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Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
Alumni whose names appear with an asterisk are deceased.
In the early 1970's, Alumni Council members expressed both surprise and satisfaction in the variety of careers represented among the alumni. The Council and Dr. William Summerscales initiated the Distinguished Alumni Awards Program to broadcast this breadth and variety.
1975
Charles Henry Alston*, M.A. 1931, Art and Art Education.
Alice Manheim Kaplan*, student 1925, Art and Art Education.
Rollo May*, Ph.D. 1949, Psychology.
William H. Schuman*, B.S. 1935, M.A. 1937, Music and Music Education.
1977
Thelma Adair, M.A. 1945, Ed.D. 1959, Curriculum and Teaching.
1978
Todd Duncan*, student 1930, Languages, Literature, Speech, and Theater.
Mildred Dunnock*, M.A. 1933, Languages, Literature, Speech, and Theater.
Harold Miller, M.A. 1948, Social Studies.
Roma Gans*, B.S. 1926, Ph.D. 1940, Curriculum and Teaching.
David Hyatt*, M.A. 1948, Ed.D. 1959, Languages and Literature.
Martha E. Rogers*, M.A. 1949, Nursing Education.
Vivian H. T. Tom, M.A. 1961, Social Studies.
Millie C. Almy*, M.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1948, Curriculum and Teaching.
May Edward Chinn, B.S. 1921, Science Education.
Anna May McCabe Hays, B.S. 1958, Nursing Education.
Robert Earl Kinsinger, Ed.D. 1958, Guidance.
Esther E. Peterson*, M.A. 1930, Physical Education.
Luns C. Richardson, M.A. 1958, Educational Administration.
Ruth L. Farkas* , M.A. 1932, Languages and Literature.
Eda LeShan, B.S. 1944, Curriculum and Teaching.
David Randolph, M.A. 1942, Music Education.
Elbert K. Fretwell, Ph.D. 1953, Educational Administration.
Nathaniel Gibbon, Jr.* , M.A. 1939, Business Education.
Louis T. Benezet, Ph.D. 1929, Educational Administration.
Esther M. Lloyd-Jones* , B.S. 1944, Guidance and
Student Personnel Administration.
Joseph M. Chamberlain, M.A. 1950, Ed.D. 1962, Educational Administration.
Shirley S. Chisholm, M.A. 1951, Professional Diploma 1961, Curriculum and Teaching.
Lois B. Murphy, Ph.D. 1937, Psychology.
Donald E. Super* , Ph.D. 1940, Psychology.
E. Alma Flagg, Ed.D. 1955, Guidance.
Thomas H. Kean, M.A. 1963, Social Studies.
Paul G. Bulger, Ed.D. 1951, Educational Administration.
Paul R. Hanna* , M.A. 1925, Ph.D., 1929, Curriculum and Teaching.
Carroll F. Johnson, M.A. 1947, Ed.D. 1950, Educational Administration.
Mildred L. Montag, M.A. 1938, Ed.D. 1950, Nursing Education.
Catherine Brice Bozeman* , B.S., M.A., Professional Diploma 1949,
Curriculum and Teaching.
Albert Ellis, M.A. 1943, Ph.D. 1947, Clinical Psychology,
Curriculum and Teaching.
Hennan A. Estrin* , M.A. 1942, Curriculum and Teaching;
Professional Diploma 1950, and Ed.D. 1954, Guidance.
Walter E. Sindlinger* , M.A. 1939, Teaching of English;
Ed.D. 1956, Higher Education.
Kenneth D. Benne* , Ph.D. 1944, Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
Louis Forsdale, M.A. 1947, Audio-Visual Education;
Ed.D. 1951, Teaching of English.
William Patrick Foster, Ed.D. 1955, Music and Music Education.
Erline Perkins McGriff, Ed.D. 1967, Nursing Education.
Joseph Shenker, Ed.D. 1969, Higher Education.
Leon Howard Sullivan, M.A. 1947, Religious Education.
Gene Raymond Carter, Sr., Ed.D. 1973, Curriculum and Teaching.
Elizabeth Kitson, M.A. 1969, Guidance.
Eleanor C. Lambertsen* , B.S. 1949, M.A. 1950, Ed.D. 1957, Nursing Education.
Orrea Florence Pye* , Ph.D. 1943, Nutrition Education.
