Alumni Awards

2025 Alumni Awards Ceremony

Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. | Campus Center Cardinal’s Nest
At the Celebration of Otterbein Breakfast during Homecoming & Family Weekend

Tickets available for purchase for general public to attend via this RSVP form (coming soon!). Please note: *Award winners, donor society members, and Class of 1975 Golden 50th Reunion members (and their invited guests) will receive complimentary tickets.

Each year, Otterbein University recognizes individuals across a wide range of professions who have demonstrated excellence in one or more of the following areas:

  • Advancement of intellectual curiosity, either professionally or academically, through innovative and intensive research or creative work.
  • Passion for increased intercultural competency and interest in global environments. The honoree also demonstrates transferable intercultural skills that they have integrated and applied across local and international communities through service, volunteerism, or professional contributions
  • Leadership in meaningful change in their profession, community, or the Otterbein campus community; represents the ideal of a committed, industrious, and caring individual.
  • Commitment to society demonstrated thorough civic and social responsibility; they have utilized their knowledge, skills, resources and time to create a clear, positive impact on their chosen community need or issue.
  • Dedication to a high-level of excellence and professional achievement at the local, regional, national or global level in the field of their endeavor.

There are four categories of awards: Rising Star, Otterbein Alumni, Distinguished Alumni, and Honorary Alumni. To learn more about these categories, please explore the “Award Categories” section below.

Nominations for the 2026 Alumni Awards are now open! Please see the information and form link down below, on this page.

2025 Award Honorees

Congratulations to this year’s honorees:

Megan Stein

Megan Miller Stein ’09, Rising Star Award
Senior Project Manager, HNTB Corporation

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Tyler Thompson ’18, Rising Star Award
Principal Investigator of the Complex Systems Research Portfolio, Riverside Research Institute

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Adam J. Bihl, M.D. ’93, Otterbein Alumni Award
Staff Physician and Chief of Staff, Avita Health System, and Lieutenant Colonel, Flight Surgeon, SGH (Chief of Staff), Ohio Air National Guard

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Linda Yohn ’73, Otterbein Distinguished Alumni Award
On-Air Host, The Swing Set, Detroit PBS/WRCJ-FM

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O.H. “Oz” Koeplin H’25, Honorary Alumni Award
Retired, City Manager of Westerville

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Todd Thomas ’10, Rising Star Award
Project Manager, Office of the Dean, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

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Carmel Avegnon-Sanders ’97, Otterbein Alumni Award
Artistic Director, Brave Young Voices, and Theatre Director, Olentangy Orange Middle School

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Carol A. Ventresca, Ph.D. ’76, Otterbein Alumni Award
Co-Owner and Co-Host, Looking Forward Our Way Podcast Program, and Consultant, Workforce Innovation Center

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Bryan Thao Worra H’25, Honorary Alumni Award
Poet and Chair, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans

Virginia Longmire

Virginia Phillippi Longmire ’55
Mary B. Thomas ’28 Commitment to Otterbein Award

Nomination Info and Form for 2026 Awards

Nominations for 2026 Alumni Awards are now open!

Otterbein University welcomes nominations for the Alumni Awards. You can submit nominations by completing this online form or by sending the required form information via a Word document to alumni@otterbein.edu (or mailing it to our office at Otterbein University, Alumni & Family Engagement Office, 1 S. Grove Street, Westerville, OH 43081). All nominations are due by Dec. 31, 2025.

Strong candidates across a wide range of professions will have demonstrated excellence in one or more of the following areas:

  • Advancement of intellectual curiosity, either professionally or academically, through innovative and intensive research or creative work.
  • Passion for increased intercultural competency and interest in global environments. The honoree also demonstrates transferable intercultural skills that they have integrated and applied across local and international communities through service, volunteerism, or professional contributions
  • Leadership in meaningful change in their profession, community, or the Otterbein campus community; represents the ideal of a committed, industrious, and caring individual.
  • Commitment to society demonstrated thorough civic and social responsibility; they have utilized their knowledge, skills, resources and time to create a clear, positive impact on their chosen community need or issue.
  • Dedication to a high-level of excellence and professional achievement at the local, regional, national or global level in the field of their endeavor.

