Heritage Honours Award Recipients

Alumni Achievement Award

This award recognizes the significant professional accomplishments of UNI graduates.

2023: Paul Donahue, '78
2022: Michael R. Schreurs, '69 and John C. Schreurs, '77
2021: Joan L. Larsen '90
2020: *Canceled due to COVID
2019: Larry McKibben '70
2018: Steven M. Heilmann, Ph.D. '69
2017: Georgy Lee Stigler '72
2016: Shellie Pfohl '85
2015: Dr. John Talley '74
2014: Jessie Nicholson '74 '75
2013: Mark Oman '76
2012: Mildred Wood '56, '62
2011: Gary Scholten '80
2010: Stan Askren '82
2009: Sally Carbaugh Frudden '55, '72
2008: Nancy Powell '70
2007: Jon Scoles '73
2006: Jim Rudd '71
2005: Diane Crane Bridgewater '85
2004: David Peters '78
2004: Paul Stanwood '54
2003: Thomas B. Ervin '67
2003: Patrick Esser '79, '82
1999: Sandra Cassady, Dr. '84
1998: Curtis Froyen '70
1998: H. Edward Phillips '68
1997: Janet Pattee Chu '57
1997: Robert Crane '62
1997: Steven M. Pattee '25
1996: Joan Meyer Duea '59
1996: Sandra Mitchell-Woods '77
1995: Harrison Boughton '56
1995: Helen M. Reed '38
1994: Donald Adams '57
1994: Ruth E. Martin '62 '72
1993: Andria Erzberger '63
1993: Paul Kilmer '75
1992: Michael Hogan, Dr. '65
1992: H. Lynn Horak '72
1991: Gary Kelley '68
1991: James Whisenand '70
1989: Gary Floyd, Dr. '62
1989: David N. Kanellis '51
1988: Allan Carpenter '38
1988: Dean M. Roosa, Dr. '57 '65
1987: John J. Hidore, Dr. '54
1987: Donald W. Humphreys, Dr. '53 '64
1987: Robert J. Waller, Dr. '62 '64
1986: Jean Herbison '64
1986: Larry Ingraham '64
1985: Ken Butzier '53
1985: Joy Corning '54
1985: Calvin Irons '65 '67
1985: Mary Jacobson '60
1985: Robert McIntire '55
1985: Richard Umsted '63
1984: Myrtle Telleen Collins '37
1984: Finn B. Eriksen '31
1984: Sheri Greenawald '68
1984: Walton Lewis '37
1984: David Coles Smith '54 '58
1983: James Arnold, M.D. '64
1983: Frances Bartlett Kinne, Dr. '36
1983: Marvin H. Klepfer '50
1983: Roger Maxwell '54
1983: Martha Petersen Shedd '37
1982: Gordon Cawelti, Dr. '51
1982: DWane Collins, Dr. '31
1982: Walter Cunningham, Dr. '66 '71
1982: James Hearst
1982: Jean Ray Laury '50
1982: Robert Yager, Dr. '50
1982: Stan Askren
1981: Lynn G. Cutler '62 '67
1981: Graham Hovey '33 '36
1981: James E. Luhrs '59
1981: William K. Poston, Jr., Dr. '61
1980: Eugene C. Bovee '39
1980: Roy B. Minnis '38
1980: Clark H. Mitze '39
1980: Dorothy Tostelbe Ray '41
1979: Lawrence Y. Agodoa '67
1979: Richard Devin '66
1979: Charles E. Grassley '56
1979: Edgar L. Harden '35
1978: Walter Brown '38
1978: Thorrel B. Fest '32
1978: Lolas E. Halverson '44
1978: Philip Peak '30
1977: Robert Buckmaster '33
1977: Rex Miller '53
1977: Mona VanDuyn Thurston '42
1977: Sylvia Boltz Tucker '42
1976: Ronald S. Haughton '62
1976: John S. Latta, Jr. '29
1976: Norma G. Rehder '31
1976: Stanley G. Wood '31
1975: James F. Curtis '35
1975: T. Wayne Davis '43
1975: Harald C. Jensen '30
1975: Dennis Jensen '57 '61
1975: Charles A. Patten '61
1974: Donald L. Fruehling '57
1974: Ronald W. Roskens '53 '55
1974: Nancy Price Thompson '64
1973: Robert D. Benton '51
1973: LeRoy W. Dunn '56
1973: Donald F. Howard '31
1972: Lawrence Jepson '17
1972: W. Thomas Pettit '53
1971: Jim L. Heskett '54
1971: Lawrence H. Shepoiser '32
1970: David K. Berninghausen '36
1970: Robert B. Kamm '40
1969: James Richard Jordan '39
1968: Robert Bernard Hughes '39
1968: Ralph Galen Nichols '29
1968: Anna Hong Rutt 1908
1967: Lawreence Edward Dennis '40
1967: Melvene Draheim Hardee '34
1966: Robert Louis Ebel '32
1966: Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim '24
1965: Gordon Hoxie '40
1965: James H. Shoemaker '18
1964: Wendell H. Bragonier '33
1964: Frank Hovorka '22
1963: Glenn A. Bakkum '14
1963: Wendell H. Pierce '33
1962: Joseph B. Clay 1903
1962: P. Victor Peterson '17
1961: Minard Stout '29
1961: Guy Wagner '26
1960: David H. McCuskey '30
1960: C. Bert McDonald '20
1959: Edgar L. Harden '35
1959: Eva Mae Luse Smith 1901
1958: Thomas E. Jones 1909
1958: Rutherford Rogers '36
1957: Elizabeth Fullerton Hudson '19
1957: Robert Huntoon '32
1957: Venancia Trinidad '22
1956: Alison Aitchison 1903
1956: Kenneth W. Colegrove 1905

