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The Alumni Wall of Honor recognizes the enduring connection between the
The names engraved on the wall are University alumni who have received the Outstanding Achievement Award. Conferred by the Board of Regents, it is the University’s highest honor for its graduates. We applaud their accomplishments in serving their professions, their communities, our nation, and the world.
The Alumni Wall of Honor was designed by Antoine Predock, architect of the adjacent
The Alumni Wall of Honor was made possible by a generous gift from Carlyle E. Anderson, ’32, one of the alumni honored here.
NOTE: The UMAA is currently adding brief descriptions of the accomplishments of each OAA recipient. If you have a one-sentence description of someone listed below, please send it to Chris Coughlan-Smith. Thank you!
1948
William W Will
Halsey
1949
Carl W Painter
William B Stout
Inventor and aviation pioneer, created plane that would later become the Ford Tri-Motor, the first viable commercial passenger plane
1950
Walter C Beckjord
Guy N Bjorge
Farrington Daniels
Elmer W Engstrom
Francis C Frary
Thorfin R Hogness
Samuel L Hoyt
Paul E Klopsteg
Franklin R McMillan
Paul W Rhame
William R Sears
George M Shepard
Leonard B Sperry
Harold E Stassen
Former Minnesota governor and assistant to President Eisenhower on disarmament
Leif J Sverdrup
Merle A Tuve
1951
Fred C Adair
Joseph W Beach
John H Beaumont
James F Bell
William Braasch
Peter J Brekhus
Irma L Bullard
Frank E Burch
Charles E Campton
Earl R Carlson
Norris K Carnes
Albert J Chesley
Earl G Constantine
John H Craigie
George E Crossen
Prudence Cutright
George M Damon
John W Dargavel
Hal Downey
Marion L Edman
Rudolph T Elstad
Henry A Erikson
Theodore A Erickson
Max E Ernst
Alvin C Eurich
Donald N Ferguson
Paul D Foote
Edward M Freeman
Rudolph K Froker
Reynold C Fuson
Bernice D Gestie
George F Ghostley
Henry Godfrey
Robert O Green
Arild E Hansen
Henry G Harmon
Thomas B Hartzell
Alma C Haupt
Arthur T Hertig
Herman
Lorin B Hodgson
Frederick L Hovde
President of Purdue University for 28 years
Arthur R Hustad
Elmer Hutchisson
Leo A Isaac
Carlyle F Jacobsen
F Roy Johnson
Roland G Keyworth
John W Knutson
Arthur Lampland
Alumni Association president from 1949-1950. Noted for his ability as an organizer and administrator, Lampland (B.B.A. '30, L.L.B. '34) oversaw the continued expansion of program activities in the post-war years. His presidency also established the precedence for one-year terms in office. Lampland was president and chair of the Lampland Lumber Company.
From his nephew David W Lampland: He made it possible for others to follow after him and get a fine education to better themselves and others.
Herbert L Lewis
Richard C Lindsay
George A Lundberg
Harold L Lyon
Mary L Matthews
Agnes McCarthy
Pearl L McIver
Edith L McNaughtan
Ernest O Melby
Bradshaw Mintener
William D Mitchell
George W Morgan
Frank W Moudry
Will M Myers
Charles Nelson
Robert J Noble
Willard C Olson
Henry J Otto
Francis W Peck
James E Perkins
John S Pillsbury
Minnesota's eighth governor, founder of Pillsbury, major early benefactor to University of Minnesota
Edith L Potter
Oliver S Powell
Samuel R Powers
Carl O Rosendahl
Harold Schoelkopf
Dean M Schweickhard
Paul F Sharp
William P Shepard
Albert M Snell
Charles L Sommers
William H Stead
Lewis R Stowe
August L Strand
Neil H Swanson
Pearl P Swanson
Sidney A Swensrud
Conrad Taeuber
Marvin R Thompson
Edward L Tuohy
Thomas F Wallace
James M Walls
Archie D Wilson
Mildred W Wood
Louise L Wright
Malcolm G Wyer
Edgar F Zelle
1952
Raymond B Allen
Selmer H Berg
Lloyd V Berkner
Carl W Blegen
Geoffrey B Bodman
Nathaniel Finney
Samuel C Gale
Olaf J Hagen
Hazel M Hatcher
Arthur H Motley
Henry A Scandrett
Harold W Sweatt
Arnulf Ueland
Cassius J Van Slyke
Walter H Wheeler
1953
Edna P Amidon
Frank M Anderson
