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Honored by Macalester, Chosen by Alumni
The following individuals exemplify the values of Macalester College and have been honored with Alumni Awards:
- Charles J. Turck Global Citizen Award Winners
- Young Alumni Award Winners
- Catharine Lealtad, Class of 1915, Service to Society Award Winners
- Alumni Service Award Winners
- Distinguished Citizen Award Winners
By class-year-decade:
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s ·
1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s· 2000s
Charles J. Turck Global Citizen Award Recipients
2024 Henryka Manes ’74
2023 Nagi (Batnairamdal) Otgonshar ’08
2022 James Cummings ’86
2021 Douglas Johnson ’71
2020 Martha Hansen McManus ’70
2019 Lowell Gess ’42
2018 Thea Gelbspan ’97
2017 Jane Lucas ’67
2016 Betsey Collins Demiray ’66
2015 James ’65 and Susan Graham ’65
2014 Paula Hirschoff ’66
2013 Richard Johanson ’63
2012 Peter C. Andersen ’77
2011 Kofi Annan ’61
2010 Steven Laible ’67
2009 Tonderai Chikuhwa ’96
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Young Alumni Award Recipients
2024 Allan Martinez Venegas ’14
2023 Brittni Chicuata ’08
2022 Michael Snavely ’12
2021 Jaye Gardiner ’11
2020 Abaki Beck ’15
2019 Emma Mondadori ’09
2018 Jake Levy-Pollans ’09
2017 Ben Pederson ’07
2016 Anna Min ’09
2015 Zachary Axelrod ’06
2014 Alex Mas ’99
2013 Christy Haynes ’98
2012 Jane Bowman Holzer ’02
2011 Danai Gurira ’01
2010 Nicole Palasz ’96
2009 Fred Swaniker ’99
2008 Lorne Lieb ’98
2007 Amalia Anderson ’96
2006 Chuck Szymanski ’91
2005 Lyungai Mbilinyi ’95
2004 Jeremy Hanson ’95
2003 John Millspaugh ’96
2001 Gregory Miller ’91
2000 Shawn Reifsteck ’93
1999 Alicia R. Phillips ’92
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Catharine Lealtad, Class of 1915, Service to Society Award Recipients
2024 Larry Chatmon ’74
2023 Legacy Russel ’08
2022 Kyera Singleton ’11
2021 Nyalleng Moorosi ’06
2020 Kayla Richards ’10
2019 The Honorable Michael Davis ’69
2018 Eleanor Darden-Thompson ’71
2017 Michael Curry ’91
2016 Jorge Salas ’91
2015 Shelley Carthen Watson ’82
2014 James Bennett ’69
2013 Minerva Perez-Lopez ’92
2012 Carolina Duarte Bradpiece ’86
2010 B. Todd Jones ’79
2009 Chuck Harris ’75
2008 J. Michael González-Campoy ’83
2007 Melvin Collins ’75
2006 Faye M. Price ’77
2005 Geoffrey Maruyama ’72
2004 Gloria Perez Jordan ’88
2003 Mary Ella Goins Randall ’43
2002 Lester R. Collins ’73
2001 Gabrielle Funaro Strong ’86
2000 Sharon Sayles Belton ’73
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Alumni Service Award Winners
Sorted by class year and then by last name.
Beverly Batzer O’Reilly ’38
Richard C. Norberg ’39
Frederick M. Coates, Jr. ’42
Esther Torii Suzuki ’46
George A. Mairs III ’50
John Ring ’51
Robert C. Ringold ’52
Alan Naylor ’57
Nancy Slaughter ’58
Janice K. Dickinson ’64
Broderick Grubb ’73
Anne Harbour ’64
David A. Ranheim ’64
Edward Swanson ’64
David Lanegran ’63
Dean Verdoes ’64
David Bloom ’65
Ruth Milanese Lippin ’65
Judy L. Vicars ’68
Burke Strickland ’69
Peter Fenn ’70
Timothy Hultquist ’72
Ray Runyan ’72
Gabrielle Lawrence ’73
Mike Skoien ’73
Dr. Karen Kaufman-Codjoe ’74
Louisa Chapman ’75
Stephen Cox ’76
Lisa Peterson ’81
Kate Havelin ’83
Molly McGinnis Stine ’87
Julie Lehnhoff Zhu ’97
Niloy Ray ’99
Emily P.G. Erickson ’08
Mike Coleman ’11
Merita Bushi ’14
Ariel Estrella ’15
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Distinguished Citizen Award Winners
Sorted by class year and then by last name. The year before each name indicates when the recipient was honored.
