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Honoring Leadership, Achievement and Contributions to the Community

At 麻豆原创, we take great pride in celebrating the achievements and impact of our alumni. Through a growing collection of awards and honors, we recognize individuals whose lives reflect the University鈥檚 mission鈥攍eading principled, productive, and compassionate lives that make a difference in the world.

From career accomplishments and service to leadership and mentorship, these recognitions highlight the diverse ways Manchester graduates shape their communities and professions. This page serves as a tribute to those alumni whose contributions inspire current students, fellow graduates, and all who call Manchester home.

Alumni Honor Award

In 1960, the Alumni Association began presenting the Alumni Honor Award, the highest recognition the Alumni Association can bestow on a graduate of 麻豆原创 or Mount Morris College. The award is made to living alumni upon the recommendation of the Alumni Association and upon the approval of the president of the University.

recipient qualities for nomination

  • For participation in and contribution to the alumni program of the University;
  • For outstanding personal services rendered the University over a period of years;
  • For personal accomplishments whereby the prestige of the University is enhanced;
  • For distinguished service or accomplishments in any field of human endeavor, be it in the family, community, in business, industry, science, or a profession; or
  • For unusual and singular contributions to the development of cultural or spiritual life.

Alumni Honor Award Recipients

Alford, Steve – Distinguished Honor Award 2014
Bailey, Ralph ’51
Ball, Arden ’63
Barnhart, Marjorie ’37
Barr, Ernest ’50
Barrett Rendler, Ruth Barrett ’82
Beery, Robert ’36
Bendsen, Olga ’38
Biggs, Robert ’67
Bittinger, Marvin L. ’63
Blickenstaff, Leonard ’34
Blickenstaff, Zara ’38
Boda, Marguerite Zumbrun ’25
Bowman, Paul ’46
Boyer, Charles L. `59
Brand, Jerry ’63
Bridges, Jane ’83
Brookover, Wilbur ’33
Brumbaugh, Grayce ’32
Bullock, Freddie ’73
Bunce, George ’42
Burke, Eldon ’22
Burke, Homer ’21
Burt, Carl ’27
Butler, Arthur ’44
Butterbaugh, Edgar ’49
Bwala, Hyedima ’71
Byerly, Carl ’28
Chaffee, Chuck ’64
Chanthalangsy, Pawn ’76
Chapman, Linda Brown ’71
Christopher, William ’60
Clarke, Nelda Rhodes ’73
Coffman, H. McKinley ’59
Compton, Russell ’31
Conrad, Duard ’25
Cordier, Dorothy Butterbaugh ’23
Cory, Dennis ’66
Cox, Kathy Throne ’73
Cripe, Floyd ’21
Curless, Robert ’38
Curry, Robert S. ’76
Deeter, Allen C. ’53
Deeter, Joan George ’53
Dilling, Carole Welch ’62
Dilling, Yvonne ’79
Dillman, Glen ’69
Ding-Jo, Hsia Currie ’75
Douglas, Chris Good ’74
Downey, James M. ’67
Dresher, Edith ’23
Durnbaugh, Donald ’49
Dye, Cloyd ’55
Eash, Maurice ’50
Eastlund, Marvin ’66
Easton , James ’64
Eberly, John ’29
Eberly, William R. ’48
Edgerton, Sarah ’70
Edwards, C. Lowell ’50
Eikenberry, Ivan ’35
Eikenberry, Mary Flora ’36
Eikenberry, Terril ’73
Emrick, Ernestine Hoff ’40
Emrick, Michael ’68
Evans, T. Quentin ’45
Finnell, Loren ’64
Firebaugh, Douglas ’62
Fisher, Glen ’45
Fisher, Gletha Noffsinger ’30
Flory, Charles ’24
Flory, Kristin ’78
Flory, Paul ’31
Frederick, Donald ’39
Fry, Ivan ’46
Fry-Miller, Kathleen Fry ’75
Gall, Irma ’55
Garber, James ’50
Garner, Jasper ’48
Garner, Warren ’50
Garver, Earl ’33
Garwood, Carolyn Simmers ’49
Gibbel, J. Paul ’20
Gilbert, Arthur L. ’53
Gilbert, Martha Rupel ’29
Gilliland, Karen King ’70
Gressley, Gene ’52
Grove, Dean A. ’67
Gump, Arlo ’31
Gunnerson, Samuel ’64
Haist, David A. ’73
Haist, Sandy Cleveland ’74, ’02
Haley, J. Wilbur ’24
Hamer, Esther Rinehart ’50
Hamer, John ’48
Hamilton, Marie Ikenberry ’23
Hamilton, Stanley ’32
Hammond, Mary Coppock ’41
Hardman, Carolyn Moldenhauer 鈥61