Morris J Blish
Richard P Carlton
A Dale Chapman
Luella B Cook
William T Cox
Samuel Detwiler
George A Earl
Vincent J Flynn
Verne C Fryklund
Paul M Glasoe
Samuel A Graham
Frank L Grout
Jacob G Harrar
Charles F Keyes
Charles L Lewis Jr
Ralph M Lindgren
Frank F Marshall
John F McGovern
William D Reeve
Herman A Rodenhiser
Conrad G Selvig
Betty Sullivan
James G Umstattd
1954
Minton M
Dorothy A Bennett
H Donald Campbell
R Conrad Cooper
Fred A Davies
Marion L Faegre
John K Fesler
Robert R Gilruth
Pioneer in U.S. aviation and space flight; often considered the "father of America's human space flight program"
Lloyd A Hatch
Howard Haycraft
Rewey B Inglis
Robert H Jewett
Joseph M Juran
Popularized Total Quality Management; founder Juran Institute
Frederick R Kappel
Alois F Kovarik
Walter L Rice
Lewis A Rodert
Walter A Spivak
Homer J Stewart
1955
Joseph A Anderson
L Earle Arnow
Bernard W Bierman
Coached Gopher football team to five national titles in an eight-year span from 1934-41 (see article on U's national champions here)
Guy Richard Bisby
George O Burr
Angus E Cameron
Norman S Cassel
Victor Christgau
Miles A Dahlen
Robert M Gaylord
Algot F Johnson
Kenneth A Kobe
Elmore H Northey
William L Prosser
George Russell
Harrison
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Eric Sevareid
Groundbreaking CBS news correspondent and anchor
Morse J Shapiro
George F Strong
Lloyd E Swearingen
Henry C Yutzy
1956
Bernard Aabel
G Lester Anderson
Stuart L Bailey
Theodore J Berning
Ben D Black
Helen G Canoyer
Olive H Crosthwait
William Dawson
Hedley W Donovan
Former editor-in-chief of Time magazine; advisor to President Jimmy Carter
Leif S Harbo
Hibbert M Hill
Leonard W Larson
Phillip L Merritt
Margaret Newton
Evalyn Owens
Thomas W Phelps
John H Ray
John B Sanborn
George Selke
Merwin H Silverthorn
Edwin J Simons
Homer J Smith
Esther J Swenson
Edwin Ziegfeld
1957
James D Boyle
Ira H Cram
Elmer E Engelbert
Benjamin C Gruenberg
Lloyd Hale
Cecilia H Hauge
Gustaf Y Hildebrand
Clarence L Munn
William H Oppenheimer
James W Papez
David W Robertson
Louis H Roddis
Frank H Stodola
Jack L Van Volkenberg
Henry W Woltman
1958
Grace Armstrong
Clara Brown Arny
William Boss
Cledo Brunetti
Joseph A Burnquist
Marchette G Chute
Author of numerous texts on Shakespeare, Chaucer, and others, including Stories from Shakespeare, which retells the plot of each Shakespearean play in entertaining and easy-to-understand prose, and Shakespeare in London, which gives glimpses of real life in a teeming Renaissance society
Henry W Dahlberg
Kenneth J Duncan
Erling O Johnson
Nolan Kearney
Willard C Lighter
William W McCallum
Gordon K Moe
Albert H Moseman
Theodore Rasmussen
Philip L Ray
Gordon Scott
Glenn E Seidel
Helen C Shugg
George B Smith
John P Stapp
1959
Elmer L Andersen
Former Minnesota Governor
Carlyle
William Anderson
Myrtle K Aydelotte
Charles W Boardman
Norman E Borlaug
Key architect of the Green Revolution, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, credited with saving millions of lives - Read the Minnesota magazine profile
Rena E Boyle
Wendell T Burns
Melvin Calvin
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1961, for describing the chemical reactions that occur during photosynthesis
Carlyle R Carlson Jr
William H Cartwright
Edwin T Dahlberg
Charles M Dale
Carl W Hayden
Inez Haynes
Hubert H Humphrey
Former U.S. senator and vice president of the United States
Oscar B Jesness
Thorvaldur Johnson
James J Lingane
Mildred Montag
Wayne L Morse
Former U.S. republican senator from Oregon who switched to the democratic side; known for his filibuster record set in 1953 and as a blunt, iconoclastic populist
J Arthur Myers
Charles H Rogers
T Lynn Smith
Walter H Swanson
George L Tuve
Frederick T Wall
Coy W Waller
Levon West
Well-known artist who later changed his name to Ivan Dmitri and became a celebrated photographer.
