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Please join us for an All-Alumni Celebratory Dinner honoring Alumni who will be receiving awards from the Association this year! Complimentary light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will be available during the Social Hour from 6:00-7:00pm and the program will begin at 7:00pm.
Dinner includes carving stations with your choice of herb roasted turkey or apricot glazed ham with vegetarian options also available. A cash bar will also be available.
2012 Recipients:
Talcott Cross Award – The oldest Rockford College award, the Talcott Cross is awarded to an Alumna for her constancy, devotion and a long history of meritorious service to Rockford College. One award may be given each year.
- Ruth Cekal ’56 From her first days as an alumna, she has organized gatherings and raised funds in service to her class and College. Serving 15 years on the Association board, she unites alumni across the decades, genders and campuses.
Karl C. Williams Award – Presented to an Alumnus for his constancy, devotion and a long history of meritorious service to Rockford College. One award may be given each year.
- Dr. David Tanaglia ’73 From mentor to booster to race director and "archivist,” he has served RC for nearly 40 years. His project to collect and nurture acorns from the old campus is now evidenced by four trees planted on the new campus.
Award of Distinction – Given to Alumni for fulfilling the ideals of Rockford College and bringing honor and esteem to the College in one or more of the following ways; through their vision, dedication, and initiative in a purposeful endeavor; by their responsive and sustained efforts in community improvements; or by their notable achievements in a profession. Up to three awards may be given each year.
- Judge Joyce Williams Warren ’71 First black law clerk for the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1977. She served as an assistant attorney general to Bill Clinton, becoming first black female judge in Arkansas 1983.
- Dr. Sara Varhus Hill ’71. Since January 2007, VP for Academic Affairs at Nazareth College, N.Y. For ten years, Dean of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Oswego, also serving their as Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies.
- Dr. Robert Hockberger ’71 Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In 2008, he was named an American College of Emergency Professionals, California Hero of Emergency Medicine.
- Dr. Janet Hortin Geneczko ’73 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include relationship center care and health issues related to graduate / professional school stresses.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award – Given to an alumna/us who has finished her/his Rockford College tenure within the last 15 years. This alumna/us will have fulfilled the ideals of Rockford College by vision, dedication, and initiative in a purposeful endeavor, or through responsible and sustained efforts in the improvements of a community, or a notable achievement in a profession, thus having brought honor and esteem to Rockford College. One award may be given each year.
- Wendy Mazan Cook ’98 Recent Executive Director at Better Life Counseling Center in Jonesboro, Ark., having previously served as a Girl Scout Executive and as a Corporate Account Manager with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Alumna/Alumnus of the Year Award – Honors an alumna and/or alumnus for invaluable service to the Alumni Association and Rockford College during the past year. One award may be given each year.
- Keiko Habu Harada ’58 Spearheaded a January 2012 gathering in Kobe, Japan, with 17 RC alumnae who also graduated from Kobe College. Played a key role in Charter Day by reporting live via Skype from Kobe.
Mary Ashby Cheek Award – Given to a past or present non-alumni member of the Rockford College community for enriching the College experience of many by exemplifying the ideals of the College. One award may be given each year.
- Michael Griffith Project director for a grant that enabled 123 students to earn bi-lingual certification. Currently assists with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program at Rockford College, supporting teachers as they incorporate primary-source material.
