College Engagement, Office of Advancement
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401
Previous Recipients
2022 (Read the Citations)
Bob Gillespie '90 and Sabir Taj '01
2021 (Read the Citations)
Chip Evans '68, Jim Foley '78, and David Bates '78
2020 (Read the Citations)
Jun Adachi '81, Wendy Scherwat Ducourneau ’72, and Esther Wilson '99
2019 (Read the Citations)
Dave Anderson '89, Rex Cherrington '73, and John Norton '58
2018 (Read the Citations)
Susan Blew '75, Rob Clark '95, Cathy Kucik Heimann '70
2017 (Read the Citations)
Maurice Harris '08, Nalini Prakash Hart '03, Joyce Hertko '82, Gary Moses '65
2016 (Read the Citations)
Jacob Plummer '00 and Bob Schmid '62
2015 (Read the Citations)
Carol Daugherty Egan '72, Dudley McCarter '72, Topper Steinman '72, Eric Wilson '84
2014 (Read the Citations)
Anthony Balthazor '03, Chris Eik Winick '73
2013 (Read the Citations)
Richard Kowalski P'14, Anthony Liberta '55, Steve Walton '74
2012 (Read the Citations)
Lil Maria Castro-Rosabal '88, Thomas J. Crabtree '72, H. James Farver '61
2011 (Read the Citations)
Rick '83 and Mary Filosa Brown '82, Brooks Goedeker '02, David '70 and Judy Waggoner Lambert '71
2010 (Read the Citations)
Bernard McCune '88, Mike '58 and Patricia Craig Ruffolo '58, John Sauter '63
2009 (Read the Citations)
Jean Anderson '87, Letitia Luther Schactner '58, Brett Tilly '95
2008 (Read the Citations)
Phyllis Holowaty Albrecht '56, George B. Eaton '80, Carolyn Swartz Park '55
2007 (Read the Citations)
Nancy Cane Beelman '58, Lynn E. Salier '56, Dorothy Thomas Wharton '55
2006 (Read the Citations)
Jack E. Larson '44, Steven P. Luetger '75, Leland Wilson, Air Cadet
2005 (Read the Citations)
J. William McVey '66, Ann Feldman Perille '76, Jerome A. Tatar '71
2004 (Read the Citations)
Charles J. Gibbs '50, Bradley R. Milton '78, Robert R. '58 and Louise Bost Wolf '59
2003 (Read the Citations)
Laurence S. Chadwick '53, Vernice Mendrek, Michiko Tanaka '57
2002
Charles Boydstun '44, Joan Felter Hotchkiss '50, James Valentine '61
2001
Debra P. Banks '73, R. Ned Landon '43, William N. Monson '57
2000
James R. Bowman '48, William J. Foley '38, James T. Poor '54
1999
Bradley Burnside '45, Robert & Daniele Devillairs and Angele Parmeggiani, Russell E. Swise '42
1998
Carol Baldwin, Robert K. Burden '55, Homer H. Johnson '57
1997
William L. Flodin '55, Edward F. Novak '69, Steven J. Phillips '71
1996
Merle Glick '46, Marjorie L. Gustafson '42, Irene Bowman Landis '36
1995
Ann Asplund, Kenneth Alan Buck '79, Robert Wallace '58, Ralph C. Walter III '69
1994
Thomas L. Anderson '66, Evan T. Jones '72, Charlotte M. Sommer '72
1993
David Robinson '38, Janet Koran '71, C. Max Stubbs '40
1992
George Hook '60, John Heyer '68, Al Young '69
1991
Evelyn Clay L'32, John Straus '73, Margaret Mathews-Berenson '68
1990
James Bjorkman '57, Thomas Clemmer '37, John Hayes '71
1989
Harold Ford '39, James "Bud" Potter '63, Dale Runyon '51
1988
John Baily L'29, Charles Bednar '29, Mary Burgland '68
1987
Gail C. Youngren L'27
1870
Barnabas Root receives degree
Knox was one of the first colleges in Illinois to award a degree to a black student