Distinguished Leadership Award

The Distinguished Leadership Award was presented in the past but is no longer a part of the Heritage Honours Awards program.

1999: Mildred Middleton '43
1998: Parke Behn
1997: Judy Heiman Gaze '73

Alumni Service Award

This award recognizes graduates who have shown long and continuous service to the university and community.

2023: Kip Elliott, '89
2022: Judith Marshall Finkelstein, '68
2021: Megan Stull '08
2020: *Canceled due to COVID
2019: Doug '72 and Rosie '72 Lindaman
2018: William D. Calhoun, Jr. '79
2017: Roberta Yoder '71 '13
2016: Merlin Taylor '61
2015: Sue Caley '81
2014: Justin Bierman '99
2013: Beverly Wynn Riess '78
2012: Sandy Stevens '62
2011: Jean Trainor '75
2010: David Takes '81
2009: Len Froyen '57
2008: Wanda and Carl Wehner ('52, '66 and '51, '59)
2007: Rod Foster '83
1999: James Handorf, Dr. '54
1998: David Deeds '90
1997: William C. Rainbow '52
1995: Jack Ingle '81
1994: Woodrow I. Nelson '42
1994: Mike Sheehan '65
1993: Bruce Bengtson '64
1993: Betty Jean (B.J.) Furgerson '54
1992: Walter Cunningham, Dr. '66 '71
1988: Robert L. Justis '74
1987: Chuck Hazama, Mayor '57
1986: Jack Wilkinson, Dr '52 '58.
1985: D. Jay Ellis '74
1985: R. Scott Fetner
1985: Shirley Hagemann '29
1985: Shirley Miller
1985: Barbara Yager
1984: Elverda (Butch) Bender
1984: Judith Harrington
1984: Fred Lott
1984: James Martin
1984: Jerry Martinson
1984: Ralph Piper '34
1984: James Robinson
1984: Don Rod
1984: Margaret Willoughby '47
1983: Gary Kelley '68
1983: Mimi Kingsbury '68
1983: Karen Vaudt Mills '69
1983: Harold Strever '68
1983: Junean Witham '66
1982: Sandy Exler
1982: Noreen Hermansen '71
1982: Paul Rider
1982: Lyle Schwarzenbach '67 '68
1982: George & Lill Shull
1981: David Takes
1981: Louis & Sharon Khem '60
1981: Curt & Kay Mahaffey '41
1981: Rita Dahmus Peltz '73
1981: Harlan Phillips '53
1981: John W. Strain '52
1981: Leland Thomson, Dr. '56 '59
1980: College Hill Merchants
1979: Phil & Ilene Berg
1979: Thomas Hansmeier, Dr. '54 '57
1979: Leone Corkery Harms '44
1979: Karl Holvik, Dr.
1979: Elmer & Ireta Keith '46
1979: John Ketter
1979: Teru "Satch" Mukai '59 '62
1979: Richard H. Redfern '74
1978: Jack Ackerman
1978: Don A. Eichelberg '63
1978: Ed Ewoldt '54
1978: Carolyn Haurum
1978: Marilyn Koestler '57
1978: Bob Kramer
1978: Wendell Lockard
1978: Cliff McCollum
1978: Joe Nelson '68
1977: Marlene Wynn Behn '64
1977: William Blake '63 '70
1977: Bernard Ceilley '55
1977: Douglas Doerzman '58 '64
1977: Mattie Harper (posthumously)
1977: Howard V. Jones, Dr.
1977: James A. McCutcheon, Dr.
1977: Louis A. Orr '28
