Recipients
Alumni Award
The NÂ鶹Դ´ Alumni Association and Office of Alumni Relations are pleased to have the opportunity to bestow up to four separate awards each year. Each of our award recipients across the years richly exemplify the best of NÂ鶹Դ´ in amazing ways from service to the campus community to making a difference around the world.
Alumni of the Year
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2024
2023Ìý
2022Ìý
2021ÌýÌý
2019Ìý
2018Ìý
2017Ìý
2016Ìý
2015Ìý
2014Ìý
2012Ìý
2011Ìý
2010 Pamela Litsey DeBoard
2009 Jennifer Roemhildt Tunehag
2008 Dana Freeborn
2007 Hugh & Evelyn Friberg
2006 Ronald Galloway
2005 Dr. Edwin Robinson (College President)
2004 Robert Donaldson
2003 Dennis L Johnson
2002 Gordon Harter
2001 Jack & Fairy Hawthorne
2000 Clarence Kinzler
1999 Phyllis Hartley-Perkins
1998 Steve Walden
1997 Dr Richard Hagood (College President)
1996 Dr. Jorge Bravo
1995 Cynthia Tobias
1994 Franklin Cook
1993 Stephen Hicks/Jerry Cohagan
1992 Jim Jackson
1991 Juanita Pate
1990 Jerry Caven
1989 Paul Wardlaw
1988 Kent Hill
1987 Myron Finkbeiner
1986 Tom and Edythe Leupp
1985 Noel Riley-Fitch
1984 Larry Hull
1983 Jerry Nelson
1982 Morris Weigelt
1981 Tom Nees
1980 Cliff Cowley
1979 Chet Galloway
1978 Guy Nees
1977 Ken Hills
1976 Ann Kiemel Anderson
1975 Richard Etulain
1974 Leon Doane
1973 Douglas Powers
1972 Phillip E. Bramson
1971 Rodney and Patricia HulingÌý
1970 Ron Weatherford
1969 Earl Mosteller
1968 Thomas E. Mangum
1967 Helen G. Wilson
1966 Norman E. Oke
1965 Double E. Hill
1964 Jerald D. Johnson
1963 Prescott Beals
1962 David Sutherland
1961 Stanley Mittelstaedt
1960 Homer Powell
1959 George Coulter
1958 The NNC Missionary
1957 Howard H. Hamlin
1956 Albert F. Harper
1955 Thelma B. Culver
1954 Lyle Robinson
1953 Gordon Olsen
Leon Doane Young Alumni
2025
2024
2023Ìý
2022Ìý
2021Ìý
2019Ìý
2018Ìý
2017Ìý
2016Ìý
2015Ìý
2014Ìý
2011Ìý
2010 Gideon Thomas
2009 Christine Johns
2008 Brian and Nichole Bohner
2007 Joseph Lanham
2006 Jeff Kinneeveauk
2005 Bernard “Buff” Bufford
2004 Julie vanBeek
2003 Deborah Berho
2002 Richard Hume
2001 Joseph Kronz
2000 Rhonda Carrim
1999 Grantley Martelly
1998 Deanna Durham
1996 Teresa Koops
1995 Jeff Carr
Family Heritage Award
2021Ìý
2017ÌýDr. Francis & Ann Sutherland & Family
2014Ìý
2011Ìý
2009 The Thomas E. Mangum Sr. Family
​1987 The Elmer & Bertha Miller Family
Professional Achievement
2025
2023
2021Ìý
2019Ìý
2018Ìý
2017Ìý
2016Ìý
2015Ìý
2014Ìý
2010 Dean Carlson
2009 Rand Michael
2008 Randy Peterman
2007 Walden Hughes
2006 Bart Harmon
2005 Richard Williamson
2004 Ken Wilde
2003 Randy Maddox
2002 Philip Altmeyer
2001 Monte Ortman
1999 Dean Cowles
1998 Greg Jamison
1997 Delbert Gish
1996 Rick Hieb
1995 James Zimbelman
1994 Donna Fletcher Crow
1993 Harold Hughes
1992 Mark Beymer
1992 John Wordsworth
1992 Jeanine Van Beek
1992 Gale Maxey
1992 Glen Wardlaw
1992 Doug Bloomquist
1991 Keith Kirkeide
1991 Jerry Vevig
1990 Natalie Williams
1989 Lynda Qualls-Stephens
1989 Jack Wright, Jr.
1989 John VanManen
1988 Howard Miller
1987 Darrell Marks
1986 Jerry Groenig
1986 Earlene Tapley
1985 Harmon Schmelzenbach
1984 Louise Mansfield
1984 John Sutherland
1984 Elenor Pearson
1983 Minnie Richards
1982 W. Eugene Skiens
1981 Phil Fitch
1980 Ron Lush, Sr.
1979 Dorothy Davis Cook
1979 Donna Parsons
1978 Elizabeth Cole
1978 Dr. Bob Mangum
1977 Albert F. Harper
1976 George Coulter
Distinguished Service
2025
2024
2023
2021Ìý
2019Ìý
2017Ìý
2014ÌýandÌý
2010 Chuck Wilkes Sr.
2009 Judy Stallcop
2008 Ralph and Lynn Neil
2007 Darrell Marks
2006 Martha Hopkins
2005 Wes Maggard
2004 Robert C. Kiel
2004 Bruce Webb
2003 Mary Bellamy
2002 Geri Back and Ruth Hall
2001 B. Edgar Johnson
2000 Irving & Beverly Laird
1999 Jerry and Barb Hull
1998 Jo Kincaid
1997 A.B. & Marjorie Ellis
1996 Larry Bunts
1995 Laura Sporleder
1994 Ernie Thompson
1993 Ruth Wood
1992 Art & Jean Horwood
1991 Marvin Bloomquist
1990 Ruth Long
1990 Juanita Demmer
1989 Dick & Barbara White
1988 Hazel Croft
1987 Paul Miller
1986 Beulah Bozarth
1985 Wanda McMichael
1984 Walter Howard
1984 Frances Mangum
1983 Floyd G. Johnson
1982 Orrin Hills
1981 Marguerite Manley
1980 John E. Wordsworth
1979 Raymond C. Kratzer
1979 Helen G. Wilson
1979 Dr. L Wesley Johnson
1979 Dr. Don Tillotson
1979 Joseph H. Mayfield
1978 Marian Washburn
1977 Dr. Gilbert Ford