Skip to a class year decade:
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
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1900s Class Years
1960 Millacent Mahlum Kaltz ’01
1951 Earl K. Bitzing ’05
1950 Paul T. Rusterholz ’06
1962 David D.D. McMartin ’07
1949 George K. Aiken ’08
1949 Hugh S. Alexander ’09
1910s Class Years
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1977 William J. Bell ’10
1954 Mildred Phillips Kindy ’10
1978 Henriette Lund ’10
1956 Ernest Johnson ’11
1980 Ruth A. McKinlay ’12
1952 William E. Scott ’12
1954 Oakley Russell Tripp ’12
1956 Solomon David ’13
1956 W.H. Holley ’13
1949 Florence Otis Kindle ’13
1954 James Merton Snyder ’13
1965 Edith Almeda Haigh ’15
1978 Catharine D. Lealtad ’15
1971 Frieda Jeannette Radusch ’15
1951 Isabelle Howard Jensen ’16
1960 Rohland Isker ’17
1957 J. Arthur Lewis ’17
1949 W. Mell Hobart ’18
1953 Amy LeVesconte ’19
1953 Charles Mitchell Wenzel ’19
1920s Class Years
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1958 Veva Halverson Acton ’20
1980 Lillian T. Flitch ’20
1951 L. Margaret Johnson ’20
1956 Mildred Peabody Nelson ’20
1956 Chester Martin Tobin ’20
1967 Ozni C. Brown ’21
1949 Leland Davidson Case ’22
1951 John M. Hargreaves ’22
1977 Lawrence E. Aurelius ’23
1973 Albert A. Beltmann ’23
1952 Ray Ellis Lemley ’23
1949 N. Logan Leven ’23
1978 Enrique C. Sobrepena ’23
1979 Mary Gwen Owen Swanson ’23
1964 F. Lawrence White ’23
1959 Robert N. Barr ’24
1958 Ruth L. Bowman ’24
1954 James Dickison ’24
1951 Lillian Ruth Dickson ’24
1974 Jane Howard Roberts ’24
1956 Carl Ragnar Wall ’24
1955 Jean Jackson McVeety ’25
1954 Viroqua Nodolf ’25
1957 Walter J. Rock ’25
1966 John Wesley Stokes ’25
1966 Leverne H. Tanglen ’25
1950 Feirnan Wang Tzu ’25
1976 Donald R. Bosley ’26
1962 Jeanne Hugo Carruthers ’26
1950 Howard M. James ’26
1957 Marion Dailey Mason ’26
1951 Milton D. Mason ’26
1956 Edith Prideaux Cochrane ’27
1977 Harry Noble Huntzicker ’27
1954 Edwin E. Knudson ’27
1953 Gordon L. Leistikow ’27
1959 George P. Leonard ’27
1949 Florence Morgan ’27
1973 A. Phillips Beedon ’28
1981 Helen Samuelson Berger ’28
1961 Wallace F. Janssen ’28
1978 Samuel B. Kirkwood ’28
1963 Orville C. Peterson ’28
1955 Charles Cooper ’29
1954 Ralph L. Distad ’29
1952 Max Karl ’29
1930s Class Years
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1953 Alice Christine Grube ’30
1986 Herbert O. Johnson ’30
1961 Marjorie E. Moore ’30
1957 Marguerite Lains Olds ’30
1966 Margaret A. Stanchfield ’30
1971 Elaine Laughlin Colby ’31
1979 Raymond L. Cramer ’31
1951 Elise Renning-Davies ’31
1952 Lester O. Krampitz ’31
1981 Harland G. Wood ’31
1953 Byron Barlow Cochrane ’32
1977 David M. Fulcomer ’32
1986 Dorothy Flint Novak ’32