1977: Gordon J. Rhum, Dr.
1977: Eulalie Turner
1977: John D. Zahari
1976: Marvin E. Diemer
1976: Robert W. Giertz
1976: Laura Hartwell
1976: Robert C. Johnson '67
1976: Don McKay
1976: David Oman '74
1976: Darrel J. Porter '49
1976: Sam Scheilder '69
1976: Robert Stansbury, Dr. '56 '65
1976: Winnifred Zierath
1975: Ethel Ackerman
1975: William V. Anthony
1975: Betty Burley '41
1975: Sid Harrington
1975: Jim Heinz '63
1975: Glen Henry
1975: Bob Kenny
1975: Ken Kroemer '62
1975: Jack Orr
1975: Don Peters
1975: LeRoy Redfern
1975: Jim Rudd
1975: Dan Staggs '60
1975: Robert Stansbury, Dr. '56 '65
1975: Kathy Dunbar York
1974: James L. Bailey
1974: Charles H. Billman
1974: Loren E. Buser '66
1974: Roy Carver
1974: Tedda Toenjes Hach '47
1974: Robert D. Mershon '47
1974: Mardell Mohn
1974: Charles A. Patten '61
1974: Charles Pinkham
1974: Victor B. Rhodes
1974: Frank Standish
1974: Guy W. Wagner '26
1974: Norman E. White '46
1973: Miriam H. Aurand '45
1973: Harold E. Bernhard
1973: Robert A. Brown '34
1973: Kenneth G. Butzier '53
1973: Charles E. Grassley '56
1973: Willard R. Hansen
1973: John H. Jennett
1973: Erma B. Plaehn
1973: William E. Plantan
1973: Willard J. Poppy
1972: Robert L. Beach '51
1972: Charlotte Steinkamp Eilers '39 '68
1972: Wayne E. Hunt
1972: Robert E. Keller
1972: Milo Lawton '37
1972: O. M. "Hon" Nordley
1972: Howard D. Pigg '55
1972: Inez E. Radell '16
1972: Harry G. Slife
1972: Willis Wagner
1972: Letitia E. Walsh '15
1971: Don W. Brown '31
1971: Arnold V. Graeber
1971: Robert F. Hedemann '34 '39
1971: Marvin H. Klepfer '50
1971: Malcom P. Price
1971: Hugh O. Roberts '40
1971: Jerry C. Runkle '38
1971: Pauline L. Sauer
1971: Stanley B. Sheriff
1971: Betty J. Stover '42 '44
1970: Delores J. Beckmann
1970: E. Jean Bontz
1970: T. Wayne Davis '43
1970: Margaret G. Fullerton '25
1970: Titte Holst
1970: Phillip C. Jennings
1970: Neva H. Radell '17
1970: Raymond J. Schlicher
1970: James H. Witham
1970: Harold R. Yeoman '42
1969: Wallace L. Anderson '35
1969: Randall R. Bebb '42
1969: George F. Flanagan '34
1969: Robert D. Fulton
1969: Charles A. Hansen '49
1969: Carsten T. Johnsten '30
1969: Leonard J. Keefe
1969: Hoyt C. Messerer
1969: Evelyn J. Mullins
1969: Stanley G. Wood '31
1968: Donald W. Barker '35
1968: Berdena Nelson Beach '51 '75
1968: James Birkhead
1968: Emil W. Bock
1968: Danita S. Boyd
1968: Darlene Kesler Donohue '37
1968: James Hearst
1968: Donald A. Lenth '41
1968: Edlon D. Ravlin
1968: H. Willard Reninger
1967: G. Glenn Boysen '33
1967: Iver H. Christoffersen '53
1967: William B. Devine '37
1967: Meredith R. Griffing '36
