Excellence in Education Archive
This award is the highest honor bestowed upon a College of Education alumnus. Selections are made on the basis of significant contributions to the field of education. The Excellence in Education award was renamed Alumni Excellence in 2014.
Past Award Honorees:
Alumni Excellence Honorees:
2018 - Samuel B. Slike, '74,'87g
2017 - Chrisandra Richardson '81g
2016 - Roger Williams '88g
2015 - Virginia "Ginny" Croft '58, '59g
2014 - D. David Conklin '66, '67g and Glenn W. Gamble '59g (posthumously)
Excellence in Education Award Honorees:
2013 - George Santiago, Jr '94g, '86g
2012 - Joyce Graham '86g
2011 - M. Christopher Brown II '97g
2010 - Paulette Lemma '83g, '80g, '67
2009 - Louis Danielson '76g
2008 - Stephen Bagnato '77g
2007 - Ruth Kaminski '75
2006 - C. Jay Hertzog '68, '72g, '80g
2005 - Roland Good III '77, '81g, '85; James F. Nolan, Jr. '83g
2004 - Sara C. Parks '97g
2003 - Bernard J. Badiali '85g
2002 - Peter R. MacDougall '69g; Charles B. Myers '61
2001 - William G. Ellis '68g
2000 - James T. Harris, '88g
1999 - Ronald M. Zaccari '73
1998 - Jonathan D. Fife ‘75g
1997 - John J. Romano ‘72g
1996 - Frank Tien-Jin Chang ‘74g
1995 - Kenneth Zirkle ‘73g
1994 - Allan E. Bayer ’61; Martha Shalitta ‘61
1993 - Phoebe Forrest Link ‘47 ‘52g; Terry L. Eidell ‘61g ‘65g
1992 - John W. Tippeconnic ‘71g ‘75g
1991 - Wayne K. Hoy ‘62g ‘65g
1990 - Martha A. Burns ‘67g ‘71g
1989 - Dennis E. Murray ‘73
1988 - Dorothy J. Skeel ‘61 ‘66
1987 - William H. Greenham ‘53 ‘54
1985 - Albert E. Filano ‘54
1984 - Robert Heller ’62; Ruth Beatty ‘43
1983 - Robert R. Cummings ‘75g; Carl Guerriero ‘61g; Sylvia G. Wagner ‘55
1982 - June E. Baskin ‘64
1981 - John E. Bower ‘46
1980 - William J. Leary, Jr. '62, '65g; Stanley T. Dubelle, Jr. ‘70
1977 - Charles Stull ‘62
1976 - Walter R. Arnold ‘30
1975 - John R. Bonfield ‘68g
1974 - Gerald W. Daghir ‘51 ‘56g
1973 - Harry Freedman ‘69
1972 - Marvin A. Robinson ’65; Robert T. Germaux ’68; Michael H. Kean ‘66
1971 - Elaine A. Trama ‘62
1970 - Donald R. Hetherington ‘64