Jee Lum Wong
Harold E Wood
Charlotte M Young
1960
Benjamin Amundson
John E Burchard
Herman F Davies
Fred D DeVaney
George M Drake
Fordyce Ely
Russell F Erickson
Robert Glen
Halvor O Halvorson
Perry O Hanson
B Lamar Johnson
Elmer A Jones
Lucien B Kinney
Thomas S Lovering
Otis C McCreery
Henry E Michelson
Cyril P Pesek
Cornelius B Philip
Arthur B Poole
Leo G Rigler
Theodore H Rowell
Charles E Rudolph
James P Shannon
Charles R Speers Jr
Roy Wilkins
Civil rights activist and former executive director of the NAACP
Whitney M Young Jr
Civil right leader and former head of the national Urban League
1961
C Fred Bentley
George W Bohannon
Walter Carter
Carl D Corse
Edward B Cosgrove
William G Dow
Mary Timothea Doyle
Herman E Drill
Henry E Hartig
Julius V Hofmann
Viola H Hymes
Irvin Kerlan
Russell E Larson
Herman
James K Michie
Raymond O Mithun
Karl G Neumeier
William J Quinn
Carl T Rowan
Former nationally syndicated columnist for Washington Post; former head of United States Information Agency
Ruth E Smalley
Dora Smith
Emmet D Williams
1962
Floyd R Adams
John S Allen
Theodore C Blegen
Historian
James H Boothe
Gladys S Brooks
Manuel Carreon
Horace DeLien
Austin A Dowell
Joseph Edwards
Theodore C Engum
Harold H Flor
Delbert F Jurgensen
Roy E Marshall
Lloyd E Musburger
Bryan E Smith
Yien Si Tsiang
Key architect of the Taiwan Economic Miracle
Luther W Youngdahl
Former Minnesota governor, U.S. district court judge, and Minnesota Supreme Court judge
1963
Louis T Austin
Orville L Freeman
Former Minnesota governor and agriculture commissioner in President Kennedy's administration
Walter H Gaumnitz
Richard L Griggs
Oscar R Knutson
Margaret W McCullough
Phillip J Rulon
Richard Scammon
Vard M Shepard
Edward C Stafne
William M Steinke
Robert M Trueblood
Leona E Tyler
Wilfred W Wetzel
Robert F Woodward
1964
George B Amidon
Glenn P Bakken
Edward W Boland
William H Burgess
Anne H Carlsen
R Lee Clark
George R Constam
Chauncey I Cooper
Irving S Cooper
Ralph A Deterling Jr
Brown M Dobyns
Donald M Douglas
William W Engstrom
Thomas B Fitzpatrick
Piero Frugoni
Grace A Goldsmith
Samuel Grais
James Gray
Hidetoshi Hashimoto
Harry Heltzer
Nicholas C Hightower Jr
C Adrian M Hogben
Dwight J Ingle
Perrie Jones
Walter Judd
Nandkumar H Keswani
Paul E Lacy
Herbert A Laitinen
Max A Lauffer Jr
Alexander Leaf
James R Learmonth
Walter C Lobitz Jr
Sarah Luse
Daniel F Lynch
Walter C Mackenzie
John A Moorhead
Katherine Ann Nye
Lillian
Raymond Donald Pruitt
Joseph Edward Rall
Edward C Rosenow Jr
Robert F Rushmer
Belding H Scribner
Elmer B Staats
Helen M Starr
Harry C Trelogan
Wade Volwiler
Homer R Warner
C Stuart Welch
Dwight L Wilbur
1965
Arthur L Anderson
Kenneth E Anderson
Roger J Cumming
Norris Darrell
Earl Ewald
Robert Fuller
Dorothy Leahy
Henry Mackall
William J Micheels
Kurt Reichert
Thorvald Schantz-Hansen
Milton G Walls
1966
Irvamae Applegate
Earle H Balch
Charles D East
Donald Gould Fletcher
F
Edward P Leach
Eugene Joseph McCarthy
U.S. representative 1949-59, U.S. senator 1959-71, three-time presidential candidate
Robert E McDonald
Juan C Orendain
John S Pillsbury Jr
Cedric H Rieman
Albert J Robertson
Clarence H Schutte
John Alfred Shellenberger
Irene Barnes Taeuber
Michael Tenenbaum
Paul R Vanstrum