1967: Hazel McComb Guyer '38 '50
1967: Marjorie H. Holderness '50
1967: Donald F. Howard '31
1967: Marc Ihm '35
1967: James W. Kercheval '29
1967: William C. Lang
1967: Caryl A. Middleton '34
1967: Daryl Pendergraft
1967: Stanley B. Reeves '37
1967: Leonard M. Thompson '29
1967: Eleanor Wheaton '39
1966: Merle Anderson
1966: Marshall R. Beard
1966: Walter E. Brown '38
1966: Max R. Clark '31
1966: Lloyd V. Douglas
1966: Finn B. Eriksen '31
1966: Nancy Grover Ewoldt '56 '59
1966: Perry H. Grier '38
1966: L. L. Mendenhall
1966: Eulalie Turner
1965: J. W. Maucker, President
1964: Forrest Brouhard
1964: Clifford R. Cronk '26 '31
1964: Irene Eaton '21
1964: Harald Holst
1964: Kemper Huber '50
1964: Floyd L. Link '35
1964: Harold A. Mayer '32
1964: Merle J. O'Brien '32
1964: Marna Peterson
1964: Jay B. Speake '30
1964: Marguirette Struble
1964: M. R. Thompson
1963: Edwin Coen '34
1963: David A. Dancer
1963: Griffin Eggers '37
1963: Margaret Fitzgerald
1963: Harland Hanson '31
1963: George Hutchinson
1963: Dorothy Koehring
1963: John S. Latta, Jr. '29
1963: A. Jerome Nielsen
1963: Churchill Williams '38
1962: Everett Davies '29
1962: Mary Dieterich
1962: Ralph R. Fahrney
1962: Garrett A. Lenhart '32
1962: Erma B. Plaehn
1962: Myron E. Russell
1962: Raymond E. Sorensen '36
1961: Noel Bacon '38
1961: A. E. Brown
1961: Margaret Divelbess
1961: Alice Newton '64
1961: Bartley Ogden '33
1961: J. Owen Perrine
1961: George Robinson
1961: Leland Sage
1961: Myrtle Stone
1961: Lawrence Whitford '24
1961: Ida May Wilson
1960: Paul A. Bender
1960: Eldon E. Cole
1960: W. B. Fagan
1960: W. Harold Hartman '28
1960: Doris B. Hauser
1960: C. W. Lantz
1960: Edna Mantor '27
1960: Edna Miller '36
1960: Lillian Nielsen '30
1960: Grace VanNess '19
1959: Wendell H. Bragonier '33
1959: E. C. Denny
1959: Edith Folken '36 '66
1959: Robert W. Getchell '37
1959: Edward Goetch
1959: Winifred Tuttle Hart '20
1959: George Holmes *
1959: Lew McDonald
1959: Elmer L. Ritter
1959: Mary Shackelford
1959: Thelma Short
1958: Amy Arey
1958: John Berg
1958: Virginia Epley '32
1958: Owen P. McElmeel
1958: Celia Natzke '20
1958: Joyce Nelson '47
1958: Bertha Pott
1958: E. Grace Rait '20
1958: May Smith
1958: Selina Terry
1958: Doris White
1957: Lester Ary
1957: Olive Barker '31
1957: Benjamin Boardman
1957: Hazel Webster Byrnes 1907, 1909, 1910
1957: Emmet Cable '31
1957: Arthur D. Dickinson
1957: Eugene Lynch '21
1957: H. A. Riebe '41
1957: Lou Shepherd '19
1956: Fred Cram
1956: A. C. Fuller
1956: Herbert V. Hake
1956: I. H. Hart
1956: Earl Miller
1956: Esther B. Foy Rinker '21 '33
1956: Hazel Strayer

