The Fred Ellsworth Medallion

Fred Ellsworth, c’22, led the Association staff as executive secretary from 1924 to 1963. Since 1975 the Fred Ellsworth Medallion honors individuals “who have provided unique and significant service to the University.”

 

Fred Ellsworth Medallion recipients are honored by the Association at a special dinner in conjunction with the fall Board of Directors meeting and introduced during the home football game that weekend.

Award Recipients

1970s

1975 — Arthur H. Cromb, b’30
1975 — Roy A. Edwards Jr., b’42
1975 — Lucile Rarig Ellsworth, c’21
1975 — Maud Ellsworth, f’33
1975 — Robert F. Ellsworth, e’45
1975 — Stephen R. Ellsworth, b’49
1975 — Nicholas L. Gerren Sr., f’34, d’34, g’48, PhD’53
1975 — S. Stanley Learned, e’24, g’36
1975 — Clytice Wiley Nichols, d’31
1975 — Dolph C. Simons Sr., c’25
1975 — N.T. Veatch Jr., e’09, g’24
1975 — Odd Williams, b’49, l’52
1976 — Howard E. Crawford, c’27
1976 — John F. Eberhardt, c’32
1976 — Ray R. Evans, b’47
1976 — Howard M. Immel, c’38, l’38
1976 — Dolph C. Simons Jr., j’51
1976 — Helen Foresman Spencer, ’26
1976 — Oscar Stauffer, ’12
1976 — Arthur B. Weaver, c’15
1977 — Wealthy C. Babcock, c’19, g’22, PhD’26
1977 — Henry A. Bubb, ’28
1977 — Paul S. Endacott, e’23
1977 — Franklin D. Murphy, c’36
1977 — Raymond F. Nichols, c’26, g’28
1977 — Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, c’23, l’25
1977 — James E. Taylor, l’26
1977 — C.Y. Thomas Sr.
1978 — William R. Hagman Sr., c’32
1978 — Arthur C. Lonborg, l’21
1978 — Marynell Dyatt Reece, c’42
1978 — John T. Stewart III, b’58
1979 — Albert E. Haas, c’25
1979 — Edgar C. Park
1979 — Olin K. Petefish, l’35
1979 — Annabel Pringle, c’23
1979 — Robert B. Riss, b’49
1979 — Henry A. Shenk, d’28

1980s

1980 — Robert L. Brock, c’50, l’51
1980 — Nancy Haun Dykes
1980 — Balfour S. Jeffrey, c’28
1980 — Clyde M. Reed Jr., c’37
1980 — Thomas M. Van Cleave Jr., c’50, l’38
1980 — Laurence C. Woodruff, c’24, g’30
1981 — Robert B. Docking, b’48
1981 — William C. Douce, e’41
1981 — Robert S. Mueller, b’42
1981 — August L. Selig, c’20
1981 — Charles D. Stough Jr., c’50, l’38
1982 — Frank Burge
1982 — Archie R. Dykes
1982 — William W. Martin, b’49
1982 — George Nettels Jr., e’50
1982 — Wilmer “Bub” Shaffer, c’36
1982 — Dwight Sutherland, ’45
1982 — John H. Vogel Jr., b’39
1983 — Wendell S. Holmes, b’28
1983 — Kathryn Langmade Nelson, ’31
1983 — John A. O’Leary Jr., b’48
1983 — Charles J. Slawson, c’20
1983 — Charles E. Spahr, e’34
1984 — Fred B. Anschutz, ’33
1984 — Robert G. Billings, c’59
1984 — Eleanor Sisson Malott
1984 — Donald C. Slawson, c’55
1984 — John W. Starr, c’27
1985 — Riley Burcham
1985 — Polly Roth Bales, ’42
1985 — Jordan L. Haines, c’49, l’57
1985 — Eugene W. Morgan, b’37
1986 — Judith Harris Murphy
1986 — Robert W. Wagstaff, c’30
1986 — Barbara Benton Wescoe, ’44
1986 — W. Clarke Wescoe
1987 — Richard A. Barber, c’32, l’34
1987 — Gene Burnett
1987 — Kenneth J. Wagnon, b’60
1988 — Frank J. Becker, e’58
1988 — Deane W. Malott, c’21
1988 — Irene Nunemaker, c’22
1989 — Glee S. Smith Jr., c’43, l’47
1989 — Chester B. Vanatta, b’59, g’63
1989 — Dick Wintermote, b’51

1990s

1990 — Robert F. Bennett, c’50, l’52
1990 — John C. Dicus, b’55
1990 — Robert A. Long, b’57
1991 — Joan Darby Edwards, ’42
1991 — Elmer C. Jackson Jr., c’33, l’35
1991 — John F. Kane, e’56
1992 — W.C. “Dub” Hartley, b’47
1992 — Todd Seymour, j’50
1992 — Deanell Reece Tacha, c’68
1993 — Don Fambrough, e’48
1993 — John H. Robinson, e’49
1993 — Robert E. Roth, b’54
1994 — Gene A. Budig
1995 — Max Falkenstien, c’47

1995 — Dale W. Gordon, b’43
1995 — William M. Hougland, b’52
1996 — Forrest E. Hoglund, e’56
1996 — Delbert M. Shankel
1996 — John H. Stauffer, j’49
1997 — Anderson W. Chandler, b’48
1997 — Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, d’59
1997 — Bernard E. Nordling, l’49
1998 — Dana K. Anderson, b’59
1998 — Richard J. Cummings, c’54, m’57
1998 — Frank Sabatini, b’55, l’57
1999 — Philip F. Anschutz, b’61
1999 — Dane Bales, b’41

2000s

2000 — Gil M. Reich, e’54
2000 — Robert L. Timmons, d’50, g’50
2001 — William P. Bunyan III, c’61
2001 — Barbara Nordlng, ’51
2001 — Linda Bliss Stewart, ’60
2002 — R.A . Edwards, b’67, g’73
2002 — Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67
2002 — James E. Seaver, Professor Emeritus
2003 — Charles W. Oswald, c’51
2003 — Gary W. Padgett, b’55
2003 — Robert T. Stephan, ’54
2004 — Clay Blair, b’65, EdD’69
2004 — David Dillon, b’73
2004 — Michael Shinn, e’66
2005 — William R. Docking, c’73, g’77, l’77
2005 — Sally Roney Hoglund, c’56
2005 — A. Scott Ritchie, c’54
2005 — Gale Sayers, d’75, g’77
2006 — Larry Borden, b’62, g’67
2006 — A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72
2006 — Joe Morris, b’61
2007 — Richard L. “Dick” Bond, c’57, l’60
2007 — James B. Martin, g’68
2007 — Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70
2008 — Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64
2008 — Carol Swanson Ritchie, d’54
2009 — Marc Asher, m’62
2009 — Donald Johnston, b’56, l’66
2009 — Janet Martin McKinney, c’74

2010s

2020s

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