Nominations for all Otterbein alumni, from recent graduates to those with more established careers, are welcome.

The presentation of the 2026 Alumni Awards will be in September 2026, at Homecoming & Family Weekend. 

If you have any questions, please contact Alumni & Family Engagement at alumni@otterbein.edu or (614) 823-1400.

  • About the Nominee

  • About the Nominator

  • Questions (Responses can be submitted via email or word document.) *Required

    1) Please describe your nominee’s exceptional professional achievements and contributions or service, as they relate to the areas listed in the award criteria.*
    2) What other attributes has your nominee demonstrated to support this nomination?*
    3) Please describe the impact of your nominee on a local, regional, national, and/or international level.*
    4) Is there anything else about your nominee that you would like the committee to consider?

    You may also email your responses to alumni@otterbein.edu. Only nominations with question responses will be considered.
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  • Award Categories

  • Supplemental Documentation

    In addition to the nomination form and written responses to the questions, a CV/resume is recommended. Articles, other awards received, and additional letters of support written by someone other than the nominator are strongly encouraged.
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    Award Categories

    Rising Star Award: This award recognizes accomplished alumni that received their degree within the last 15 years and have not reached their 38th birthday at the time of selection. An ideal candidate will have demonstrated one or more of the following: Community Achievement, Global or Intercultural Achievement, Leadership & Citizenship Achievement, Professional Achievement, Research or Creative Achievement, and Service to the University. *See below for a description of each type of achievement.

    Otterbein Alumni Award: This award recognizes accomplished alumni that received their degree 16 or more years ago or are over the age of 38 years. An ideal candidate will have demonstrated one or more of the following: Community Achievement, Global or Intercultural Achievement, Leadership & Citizenship Achievement, Professional Achievement, Research or Creative Achievement, and Service to the University. *See below for a description of each type of achievement.

    Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award: This award represents the most prestigious award presented by the Otterbein Alumni Association. Traditionally presented to only one individual per year, this award was established in 1951 to honor graduates of Otterbein University who have achieved recognized national or international prominence in their chosen career and have made significant contributions to their profession, community and the lives of others. The recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award represents the ideal of a committed, industrious, and caring individual to whom the Otterbein community may look as personifying the University’s mission.

    Honorary Alumnus/Alumna: The Honorary Alumni Award was created in 1950 for the purpose of recognizing and honoring those individuals, who, though not graduates of Otterbein University, have demonstrated outstanding interest, commitment and involvement in its life and activities. Recipients embody the notion that friends of the University, in addition to its alumni, can play an important and vital role in the enhancement of the institution.

    Mary B. Thomas ’28 Commitment to Otterbein Award: Visit this page for more information.  

    Award Criteria

    *Community Achievement
    – Exemplifies Otterbein’s mission of alumni advancing communities
    – Commitment to educational, faith, social, diversity, marginalized, environmental, youth or other societal concerns
    – Creation of a clear, distinctive, positive impact on a community need

    *Global or Intercultural Achievement
    – Exemplifies Otterbein’s mission of alumni engaging globally and thinking broadly
    – Engagement to advance a diverse population
    – Demonstrated intercultural worldview applied through service, volunteerism, or profession

    *Leadership & Citizenship Achievement
    – Demonstrated outstanding leadership in professional or volunteer activities
    – Demonstrated creative problem solving in leadership roles
    – Demonstrated mentoring of others

    *Professional Achievement
    – Exemplifies Otterbein’s mission of alumni advancing their professions
    – Demonstrated professional excellence and achievement
    – Significant career advancement
    – Enhancement of an organization

    *Research or Creative Achievement
    – Innovative, intensive and thorough research or creative work
    – Intellectual curiosity resulting in research excellence in a chosen field of endeavor
    – Innovative thinking resulting in creative excellence in a chosen field of endeavor