‌Young Alumni Award

This award recognizes alumni who have success early in their career (age 40 and under) and who have been active at UNI.

2023: Katy Susong, '04
2022: Patrick Fier, '09
2021: Skylar Mayberry-Mayes '12
2020: *Canceled due to COVID
2019: Mary Thielen '99
2018: Matthew J. Bries '09
2017: Suzanna Shontz '99
2016: Wade Arnold '10
2015: Andy Van Fleet '98
2014: Stephen Bruere '03
2013: Matt Harris '04
2012: Jason Kilborn '94
2011: Jason Lau '99, '02
2010: Barbara '92 and Clay '92 Condit
2009: Bradley Block '93
2009: Guang Jin '92, '95
2008: Adrienne Hallett '97
2007: Troy Dannen '89
2005: Jason Follett '92
1999: David P. Brush '87
1998: Michelle Hyde Swanson '91 '97
1997: Deborah Vangellow '86
1996: Linda Lundstrom Cook '89
1995: Timothy Harmon '89 '92
1994: Anne Kirpes '89
1993: Barbara Schmitt Condit
1993: Clayton Condit
1993: Richard Wojan '85
1992: Michael Ralston '84
1991: Mark Long '79 '81
1991: Diane Mari Opatz Muni '78 '80
1989: Ken L. Wise '77
1988: Carol LeBeau-Hamilton '76
1987: Mark J. Kurth, Dr. '75
1986: Vapordeal Sanders, Dr. '76 '77

Honorary Alumnus Award

This award is presented to a friend of the university in recognition of their exceptional support of the university.

2023: Cathy Irvine
2022: Daryl D. Smith
2021: Joanne and Lane Reeves
2020: *Canceled due to COVID
2019: Jersey Jermier
2018: James L. Kelly, Ph.D.
2017: Jan and Scott Bittner
2016: Gary Rima
2015: Stan and Rose Lorenz
2014: Richard Jourdan and Mary Frances Jourdan
2013: Keith and Joyce Borglum
2012: Ed Gallagher
2011: Bob and Mary Ellen Molinaro
2010: Betty McCoy
2009: Dick Jacobson
2008: David Mason
2007: Eldred Harman

The Friend of the University Award was presented in the past but is no longer a part of the Heritage Honours Awards program.

1999: Robert W. Bettle '63
1998: David A. Roberts
1997: Donald Lindaman
1996: Carl A. Bluedorn
1995: Dick Morris
1994: Redfern, Mason, Dieter, Larsen & Moore Law Firm
1993: Rex Eno
1993: J. Michael McBride '62
1992: R. J. McElroy Trust
1991: Martha Ellen Tye
1989: Deery Family
1989: Willis Wagner
1988: Congdon Family (Congdon Printing)
1987: James A. McCutcheon, Dr.
1986: Jackson Baty, Dr. '68 '71