Alumni

Alumni Awards

Each year at the Alumni Reunion Dinner as part of Homecoming Weekend, awards are presented to outstanding Wayland alumni.

Alumni Achievement Award

Wayland's Alumni Achievement Award honors alumni who are deemed to be worthy of “... special recognition by the Wayland community for outstanding achievement in their field or endeavor. Furthermore, the Award salutes the recipient for representing the true ideals of the Academy and setting a living example of what a Wayland education is all about.” The Alumni Achievement Award is presented annually to an alumna or alumnus during Wayland's Alumni Reunion Weekend.

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Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

2020 John Unland `70
2018 Uzma Samadani `88
2017 Mikki Hebl, Ph.D. `87
2016 John McConnell `82
2015 Matt Nielsen `90
2014 John Hughes `64
2012 Jim Janik `74
2010 Dr. Curtis Radford `73
2009 William B. Moore `59
2009 Dr. Walter Thiede `43
2008 Betsy Parker `72
2007 Frederick E. Bishop `57
2006 F. Addison Jones `46
2006 Marion A. Jones `46
2006 F. Clark Howell `46
2006 Daniel Brickman `76
2006 Larry Smead `56
2006 G. Bruce Laing `66
2003 R. Scott Jones `63
2002 Guy Gottschalk `67
2001 Beth Nielsen `88
2000 Richard H. Kimberly `54
1999 Kathryn Jermain Lillesand `55
1998 James Pickard `43
1997 Dr. Matthew N. Songer `76
1997 Thomas E. Nissalke `51
1996 Gloria H. Wheeler H`65
1995 Allen J. Proctor `70
1993 Thomas J. Moore `62
1992 Donald A. Downs, Jr. `67
1991 James T. Kirsh, Jr. `71
1990 Raymond A. Patterson, Jr. `40
1989 Robert W. Pierson `27
1988 Richard M. Fliehr `68
1988 Karl A. Rauschert `47
1986 Joan Wilson `46
1984 Alonzo W. Pond `14
1984 Peter E. Lee `59
1983 Terrill A. Knaack `68
1981 Susan Peterson `63
1980 Jerry L. Nims `43

Young Alumni Award

The Young Alumni Award acknowledges those who have made an outstanding impact within ten years of their Wayland graduation.

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Young Alumni Award Recipients

2020 Austin Fiegel `10
2019 Maggie Jo Sanderson `15
2018 Walter Burtis 08 and Anna January `08
2017 Kunho Yoon `07
2016 Megan Petersen `11
2015 Nick Derr `10
2015 Laura Thompson `05

Alumni Awards Presentation 2020

Alumni Volunteer Award

Established by Wayland’s Alumni Association in 2002, the Alumni Volunteer Award is presented to an alumna or alumnus whose “... loyal and steadfast volunteer efforts on behalf of Wayland enhance the mission of the Academy and the Alumni Association.”

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Alumni Volunteer Award Recipients

2020 Sharon Hartzell D'Arco `70
2019 Richard "Dick" Kimberly `54
2018 Peter Sensenbrenner `71
2016 Janet Sharp Turner `56
2014 Burnett Sullivan `69
2012 Allen Proctor `70
2011 Mike VanHaren `82
2010 Susan Peterson `63
2009 Jim Downing `94
2008 Rosina Samadani `85 & Judy Scherb `63
2007 Natalie Wetzel-Rasmussen `91
2006 Tom Forrester `76
2003 Eric Gefvert `73 & Eva Hartman Ptaschinski `83
2002 Terrill Knaack `68

Distinguished Service Awards

The Distinguished Service Citation is the highest honor that Wayland Academy can bestow upon an individual. Established in 1961, the award recognizes outstanding service to Wayland. Additionally, many of the previous recipients have manifested one or more notable attributes, such as service to education, distinctive achievement in a particular field of endeavor, and service to society in accordance with the principles and traditions of the Academy itself.

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Distinguished Service Recipients

Year   Recipient
2020   Elizabeth Parker `72
2019   Burnett Sullivan `69
2017   Diane Alpaugh H`83
2017   William T. Luedke IV `70
2016   Gerald Disch H`93
2015   David Kasper H`81
2015   Roger VanHaren H`84
2014   John McKinstry H`10
2011   Joseph Lennertz `86
2009   Richard Kimberly `54
2008   Eli Seighman H`71
2005   Constance Koehne H`66
2003   John Patterson H`72
2000   Judith Pickard Yeakel `47
1998   George Cobb H`80
1995   William Ellis H`67
1993   Susan Seippel Grow `61
1992   Karl Rauschert `47
1989   Mary Swan 1925
1985   Cornelius Tempas
1984   Phil Esten 1929
1983   Martin Meyer H`81
1982   David Fierke
1981   Sol Wolfe `34
1980   Ernest Strub
1978   Dorothea Wilgus Pickard
1976   David Proctor H`07
1975   Clarence Radel
1975   Frank Weber
1973   Earl Moeller 1914
1972   Morton Barnard 1922
1971   Ellen Lewis Pihlstrom
1969   Alton Wichman
1968   Jackson Tucker
1967   Herbert Burrow
1966   Weimer Hicks `54
1965   Delmar Spivey
1964   Samuel Pickard 1916
1963   Marion Mitchell 1919
1962   Ella Merriam Dye 1907
1962   Glen Dye 1907