1983 Charles J. Beck ’33
1960 Fred Henry Koch ’33
1962 Donald H. Rock ’33
1978 Elinor Walker ’33
1984 Louise A. Wood ’33
1961 Russell L. Blaisdell ’34
1953 Ralph W. Chamberlain ’34
1973 Audrey Lucile Cochrane ’34
1958 Edwin V. Coulter ’34
1984 Arthur J. Gregory ’34
1959 Wilbur J. Humber ’34
1967 Murel Lewis Humphrey ’34
1974 Helen Hoye Mahle ’34
1974 Earl H. Wood ’34
1985 Margaret L. Day ’35
1955 Waldron W. Douglas ’35
1960 Andrew W. Hobart ’35
1970 Verna Wilson Johnson ’35
1975 Richard E. Smith ’35
1969 Victor H. Andersen ’36
1977 Lyle A. French ’36
1957 Max J. Volcansek, Jr. ’36
1978 Harriet Gregory Bragg ’37
1963 John F. Carey ’37
2002 Mortimer A. Dittenhofer ’37
1962 John R. Haserick ’37
1962 Julia E. Kagin ’37
1975 Katherine Flad Lundberg ’37
1979 Cecile Ryden Johnson Pierson ’37
1998 Kenneth D. Breckner ’38
1983 G. Reed Macomber ’38
1958 Beverly Batzer O’Reilly ’38
1964 Henry A. Daum, Jr. ’39
1964 Clara A. Kuehn ’39
1989 Margaret Wallin Marvin ’39
1940s Class Years
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1973 Arthur E. Bell ’40
1972 Mary Tripp Chenoweth ’40
1985 Norman K. Elliott ’40
1990 Robert N. Gardner ’40
1980 Howard K. Kaliber ’40
1988 Harold W. Larson ’40
1989 Douglas M. Lowe ’40
1973 G. Theodore Mitau ’40
1965 John A. Wallace ’40
1996 Chester A. Anderson ’41
1974 Jack E. Echternacht ’41
1975 Gene W. Halverson ’41
1980 Muriel Schermer Kaliher ’41
1993 John W. Perry ’41
1992 Eric H. Clamons ’42
1992 Lowell A. Gess ’42
1962 Ronald M. Howard ’42
1961 Kenneth O. Johnson ’42
1997 Elizabeth Flad Elliott Tiffany ’42
1981 William H. A. Watson ’42
1970 Alice Godfrey Wimer ’42
1992 Roger K. Blakely ’43
1969 Roland R. DeLapp ’43
1954 Ethel Wagner DeLong ’43
1963 John Wilbert Gustad ’43
1952 Elizabeth Hilts Simpson ’43
1986 Russ Wigfield ’43
1949 Mary R. Allen ’44
1964 Mary K. Beyrer ’44
1975 Felipe Garcia-Beraza ’44
1952 Margaret Durkee Hoey ’44
2004 Phyllis Bambusch Jones ’44
1986 Jane Crichton Leiper ’44
1985 David R. Coddon ’45
1982 Harold (Barney) Goltz ’45
1971 Donald M. Meisel ’45
1951 Marabelle Taylor ’46
1992 Patricia Lanegran Kane ’47
1976 Mary Wemeier Anderson ’48
1988 David E. Marsden ’48
1968 Robert W. Rose ’48
2019 Robert W. Rose ’48
1988 Ruth Powers Yaffe ’48
1966 Arthur F. Dahlberg, Jr. ’49
1990 John P. Gallos ’49
1965 Gary H. Higgins ’49
2004 Howard Huelster ’49
1981 Joanne Jonson Kilde ’49
1984 Carolyn Cory Peterson ’49
1999 Edwin E. Stuart ’49
1979 Chris J. Wedes ’49
1950s Class Years
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1978 Robert C. Amerson ’50
1968 Earl W. Bowman ’50
2005 Harry M. Drake ’50
2000 Austin G. “Jim” Engel ’50
2000 Mary Roessel Engel ’50
2005 Robert C. Hoisington ’50
1969 Harold G. Krieger ’50