    *Service to the University 
    – Giving of time, talents, and service to create a better university
    – Generally interpreted to be contributions as a volunteer
    – An employee could be considered if their contribution is beyond the scope of their job expectations or is in a voluntary role

    Past Recipients

    Otterbein Alumni Award

    2024 – Melissa Briggs-Phillips ’95
    2024 – James E. Prysock III ’09, MBA’19
    2023 – Jennifer A. Jackson ’03
    2023 – Aaron K. Kerr ’91
    2023 – Shantel Weinsheimer ’99
    2022 – Tonya M. Milligan ’90 MAE ’98
    2022 – Alicia D. Caudill ’95
    2022 – Theodore Lloyd Jones ’70
    2022 – James Wagner ’56 P’81 P’88
    2022 – Jodi West Zellers ’96
    2021 – Ann Bancroft ’98 DVM, cAVCA, CCRP
    2021 – Larry Gifford ’94
    2021 – Leslie Lascheid ’81
    2021 – George Edward Liston ’52
    2021 – Charles W. Noble II ’78 M.D.

    Special Achievement

    2019 – Margaret Wooding Baker, ’97 MSN
    2019 – Roger Nisley, ’67
    2018 – Dianne Grote Adams, ’78
    2018 – Jeffrey A. Brindley, ’81
    2017 – Nita Seibel, ’75 M.D.
    2016 – Michael McKinney ’86
    2016 – Carlton M. Bates, M.D. ’86
    2015 – MaryAnn Everhart-McDonald ’72
    2015 – Judge David W. Fais ’65
    2015 – Donna Lee Valput Hanly ’00
    2014 – Jeri Malmsberry Close ’93
    2014 – Ruth Downing ’04, MSN ’06 RN CNP SANE-A
    2014 – Dr. Michael Leadbetter ’69
    2013 – Steve Johnston ’82
    2013 – Lou Ann Layton ’81
    2013 – John Wentzell ’82
    2012 – Richard Fetter ’73
    2011 – Randy Adams ’76
    2012 – Ronald C. Moomaw ’74
    2011 – Michael E. Ducey ’70
    2011 – Arthur B. Fulton ’51
    2009 – Thomas Dipko ’58
    2009 – Peggy Ruhlin ’79
    2008 – Cindy L. Loudenslager ’77
    2008 – Al Waterhouse ’82
    2007 – David A. Brown ’64
    2007 – Wayne Cummerlander ’80
    2007 – Jack G. Mehl ’72
    2006 – Janet Tressler Davis ’82
    2006 – Richard Reynolds ’65
    2005 – Douglas R. Knight ’63
    2005 – Allen L. Manson ’60
    2005 – Tatsuo Tsuda ’55
    2004 – Susan L. Canfield ’58
    2004 – Mark R. Thresher ’78
    2003 – Christine Kapostasy Jansing ’78
    2003 – Karl G. Kempf ’69
    2002 – W. Edward Harrell, Jr. ’94
    2002 – John E. King ’68
    2001 – Jerry B. Lingrel ’57
    2001 – Michael D. Pratt ’71
    2001 – Glen D. Shaffer ’70
    2000 – Myron K. Campbell ’77
    2000 – Mary F. Hall ’64
    1999 – Mellar P. Davis ’74
    1999 – Larry D. Schultz ’74
    1998 – Robert E. Dunham ’53
    1998 – Shirley Omietanski ’56
    1997 – Carl Becker ’49
    1997 – Richard Kissling ’61
    1997 – Lance Lord ’69
    1996 – Frederick Collins ’54
    1996 – Robert Eschbach ’54
    1996 – Curtis Tong ’56