1967
Virgil C Boekelheide
Curtis L Carlson
Founder of Carlson Companies, namesake of Carlson School of Management
Bert S Cross
M Catharine Evans
Charles L Horn
Walter Frank Johnson Jr
Irene Dorothy Kreidberg
Myles Mace
Eldon W Mason
Kathryn Thorbus McKinlay
Carl S Miller
Clarence L Moyle
Helen Harris Perlman
1968
Carl M Anderson
Frank A Bovey
John E Carroll
Helen Claytor
Harold H Cole
Frank S Farrell
J Harold Goldthorpe
Peter Graves (Aurness)
Film and stage actor; TV's "Mission: Impossible"
Frank B Hubachek
Wendell E Johnson
Herbert H Kramer
Lee Loevinger
Former Minnesota Supreme Court justice
Malcolm Shaw Maclean
Helen Nahm
James F Nickerson
William O Nilsen
Robert G Parr
Jeanette Piccard
World's first licensed female balloon pilot, first woman to ascend into the stratosphere; once held high-altitude ascent record; in 1974 became first female Episcopal priest
Bichat Rodrigues
Harold G Scheie
Gale Sondergaard
Won first-ever Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in 1936's Anthony Adverse; was blacklisted during 1950s anti-communist hysteria in Hollywood
John A Wallace
Charles Wilkinson
Known as Bud Wilkinson, longtime coach of Oklahoma Sooners football team; won national titles in 1950, '55, '56; once had a 47-game winning streak
1969
John Henry Aldes
Henry B Bull
Myron Christy
Mary Edward Dolan
J Leonard Frame
Helen Hofer Gee
William W Hagerty
Jerome Hiniker
Dwight A Ink
John R Jamieson
Arno Joseph Jewett
Elden H Olson
William O'Shields
Harold W Pratt
Kathryn Smith
Eileen Thornton
1970
Olaf S Aamodt
Laurence Adams
Delwin M Anderson
Lester Breslow
John B Faegre
Esther Garrison
Cyril H Goulden
James D Hodgson
Secretary of labor, 1970-74; ambassador to Japan, 1974-76
Raymond E Johnson
Howard R Jones
Albert M Kuhfeld
Jeanette Lee
Walter D Loban
Walter J McNerney
Norman C Mindrum
Walter F Mondale
Former U.S. vice president; former U.S. senator; former ambassador to Japan
Harold P Morris
Marion I Murphy
Kenneth E Ogren
Daniel E O'Keefe
Karl S Quisenberry
Harry Reasoner
Former ABC and CBS news anchor and correspondent (60 Minutes)
Sam F Seeley
W Allen Wallis
Frank D Werner
John Zivnuska
1971
Harry E Atwood
Alden
Curtiss E Crippen
Willis E Dugan
William O Hall
Terrance Hanold
Robert V Hansberger
James B Harrington
Robert B Kamm
Maxine Kurtz
Lee Ling
Joseph A Maun
Leonard H Murray
Russell A Nelson
Ralph W Richardson Jr
Carl B Stokes
Two-term Ohio legislator; first black mayor of Cleveland (1967-71); first black president of National League of Cities; first black news anchor on a major TV station (WNBC-TV in New York City); won an Emmy in 1979
John H Swanberg
James A Watson
1972
Fred J Agnich
Jessie Ravage Bernard
Frederick G Bordwell
Willard L Boyd
Arthur H Bulbulian
Arthur P Burris
Robert B Carlin
Kung-Pei Chen
William D Emmons
Theodore A Geissman
James A Goodman
Paul G Hoel
David N Hume
Iver Johnson
Walter M Lauer
John C Maxwell
Donald S McClure
Charles F Park
Martha Pitel
William H Sewell
George D Sherman
James H Zumberge
First president of Grand Valley State University (Michigan), president of Southern Methodist University and president of University of Southern California, also did geology work in Antarctica; Cape Zumberge is named after him.