Past Recipients by Award and year
Talcott Cross
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1948 Blanche Walker Burpee '95
1949 Lorena M. Church '05
1950 Olive Prien Courtright '15
1951 Mabel Walker Herrick '93
1952 Mabel Lindop Murphy '18
1953 May Wilkins Borton '24
1954 Mary Ashby Cheek H. '54
1955 Ruth Bennett Dyer '18
1956 Olive Keith Raftree '03
1957 May Johnson Lynn '18
1958 Mary Wilkins Holt '88
1959 Charlotte Purdy Lang '29
1960 Margaret Moore Ginsberg '30
1961 Ann Foster Cope '21
1962 Jane Bement Penniman '24
1963 Marie Perry Forbes '96
1964 Dorothy White '24
1965 Vivian Veach Hickey '37
1966 Frances Frisbie Miller '37
1967 Margaret Madden Johnson '35
1968 Grace Roper H. '54
1969 Jane Ashcraft Alexander '28
1970 Helen Hart Mattison '29
1971 Helene Reynolds Dillon '33
1972 Mary V. Braginton H. '67
1973 Barbara Sandehn Spongberg '33
1974 Kathryn Hedges McManus '24
1975 Helen J. Gjerde '50
1976 Gertrude Adolph Mead '26
1977 Lucile Liggett Corbin '23
1978 Elizabeth Talcott McMenemy '09
1979 Mary Lou Carter Wallden '53 |
1980 Rhea Zur Welle Van Sickle '38
1981 Barbara Bennett Galloway '37
1982 Virginia Berry Moorhead '32
1983 Vivian Carter Johnson '27
1984 Janet Brown Colman '37
1985 Arline Nelson Johnson '38
1986 Dorothy Voss Baits '51
1987 Grace Grimmitt '34
1988 Betty Riche Solem '38
1989 Betty Clare Fluty Paulkitis '42
1990 Georganne Hinchliff Eggers '49
1991 Marilyn Keating Vause '48
1992 Louise Carlson Sinclaire '57
1993 Bertha Taylor Prather '38
1994 Miriam Tunison '47
1995 Sally Voss Trefz '50
1996 Jean Miller Gibbs '41
1997 Virginia Keating Millard '47
1998 Jean Stewart Olson '38
1999 Barbara Ragnar Tanaglia '73
2000 Norma Nelson Ang '38
2001 Ruth Bach Eck
2002 Teresa O'Donnell Ingrassia '86
2003 Mary McClellan Tanton '50
2004 Jane Roscoe Thomas, Ph.D. '56
2005 Henriette Simon, '41
2006 Edna May Hermann ‘63/‘65
2007 Helen Chung Hill `70
2008 Colleen Kitzmiller Holmbeck '56
2009 Shirley Voss Henley Philon '50
2010 Marci K. Jumisko '92
2011 Mary Ellen Means Condon ’72
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Karl C. Williams Award
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1970 Karl C. Williams H. ’64
1971 Eric Ax ’50
1972 John Bjork ’51
1973 LaVerne Ax ’50
1974 Thomas S. Johnson ’64
1975 John G. Holub ’68
1976 John A. Howard ’70H
1977 Curt McKay ’67
1978 Thomas E. Mead ’58
1979 J. Arnold Wallden ’53
1980 John D. Spence ’78H
1981 G. Riley Cummings ’60
1982 John C. McCarthy ’80H
1983 Michael A. Manne ’75
1984 James Klotz ’78
1985 Philip Ashley ’70
1986 Mark Peterson ’73
1988 Arthur T. Johnson ’56 |
1991 Michael Broski ’82
1992 Clarence McDermaid ’67
1993 John Boyd ’79
1994 Sunil Puri ’82
1995 Brent Johnson ’74
1997 Daniel T. Gilbert ’76
1998 James H. Clarke ’67
1999 Robert L. Kantner ’79
2000 Philip Dedrick ’84H
2001 Raymond L. Den Adel ’90
2002 Bernard J. Sundstedt ’77
2004 Michael Anthony ’74
2007 Clare Landry `61
2008 James G. Peterson '71
2009 Don Patrick '72
2010 David Rydell '63 2011 John B. Whitehead ’83 & James S. Whitehead ’04
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Awards of Distinction
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1965 Lenore Hurst Davidson ’20
Irene Milliken Josselyn ’25
Charlotte Backus Jordan ’25
Margaret Mary Kennedy ’39
1966 Mame Dentler ’16
Eleanor French Proctor ’26
Betty Ann Southwick Keegan ’41
Ronald Kowalke ’59
1967 Evelyn Dahrymple Shalda ’12
Vivian Carter Johnson ’27
Dorothea Van Westrienen ’27
