Every five years Simpson College honors our most distinguished alumni and former faculty members by adding names to “The Honor Roll of the Names That Live at Simpson.” This recognition was established in 1986 by the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Association Board of Directors to recognize those alumni and former faculty members who have made a significant impact on Simpson College. The names of those who are elected will be engraved on the recognition walls at the south entrance to the Pedestrian Plaza.
Eligibility Requirements for Distinguished Alumni Nominees:
1. Any graduate of the college prior to and including the class of 1975 (nominations may be made on a posthumous basis). Exceptions can be made in unusual cases to former students who have attended Simpson but did not graduate.
2. Nominees should have achieved truly outstanding status by virtue of at least one of the following criteria:
Civil service at the state, national or international level, through election or appointment
Scholarly, professional or scientific achievement
Religious service achieved through election to high office at the national or international level, or unusual achievement in fields of religious service
Service to the nation or the world in a lifelong commitment to such causes as racial justice, world peace or other humane endeavors seen to exemplify the highest expectations of the Simpson ideals.
Brenton Hamline Badley
Frances Ledlie Dawson (1925)
George Washington Carver (1894)
Robert Wesley Bates (1925)
Frank Luther Mott (1907)
James William Angell ’41
Clifford J. Barborka (1916)
Alice Elizabeth Sayre ’42
Ruth Buxton Sayre (1917)
Glen Worth Lamb ’42
William Buxton III (1928)
Elmo V. Barnum ’40
Genelle Grant Morain ’49
James H. Weinman ’49
Robert F. Picken ’31
Maxine Smith Weinman ’49
Wayne L. Carse ’50
Robert Leroy Larsen ’56
Mary Rose Main ’53
Dr. Keith Swanson ’54
Nile Ramsbottom ’66
Guidelines for the Distinguished Faculty category:
Only those faculty members whose full-time service lasted a minimum of 20 years and ended prior to 2015 are eligible.
Particular emphasis will be given to persons who not only served for an extended period of years but, in the process, distinguished themselves by extraordinary instructional ability, sensitive attention to the needs and development of students, and whose efforts are reflected in the post-graduation success of their students.
Frank E. Barrows
Ruth M. Jackson (1918)
George Carpenter
Harold F. Watson
William E. Hamilton
Francis L. Casey
Everett “Tip” Olive (1900)
Sven V. Lekberg
John L. Tilton
Mildred H. Lekberg
J. Allen Baker
Charles N. Burrow
Hiram S. Doty
Helen Manley Malone Mullin (1929)
Francis I. Moats (1913)
Margaret Liebe Watson
Ethel D. Anderson (1913)
Joseph Walt
E.G. Booth
Clyde W. Emmons
Elizabeth White Watson ’30
Joe K. Moody
Robert Larsen ’56
Herbert Alberding
Donald Koch
Les Becther
Werner S. Kolln
Glenn Buhr
Don Koontz
Tricia Calkins
Eugenia L. Kos
James R. Carter
Jane M. Kvetko
Mona Casey
Everett Laning
Francis J. Colella
Anne Elizabeth Larson
Les Deaton
Todd Lieber
Bruce Degen
Alan Magruder
Maria DiPalma
Clifford L. Meints
Owen L. Duncan
Hap Miller
William C. Dunning
Gladys Moore
Kay Fisher
Roberta Riegl
Robert Gieber
Carol Soderblom
William H. Gilbert
Ray Songayllo
Nina Mitchell Goltry
Myron Sorden
Michael Bruce Haddox
Richard B. Starr
Carl R. Halgren
Norm Thomas
Janet L. Heinicke
A.R. ‘Dick’ Tinder
Bill Helfrich
Gary Valen
Terry Hoy
Marvin Van Wyk
Larry Johnson
Melvin Wilk
Mitchell Kalpakgian
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