1995 Russell V. Lucas, Jr. ’50
1973 Walter F. Mondale ’50
1983 John K. Rose ’50
1969 Robert W. Warren ’50
2016 Beverly Robinson Allen ’51
2017 Edwin Andersen ’57
1996 Roger L. Awsumb ’51
1996 Richard E. Eichhorn ’51
1978 William P. Gerberding ’51
2006 Ronald C. Gustafson ’51
1994 Sally Abrahams Hill ’51
1982 James B. Nelson ’51
1981 Richard L. Schall ’51
2001 Charles J. Schiller ’51
2001 Wali M. Siddiq ’51
2006 Jessica Page Stickney ’51
1970 Don I. Wortman ’51
1982 Thomas J. Abercrombie ’52
2002 Donald F. Beisswenger ’52
1987 Milton A. Combs, Sr. ’52
1993 June Lomnes Dahl ’52
2007 Genell L. Knatterud ’52
1987 Doyle E. Larson ’52
1973 Joan Adams Mondale ’52
1977 Wilys Coulter Nelson ’52
1973 George Wemeier ’52
2003 Gina McElfish Damberg ’53
1978 Mary Strand Hoffman Davies ’53
1981 Mary Anne Dahl Ferrin ’53
1998 David B. Kachel ’53
1978 Virginia E. Lanegran ’53
1993 Joyce E. Peltzer ’53
2008 Charlotte Anderson Tripet ’53
2004 Don P. Amren ’54
1979 Jerry M. Ingalls ’54
1972 Robert W. MacGregor ’54
1994 Earl W. McGee ’54
1976 Phelps G. (Flip) Schulke ’54
1999 John A. Williamson ’54
1983 Ghulam Mohamad Yousafzai ’54
1968 William J. Hempel ’55
1980 Truman L. Jeffers ’55
2005 Carol Mae Brandt Olson ’55
2016 Louise Kloos Comfort ’56
2016 Darrel Gubrud ’56
2011 David Bebb Jones ’56
1984 Prudence Lanegran Cameron ’56
2006 Charles N. Johnson ’56
1986 Surender Singh ’56
1986 Anthony L. Andersen ’57
2002 Ann Beran Jones ’57
2007 Gerald Meigs ’57
2022 Rosalinda Santos Moldwin ’57
2007 Roger W. Strand ’57
1987 Ruth DeBeer Stricker ’57
1997 Grace Pretchel Young ’57
2008 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ’58
1980 Sally E. Howard ’58
1976 Robert A. Lundell ’58
1970 James D. Shannon ’58
1983 Nancy Slaughter ’58
2009 H. Kris Ronnow ’59
2009 Jessie Parker Strauss ’59
1989 Kathleen Osborne Vellenga ’59
1960s Class Years
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2010 Judith Pearcy Christianson ’60
1995 John M. “Jack” Mason ’60
2011 Darwyn Linder ’61
1997 Dean R. Edstrom ’62
2012 Barbara Walling Boat ’62
2012 Ronald Stolski ’62
1982 Barbara Bauer Armajani ’63
1982 Siah Armajani ’63
1998 James R. Jensen ’63
2014 David Lanegran ’63
2003 Martha A. Mills ’63
2008 Joan Swanson Velasquez ’63
2009 Art “Bud” Ogle ’64
2004 Jón Hákon Magnússon ’64
2014 Wayne Potratz ’64
2018 Julian Keikilani Ako ’65
2000 Paul H. Anderson ’65
1979 David A. Bell ’65
2010 David Bloom ’65
1980 Carol McFadzean Edwards ’65
2015 Robert Kreischer ’65
2000 E. Russell Lynn ’65
2015 Steve Marquardt ’65
2017 Yuko Nii ’65
1987 Dennis M. Peterson ’65
2016 Jim Anderson ’66
1981 Bonnie Wilson Buzza ’66
2001 Edie Bragg Harmon ’66
2011 Douglas W. Laube ’66
1983 Neal E. Lloyd ’66
2016 Don Mackenzie ’66