Elizabeth McGrew ’37
1968 Margaret Everett ’18
Jane Spottswood Carlson ’39
Sarah Luse ’40
Margaret Bates ’45
1969 Laura Daniels Crockett ’17
Ann Walker Early ’33
Florene Cochran ’44
Goldia Dargan ’54
1970 Dorothy Mandeville ’20
Eric Ax ’50
LaVerne Ax ’50
Louise Carlson Sinclaire ’57
1971 Sister Jude Green ’21
Catharine Bennett ’30
Maureen Fisher ’31
Charles McIntosh ’60
1972 Kae Oberlin Ewing ’22
Lorna Bridgman Perks ’37
Joan Gordon ’42
Sam Perone ’59
1973 Wilma Long Tague ’29
Alfretta Dickinson ’32
Barbara Biggs Chapman ’50
1974 Alice Pattee Comparetti ’30
Tessie Dora Berkman ’32
Alice A. Brandt Parry ’41
William Parker ’63
1975 Elizabeth Gaspar Brown ’35
Lois Beishir ’45
Andrew Langoussis ’65
Carol K. Long ’68
1976 Luella Anderson Bowman ’21
Elizabeth Grant Watkins ’31
Ruth Bach Eck ’51
Brucetta Bucklew Alford ’64
1977 Irene Peterson Gibbs ’15
Doris Emrick Lee ’27
Martha R. Westerberg ’35
Jeanette Caldwell Haskell ’47
1978 Myrtle Johnson Fetzer ’30
Roland Poska ’62
Anne Keegan Aronson ’67
Elfrieda Billingham ’71
1979 Emeline Schneider Messenger ’24
Vivian Veach Hickey ’37
Georganne Hinchliff Eggers ’49
Nathan D. McClure III ’77
1980 Genevieve Blane Birk ’30
Lois Pritchard Fisher ’40
Vassilis Keramidas ’60
Walter Wells ’70
1981 Robert Cook ’62
Tim Coleman ’75
Estelle Black ’77
John Libowski ’79
1982 Elizabeth Rearick ’20
Mary Sovereign Hass ’36
Jane Schrier Chapin ’47
Rosamond Blair Kirk ’70
1983 Stephen A. Spongberg ’66
Betty Michel Weeks ’43
Johanna Van Boxel Lund ’56
Betty Brune Turnbull ’70
Wallace R. Turnbull ’70
1984 D. Bradley Smith ’74
Marcia Cohn Spiegel ’49
R. Margaret Roherty Sedeen ’49
Janice Sikorski Pfeffer ’69
Marc Pfeffer ’69
1985 Martha Bozeman Fay ’35
Sally Voss Trefz ’50
Charles R. Branham ’67
John G. Holub ’68
Barbara Dworak Roman ’77 |
1986 Ann Belknap Benner ’40
Dorothy Davis Delman ’42
Marjorie Abbott Akins ’48
Johanna Menzel Meskill ’52
Colleen Kitzmiller Holmbeck ’56
1987 Margaret Danielson Dahlgren ’44
Audrey Hinshaw Welch ’47
Katherine Eriksson Sasseville ’56
Ann Lunde ’73
1988 William R. Paulson ’76
Helen Peers Ray ’35
Therese Ginestra Schmeltzer ’38
Bernice Olson Olsen ’43
1989 Stephen Vrtol, III ’78
Lynda Gibson Cornwell ’84
Jeanette Anderson Hoffman ’38
Carol Spalding Nagel ’55
1990 Theresa O’Donnell Ingrassia ’86
Joan Ralston Lippincott ’68
Alice Nicoll Lundskow ’40
Mary Louise Miller ’30
1991 Mary Belshaw Davis ’40
Lois Sachs Johnson ’55
Henriette Simon ’41
1992 Ellen Powell Anderson ’76
Carole Waters Singleton ’57
Shirley Voss Henley ’50
Jo Densmore Harberson ’47
Aimee Isgrig Horton ’44
Margaret Fladwed Hutcheson ’32
1993 David Billingham ’71
Isabelle Chapello ’43
Wilma Schrag McNess ’36
1994 Kimberly Fanning ’83
Wayne Timpe ’63
1995 Roberta Emerson Ingrassia ’60
1996 Barbara Blackwell Bacon ’56
Dorothy Voss Baits ’51
Ruth Cox Brunings ’56
Barbara Hillyer ’56
Louis Joslin Knight ’60
Doris Blackwell Nolan ’71
Michael C. Svayko ’76
Mary McClellan Tanton ’50
1997 Victoria Kirby Collazos ’75
Tim Dimke ’90
Janis Tremper Dowd ’47
1998 Janann Fleming Strand ’43
Ruth Driedger Little ’68
Suzanne Crandall ’83
Ann Ripley Blakeslee ’41\
1999 Suzanne Dryer Kaufman ’65
Nancy Crumlish Bruemmer ’49
2000 Gretchen Von Loewe Kreuter ’55
Robert Picklesimer ’75
ileta A. Joseph Sumner ’87
2001 Sandra Horkman Cole ’76
Michiko Togo Yoshioka ’51
2002 Charlyne Blatcher Martin ’88
Jacquelyn Mitchard ’73
2003 David Roth ’71
Jean Wishop Sanders ’62
2004 Sue Kanthak ’99
Fred Young ’65
2005 Susan Fuchs, M.D. ‘78
