Distinguished Alumnus Award
Recognizing the exceptional achievements of our alumni.
2022 Award Recipient - Col. Joel Hillison ’83
The Gen. Colin Powell Chair of Military and Strategic Studies at the United States Army War College, Col. Joel Hillison serves as the director for the “National Security Policy and Strategy” course. In that role, he is responsible for the development of more than two dozen faculty members. He has also taught courses on strategic leadership, war, and military strategy, and regional issues and interests.
Prior to becoming an award-winning teacher, Col. Hillison was comptroller and deputy chief of staff of resource management for multinational forces in Iraq for one year. He also held a three-year post as comptroller for NATO’s Combined Joint Planning Staff in Belgium, overseeing a $118 million budget as he worked with all 19 NATO countries.
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| Year Awarded | Recipients |
| 2021 |
Dr. Wendell Shauman ’67 |
| 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 |