Ruth Westheimer, Ed.D. 1970, Home and Family Life.
Margaret Tayler Anderson* , M.A. 1967, Professional Diploma 1970, Guidance.
Arthur H. Cunningham* , M.A. 1957, Music and Music Education.
Barbara F. Goodman, M.A. 1954, Early Childhood Education.
John F. Kullberg, Ed.D. 1976, Higher and Adult Education.
Huan Lee, M.A. 1956, Educational Administration.
Ruth Watson Lubic, B.S. 1959, M.A. 1961, Nursing Education;
Ed.D. 1979, Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Anthropology and Education).
June Machover Reinisch, M.A. 1970; Ph.D. 1976, Clinical Psychology.
Dorothy J. del Bueno, B.S. 1966, Ed.D. 1976, Nursing Education.
Herbert M. Kliebard, Professional Diploma 1958, Ed.D. 1963,
Curriculum and Teaching.
M. Powell Lawton, Ph.D. 1952, Psychology.
Richard P. Mills, Ed.D. 1977, Education Administration.
Joanna Chan, Ed.D. 1977, Languages, Literature and Social Studies.
E. Gordon Gee, Ed.D. 1972, Higher and Adult Education.
Yvonne B. Miller, M.A. 1963, Curriculum and Teaching.
Morton Schindel, M.A. 1947, Curriculum and Teaching.
Michael A. Carrera, Ed.D. 1970, Health Education.
Selma Weintraub Greenberg* , Ed.D. 1966, Curriculum and Teaching.
Shirley M. Stinson, Ed.D. 1969, Nursing Education.
Irene Trowell-Harris, Ed.D. 1983, Health Education.
Donaldson T.L.O. Byrd, Ed.D. 1983, Music and Music Education.
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D. 1979, Curriculum and Teaching.
Homer Kempfer* , Ed.D. 1941, Educational Administration.
Amelia Augustus, Ed.D. 1970, Comparative and International Education.
Elizabeth Gotbaum, M.A. 1967, Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
Joseph Hankin, Ed.D. 1967, Higher and Adult Education.
Robert Piemonte, Ed.D. 1976, Nursing Education.
Jerome T. Murphy, M.A. 1962, Mathematics and Science Education.
Bert Konowitz, Ed.D. 1969, Music and Music Education.
Frances O'Connell Rust, Ed.D. 1984, Curriculum and Teaching.
Edith B. Everett, M.A. 1950, Student Personnel Administration.
Bonnie Jean Leadbeater, Ph.D. 1986, Developmental Psychology.
Robert A. Lefranc, M.A. 1947, Curriculum and Teaching.
Margaret L. McClure, M.A. 1962, Ed.D. 1972, Nursing Service Administration.
Joseph L. Dionne, Ed.D. 1965, Curriculum and Teaching.
Barbara Loomis Jackson, M.A. 1967, Sociology of Education.
Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick, M.Ed. 1982, Ed.D. 1986, Higher Education.
Edmund W. Gordon, Ed.D. 1957, Child Development and Guidance.
Betty Louise Sullivan, M.E. 1984, Ed.D. 1992, Language, Literature and Social Studies.
Darlene Yee-Melichar, M.S. 1984, Ed.D. 1985, Health Education.
Lois Bloom, Ph.D. 1968, Psychology.
Mort Lindsey, M.A. 1948, Ed.M. 1974, Music and Music Education.
Dr. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, MA 1968 PhD 1978 Philosophy.
Jill Wilkinson
Betty J. Sternberg, M.A. 1972, Mathematics Education.
Betty Reardon, Ed.D. 1985, International Education Development.
Lan Tran Gien, Ed.M. Nursing Education.
Martin Haberman, M.A. 1957, Ed.D. 1962, Curriculum & Teaching.
Rita Gold, M.A. 1962, English Education.
Ruth Gottesman, M.A. 1958, Remedial Reading. Ed.D. 1968, Human Cognition & Learning.
John Fanselow, Ph.D. 1971, Language, Literature & Social Studies.
Robert Hilliard, Ph.D. 1959, Communication & Theatre Arts.
Kathleen Dunlevy Morin, M.A. 1977, Ed.M. 1978, Ed.D. 1985, Urban Education.
Joyce B. Cowin, M.A. 1952, Curriculum and Teaching.
Susan H. Fuhrman, Ph.D. 1977, Political Science and Education
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