    1995 – Richard Gantz ’43
    1995 – Jane Griggs ’69
    1995 – Gordon Jump ’55
    1995 – Morton M. Woolley ’45
    1994 – Suzanne Stilson Edgar ’79
    1994 – Nita Leland ’55
    1994 – Robert Woods ’69
    1993 – Roger A. Bell ’59
    1993 – Joanne Klepinger Ditmer ’50
    1993 – Granville S. Hammond ’40
    1993 – John W. Magaw ’57
    1992 – Ray W. Gifford ’44
    1992 – Dee M. Hoty ’74
    1991 – Joseph W. Eschbach ’55
    1991 – William J. Rea ’58
    1991 – Ferd Wagner ’40
    1990 – Lillard E. Law ’51
    1990 – Victor Ritter ’48
    1989 – Julia Thomas Morris ’60
    1989 – Paul S. Reiner ’68
    1988 – Waldo M. Keck ’28
    1988 – James E. Walter ’29
    1988 – Robert E. Holmes ’35
    1987 – Denton W. Elliott ’37
    1987 – Judith Stone Olin ’62
    1986 – Judith Graham Gebhart ’61
    1986 – Melvin A. Moody ’36
    1985 – Ken Holland ’35
    1985 – Adolphus ’40 and Gwen ’40 Pringle
    1984 – Sager Tryon ’34
    1984 – J. Robert Knight ’28
    1984 – Russell E. Garrett ’34
    1983 – Harold B. Hancock H’69
    1983 – Charles W. Harding ’38
    1982 – Floyd C. Beelman ’25
    1982 – Katherine Ryan McWilliams ’50
    1981 – John R. Wilson ’38
    1981 – David S. Yohn ’51
    1980 – Alice Propst Hoover ’28
    1980 – John M. Karefa-Smart ’40
    1979 – James S. Gallagher ’63
    1979 – Donald J. Henry ’33
    1979 – Philipp L. Charles ’29
    1978 – Robert C. Mumma ’27
    1978 – Perry F. Wysong ’39
    1977 – W. Frederic Miller ’30
    1977 – Marjorie McEntire Robinson ’37
    1977 – George E. Parkinson ’35
    1976 – Carl B. Eschbach ’26
    1976 – Isabel Howe Ziegler ’40
    1976 – Samuel R. Ziegler ’36
    1975 – E. Luella Fouts Clements ’89
    1975 – Merlin A. Ditmer ’10
    1975 – Royal F. Martin ’14
    1975 – W. Harold Anderson ’24
    1975 – Carrol C. Widdoes ’26
    1975 – Robert Edler
    1975 – Harry Ewing
    1975 – Albert A. Exendine
    1975 – Elmo Lingrel ’17
    1975 – Roy Peden ’22
    1975 – Arthur Francis ’33
    1975 – Robert Shaw ’52
    1974 – Ruth Cogan ’15
    1974 – John E. Vance ’30
    1973 – Alan E. Norris ’57
    1973 – Norman H. Dohn ’43
    1973 – A. Monroe Courtright ’41
    1973 – Wayne V. Harsha ’27
    1970 – Robert H. Cavins ’26
    1970 – Ray W. Gifford, Jr. ’44
    1970 – Richard C. Himes ’47
    1970 – Donald R. Martin ’37
    1970 – George W. White ’21
    1966 – Paul G. Craig ’50
    1966 – Mack A. Grimes ’41
    1966 – Robert E. Kline, Jr. ’18
    1966 – Ralph E. Shauck ’42
    1966 – Phyllis Brown Walker ’45
    1966 – J. Hutchinson Williams ’44

    Professional Achievement

    2020- Crystal Kelley ’05
    2020- Jeremy Young ’00
    2019- Carl D. Gelfius ’00, M.D.

