Alumni Awards Alumni Service Awards The Alumni Service Awards are presented by the Alumni Association to alumni who have shown exemplary service to society and to the college. Past recipients of this award are: Marjorie Dowzer ’34 (1983) Betty Morrison Sloan ’23 (1989) Evalena Hollowell Berry ’42 (1985) Roberta Bustin ’64 (1997) Josephine Cook Beck ’41 (1986)
Distinguished Alumni Awards The Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented each year to alumni who have brought honor to the college through their distinguished careers. Recipients of this award are: Harry U. Maxfield 1882, (1950) Laman A. Gray, M.D. ’28, (1950) Paul K. Calaway ’31, (1950) Bess Maxfield ’09, (1951) Karr Shannon ’32, (1951) Chester C. Crawford ’33, (1952) Stuart Roscoe Oglesby, Jr. ’09 (1972) John Quincy Wolf ’22 (1972) George Taylor McKee, Ph.D. ’07 (1973) Hugh Morris Patterson ’31 (1974) Allie Beth Dent Martin ’34 (1975) Doin Edwin Hicks, Ph.D. ’53 (1976) Martha Heasley Cox, Ph.D. ’38 (1977) Gerard J. Bensberg, Ph.D. ’49 (1978) Ira Nelson Barnett ’21 (1979) Jabez F. Jackson, Sr., M.D. ’30 (1980) Helen Sullivan Knight ’31 (1981) Bess Millen Wolf ’30 (1982) W. D. Murphy, Jr. ’33 (1983) Gilbert Ford Kinney, Ph.D. ’28 (1984) W. Joe Frierson, Ph.D. ’27 (1985) James W. Headstream, M.D. ’34 (1986) George M. Gibson, J.D. ’28 (1987) Amelia Samano Bishop, Ph.D. ’27 (1987) Evalena Hollowell Berry ’42 (1988) W. Carl Garner, ’38 (1989)
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Roberta Dorr Brown, Ed.D. ’44 (1989) Thelma A. Pickens ’22 (1990) Fred Wann ’59 (1990) Edward Love ’51 (1991) Marvin Shaw ’47 (1991) Bill W. Bristow ’72 (1992) J.W. Collier ’34 (1993) Deborah Willhite ’74 (1994) Mary Helen Fallis Dobbins ’48 (1995) Ella Dobson Shanks ’33 (1996) Arvil Burks ’53 (1997) William F. Rogers ’33 (1998) Wilbur Gilbert ’56 (1998) Victoria Scritchfield Crittenden ’78 (1999) Adam D. Robertson ’63 (1999) Wanda Allender Rider, Ph.D. ’54 (2000) H.Gary M. Jones, Ph.D. ’50 (2000) Lucy Jeffery Yeager ’67 (2001) Jim D. Rollins ’69 (2002) Ben E. Owens ’59 (2003) Jim A. Mitchum ’61 (2004) Bobby J. Osborne ’65 (2005) R. Howard Hopkins ’62 (2006) Janie Hopkins ’63 (2006) David Churchill, M.D. ’81 (2007) Albert Parnell ’65 (2008) Joel F. Spragins ’60 (2009) Brooks Blevins, Ph.D. ’92 (2010) Scotty Merrell, Ph.D., ’92 (2010)
Athletic Hall of Fame Each year a committee of the Alumni Association selects a small group of exemplary past athletes at the college for induction into the Lyon College Athletic Hall of Fame. Inductees are: Bernis Duke ’53 (1983) William H. Irving ’31 (1983) C. (Dick) Winningham (1983) Jim Haney ’68 (1984) Robert S. Rutherford ’49 (1984) Charles A. Taylor, M.D. ’38 (1984) Kohn Bray ’40 (posthumous) (1985) Robert Lee Calaway, M.D. ’39 (1985) Lowell Manning ’29 (posthumous) (1985) Lavaughn Robertson ’64 (1985)
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