Alumni Distinguished Service Award
The Alumni Distinguished Service Award is presented at the Homecoming Banquet to honor an individual for his/her exceptional service, contribution and dedication to Southern Utah University and his/her community.
Past Recipients
2022 | Kay Andersen ('84) & Virgil Johnson ('77) |
2022 | Kay Andersen ('84) & Virgil Johnson ('77) |
2022 | Kay Andersen ('84) & Virgil Johnson ('77) |
2021 | Sandra Lord Thomas ('93 & '98) |
2020 | Not Awarded |
2019 | Steve Shirts ('87) |
2018 | Kathryn Berg |
2017 | Jim Johnson ('76) |
2016 | Derrick Haslem ('00) |
2015 | Mark Russell ('74) |
2014 | Joan Woodbury ('47) |
2013 | Ted & Melinda Whitaker ('71) |
2012 | Craig Jones |
2011 | Lee Fife (’72) |
2010 | Julie Stuart Castle (’92) & David Nakken (’85) |
2009 | Richard Gary Currier (’68) |
2008 | Cedar City Corporation |
2007 | David Oberhelman (’67) |
2006 | Marlo Jensen & Gregg Pitt (’71) |
2005 | Connie Pitt (’84) & Ralph E. Spence (’72) |
2004 | Austin Jones ('38) & Forrest Parry ('41) |
2003 | Louise Jones Mark Stephensen ('68) & Nedra Stephensen ('02) & Claudia Ward Howells (’72) & Ed & Carolyn Rondthaler |
2002 | Not Awarded |
2001 | Fred Esplin (’71) & Evelyn Jones (’46) & Gary N. Giles (’57) & York Jones |
2000 | Lelani Bentley (’66) & Reuben Jones (’32) & David Moody (’86) |
1999 | Naida Gardner & Mary Jane Seaman (’41) & A. Lear Thorpe |
1998 | Ruth Challis & Vaughn McDonald & Kent Myers (’51) |
1997 | Jerry Anderson & Bessie Dover (’46) & Eugene T. Woolf |
1996 | Peg Thorley (’49) |
1995 | Conrad V. Hatch (’42) |
1994 | Jeann Ahern |
1993 | LuAnne Brown (’74) & Evelyn Jones (’46) & Mary M. MacDonald (’38) & Carol Ann Nyman (’78) |
1992 | Roger Hillyard |
1991 | Fred C. Adams |
1990 | Wayne K. Heppler (’60) |
1989 | Mary E. Anker (’42) |
1988 | Calvin Carter & Jack H. Carter (’47) |
1987 | Lanell N. Lunt (’20) |
1986 | Cedar City Lions Club |
1985 | Maude M. Halversen (’29) & Elda R. Manning |
1984 | Frank J. Petty, Jr. (’48) |
1983 | Royden C. Brathwaite |
1982 | Clayton Frehner (’59) |
1981 | Wanda Tollestrup |
1980 | R. Kenneth Benson (’56) & H. Grant Seaman (’37) |
1979 | Sheldon B. Grant |
1978 | J. S. Prestwich |
1977 | Warren H. Bulloch ('14) & Henry A. Jones ('03) & A. W. Stevenson |
1976 | Reed W. Farnsworth & Dixie Leavitt (’51) |
1975 | Max J. Thorley & Robert J. Thorley (’39) |
1974 | Ella Berry Leigh ('00) |
1973 | Cedar City Chamber of Commerce |
1972 | John L. Seymour |
1971 | Grace Adams Tanner (’31) |
1970 | Blaine H. Johnson |
1969 | Stanley H. Bradshaw |
1968 | Hazen J. Cooley |