    Research/Creative Achievement

    2020- Mina Makary ’09 MD, DABR
    2019- Mindy McGinnis ’01

    Community Service

    2018 – The Puskarich Family, accepted by Matthew P. Puskarich ’88
    2015 – Dom Tiberi ’81 and Terri Tiberi
    2017 – Nancy Loudenslager Cassell, ’65 Ph.D.
    2015 – Sherry Williamson ’05
    2014 – Mara Matteson ’89
    2013 – Amanda Slager Pickerill ’90 and Craig Pickerill ’90
    2012 – Mr and Mrs. Doug ’82 and Julie Leigh ’95, ’03 Sharp
    2011 – Dr. Susan E. Wiley ’86
    2009 – Dee Dee Krumm and Dennis Heffner ’69
    2008 – Harvey B. Smith
    2008 – Imodale Caulker-Burnett ’63
    2007 – Mark Puskarich ’86
    2006 – W. Thomas Deever ’68
    2006 – Shirley Amos Hodapp ’56

    Honorary Alumni

    2024 – Dr. Christina Reynolds (posthumous)
    2023 – Barbara K. Achter
    2023 – Beth Rigel Daugherty
    2023 – Coral Harris
    2022 – Stephen Rossman
    2021 – Barb Smoot
    2021 – Jon Devlin
    2020 – Joan Rocks Ph.D, ATC
    2019 – Mary Ann Bradford Burnam
    2019 – LaJoyce M. Daniel-Cain
    2013 – Betty Campbell
    2012 – Bruce Bailey
    2012 – Craig and Cass Johnson
    2011 – Guido Ricevuto
    1973 – Ralph Charlesworth
    1973 – Mabel Joyce
    1973 – James K. Ray
    1972 – Marguerite Boda
    1972 – Carol F. Frank
    1972 – Lawrence S. Frank
    1971 – Keith D. Crane
    1971 – Mildred Crane
    1971 – Myrtle T. Grimes
    1971 – Donna L. Kerr
    1971 – Thomas J. Kerr, IV
    1970 – A. M. Sanders
    1970 – Joanne F. Van Sant
    1969 – Harold B. Hancock
    1969 – Forrest R. Moreland
    1968 – Donald N. Ciampa
    1968 – Dorothy Ciampa
    1968 – Lillian S. Frank
    1967 – Opal Henderson
    1967 – Henry C. Ruegg
    1966 – William G. Comstock
    1966 – Samuel G. Ziegler
    1965 – O. T. Deever
    1965 – Marion E. Morris
    1965 – Lena Mae Wilson
    1964 – Celia I. Grabill
    1963 – Esther Jacobs
    1963 – Marguerite E. Nelson
    1963 – Alice Rheinaheimer
    1962 – Mrs. V. W. Norris
    1961 – Sanders A. Frye
    1960 – Robert Price
    1959 – Harold L. McMillan
    1959 – M. J. Miller
    1958 – Lynn W. Turner
    1958 – Vera Turner
    1957 – Merle W. Harner
    1957 – Mrs. Merle Harner
    1956 – C. E. Ashcraft
    1955 – Wade S. Miller
    1955 – L. Lee Shackson
    1954 – Harry W. Ewing
    1954 – A. R. Spessard
    1953 – A. J. Esselstyn
    1952 – Wesley O. Clark
    1952 – James H. McCloy
    1951 – A. R. Clippinger
    1951 – Aleece Cowan Gresham
    1951 – Henry Ochs
    1950 – B. C. Glover

    Pacesetter Award

    2020 – Joyce Ray ’00
    2019 – Rhonda Talford Knight ’96
    2018 – Tonye T. Patano ’83
    2017 – Rob Gagnon ’87
    2017 – Tammy Roberts Myers ’88
    2016 – Karen Kasler ’89
    2016 – Margenett Moore-Roberts ’94