Hare, William ’60
Harper, Clara ’24
Harper, William N. ’66
Harshbarger, Albert ’28
Heisey, Lowell ’41
Helman, A. Blair
Helman, Cora Wise ’22
Henney, Jane ’69
Hersch, Ruth Brandt ’40
Hilles, Howard ’35
Hines, Glynn ’73
Hoff, Lloyd ’21
Hoffman, Nancy Walker ’76
Holl, Carl ’16
Holl, John ’60
Holland, Ruth Mangun ’50
Hollenberg, Edward L. 鈥48
Holmes, Melvin L. ’63
Hooley, Stan 鈥80
Hoover, Paul ’68
Houser, D. Stanley ’29
Howard, Keith ’30
Howell, Ida Shockley ’25
Huber, Robert ’30
Huffaker, P. L. ’23
Huffman, Eric A. ’71
Ikenberry, G. John ’76
Jarvis, J. Michael ’68
Johansen, Robert ’62
Johansen, Ruthann Knechel ’64
Johnson , Onita Jerew ’49
Johnson, Stephen ’77
Johnston, Howard ’49
Johnston, Janis Clark ’69
Joseph, Philip 鈥64
Kastner, Michael ’77
Keffer, Harry L. ’59
Keller, Dorothy Birdge – Distinguished Honor Award 2015
Keller, Paul ’35
Keller, Robert ’52
Kelly, Michael L. ’70
Kettering, Merlyn ’65
Kinsley, C. Evan ’34
Kinsley, Lucile Buck ’34
Kintner, Elgin ’39
Kiracofe, Homer ’40
Krieg, Philip ’70
Kurtz, Sarah ’79
Landis, Moyne ’27
Lehman, Della ’21
LeValley Bergen, Cara M. ’87
LeValley, Joan ’57
Likens, Gene ’57
Likens, Steve ’71
Long, Inez Goughnour ’39
Long, Dr. Kathy Driver 鈥71
Longfellow, John ’28
Lundin, Frank ’49
Mahoney, Mildred ’45
Martin, Don ’28
Mason, Dorotha Winger ’48
May, Melanie ’76
McElwee, Tim 鈥78
McEntarfer, Beverly 鈥73
McFadden, Ralph ’55
McFadden, W. Glenn ’28
McFadden, Wilbur ’53
Metzger, Ken ’67
Michael, Peter M. ’74
Mikesell, D. Blaine ’37
Miller, Clemmy ’20
Miller, Edward ’56
Miller, Martha Showalter ’56
Miller, Noble ’25
Miller, Rex 鈥69
Miller, Wayne ’48
Minnich, H.Spenser ’17
Mishler, Rick ’74
Mock, Stephen 鈥63
Montel, Gary ’65
Morris, Michael J. ’71
Mow, Anna Beahm ’18
Moyer, Elgin ’14
Moyer, Faye ’22
Mullen, Wilbur ’52
Nees, Opal Pence ’50
Neher, Clarence ’37
Neher, O. W. ’16
Noffsinger, Stanley J. ’76
Nyhart, Howard ’23
Ogden, Tim ’87
Oswalt, Sylvia Eidemiller ’50
Ott, Beverly ’80
Oxender, Dale ’54
Parker, Donald ’56
Parker, Robert ’57
Pettit, Terry ’68
Pfleiderer, Esther ’30
Plank, Jeffrey ’69
Pontius, Keith ’55
Pence, Nadine S. ’76
Lily Qi ’91
Reid, Kathryn Goering ’73
Rhoades, J. Benton ’42
Rhoades, Ruby Frantz ’45
Rieman, Louise Baldwin ’69
Rieman, Philip ’69
Riethof, Thomas ’49
Robinson, Bill – Distinguished Honor Award 2013
Rolston, Wendell ’29
Roop, Eugene ’64
Roop, G. Fred ’39
Roop, Lois Berkebile ’38
Ross, Keith ’34
Royer, Homer ’29
Royer, Howard ’52
Rupel, Esther ’47
Rupel, Lucile Sherck ’30
Sargent, Galen ’23
Schantz, Elizabeth ’52
Schechter, Joseph ’47
Schrock, Janet Lea West ’58
Schutz, Salena ’25
Schwalm, Vernon ’13
Shafer, Elaine Snyder ’89
Shaffer, James ’35
Shankster, Celia Smith ’49
Shankster, Owen ’59
Sheller, H. Lynn ’26
Sherman, Anita Weaver 鈥79
Shull, Ernest ’37
Shull, Gordon ’46
Shull, Lois Netzley ’52
Shull, W. Russell ’23
Shultz, L. W. ’14
Snyder, Graydon ’51
Sowles, Marcia ’72
Spencer, Sidney ’49
Stauffer, Robert ’23
Steele, Lonnie ’62
Stoner, Ben ’28
Stoner, John ’26
Switzer, Jo Young ’69
Taubert, Alexis Lybrook ’71
Theen, Rolf ’59
Thomas, Frances Smith ’39
Thomas, Franklin ’25
Thompson, Joel ’55
Throne, Clair ’31
Throne, Paul ’49
Tice, Carol Hoff ’54
Tolle, Jeannette Jackson ’37
Trexler, Edward ’50
Tully, Robert ’31
Turner, H. Spencer ’60
Uhrig, Howard ’47
Ulmer, Edna ’58
Van Dyke, Vernon ’33
Viehweg, Steve 鈥82
Waas, David ’47
Wagoner, John ’39
Walter, Franklin ’51
Walton, Ronald ’53
Wampler, Sadie Stutsman ’16
Warstler, Anna ’30
Weimer, Harry ’29
Weimer, Paul ’42
Weldy, Gilbert ’49
West, Phil ’60
Wieand, Cassel ’35
Williams, Flora Rouch ’59
Wilson, Laura McIntire ’32
Winger, Robert ’26
Wolfe, Claude ’40
Wright, Lowell ’35
Wright, Dr. Phillip C. 鈥78
Wu, Ningkun ’48
Yoder-Maina, Angi 鈥94
Yost, Daryl ’58
Yost, M. Dwayne ’57
Young, John ’42
Zigler, Robert ’42
Zumbrun, Linda ’69