2018 Kenneth R. Beitler ’67
1987 L. Lee Knefelkamp ’67
1985 Harriet M. Lansing ’67
2017 Paul Schendel ’67
2017 Gil Mastenbrook Schoenfelder ’67
1993 Christina Baldwin ’68
2003 Jeff Halper ’68
2003 David L. Huestis ’68
2023 Roberta McNaughton Schomburg ’68
1982 Marlene M. Johnson ’68
2007 Tim O ’Brien ’68
1982 Karen Lafrance Scruggs ’68
1985 John T. West III ’68
1989 Charles M. Baxter ’69
1989 Michael J. Davis ’69
1994 Karla J. Ekdahl ’69
1992 Kathryn Huenemann Habib ’69
1994 Gloria Hnida Halvorson ’69
2019 Stuart McDowell ’69
2018 Ann Mann Millin ’69
1999 George W. Yu ’69
2024 Gerri Ego Allen ’69
1970s Class Years
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2021 Mary Ackerman ’70
2010 David Hodge ’70
2005 June Noronha ’70
2000 Barbara Wenstrom Shank ’70
2020 Ginny Strand ’70
2005 Edward S. Wilson ’70
1995 Leah Wortham ’70
2021 Kristen Amundson ’71
2006 Stephen H. Paulus ’71
1996 Barbara Phillips Sullivan ’71
2019 James Thompson ’71
2006 Melvin E. Duncan ’72
2002 Nikki A. Heidepriem ’72
2024 Desmond Kimo Runyan ’72
2010 Scott McCallum ’72
2022 Carol Wolf Runyan ’72
2022 Damian Anthony Vraniak ’72
2014 Beth Bergman ’73
1985 Sharon Sayles Belton ’73
1998 Susan L. Ousley ’73
1998 Susan M. Haigh ’73
2003 Warren Simmons ’73
2024 Kimberley Brown ’74
2004 Manuel J. Cervantes ’74
1994 Robert L. Desimone ’74
1991 Loretta M. Frederick ’74
1993 Gary D. Hines ’74
2001 Stanley M. Berry ’75
1995 Wiley A. Hall III ’75
1990 Paul C. Light ’75
1991 Jack W. Reuler ’75
2013 Nat Sloane ’75
2019 Sue Abderholden ’76
2009 Pamila Brown ’76
2009 Mihailo Temali ’76
2012 Chris Ward ’76
2001 Juan Figueroa ’77
1997 Kim Hines ’77
1999 LaVon M. Lee ’77
2012 James A. Williams ’77
1999 Carlos Mariani ’79
1980s Class Years
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2020 James Ochi ’80
2015 Skye Richendrfer ’80
2021 Christopher Herlinger ’81
2011 Marcia Zimmerman ’81
2023 Benjamin Dille ’82
2007 Carol Leino Carey ’82
2002 Stephen Smith ’82
2008 Roya Mohagheghi Ansari ’83
2022 Brian Cosgriff ’83
1995 Lois Quam ’83
2014 Elizabeth Richards ’83
2010 Sarah Craven ’85
2000 Martha Johnson ’85
2018 Lisa Mattson ’85
2011 Paul Raushenbush ’86
1991 Gabrielle Funaro Strong ’86
2023 Jennifer Lundblad ’88
2021 Amy Hagstrom Miller ’89
2008 Katherine Maehr ’89
2013 Sarah Wovcha ’89
1990s Class Years
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2020 Kury Cobham ’90
2013 Holly Elwood ’90
2022 Toby Heytens ’97
2017 Dziwe Ntaba ’95
2013 Karmela Galicia ’98
2024 Marie Zemler Wu ’99
2000s Class Years
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2023 Jennifer Anderson ’03
2023 Alissa Light ’03
2024 Rinal Ray ’04
2020 Kwame Amet Tsikata ’05
2020 Arda Kuran ’05
2019 Kristina Krohn ’05
2021 Demoya Gordon ’06