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The Distinguished Alumni Award originated in 1956 for the purpose of providing recognition for the outstanding professional, personal and civic achievements of men and women who are former students of the University of Connecticut. Excellence in these areas brings pride and distinction to the University.


Distinguished Alumni Award Past Recipients
1956 - Elmer S. Watson '29
1956 - Willard H. Allen '16
1957 - J. Ray Ryan '30
1957 - Hugh S. Greer '26
1958 - Maurice H. Lockwood '21
1958 - George H. Hollister '02
1959 - John H. Hilldring '18
1959 - Joseph B. Burns '36
1960 - Maurice C. Hull '10
1960 - Sidney A. Edwards '18
1961 - C. Edward Ryan '18
1961 - Ronald Bamford '24
1962 - George E. Pinckney '31
1963 - Augustus J. Brundage '10
1963 - C. Raymond Brock '19
1964 - Sidney Marland '36,'51
1964 - Joseph McCormick '34
1965 - Nathan Koenig '30
1965 - Albert E. Waugh '26
1966 - Robert J. Jeffries '44,'46
1966 - Alva P. Loiselle '34,'43
1967 - Louis L. Gerson '48
1967 - Charles J. Zwick '50,'51
1968 - Charles F. Helmboldt '35,'49,'51 Ph.D.
1968 - Robert W. Stone '49,'51
1969 - Alan T. Busby '18
1969 - I. Martin Fierberg '48
1970 - Arline W. Ryan '30
1970 - Reuben B. Johnson '36
1971 - John H. Meyer '48
1971 - John C. Severino '59
1972 - Preston C. King '49
1972 - Richard F. Gamble '49
1973 - Kenneth W. North '53
1973 - Carol Oglee North '54
1973 - Don V. Ruck '52
1974 - Oluf Nielsen '29
1974 - Martin B. Gant '41
1975 - Robert N. Giaimo '44
1975 - Eleanor E. Storrs '48
1976 - Barbara B. Dunn '48
1976 - Daniel E. Noble '29
1976 - David Pinsky '36
1977 - Robert Berdon '51,'57
1977 - Raymond Eyes '50
1977 - Samuel Jaskilka '42
1978 - Anthony DeMaria '56,'65 Ph.D.
1978 - Robert Miller '52,'58,'66 Ph.D.
1978 - Morrison Beach '54 LAW
1979 - Robert Cizik '53 1979 - Walter Dropo '48
1979 - William Ratchford '56
1980 - Theodore Antonelli '41
1980 - Raymond F. Good '52
1980 - Gustav A. L. Mehlquist '36
1981 - John R. Kuhl '26
1981 - Edward A. Horrigan, Jr. '50

1981 - Thomas J. Wolff '56
1982 - Audrey P. Beck '53,'55 M.A.
1982 - Robert W. Blanchette '53
1982 - Dorothy Goodwin '57 Ph.D.
1983 - Anthony D. Autorino '60,'63
1983 - Patrick F. Bray '43
1983 - Louis J. Gambaccini '52,'56 M.P.A.
1984 - Anthony S. Brown '56
1984 - Samuel Gejdenson '71
1984 - Harvey S. Sadow '53 Ph.D.
1985 - Lucy E. Birdsall '50
1985 - Leroy Hay '71 M.A.,'78 Ph.D.
1985 - Charles A. Pergola '54
1986 - Robert R. Spillane '59 M.A.,'67 Ph.D.
1986 - Laura McHale Homer '48
1986 - Gordon Mayo Cooper '50
1987 - Lester J. Boyle '59
1987 - Louis O. Giuffrida '47
1987 - Alexander J. Shuskus '50,'61
1988 - Edmund F. Enos '57
1988 - Peter W. McFadden '54,'57
1988 - Aaron Ment '58
1989 - Stewart Leonard '50
1989 - Joseph W. Polisi '69
1989 - Robert W. RisCassi '58
1990 - William Trueheart '66
1990 - Ransom Baldwin '57
1990 - Franklin Chang-Diaz '73
1991 - Maria A. Matava '64
1991 - Myles Martel '65
1991 - William L. Dewey '67 Ph.D.
1992 - Robert L. Cohen '67
1992 - Peter Stangl '63
1992 - Lewis Turco '59
1993 - Andrew C. McKirdy '64,'67
1993 - Ronald J. Meoni '55
1993 - Joseph J. Went '53
1994 - Patricia J. Gallup '79
1994 - R. Eileen Baccus '75,'78 Ph.D.
1994 - Ronald J. Bushwell '56
1995 - Louise S. Berry '52,'61,'80 J.D.
1995 - Daniel C. Leone '53
1995 - Philip Pumerantz '50,'61,'67 Ph.D.
1996 - William W. Darrow, Ph.D. '62
1997 - Lionel H. Olmer '56
1998 - Jonathan M. Schofield, Jr. '62
1999 - Denis J. Nayden, '76,'77 MBA
2000 - Robert Rodin, '77
2001 - Patricia A. Wilson-Coker, '78, '81 M.S.W., '81 J.D.
2002 - Carolyn D. Runowicz '73 M.D.
2003 - Gwendolyn Long Harris '72
2004 - Robert Kaplan ‘73
2005 - Roy Brooks ‘72
2006 - Wally Lamb ’72, ‘77
2007 - Alan Bennett ‘69
2008 - Roger Newton '74 M.S.

 
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