Past Alumni Award Winners

Each year, the Awards Committee of the Alumni Council solicits nominations for four alumni awards: 

• Distinguished Service Award 
• Young Alumni Award 
• University Award for Service to Society 
• Challenging Convention Award

Nominations are submitted by Clark alumni, staff, and faculty. Winners are chosen by the Awards Committee and honored at the annual Alumni Council Awards Dinner held on the Friday night of Reunion Weekend. 

Click the awards below to view all past recipients.

Distinguished service award recipients

Year	Recipient
	Eugene L. Richmond ’24
1958	J. Yank Sachs ’26
1959	Raymond T. Gifford ’16
1960	C. Harry Kuniholm ’18
1961	Robert W. Bodfish ’17, MA ’42
1962	George E. Allen ’05
1963	Henry L. Signor ’21
1964	Llyod  R. Stevens, Jr. ’43
1966	Gary W. MacConnell ’56
1971	Henry Ciborowski ’50
1977	Joshua Morrison ’21
1980	Harold D. Weymout ’31, AM ’32
1981	Federick M. Murdock ’30, AM ’31
1982	Barbara Wilensky Gopen ’58
1983	Edward S. Bilzerian BBA ’55
1984	Donni O’Hagan Rodman ’69, MAED ’72
1985	Perry R. Pero ’61
1986	Maurice E. Donsky ’62
1987	Henry A. Malkasian ’39
1988	Burte Guterman ’39
1989	Stephen Brodsky BBA ’60
1990	James S. Bickman ’39
1991	Robert B. Factor ’47
1992	Alexander Drapos ’58
1993	Frank Lambros ’54
1994	Milton Cooke ’53
1995	Richard Cohen ’71
1996	Thomas Dolan ’62
1997	Rev. Melvin Van De Workeen ’47
1998	Stephen Steinbrecher ’55
1999	Richard Daniels ’49
2000	Dr. Dorothy Johnson Beavers ’49
2001	Morton Sigel ’51
2002	Lois Green, MPA ’78
2003	Steve Dune ’53
2004	Elyse Darefsky ’79
2005	Nancy Johnson ’55, MAED ’57
2006	Patti A. Love ’81
2007	Nobuhiko Takeuchi ’57
2008	Peter J. Condakes ’78
	Debra S. Egyes ’78
2009	David M. Roth ’84
2010	Wallace F Bither ’33
2011	Faith L. Linsky ’76
2013	Allen Glick ’63
2014	Andrea B.
	Peter D. Klein ’64
2015	D’Army Bailey ’65, LL.D. ’10, P’00
2016	Shelia McCann ’71
2017	Catherine Dunham ’67
2018	Frank Tetreault ’68
2019	Peter Eleftherakis ’74
2020	Linda Savitsky ’70
2021	Kevin Cherry ’81
	Lawrence Landry ’71, MBA ’75
2022	Marie L’Heureux ’77
2023	Ann McKinnon ’83
2024	Theresa M. Strempek, ’79

University award for service to society 

Year	Recipient
2019	Dr Karen Gedney ’79
2021	Prof. Christian A. Davenport ‘87
2023	Robert (Jay) Ash ’83
2024	Leah Penniman ’02, MAT ’03

Young alumni award recipients

Year	Recipient
2000	Cari Meister ’95
	Sarah Shampnois ’98
	Karen Janisieki ’98
	Mason Sand ’00
	Shawn LaCount ’98, MAED ’99
2001	Daniel Eisenstadt ’91
2002	Laurie Ross ’91
2003	Michael Ross ’93
2004	Lawrence Klein ’91
2006
	Leah Abrams ’96
	Brian Katz ’94
	David Ampola ’93
2007	Heather Sensibaugh ’02
2008	Hadley S. Camilus ’03
2009	Michael Iceland ’99, MSPC ’00
2010	Maria Daniella Fernades ’05
2011	Jennifer M. MacDonald ’04
2012	James P. Salo ’02, M.A. ’03
2013	Anthony C. Colon ’03, M.P.A. ’04
2013	Richard P. Boucher ’03, M.B.A. ’04
2014	Scott A. Zoback ’04, M.P.A ’05
2015	Michelle Powers ’05
2016	Robin Cohen ’06, M.P.A. ’07
2017	Garrett Abrahamson ’07
2018	Emily Zoback ’08, M.B.A ’09
2019	Janette Ekanem ’08
2019	Genna Farley Fleming ’09, MBA ’10
2020	Sasha Chait ’10
2021	Katherine Bogen ’15
2022	Jean Dao ’12, MA 13
2023	Emilee Cocuzzo ’18, MBA ’19
2024	Alex Turgeon ’16, MBA ’17

Challenging convention award

Year	Recipient
2023	Etel Haxhiaj ’04, M.A. ’08
2024	Judge Margaret R. Guzman ’89