1973
Warren K Agee
E Allen Baillif
Arthur A Barlow
James H Binger
Sara Elizabeth Blackwell
Franklin D Briese
Arndt J Duvall
Elvin Frank Frolik
Jean Hagstrum
Walter Harris
Gerald B Herzog
Morris C Hursh
Donald P Kircher
John R McGuire
Doris I Miller
Elizabeth Cavert Miller
Dave Moore
Former WCCO television news anchor
Harold L Nelson
Theodore Peterson
Sigurd A Sjoberg
Maurice Stansby
Bruce N Torell
Ralph J Voss
John William Ward
1974
Jane B Berry
Olav Johan Braenden
Homer Brown
Finn Brudevold
John R Finnegan
Louis Guttman
Elbert S Hartwick
Gladys S Haugan
Geri M Joseph
Stephen F Keating
Former chairman and CEO of Honeywell and Toro Corporations in Minneapolis; the first head of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition
Erwin E Kelm
Katherine Kendall
Harold LeVander
Melva Lind
James C Otis
Frank W Putnam
James Robison
Leonel H Robles-Gutierrez
Otto A Silha
Former president of Silha Associates; former publisher and chairman of the Star Tribune
Wilma M Sim
Donald M Stuart
James W Wright
1975
C Robert Binger
Aksel Bothner-By
Norman H Cromwell
Richard Cyert
Donald M Fraser
Former Minneapolis mayor and U.S. congressman
J Raymond Gill
Vincent L Johnson
Bernard Nash
Frank W Newell
George T Pennock
Robert M Pirsig
Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Fred M Seed
Irving Shapiro
Former CEO and chair of E.I. duPont Co. and a director of Citicorp
Paul Frederick Sharp
Jean'ne M Shreeve
Melvin C Steen
John A Stevenson
Glenn E Ullyot
Gladys E Vail
Frederick F Wangaard
Edward W Weidner
Robert L Westbee
Robert M Worthington
Sterling Wortman
1976
Hermon J Arnott
William J Bailey
William T Beebe
Norbert R Berg
Marion Pfaemder Downs
Bob Eddy
Larry Gates
Richard G Gray Sr
Elizabeth J Haglund
Philip B Harris
Gerald W Heaney
Vera J Likins
Walter O Lundberg
Michael J Martell Jr
John E Naugle
Robert J Nelsen
Rudolph Pariser
Clara Penniman
William R Pritchard
John R Roach
Eugene Spika
1977
Myron Brakke
William N Carey Jr
Fred E Dickinson
Harold Eberhardt
John H Gerstenmaier
Richard Hammel
Edgar E Hartwig
Edgar F Johnson
Lois A Lund
Mary Ellen McFarland
Malcolm Renfrew
Morris Rockstein
Robert Sheran
Donald K Slayton
Longtime NASA flight director and Apollo 17 astronaut
Jack Smight
Quentin Soper
Warren R Spannaus
Former Minnesota Attorney General
1978
Hanumappa Ramappa Apakeri
Mary Andrews Ayres
John Bystrom
Victor Cohn
Robert A Good
Pediatrician and bone-marrow transplant pioneer; author of more than 40 books and 1,800 published scientific articles; earned 80 scientific awards and honorary degrees
Frank H Kaufert
B Francis Kukachka
Hazel E Landeen
Earl R Larson
Sylvester Laskin
T Ewald Maki
Carl L Nelson
Pauline C Paul
John F Thomas
1979
Robert Bergland
Former U.S. secretary of agriculture and U.S. congressman
Caroline M Fredrickson
Virginia R Jarratt
Richard C Jordan
George T Piercy
William G Shepherd
Mitchell W Spellman
Eugene W Weber
1980
Sherwood O Berg
President emeritus, South Dakota State University and former head of U of M Extension Service
Borghild Dahl
Ebenhard Stewart Gandrud
Edwin L Haislet
Aubin Heyndrickx
Marshall Houts
Millard H Ruud