    Distinguished Alumni Award

    2024 – Dee Hoty ’74
    2024 – Marsha Rice Scanlin ’74
    2023 – Robert S. Fortner ’70
    2023 – Eunice Fanning Foster ’70
    2020 – David Robinson ’78
    2019 – M. Robert Yakely ’62
    2017 – James Shilling ’77 Ph.D.
    2016 – Mellar P. Davis, M.D. ’74
    2015 – General Lance W. Lord ’68
    2013 – Thomas C. Morrison ’63
    2012 – Brian K. Hajek ’66
    2011 – David Yohn ’51
    2009 – Paul Paulus ’66
    2008 – Kent Stuckey ’79
    2007 – Bruce E. Flinchbaugh ’75
    2005 – William and Sonya Stauffer Evans ’56
    2004 – Robert E. Woods ’69
    2002 – Thomas R. Bromeley ’51
    2000 – Francis M. Pottenger III ’51
    1999 – Marilynn Etzler ’62
    1998 – John T. Huston ’57
    1997 – William LeMay ’48
    1996 – Hugh Allen ’62
    1995 – Sylvia Vance ’47
    1994 – Steve Lorton ’68
    1993 – Tony E. Hugli ’63
    1992 – Wolfgang R. Schmitt ’66
    1989 – Alan E. Norris ’57
    1988 – Edwin L. Roush ’47
    1987 – J. Hutchison Williams ’44
    1986 – Franklin M. Young ’26
    1985 – Rillmond W. Schear ’20
    1984 – Wilbur H. Morrison ’34
    1983 – Robert B. Bromeley ’29
    1982 – Howard A. Sporck ’34
    1981 – Frank M. VanSickle ’41
    1980 – Kenneth W. Bunce ’30
    1978 – Mary C. Lord ’45
    1977 – Virginia Norris Smith ’36
    1976 – William K. Messmer ’36
    1974 – L. William Steck ’37
    1973 – Virgil O. Hinton ’34
    1972 – Emerson Shuck ’38
    1971 – Verda B. Evans ’28
    1970 – Earl R. Hoover ’26
    1969 – Horace W. Troop ’23
    1968 – Elmer N. Funkhouser, Jr. ’38
    1967 – Harold L. Boda ’25
    1966 – J. Gordon Howard ’22
    1965 – Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. ’25
    1964 – John A. Smith ’33
    1963 – Richard E. Caulker ’35
    1962 – Lehman Otis ’33
    1961 – Sylvester M. Broderick ’24
    1960 – DeWitt Zuerner ’10
    1959 – W. R. Huber ’16
    1958 – Roy A. Burkhart ’27
    1958 – Herman F. Lehman ’22
    1957 – Richard Bradfield ’17
    1956 – Francis Bundy ’31
    1954 – Mabel E. Gardner ’08
    1952 – F. M. Pottenger ’92
    1951 – E. L. Weinland ’91
    1951 – John Finley Williamson ’11

    Service to Otterbein Award

    2020 – Karl Niederer ’75
    2009 – Wendell ’60 and Judith Lovejoy Foote ’58 (posthumously)
    2004 – Elizabeth Glor Allen ’64
    2004 – Lewis Michael Duckworth ’63
    2003 – Jane Morrison Horn ’50
    2003 – Leslie E. Mokry ’47
    2002 – Dayton Otterbein Women’s Club
    2002 – Westerville Otterbein Women’s Club
    2001 – Edward L. Mentzer ’58
    2000 – William N. Freeman ’57
    1999 – Helen Hilt LeMay ’47
    1999 – Elmer “Bud” Yoest ’53
    1998 – Victor ’48 and Eileen Ritter
    1996 – Mary Bivins H’85
    1995 – John Becker ’50
    1995 – Margaret Lloyd Trent ’65
    1994 – Lillian Frank H’68
    1994 – James A. Grissinger H’75
    1993 – Harold Boda ’25
    1993 – Marilyn Day ’53
    1992 – Frederick E. Brady ’39
    1992 – Albert V. Horn ’49
    1992 – Chester R. Turner ’43
    1991 – Francis “Red” Bailey ’43
    1991 – Larry Boor ’36
    1991 – Norman H. Dohn ’43
    1989 – Grace Burdge Augspurger ’39
    1989 – Alberta Engle MacKenzie ’40
    1988 – Charles W. Dodrill H’79
    1987 – Wilbur R. Franklin ’23
    1986 – Henry V. A. Bielstein ’55
    1986 – Edmond J. Booth ’36
    1986 – Robert L. Corbin ’49
    1985 – Charles S. Beadle ’54
    1985 – Nellie Niswonger ’26
    1985 – Donna L. Sitton ’55
    1984 – Craig Gifford ’57
    1983 – William E. LeMay ’48
    1983 – Edna Smith Zech ’33
    1982 – Benjamin B. Copeland
    1981 – Harold F. Augspurger ’41
    1981 – Robert C. Barr ’50
    1980 – Robert S. Agler ’48
    1980 – George H. Dunlap H’69
    1979 – Dwight C. Ballenger ’39
    1979 – Homer D. Cassel ’17
    1979 – Phyllis L. Shultz ’52
    1978 – Mary B. Thomas ’28
    1978 – Edwin L. Roush ’47
    1977 – Sara Kessler Steck ’37
    1977 – S. Clark Lord ’39
    1976 – Richard A. Sanders ’29
    1976 – Morris E. Allton ’36
    1975 – Melvin A. Moody ’36
    1975 – William C. Moffitt
    1973 – Evelyn Edwards Bale ’30
    1971 – Lynn W. Turner H’58
    1970 – Frederic R. Bamforth
    1970 – Albert J. Esselstyn H’53
    1970 – B. C. Glover H’50
    1970 – James H. McCloy H’52
    1970 – Lyle J. Michael ’19
    1970 – Edward W. E. Schear ’07
    1969 – Wade S. Miller H’55
    1964 – Ed Begley
    1964 – Carl Copp
    1964 – Ray W. Gifford ’17
    1964 – Joe P. Hendrix ’17
    1964 – John F. Smith ’10

