lucile P. Ramsey ′36*
Betty M. Zahn ′45

1985
Ferndetta L. Caldwell ′37*
John H. Goodworth ′60, MD
Donald H. McBurney ′60, PhD
Harvey Milton Patterson ′29, MD*
Carolyn Weeber ′35*

1984
Robert L. Loughhead ′53
Willard G. McMillan ′47, DD*
Robert A. Morrow ′59

1983
Martha M. Greer Edgar ′37*
Jane Houlette McMillion ′48*
Arthur W. Thomas ′33*
L. Arthur Womer Jr. ′59, PhD

1982
Demetri D. Aris ′34, DDS*
Mabel McCready Hemphill ′31*
Alured (Slim) Ransom Jr. ′32*
Maurice (Moe) Rubenstein ′28*
Betty Sue Carter Schaughency ′55

1981
David F. Binder ′56
Roy Blackwood, Jr. ′48, PhD
Donald S. Powell ′37, PhD*
Ruth Blocher Rearic ′64*
Rachel Ward White ′31*

1980
Rev. Lester C. Bailey ′44*
Hyman L. Ginsburg ′35, DDS*
John M. Knapick ′31*
Mildred Painter Morrow ′40*
Raymond H. Ralston ′30, MD*
E. Frederick Schoeneweis Jr. ′67

1979
Gilbert D. Flocker Jr. ′54
Mike Minotti  ′54, LLB*
Byron (By) E. Morgan ′40*
Isabella H.Toussaint ′29, PhD*
Robert B. Tweed ′48, PhD*

1978
Reynold "Rey" Dempsey ′58
D. William Kelso ′28*
Jean Rosenberger Nye ′53, PhD*
Charles N. O′Data ′58
Robert N. Peirce Jr. ′59, LLB
Wayne R. Spear ′57, ThM, PhD

1977
Charles S. McCracken ′18*
Robert A. McNamara ′40, PhD*
Clyde A. Redpath ′27*
Clarence E. Wilson ′27, DDS*
Arthur R. Zarone ′52

1976
John R. Elliott ′26*
Merle A. Forst ′30*
Charles R. Fuget ′51, PhD
Roy H. Marion ′51, MD
Walter H. Smith ′26*

1975
Yvonne Allen Allison ′65
James C. Ebersberger ′63
Leon A. Hamilton ′15*
F. Ann Paton ′50, PhD
Robert C. Trumbull ′25*

1974
Mary E. Beikert ′28*
Betty Peirsol Hoffman ′49, MD
Franklin G. Leidigh ′49
Isabelle Templeton Murphy ′24*
John R. Richter ′52*
Arthur D. Webster ′34

1973
James L. Gardner ′36, MD*
William J. Mayhew ′64
Mary Curry Moomaw ′26*
Russell L. Reed ′48, PhD*
Andrew D. Robb ′23 *

1972
Paul Daubenspeck ′22, DDS*
Wilma Carnelly Detzel ′33*
Walter J. Helsing ′42, MD*
Owen S. Simon ′49

1971
Robert (Fred) W. George ′21, PhD*
Leonard L. Mitchell ′56
Doris E. Roberts ′44, PhD, PH*
Vincent L. Rocereto ′46
Clyde B. Smith ′29*

1970
William F. Butler ′28*
Leotta C. Hawthorne ′36, PhD*
John R. Milich ′49*
Dominic L. Rosselli ′39*

1969
Charles W. Denko ′38, MD*
Clarence Farmer ′36
Frank F. Jordan ′19, MD*
Marjorie E. Sanderson ′32, EdD*

1968
Lawrence F. Bruno ′47*
George F. Crable ′43, PhD*
Major Stanley L. Penkova ′58*
Mary Margaret Robb ′21, PhD*
Dorothy Slater Smith ′28*
Rev. Kenneth G. Smith ′49, DD

1967
James D. Carson ′50, DD
G. Claude Graham ′17*
Dorothy E. Riley ′32*
David G. Schaal ′42, PhD
John D. Swogger ′57

1966
William B. Bannister ′41, MD*
Kathryn McCandless Boyd ′29*
Fenton H. Farley ′31*
Judge John N. Sawyer ′36*

1965
W. Clair Merriman ′29, MD*
John P. Milanovich ′40*
Bruce Cameron Stewart ′45, DD
Carmel (Tim) A. Temerario ′31*
Ruth C. Wylie ′39, PhD*

1964
Mary Alice Hunter ′39*
James Gregory McKee ′49*
Lulu Jeanetta McKinney 1898*
J. Merrill Robb ′29,  LLD*
Waldo S. Tippin ′22*

1963
James W. Baker Sr. ′23*
Anna-Mary Carpenter ′37, PhD, MD*
Anna Margaret Coleman ′33*
Norman Lewis ′38, MD*
William Norman Mitchell ′13, LD*
Harrison H. Richardson ′43, MD*

1962
Norman A. Clyde ′09, DS*
Florence S. Jenney ′30, MD*
Marvin W. Marshall ′27*
Robert A. Patton ′37, PhD*
Donald E. Zimmerman ′32, DD*

