Distinguished Service Award
Outstanding service deserves to be applauded.

2022 Award Recipient - Dr. Joan Wertz
Dr. Joan Wertz was an integral part of our COVID-19 campus leadership task force, which was established to formulate and execute the College’s response to the pandemic. And in January of 2021, when we were all kind of wondering, “Is it safe to be fully back?” we could clearly see that Joan was still working on it as we all made our way to the Huff Center for COVID tests before the start of the semester.
Through the two decades of being a part of the Monmouth College faculty, Wertz has been chair of Faculty Senate for multiple terms, as well as the longtime chair of the psychology department. She was recently appointed Associate Dean of Academic Success, focusing on student retention. Wertz has also led several student trips to foreign countries and, keeping true to that global perspective, was one of the driving forces behind the creation of our Global Public Health minor.
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Year Awarded | Recipient |
2021 |
Jeff Rankin |
2020 | Peter Pitts |
2019 | William Urban |
2018 | Jacquelyn Condon |
2017 | Jeffrey D. Miller ’84 |
2016 | Harlow Blum |
2015 | George “Deeks” Carroll Jr. ’62 |
2014 | Don Gladfelter ’77 |
2013 | Kevin S. Kaihara ’77 |
2012 | Dean St. Ledger |
2011 | Hon. Daniel S. Weber ’74 |
2010 | Michael E. Sproston ’64 |
2009 | William J. Goldsborough ’65 |
2008 | David C. Allison ’53 |
2007 | Virgil S. Boucher ’32 |
2006 | Frederick W. Wackerle ’61 |
2005 | Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 |
2004 | Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 |
2003 |
David A. Bowers ’60 Frank W. Sorensen |
2002 |
Elizabeth F. Peacock H. Safford Peacock |
2001 | Isabel Bickett Marshall ’36 |
2000 |
George E. Trotter, Jr. ’47 Maxine Murdy Trotter ’47 |
1999 | R. Jeremy McNamara |
1998 | Mary Ann Galusha Eiserman ’72 |
1997 | Charles J. Speel II |
1996 |
Robert H. Buchholz Frank W. Lee, III ’69 Margaret A. Will Lee ’71 |
1995 |
Ernest Crow , Jr. ’41 Rev. J. Stafford Weeks |
1994 |
Bruce Haywood John J. Ketterer |
1993 |
Dorothy Eyler Arthur ’48 Ralph E. Stephenson ’58 |
1992 |
Dr. James W. Marshall ’36 Clarence P. Patterson ’35 |
1991 | Margaret Miles ’30 |
1990 | Sarah A. Ryder ’38 |
1988 | Alice M. Martin ’31 |
1987 | Stephen W. Graham, Jr. |
1986 | Mary Jane Tippett |
1985 | Elwood H. Ball |
1984 |
Jean A. Frans Hogue ’30 Katina R. Harper Truman ’77 |
1983 |
Heimo A. Loya ’38 Lyman O. Williams |
1982 | Ralph E. Whiteman ’52 |
1981 | William M. LeSuer ’42 |
1980 |
Catherine Freed DeBow Freed |
1979 |
Eva H. Cleland Samuel M. Thompson ’24 |
1978 | Adele Kennedy |
1977 |
Peter H. Bunce Lee L. Morgan Glen D. Rankin ’43 Mildred M. Saville ’28 |
1976 |
Mary S. Bartling Crow ’41 Eileen Sandberg Loya ’40 |
1975 |
Cmdr. Gilbert E. Boone Katherine Phelps Boone ’30 |
1974 | Benjamin T. Shawver |
1973 | Kenneth Geiger ’53 |
1972 | Sigmund Kunstadter |
1971 | David D. Fleming ’46 |
1970 | Duncan Wimpress |
1969 | Roger J. Fritz ’50 |
1968 | Cyrus R. Osborn |
1967 |
Evelyn M. Peters Kyle ’32 Fielding A. Smith ’25 |
1964 | N. Barr Miller ’28 |
1961 | Hugh R. Beveridge ’23 |
1960 |
Dr. Rollin S. Moore ’31 Robert T. Rawson ’42 |
1958 |
William K. Addleman ’36
Carl S. Easdale Leroy Pierce ’14 Dorothy Austin Prugh ’13 Thomas Prugh ’12 Ivory Quinby ’19 W. Frank Rosell ’12 Chalmer Spiker Ralph Stephenson, Sr. Elizabeth Farrell Zumstein ’25 |
1957 |
Louise Reid Campbell ’07 James C. Foster ’14 Thomas H. Hamilton ’07 Mary E. McCoy ’13 Robert T. McLoskey ’28 Wendell F. Whiteman ’27 |
1956 |
Morris Beabout Harold Blair ’25 Kenneth Craig Janet E. Ritchey Palmer ’35 Grace Gawthrop Peterson ’22 Harry W. Rhea ’55 John W. Service ’35 |
1955 |
Dr. O. E. Sterett Keith L. Trevor |
1954 |
Robert Albert Fred B. Pattee Glen Soule |
1953 |
Max R. Armstrong ’41 William T. Axline ’21 Bruce B. Barr ’28 Algot J. Bowman Mabel M. Bowman ’25 George H. Bruington Howard W. Bryant Thomas Wiley Clark ’27 Paul M. Crafton Emory B. Davis David D. Edwards Victor C. Engdahl George Gardner ’26 Ernest Johnson John J. Kritzer ’13 William McKnight ’34 Robert S. Moore ’38 Thomas E. Moore Gale L. Parrish ’51 Gail Reynolds ’42 James Sanderson ’26 George H. Thorbeck Donald B. Walker Paul E. Warfield ’24 Russell White |