2024 Young Alumni Impact Award recipient Audri Svay &apos;18<br />

The Young Alumni Impact Award

The Young Alumni Impact Award identifies potential future leaders, age 30 and under, who have embraced the principles that they learned while at Manchester to make a significant impact on the world. This award recognizes 麻豆原创 alumni, age 30 and under, who:

  • continue to live out the University mission in their professional and personal life,
  • make a significant impact on the world, and
  • are considered a potential future leader.

The recipient will be recognized at Homecoming each fall. Complete the form below to nominate a fellow alumnus for the Young Alumni Impact Award.

2024 Young Alumni Impact Award recipient, Audri Svay ’18

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Young Alumni Impact Award Recipients

Past recipients are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Dustin S. Brown 鈥99
Rachel Wilkinson ’10 DeLauder
Alex Downard ’20
Benjamin Tapper ’12

The Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award

The Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award recognizes alumni, ages 31-40, who demonstrate outstanding leadership in their professions, have contributed to the betterment of their community and its citizens, and who have retained a strong commitment to the University. This award recognizes 麻豆原创 alumni, age 31-40, who:

  • demonstrate outstanding leadership in their careers,
  • contribute to the betterment of their community and its citizens, and
  • retain a strong alliance with the University.

The recipient is to be recognized at the Homecoming each fall. Complete the form below to nominate a fellow alumnus for the Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award.

2025 Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Martin Garcia Chavez 鈥16

2024 Young Alumni Impact Award recipient Audri Svay &apos;18<br />
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The Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients

Frederick Balagadd茅 鈥01
James Butler 鈥02
Samantha Chapman ’12
Nick Kenny ’11
Madalyn Metzger 鈥99
Lisa Updike 鈥03 Starks
Carol Fike ’10

Richard 鈥淒ick鈥 Siler &apos;57, Claude Wolfe Coach of the Year<br />

The Claude Wolfe Coach of the Year Award

Each year at the Homecoming football game, this award is presented to an M Association member who, by his or her achievements and contributions in athletic coaching, brings honor to our university and the memory of Coach Wolfe. The award can be based either on outstanding success in the past year or on accomplishments over the course of a several-year career.

Richard 鈥淒ick鈥 Siler ’57 – A former football and track athlete for the Black and Gold, Dick Siler has etched his coaching legacy on the baseball field. Dick spent over three decades as a high school educator and baseball coach in Northern Indiana. Siler taught and coached at both Elkhart High and Elkhart Memorial High Schools. He compiled an outstanding overall record of 576-355-15, good enough for a sterling .618 winning percentage.

Honoring his career in high school athletics, Siler was a 1992 inductee into the Indiana High School Baseball Hall of Fame. A longtime member of the American Baseball Coaches Association and Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association, Dick retired from the high school ranks in 1997.