1961
Mary Elisabeth Coleman ′36, PhD*
R. Cal  Hubbard ′29*
Fannie Coverdale Kennedy 1892*
Russell J. Schill*
E. Preston Sharp ′26, PhD*

1960
Rev. Lawrence W. Bottoms ′44*
Katherine Borkovich ′35, MD*
J. Milford Hays ′23*
Gertrude Martin Rohrer 1896*

1959
Philip L. Coon, PhD*
Sidney L. Lockley ′29*
William W. McCormick ′27, PhD*
Gail Preston Smith ′34, PhD*

1958
William E. Cleland *
Jack Malone ′30 *
Anna Patton McKelvy ′25*
John A. Raschella ′33*
James G. Richardson ′38*
Frank R. Smith*
Paul Utnehmer*

1957
William J. Blair ′57
Bessie Burrows ′37
Frederick R. Dickenson*
Frank H. Lathom ′25,  DD*
Odd Hartsuff McCleary*
Edwin Schaughency ′33*
Stewart R. Snodgrass ′32*

1956
Frank S. Howe ′98, MD*
Frederic Brinker Irvin ′34*
Kenneth D. Loeffler*
Marguerite Steele McCreary ′14*
Edward A. Sahli Sr.*
I.S. Sahli ′21*
G. Blair Sheers*

1955
James L. Bowers ′48
John A. Butts*
Paul C. Cross ′28, PhD*
Edna M. George ′29*
L. Butler Hennon ′33*
Elizabeth D. Johnston ′01*
Julius A. Kempf  1900, DD*
W. Raymond Kerr ′32*
Ethel M. Lytle ′20*
Robert  Park ′30, MD*
George P. Robb ′23, MD*
James Boyd Tweed ′09, DD*

1954
Clifford James Aultman ′35*
John Coleman, DD*
Alexander McLeod Dornan 1881*
Franklin Lane Erwin ′56
Robert McAnlis Young ′05, LLD*

Award of Merit Recipients

1969 Richard Michael
1959 Carol Weeber '35*
1981 Bessie Sheffield*
1982 Roy C. Adams, Ph.D.*
1971 Cederic Dunn '33, MD
1971 Margaret Dunn '44
1973 A.C. Edgecombe*
1971 Agnes Thorburn Clarke*
1988 Shirley Woolaway
1970 Harold Greig
1970 Col. Joseph Thompson '04*
1966 Helen Hughes Nave Grenfell '32*
1963 Samuel C. Edgar*
1972 Henry C. Thel '25*
1993 Jerry Slocum

 