    Mentor Impact

    2017 – Allen Prindle

    Rising Star

    2024 – Rebecca A. Carter ’15
    2024 – Amanda Dakermanji ’14
    2024 – Ashleigh Thornton Kraus ’17
    2024 – Aaron Rhinehart ’14
    2023 – Lauren Lichtenauer ’11
    2023 – Sarah H. Mabee ’07
    2023 – Keeshon Morrow ’08
    2023 – Andrew Tobias ’08
    2022 – Hilary Stone MBA ’20
    2022 – Karen Castro ’12
    2022 – Brooke Wilson ’10
    2021- Andy Chow ’08
    2021- Andrew J. Grant ’08
    2021- Maria Wheeler-Dubas ’08 Ph.D.
    2020- Tony Bishop III ’15, MSAH ’18
    2020- Andrea Drago ’10 MS, RN, NE-BC
    2020- Jonathan Hill ’15
    2019- Sherona Whitner ’12
    2019- Anna Walker ’07
    2019- Dr. Christine Humphrey, MSN/MBA ’14, DNP ’18, RN
    2019- Kimberly Shapiro ’16
    2019- Amanda Helmrich Julca ’06

    Leadership & Citizenship

    2019- Melica Hampton ’04

    Mary B. Thomas Commitment to Otterbein

    2024 – The Austin E. Knowlton Foundation
    2023 – Morton J. H’00 & Barbara K. Achter
    2022 – Otterbein “O” Club and Mark ’78 & Deborah Scott ’77 Thresher
    2021 – Alan Goff ’75 and Coral Harris and Westerville Otterbein Women’s Club
    2020 – James & Kathleen Rutherford P’99
    2019 – Annie Upper Ames ’86
    2018 – Thomas C. ’63 and Sarah K. Morrison
    2017 – Wendell Foote ’60 and Dr. Thomas R. ’51 and Jean Hostetler ’54  Bromeley
    2015 – John ’68 and Susie King
    2014 - Bill and Helen LeMay ’48 & ’47
    2012 – Vernon L. Pack ’50
    2011 – Vida S. Clements Foundation , Ernest ’38 and Neva Fritsche , and Edwin and Marilou Roush ’47 & ’45

    Past Award Ceremonies

    2023 Celebration of Otterbein

    On Saturday, September 16, we celebrated the contributions of our 2022 Alumni Award Honorees. You can watch the entire ceremony here.

    2022 Celebration of Otterbein

    On Saturday, October 1, we celebrated the contributions of our 2022 Alumni Award Honorees. You can watch the entire ceremony here.