Distinguished Alumnus Award
Recognizing the exceptional achievements of our alumni.
Dr. Wendell Shauman ’67
Dr. Wendell Shauman ’67 is a farmer’s farmer. Not only does he maintain an 1,100-acre corn and soybean farm near Monmouth, he also has been in more leadership roles than there are kernels on an ear of corn.
Dr. Shauman is chair of the U.S. Grains Council, has served on the United States Department of Agriculture Plant Variety Protection Board, the National Corn Growers Association Research Committee, the Illinois Farm Bureau Board, the Illinois Soybean Board, the Warren County Farm Bureau Board, and the Illinois Corn Marketing Board. Aside from these, he is a 2015 Eagle Award recipient, and close to home he serves as a leader to the class of 1967 and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
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| Year Awarded | Recipients |
| 2020 | Col. Stephen Bloomer ’83 |
| 2019 | Robert G. Riley, Jr. ’70 |
| 2018 | Robert Brink ’68 |
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2017 |
R. Eugene Turner ’67 |
| 2016 | William M. Simpson ’65 |
| 2015 | Daniel A. Cotter ’88 |
| 2014 | Bradley Nahrstadt ’89 |
| 2013 | Karen Barrett Chism ’65 |
| 2012 | David J. Shawver ’70 |
| 2011 | Jackie R. Bell Zachmeyer ’89 |
| 2010 | Lon J. Helton ’72 |
| 2009 | Key P. Yang ’50 |
| 2008 | J. Rodney Lemon ’63 |
| 2007 | Dr. Frederick J. Kaskel ’67 |
| 2006 |
Walter S. Huff Jr. ’56 |
| 2005 |
Richard P. Wherry ’60 |
| 2004 | Robert A. Wetzel ’59 |
| 2003 | Dennis J. Lachel ’61 |
| 2002 |
William J. Goldsborough ’65 |
| 2001 |
Robert J. Ardell ’62 |
| 2000 | Robert W. Rasmusen ’56 |
| 1999 | Dr. Stanley E. Chism ’63 |
| 1998 |
Joan R. Rezner Gundersen ’68 Capt. Robert C. Mabry, Jr. ’70 |
| 1997 | William J. Winslade ’63 |
| 1996 | John S. Niblock ’58 |
| 1995 |
Dr. Richard J. Fuller ’57 Lothar Huehne ’54 |
| 1994 |
Hailu Sebsibe ’52 |
| 1993 |
Walter J. Nicol ’41 |
| 1992 |
Matilda Giannone Cerpa ’42 John H. Wagenknecht ’60 |
| 1991 |
C. Edward Greene ’72 Glen L. Pickens ’25 |
| 1990 |
Larry E. Millikan ’58 Rev. Dr. Roderic L. Smith ’23 |
| 1989 |
Jack C. Jacquet ’47 Maj. Gen. Phillip G. Killey, Jr. ’63 |
| 1988 |
Susan Cheng ’34 Rev. Dale K. Milligan ’48 |
| 1987 |
Rev. Howard M. Jamieson, Jr. ’40 William G. Kuntz ’49 |
| 1986 |
Dr. Timothy G. Lee ’61 H. Betty Weiss Oberstar ’43 |
| 1984 |
Karin E. Loya ’63 Hon. Robert W. Porter ’49 |
| 1983 |
Rev. Robert H. Meneilly ’45 Minna M. Fricke Work ’33 |
| 1982 |
Frances A. Brent Killey ’32 Ruth E. Okey ’14 |
| 1981 |
Robert V. Cramer ’54 Marilynn K. Hofstetter ’49 |
| 1979 |
Dr. Roger Henderson ’29 W. Ernest Schlaretzki ’41 David Turnbull ’36 |
| 1978 |
Harold L. Hermann ’27 Hon. James C. Hornaday ’61 Eugene K. Lau ’28 |
| 1977 |
Robert J. Clendenin ’26 Dr. James W. Marshall ’36 Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale ’46 |
| 1975 | J. Allan Johnson ’56 |
| 1974 | Clayton V. Taylor ’26 |
| 1973 | Hazel F. Stewart Alberson ’17 |
| 1973 | Hazel F. Stewart Alberson ’17 |
| 1972 | Raymond C. Grills ’37 |
| 1971 | Charles A. Owen, Jr. ’36 |
| 1970 | William M. LeSuer ’42 |
| 1969 | Charles R. Russell ’40 |
| 1968 | Cliff S. Hamilton ’12 |
| 1967 |
Lucile Meloy Ady ’17 Rev. Merrill S. Ady ’20 |
| 1966 |
Clair S. Boruff ’23 Thomas C. Robinson ’33 |
| 1964 |
E. Irene Diggs ’27 Calvin B. Hoover ’22 |
| 1963 |
Dinsmore Alter ’08 Mary E. Graham Feustel ’22 Blake S. Root ’27 Helen L. Wagner Willey ’38 |
| 1962 |
Charles Butler ’29 George H. Lesch ’31 Herbert C. Merillat ’35 Lyman B. Sutter ’27 |
| 1961 | Myron H. Bengson ’47 |
| 1960 |
Robert C. Dunbar ’99 S. Wirt Wiley ’01 Newton K. Wilson ’29 |
| 1959 |
Dorothy Walker Blair ’41 Robert L. Blair ’39 Rev. John W. Findley ’97 Jean Liedman ’27 |
| 1958 |
Helen Beveridge Brennan ’29 Dwight Eckerman ’21 Margretta J. Gardiner McConnell ’16 Gladys E. Whitmore ’24 |
| 1957 |
Edward L. Bencini ’30 Helen W. Hartsock ’14 Leland P. Johnson ’32 Will F. Kissick ’25 Margaret Miles ’30 Frederick O. Steadry ’31 |
| 1956 |
Robert E. Acheson ’28 Henry Driemeyer ’06 Hortense Hood ’22 Brig. Gen. Howard E. Reed ’20 Robert C. Ross ’14 Samuel M. Thompson ’24 |
| 1955 |
Dr. Charles P. Blair ’05 John Marshall Briley ’27 Sarah Norcross Jones ’94 William S. McClanahan ’29 Dr. McKinnie L. Phelps ’29 Thomas M. White ’16 |
| 1954 |
Dr. J. Roy Doty ’27 Dr. Ralph Graham, Sr. ’97 Graham W. McMillan ’37 R. J. Riddell ’15 Agnes Sherrick Turnbull ’08 H. Donald Winbigler ’31 |