Shelton Kay ‘77
Bob Lampkin ‘95
2006 Jacqueline Bolger ’83
Chet Epperson ’91/’98
Kay Norton Smalley ’56
Michael Webb ’79
2007 Shirley Martignoni Fedeli `57
Thomas Muldowney `74
Fernando Engelsma `76
Peter Konrad `83
2008 Michael Broski '82
Noel Nickel '90
Stephen Pitkin '92
Diana Serrano '73
2009 Bob Gough '74
Jane Okrasinski '74
Mark Pedowitz '74
Ellen Skerrett '71
2010 Craig Eley '70
Paula Erickson Egelson '75
Marvin S. Cutler '65
Dr. Hind Rassam Culhane '80 2011 Kristy Bowen ’97
Bhupinder Liddar ’72
Dr. Michael Oberdorfer ’66 Debra Paterson ’79
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Alumna/Alumnus of the Year Awards
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1963 Barbara Biggs Chapman ’50
1964 Randall T. Carlson ’58
1965 Bertha Taylor Prather ’38
1966 Jane Ashcraft Alexander ’28
1967 Barbara Sandehn Spongberg ’33
1968 Rease Binger ’60
1969 Helen J. Gjerde ’50
1970 Betty Bruce Keegan ’43
1971 Barbara Billingham ’38
1972 Marilyn Keating Vause ’48
Thomas E. Mead ’58
1973 Gretchen Bickel Pool ’29
1974 Mary Lou Carter Wallden ’53
Marjorie Bond Nagus ’55
1975 Virginia Keating Millard ’47
Pauline Wolfe Bates ’60
1976 Rhea Zur Welle Van Sickle ’38
Jean Miller Gibbs ’41
1977 Barbara Bennett Galloway ’37
Geri Brown Carlson ’56
1978 Lois Smith Ozanne ’31
1979 Betsy Shaw Wells ’73
1980 Karen Fagerburg Phelps ’63
Gary Geiger ’73
1981 Jane Spottswood Carlson ’39
Blenda Peterson Koonmen ’54
1982 James Klotz ’78
Louise Giliberti ’78
1983 Carol McColl Halderson ’63
1984 Jean Wormley Anderson ’37
Mark Peterson ’73 |
1986 Robert L. Kantner ’79
John Hegel ’81
Edna May Hermann ’63
1987 Gail Mitchell Schippman ’79
John Boyd ’79
1988 Betty Clare Fluty Paulkitis ’42
1989 Pauline Patrick Lawhorn ’51
Michael Broski ’82
1990 Norman Erickson ’60
Marilyn Keating Vause ’48
1991 Brent Johnson ’74
Nancy Rostowsky ’85
1992 Lori Ferb Pepper ’80
David Tanaglia ’73
1993 Eloise Smith Rice ’37
Ted Frits ’80
1994 Donna Swanson ’93
James Walesa ’82
1996 Phyllis Erikson Beck ’41
Robert E. Picklesimer ’75
1997 Judith Anderson Larson ’82
Robert Kantner ’79
1998 Laurie Wieser Thibault ’75
1999 Steven Bates ’89
2000 Marci K. Jumisko ’92
2001 Nancy Magnuson Gough ’74
Jim Peterson ’71
2004 Robert Hansen, Ph.D. ’63
2005 J. Ross Hunter ’71
2006 Anthony Sousa ’90
2008 Bettyann Pappenfus '81
2009 Robin Kenney '09
2010 Joel Moore '00 2011 Cece Forrester ’72
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Mary Ashby Cheek Award
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1980 Mary Ashby Cheek H. ’54
1981 Mildred Freburg Berry
1982 Mildred Bulliet
L. J. Bulliet
1983 A. Frances Johnson H. ’76
1984 Philip Dedrick
1985 Curtis H. Moore H. ’79
1986 Gordon E. Wesner
1987 Florence Schenck
1988 Irene Svenson
1989 Jeremy Ingalls
1990 Marjorie Slavens
1991 Mahmood Butt
1992 Justine Walhout |
1993 Joan Clark
1994 Richard S. Peterson
1995 Christopher Moderson
1996 Stephen Ellis
1997 Richard Furgiuele
1998 Alan Hutchcroft
1999 John Schumaker
2000 Martha H. Frantz
2001 Fred J. Hadley
2002 Joel W. Tibbetts
2004 Ray Baker
2005 Lou Ferroli
2007 Elaine Hutchcroft
2008 Catherine Forslund
2009 Dr. Deborah Breiter, Ph.D
2010 Gary Lubbert
2011 Jayne Poor
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Outstanding Young Alumni Award
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2009 Randy Baker '03
2010 Cindy O'Brien Harris '95
2011 Emily Kicklighter Hartzog ’98/’01
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