Leo J Spillane
John W Tiede
Erwin Tomash
1981
Marcus Alexis
Earl Bakken
Inventor of the transitorized caridaic pacemaker and founder of Medtronic
David F Durenberger
Former U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Richard D Mollison
William R Monat
Anne J Moore
Chih-Lung Pu
1982
David R Brink
Patricia A Deiman
H Robert Diercks
Gary L Filerman
Joseph T Ling
Gertrude Lippincott
Robert E Nolte
Marie L O'Koren
Marian Radke-Yarrow
Mulford Q Sibley
Clarence Syvertson
1983
Roman Arnoldy
Jack R Cole
William Cook
Wesley E Gilbertson
Mary Sue Kern
Richard C Kirby
Diana E Murphy
Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and judge on the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Einar Pedersen
Doris Roberts
Hulda Thelander
1984
Donald E Bentley
James Blanchard
Ernest Gordon Booth
Rhoda Mae Dorsey
James S Fish
Lester C Krogh
Carol A Lindeman
Shirley M Stinson
Ewart A Swinyard
1985
Johannes F Coetzee
Frank J Dixon Jr
Samuel S Goldich
Thomas E Holloran
Graham B Hovey
Werner Levi
George W Parshall
Lloyd Peterson
Maynard E Pirsig
Charles Roberts
Norman E Shumway
Performed first U.S. heart transplant
Mary C Turpie
Allen I White
1986
Te-Tzu Chang
Charles C Eldredge
Elmer George Heyne
Libby Larsen
Composer of widely performed and recorded works for orchestra, dance, opera, choral, chamber, and solo performance
Frank McDonald
Jack F Rowe
Wichit Srisa-An
Elected to Thai parliament; former head of the Educational Reform Committee; leading Thai educator and highest-ranking civil servant in Thailand's Ministry of University Affairs
William J White
Guanren Xu
1987
Russell M Bennett II
Lester F Borchardt
Douglas R Dewey
Bernard Phinney
Patricia Schroeder
Former U.S. representative from Colorado
Arlene Stansfield
1988
Lloyd A Duscha
John E Franz
Terry B Kinney Jr
Albert Milgrom
K Carl Nomura
Eric D Putt
Ruth Annette Reck
1989
Raymond E Counsell
Robert A Henle
Margaret Matalamaki
Erick A Schonstedt
Gustav A Swanson
1990
Clara Adams-Ender
Retired U.S. army brigadier general; head of Army Nursing Corps; commanding general of Ft. Belvoir; currently president of Caring About People with Enthusiasm (CAPE) Associates; received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black Nurses Association. See profile.
Dean R Anderson
Richard H Bonde
Edmund B Flink
Sam C Hsieh
D Bruce Johnstone
Chin-Chao Koh
Duane R Kullberg
John W LaBree
John W Mooty
Barbara K Redman
1991
Charles A Amann
Arthur H Ballet
Charles W Britzius
Howard Burchell
Marion E Ensminger
Leroy M Fingerson
George R Gibson
David Lebedoff
C Walton Lillehei
Open-heart surgery pioneer; helped develop heart pacemaker
Bong Kug Ohh
Stephen Paulus
Composer of operas; co-founder of Minnesota's Composers Forum
Earl H Wood
1992
Robert K Anderson
Gordon J H Berg
Robert R Berg
Robert D Gunn
Garrison Keillor
Creator and host of "A Prairie Home Companion"; best-selling author
John J Kelberer
Joseph C Kellogg
William S Marvin
Edward P Ney
Prolific astro-physics researcher who made important contributions to nuclear physics, cosmic-rays astrophysics, heliospheric studies, atmospheric sciences, and infrared astronomy.