Life G Award Recipients

2025 Dr. Wayne Spear '57

2025 Joyce Lynn '61

2025 William "Bill" Mayhew '64

2024 Paul Pupi '62

2024 Barbara (Pawk) Pupi '63

2024 William Weir '73

2023 Sally A. (Brown) Peters ’64

2023 Betty Sue (Carter) Schaughency ’55, PhD

2022 Dr. Jerry F. O’Neill ’69

2022 Paul W. ’67 and Joy M. ’68 Jewell*

2021 Robert M. Copeland '66, PhD

2021 Louise (Edgar) Copeland '66

2021 Charles R. Hartzell III '63, MDiv, PhD

2020 Kenneth Hartman, PhD '63

2020 Roberta McFarland

2019 C. Ray Steele '52*

2019 F. Ann Paton '50

2018 Madelyn (Woods '44) Adams*

2018 Robert N. Peirce Jr. '59

2017 Carolyn (Metcalfe '62) Mollenkopf

2016 Robert A. Morrow, ’59

2015 Paul Haynie '70

2014 Dr. Louis Radnothy '53

2012 Roy Blackwood ′48

2011 J. Paul McCracken '51

2009 Kenneth G. Smith '49 DD

2008 Howard M. Peters '62 PhD

2007 Norman M. Carson '47 PhD

2006  Theodore O. Kay ‘71

2005  G. Reynolds Clark ′65

2004  John H. White ′58

2003  Donald McCune ′38

2002   Walter J. Helsing ′42

2001  Phyllis Sahli Snedden ′51

2000   James D. Carson ′50, DD

1999  J. Merrill Robb ′29*

1998  J. Richard Kelso ′48

1997  Charles N. O′Data ′58

1997  Willard G. McMillan ′47, DD*

1996  Robert J. Brandt,  ′56, MD

1995  Bruce C. Stewart ′45, DD

1994  George E. Tannehill ′46

1993  Richard T. Metheny ′43*

1992  Anna-Mary Carpenter ′36, PhD, MD*

1991  Donald R. McBurney ′68

1990  Howard N. Douds ′40, MD

1989  W. Scott Bliss ′39

1988  Melba Brown Merriman ′29*

1987  Rev. D. Howard Elliott ′37, DD*

1986  Marie K. Twinem ′31*

1985  Clifford J. Aultman ′35*

1984  Marian Gilmore Harris ′34*

1983  Eugene F. Jannuzi ′36*

1982  Lucille Dean Henery Bruce ′32*

1981  W. Clair Merriman ′29, MD*

1980  William O. Martin ′40, MD

1979  R. Gene List ′54, DDS

1978  Lois McBurney Tannehill ′18*

1977  Leotta C. Hawthorne ′36, PhD*

1976  Jean Linton Hemphill ′43

1975  Edwin C. Clarke ′35, PhD*

1975  G. Betty Martin Kilpatrick ′33, MD*

1974  Carl O. Hughes ′43

1973  Dorothy Young Hoenstine ′33*

1972   Harold A. Bruce ′29, PhD*

1971  Waldo S. Tippin ′22*

1970  Thomas M. Anderson ′26*

1969  Lulu J. McKinney 1898*

1968  Stewart Munro Lee ′49, PhD*

1967  Sidney L. Lockley ′29*

1966  Ralph B. Alexander ′22*

1965  Lawrence D. Smith ′26, PhD*

1964  Ethel M. Lytle ′20*

1963  Georgianna Roney Wylie ′11, PhD*

1962  John Stewart McIsaac ′15, PhD*

1961  Clair Brandon Patterson ′01*

1960  James Edwin Purdy ′14, MD*

1959  D. Raymond Park ′35, LHD*

1958  Paul Clifford Cross ′28, PhD*

1957  Fred W. Dixon ′12, MD*

1956  John Albert Nave ′31, MD*

1955  Rev. Delber Harvey Elliott ′01, DD*

1954  Janet Metheny Downie  ‘05*

1953  Judge Morgan H. Sohn ′23, LLB*

1952  Charles Criswell Arbuthnot 1899, PhD, LLD*

1951  Judge John Peter Barnes ′04, LLD, LLM, LLB*

1950  Ida May Scott 1898, MD, DO*

1949  John Chalmers Hecker ′30, PhD*

1948  Otto Frederick Herman Bert 1895, PhD, LLD*

1947  James Renwick Wylie  Sr. 1887, DD*

1946  C. Brainerd Metheny ′11, LLD*

1945  Robert McAnlis Young ′05, LLD*

1944  William John Sterrett 1897, MD*

1943  Rev. Archibald Anderson Johnston ′03, DD, PhD*

1942  Judge George A. Baldwin Sr. 1897, LLD*

1941  James Magee Blackwood 1898, MD, DS*

1940  Rev. Robert James George McKnight 1896, DD, PhD*

1939  Mary Evangeline Metheny ′16, DLITT*

1938  Rev. James Sankey Martin 1887, MA*

1937  William Wilbur Weir ′16, LLD, DED*

1936   Edwin F. Wendt 1888,  LLD, DS*

1935   Rev. Henry Willson Temple 1883, LLD*

1934   Rev. McLeod Milligan Pearce 1896, DD*

1933   Rev. William John Coleman 1875, DD*

1932   Rev. Renwick Harper Martin 1895, DD*

1931  Rev. Robert Clarke 1898, DD*

1930  William Hugh Coverdale  1891, LLD, DS*


* Deceased according to alumni office records

Alumni Award Recipients

2025
Dan Williams '92
Erica (Snyder) Chevalier '99
Kent Chevalier '99
Paul Hoback '98, MBA '11

2024
Kathryn Abebe '06
Kevin Green MSOL '11
Melissa (Maze) '02 & Lucus Hanna '03

2023
Shaka Sydnor '10, MAHE '12
Noah Bailey '06
Bryan Wolfe '98

2022
Gwendolyn J. Amstutz ’81
Kevin C. Green ’89
Stephen J. Michalik Jr. ’00
Rebecca L. Pederson ’09

2021
Joshua J. Van Ee, Ph.D. ’99
Heidi L. (Yoder) Van Ee ’99
Martha McNally Rowe ’81
Alan D. Rose ’87

2020
Yvonne F. Allison ’65
Shawn A. Jenkins ’89
Josie N. Badger, PhD ’07

2019
Hon. Caleb Stegall '93
Russell '03 and Bethany (Canzanella) '03 Warren

2018
Joshua R. Woolley '03
Jeffrey Mathews '80

2017
Doug W. Harley, DO ’97
Jeremiah P. Johnson, Ph.D. ’00

Young Alumni Award Recipients

2025
Lois (Piscatello) Montgomery '19
Matthew Montgomery '17
Stephen Noell '15

2024
Timothy Martin '17
Zachary Sheldon '15, PhD
Graciela Tharp '13

2023
Joshua Ehko '19, MAHE '23
Michael Kearney '17
Rebekah Locke '20, MBA '22

2022
Joe A. Cirelli III ’11, ’14
Nicole L. Menanno ’14
Rev. Noah R. Stachelek, EdD ’12

2021
Trewon N. Marshall ’19
Neil D. Hanlin ’16

2020
Gabriel S. Chick ’10
Gregg J. Conley, JD ’11

2019
Nicholas S. Greenfield '12
Michawn Rich '09

2018 Bethany (Kiehl) Williams '13
2017 Jake McCracken ’12