Past Alumni Awards Recipients
Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award
* Deceased
| 2008 | Bill A. Nugent ('70) |
| Jim Pawelczyk ('89) | |
| Mary K. Suhm ('74, '84) | |
| 2007 | Bob Belden |
| R. Dale Olson | |
| Nicholas D. Ricco, Sr. | |
| J. Terry Strange | |
| 2006 | H.E. Adel A. Al-Jubeir |
| Dr. Phillip C. “Phil” McGraw | |
| Ronald C. “Ron” Waranch | |
| 2005 | Ray Moseley |
| Jerry W. Pinkerton | |
| Martha Fuller Turner | |
| 2004 | Jerry Durant |
| Robert R. Onstead * | |
| Marvin Stamm | |
| 2003 | Charlie Bond |
| Michael Faircloth | |
| Bill R. Neale | |
| 2002 | Mark A. "Tony" Altermann |
| Euline Brock | |
| Bob Dorough | |
| Carroll B. Ellis * | |
| Annette T. Griffin | |
| Patricia Racette | |
| 2001 | Harry J. Brownlee |
| Don A. Buchholz | |
| C. Dan Smith | |
| 2000 | Harold L. Davis |
| John Howie * | |
| William O. Hunt | |
| Shirley L.* and Kenneth W. Murphy | |
| Hilda G. Tagle | |
| 1999 | W. David Bayless Sr. * |
| Judith J. Carrier | |
| O.L. Davis Jr. | |
| John A. Farris | |
| Penelope (Penny) Coffey Farris | |
| Joe K. Pickett | |
| 1998 | Linda F. Allmand |
| F. Lane Cardwell, Jr. | |
| Norman F. Gant | |
| Thomas W. Wren * | |
| 1997 | Bill Gilliland |
| Don Graham | |
| Richard L. Mugg | |
| James Ken Newman | |
| Joann Peters | |
| 1996 | Byron R. Baird |
| Mellonee Burnim | |
| Jesús Bautista Moroles | |
| Herbert H. Shore * | |
| Charn Uswachoke | |
| 1995 | Frank D. Bracken |
| James Lester Matthews * | |
| Anne Hodges Morgan | |
| 1994 | Joe Don Baker |
| Richard B. Borgens | |
| Carolyn Pitts Corbin | |
| Bette Smith Mullins | |
| 1993 | Mike R. Bowlin |
| Charlotte St. Martin | |
| Leo Sayavedra | |
| 1992 | Bonnie Boynton |
| Mary D. Lankford | |
| Matthew M. LaVail | |
| Kenneth A. May * | |
| Norman A. Miller | |
| Edward V. Smith III | |
| 1991 | Billy R. Allen |
| Jean Andrews | |
| C. James Carrico * | |
| Carl E. McIlwain | |
| R. Keith Parks | |
| Jim Berry Pearson * | |
| 1990 | C. Dean Davis |
| Jerry W. Dickenson | |
| Roy Gene Evans | |
| M. Ray Karnes * | |
| W. Arthur Porter | |
| 1989 | Roy Appleton Jr. |
| Covelle Jones * | |
| Charles Brown Mullins | |
| James Weldon “Tommy” Thomas * | |
| 1988 | Mike Cochran |
| William W. “Bill” Collins Jr. | |
| Jerry Farrington | |
| Elizabeth Youngblood Proffer | |
| 1987 | M.E. “Gene” Hall * |
| G. Harvey Jones | |
| W.R. “Bob” Rucker * | |
| 1986 | Robert P. McDonald * |
| Larry McMurtry | |
| Rose-Mary Rumbley | |
| Bob St. John | |
| 1985 | Charles N. Nobles |
| Elithe Hamilton Kirkland * | |
| Cathy S. Krendl | |
| 1984 | Grace W. Cartwright * |
| Raymond E. Miles | |
| 1983 | John Marvin Smith Jr. * |
| 1981 | Myron Stout * |
| William M. Pinson Jr. | |
| James Hampton | |
| 1980 | Ernst M. Davis * |
| Margaret P. Hays | |
| Ray Roberts * | |
| 1979 | Holly Harp * |
| W.C. Orr Jr. * | |
| Frank C. Spencer Jr. | |
| 1978 | O’Neil Ford * |
| Bill Moyers | |
| Sandra Palmer | |
| 1977 | Phyllis George |
| Fred Minor * | |
| Don January | |
| 1976 | Joe Greene |
| Larry A. Jobe | |
| Chester A. Newland | |
| 1974 | L. Millard Collins * |
| Don Gillis * | |
| R. Tom Harpool Jr. | |
| 1972 | N.B. Everett * |
| Lorene Rogers | |
| Emory Smith* | |
| 1971 | William Leonard Blankenship |
| Tom Hughes * | |
| Ben H. Wooten * | |
| 1970 | Norman N. Durham |
| Don Wilfred Micks * | |
| Julia Smith Vielehr * | |
| 1969 | Bruce Eldon Henderson |
| Genie Chance * | |
| Ivan Davis | |
| 1968 | Roland B. Mitchell * |
| James Warren Prothro * | |
| Larry D. Austin | |
| 1967 | Edwin M. Foster |
| Benjy F. Brooks * | |
| Wiley L. Housewright * | |
| 1966 | George Philip Manire |
| Paul Everett Taliaferro * | |
| E. Leigh Secrest | |
| 1965 | Nicholas C. Hightower Jr. * |
| Riley D. Housewright * | |
| John E. King |