Roger F Noreen
Robert J Odegard
William A Swanberg
Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Luce and His Empire
Winston R Wallin
1993
Charles H Casey
M Jeanne Coyne
Former Minnesota Supreme Court justice
Gertrude Esteros
Donald Foss
Sandra S Gardebring
Former Minnesota Supreme Court justice
Robert H Rutford
Leslie Zieve
1994
William Allard
Longtime National Geographic photographer, author of several books including his milestone 1982 book about the American West and the cowboy, Vanishing Breed, which won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement - See Minnesota magazine photoessay here
Ellis Benson
Claude Hitchcock
Oscar L Miller
John Simonett
Paul A Volberding
Groundbreaking pioneer in AIDS research and treatment.
1995
James R Campbell
Former president of Norwest Bank and Minnesota Banking, Wells Fargo Bank
M Elizabeth Craig
James Hammarsten
B J Kennedy
Past President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association for Cancer Education
Frederic Kottke
Harry MacLaughlin
Owen J Newlin
Paul Rubbert
Stone Yung-Kwe Shih
President of China Television Company of Taiwan
1996
Donald Barnes
Susan M Berget
Geneticist whose work led to Nobel Prize, 1993; changed scientists' understanding of the structure of genes
Fred A Donath
William H Dudley
Irwin J Goldstein
Bob G Gower
Yeo Shin Hong
Dean, Seoul National University School of Nursing; past president of the Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
Robert K Jaedicke
Chong-Sun Kim
Choong-Nam Kim
Lee C Kopp
Ki Suk Lee
Gerald M Mitchell
Linda Brekke Mona
Duane Ottenstroer
James Peterson
Curtis A Sampson
Oscar Schott
Maurice L Spiegel
1997
Bruce K Anderson
Richard W Clarke
Patrick F Flynn
Janet Olson Hagberg
Cofounder and director of the Silent Witness National Initiative; speaker and author on career, personal development, and leadership training
James Martin Hogle
Richard (Pinky) McNamara
Founder and CEO of Activar; former member of the U of M Board of Regents; lead donor for the U of M's McNamara Alumni Center
Pamela J Nichols
Vance K Opperman
Marvin D Siperstein
Robert T Sprouse
1998
J Lyle Bootman
Andrew P Czajkowski
Laddie J Elling
David Mark Golden
David R Hubers
Lee W Johnson
Richard A Lidstad
Lucinda L Maine
Henri R Manasse Jr
Keith N McFarland
Gerald R Patterson
Carl N Platou
Thomas S Reid
Solly Robins
Samuel Schwartz
Gordon M Sprenger
A Forrest Troyer
1999
Mahmoud M Abdel-Monem
Randy Adamsick
Former head of the Minnesota Film Board, responsible for several big-budget Hollywood movies being made in Minnesota
John J Baldwin
Michael V Ciresi
Lead attorney in groundbreaking tobacco liability case
Jean E Hanson
Hubert H Humphrey III
Former Minnesota state senator and Minnesota attorney general
Kenneth J Kasha
Kuo-Hsiung Lee
Allison R Palmer
James J Papike
Richard A Skok
Shirley C Tucker
Michael W Wright
CEO of Supervalu (Cub Foods, SuperValu), nation's leading food distributor
Donald F Wright
Former COO and president of the Los Angeles Times
2000
Edward W Asplin
Kathleen A Blatz
Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Newman M Bortnick
David R Fesler
N L Gault Jr
Sally A Hasselbrack
Takumi Izuno
Malcolm S McDonald
Robert W McKenna
Paul Fai-Nan Perng
Governor of the Central Bank of China in Taiwan
Mark A Pulido
L James Schoenwetter
Eugene B Sperling
White House economic advisor to President Clinton and director of the National Economic Council
2001
Nina M Archabal
Head of the Minnesota Historical Society
W Andrew Boss
Richard P Braun
James E Cabak
Dean B Chenoweth
Michael Chowdry
Neil M Clark
Philip J Dziuk
J Brian Evans
Jane C Freeman
Lyle French
Donald Gleason
Developed the Gleason Grade for cancer of the prostate in 1966 based on cancer cell appearance
Author of the California Psychological Inventory
Barbara C S Hansen
Eric J Heller
Mark Jacobson
James Jerome Jenkins
Kenneth H Johnson
Orville D Johnson
Myung Ho Kim
Todd Klaenhammer
Arvid C Knudtson
Stan Kowalski
John C Kraft
Carl G Krespan
Earl Lewis
Nancy M Lindahl
Donald Low
Peggy Lucas
Gerald McKay
Russell J McNaughton
Robert D Munson
Wallace W Nelson
S Suzanne Nielsen
Reuben Dennis Rieke
Alan Ruvelson
Richard Sandor
Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products, L.L.C., which specializes in developing and trading in new environmental, financial, and commodity markets. Read Profile.