Ever passionate in his love for the game of baseball, Dick couldn鈥檛 quite stay away from coaching and is now entering his 23rd year as an assistant baseball coach at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Ind.

Selection is made by Association officers from nominations by the membership, which includes all past “M” letter winners.Nominationsmust be received before Dec. 31.

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Claude Wolfe Coach of the Year Recipients

1980 – Phil Weybright ’68
1981 – Bob Barlow ’72
1982 – Claude Wolfe ’40
1983 – Richard Miller ’61
1984 – Lamar Kilmer ’63
1985 – James Andrews ’69
1986 – John Hans ’63
1987 – Terry Pettit ’68
1988 – Mike Kelly ’70
1989 – Harlan Frick ’63
1990 – Dennis Horn ’63
1991 – Al Smith ’64
1992 – A.J. Rickard ’62
1993 – Jim Noffsinger ’69
1994 – Dave Geyer ’62
1995 – Carmi Thornton ’76
1996 – Jerry Minton ’62
1997 – Steve Neff ’73
1998 – Ron Hecklinski ’78
1998 – Mike DeBord ’77
1999 – Doug Miller ’76
2000 – Gary Scott ’71
2001 – Mark Heeter ’87
2002 – Gary Goshert ’73
2003 – Dave McCollough ’79
2004 – Bill Patrick ’53
2005 – Wayne Kreiger ’64
2006 – Mark Miller ’75
2007 – Jeff Adamson ’86
2008 – Scott Mannering ’79
2009 – Allen Shockney ’63
2010 – Carla Paschen 鈥83 Herschberger
2011 – Linda Allen ’84 Bamrick
2012 – Allen Mack ’87
2013 – Scott Kreiger ’88
2014 – George Gilbert ’78
2015- Andy McClain 鈥91
2016- Jed Freels 鈥84
2017 – Burt paddock ’97
2018 – Scott Stalbaum ’07
2019 – Dick Siler ’57

Alumni Teacher of the Year

The Warren K. and Helen J. Garner Alumni Teacher of the Year award honors a 麻豆原创 teacher education alumnus/alumnae who is currently active in classroom teaching in preschool through grade 12, who:

  • has made significant contributions to education
  • provides exceptional service to the profession
  • is deeply concerned for the individual students
  • is able to inspire learning
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Alumni Teacher of the Year Recipients

2025 Janel (Monks) Horvath 鈥15
2024 Amy Hively ‘ 01 Chemistry Education
2023 Joel Eichenauer ’91 Elementary
2022 Michelle Keim 鈥05 Elementary
2019 Stacey Morgan ’09 English/Language Arts
2017 Marie Snyder 鈥67 Harris Elementary
2016 Beth Beery ’90 Spanish 2015 Jody Sarber ’07 Math
2014 Ryan S. Evans ’07 Science
2013 Paige Keim 鈥95 Elementary
2012 Kacina Peters 鈥06 Pfeiffer Elementary
2011 Connie Hicks 鈥74 Pipher Elementary
2010 Portia Price 鈥86 Coe Elementary
2005 Phil Sheets ’71 ’75 Biology
2005 Pam Nussbaum Sheets’72 ’75 Third Grade
2003 David McKenzie 鈥83 English and Speech
2001 Beth Jones 鈥85 Elementary
2000 Michael Hummer 鈥72 Elementary
1999 Daniel Tyree 鈥76 English and Speech
1997 Kermit Eby III ’80 Social Studies
1995 Dean Beery 鈥65 Fourth Grade
1994 Robert Harkness 鈥68 Third Grade
1993 Kay Browning 鈥68 Sponseller English
1992 Larry Baker 鈥62 Language Arts and Drama
1991 Nelda Brandeberry 鈥55 Snider Home Economics
1990 Joann Fisher 鈥54 Owen Third Grade
1989 Glen Dillman 鈥69 Social Studies
1988 Ruth Brown 鈥40 Brubaker Kindergarten

*The award was not presented in 2018 and 2020.

Educational Studies Professional of the Year

The Professional of the Year Award is open to all 麻豆原创 educational studies alumni who are actively involved in their field, have made significant contributions to their community, and provide exceptional service to the profession.

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    Professional of the Year Recipients

    Past recipients include:

    • 2022 – Leslie (Bailey) Marlatt 鈥13
    • 2023 –Seth Patrick 鈥18
    • 2024 – Larissa Valdez 鈥17
    • 2025 – Becca Colbert 鈥22
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