Carolyn Schroeder
Richard Jay Sundberg
Leland (Lee) Sundet
Malcolm P Weiss
David M Winfield
Member of the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame
Leo Yau
2002
Robert E Buckman
Larry D Buegler
Former president of Norwest Bank; also worked in Russia using World Bank and USAID money to establish farm banking regulations and procedures; appointed head of St. Paul Community Economic Commission
Krzysztof Burhardt
Bernice M Folz
Donald A Freeberg
Fred R Friswold
Former CEO of Tonka Equipment Co., volunteer head of the Univeristy Gateway Corporation, instrumental in getting McNamara Alumni Center and surrounding development built
Heinrich Martin Jaeger
Max M Kampelman
Former chairman of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; former vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace; former U.S. envoy to Madrid; former head of delegation, negotiations on nuclear and space arms; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1999
Elliot S Kaplan
Julie A Kirihara
Cofounder and president of ATG Laboratories, a biotech company specializing in gene cloning and protein expression
Robert M Kommerstad
Chairman and CEO of Laukka Development Co., volunteer head of the Univeristy Gateway Corporation, instrumental in getting McNamara Alumni Center and surrounding development built
Johnson Y
Dale R Olseth
Chairman and CEO of SurModics; former CEO of Medtronic and Tonka Toys; helped leade efforts to build the McNamara Alumni Center
Pamela F Olson
Franklyn G Prendergast
Ruth M Shuman
James I Swenson
John J Talley
Gerald W Timm
Norman T Uphoff
Larry Wangberg
Penny Rand Winton
2003
Pearl L Bergad
Robert E Buuck
Douglas P DeMaster
Mary F Heinen
Robert L Herbst
David E Johnson
Carl A Kuhrmeyer
Leonard E Lindquist
John J Magnuson
Dorothy E McIntyre
John K Moorhead
Carol A Pletcher
Eldon A Tessman
Mary M Tjosvold
John E Turner
Steven E Weekes
Thomas C Winter
2004
Ismael Abu-Saad
Researcher and leading advocate for Bedouin education in Isreal.
Edna C Downing
Hans K Fauske
Luis R Gomez-Mejia
Yvonne Cheung Ho
Aletha C Huston
James A Johnson
Vice Chairman of Perseus LLC; former CEO of Fannie Mae, nation's largest home mortgage lender; headed search for John Kerry's vice presidential candidate.
Carol Rawls Johnson
Memphis Public Schools superintendent; former Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent
Sandra McKay
F Robert Naka
Merle S Olson
Somwung Pitiyanuwat
Maynard C Reynolds
Daniel H Rich
Theofanis G Theofanous
Zhao “Alex” Zhang
2005
Donald G Baker
Ernest T Baughman
Jeannette E Brown
Ronald L Christenson
Richard V DeLeo
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Richard Hackborn
Gary S Holmes
John M Jordan
Richard M Kruger
David Laventhol
Paul L Molitor
Member of the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame
Leonard S Parker
Chair, Leonard Parker Associates; designer of many public buildings and libraries, including the Minneapolis Convention Center. See profile (scroll down)
William R Pearce
Darrell Rinerson
Leo J Thomas
Frank D Trestman
2006
Donald M Anderson
Antoine M Garibaldi
President of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania
Herbert M Hanson, Jr.
Ruth Nelson Knollmueller
John D Krumboltz
Rholan E Larson
Michele L Norris
National Public Radio anchor and host
Joseph T O'Neill
P David Pearson
2007
Omer W Blodgett
Eugene E Covert
Tony Dungy
Coach of Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts
Stanford Freese
World-renowned tuba soloist; toured USSR and China with U of M bands
Russell H. Susag