Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
| 2008 | Phyllis Newby, BA '72 |
| 2007 | David L. Coolidge, BA '57 |
| 2006 | Scott A. Green, BA '83 |
| 2005 | Joyce Duty Wehneman, BA '76 |
| 2004 | Barbara Taylor Clausen Theodore, '50 |
| 2003 | Christine Evans-Klock, BA '79 |
| 2002 | Tabitha Kurrle, BA '66 |
| 2001 | Gary L. Gerould, BA '62 |
| 2000 | Guy F. Perry, Jr., BA '66 |
| 1997 | Robert O. Dulin, Jr., BA '63 |
| 1995 | Franklin D. Cleckley, BA '62 |
| 1994 | Robert H. Reardon, BA '40 |
| 1993 | Herbert W. Thompson, BTh '34 & BA '35 |
| 1992 | Rodney F. Bargerstock, BA '58 & MDiv '62 |
| 1991 | Charles W. Wood, BS '51 Charlotte Turley Wood, '50 |
| 1990 | Opal Davis Bengtson, BA '32 Robert A. Nicholson, BS '44, Honorary Doctor of Laws '90 |
| 1989 | Paul H. Ward, BA '53 |
| 1988 | Sherill D. Hayes, BS '58 & MDiv '62 Dorothy Nelis Nicholson, BS '46 |
| 1987 | Robert H. Moss, BS '57 |
| 1986 | Melvyn F. Hester, BA '61 Bessie Brown Willowby, BS '46 |
| 1985 | Shirley King Coolidge, BS '60 |
| 1984 | Julian L. Ridlen, BA '63 |
| 1983 | Hans Fichtenberg, BA '59 |
| 1982 | John L. Helvering, BA '80 Carolyn Tunnell Patty, '55 Ronald E. Patty, BA '75 Sandra F. Patty, BA '79 |
| 1981 | Louis E. Gerig, BA '68 |
| 1980 | Al Bennett '61 Carlton T. Cumberbatch, BA '67 & MA '76 |
| 1979 | Grace Donohew, BS '59 |
| 1978 | Larry A. Brown, '71 Lillian Aumann Meier, BTh '28 |
| 1977 | Gertrude Collins Evans, '42 Nathan L. Smith, BA '48 |
| 1976 | Robert A. Culp, BA '57 & BDiv '61 Leroy Falling, BS '50 |
| 1975 | Esther Boyer Bauer, BTh '30 Kenneth Franklin Hall, BA '48 |
| 1974 | Cecil K. Byrd, BA '37 Donald L. Collins, BA '51 |
| 1973 | W. Albert Donaldson, '32 William R. Hammock, '55 |
| 1972 | Dondenna Fleenor Caldwell, BA '49 M. Maurice Caldwell |
| 1971 | Walter R. Gatton, '43 |
| 1970 | James Horace Germany, BTh '44 |
| 1969 | C. Herbert Joiner, BA '47 |
| 1968 | Arthur R. Eikamp, BA '43 Thomas R. Pyeatt, BS '52 |
| 1967 | Dora Gerig Batdorf, BTh '24 & BS '61 Lawrence E. Brooks, BTh '27 Isom R. Crockett, BA '49 & BS '50 Clair W. Shultz, BA '36 & BTh '39 James W. Sibert, BA '40 |
| 1966 | W. Dale Oldham, BTh '23 & BTh '38, Honorary Doctor of Divinity '45 |
| 1965 | Cauthion T. Boyd, BTh '44 |
| 1964 | Warren C. Roark, BTh '24, Honorary Doctor of Divinity '51 Ida Byrd Rowe, BA '36 & BTh '38, Honorary Doctor of Letters '41 |
| 1963 | Archie A. Bolitho, BA '43 |
| 1962 | Loren R. Rohr, '46 |
| 1961 | Valorous B. Clear, BA '41 |
| 1960 | John H. Kane, BTh '21 & BTh '39, Honorary Doctor of Divinity '53 |
| 1959 | Harold W. Boyer, '37 |
| 1958 | Walter S. Haldeman, BTh '29 & BDiv '34 John A. Morrison, Honorary Doctor of Divinity '30 |
| 1957 | Earl L. Martin, BTh '30 & BDiv '36, Honorary Doctor of Divinity '37 |
| 1956 | Anna Emilie Koglin, BTh '19 & BDiv '33 George Russell Olt, Honorary Doctor of Laws '33 Lima Lehmer Williams, BA '35 |
| 1955 | Gabriel P. Dixon, BTh '33 |
| 1954 | Streeter S. Stuart, Sr., '31 |
| 1953 | Nicholas G. Zazanis, BTh '22 |
| 1952 | Eunice Drennen Morrison, '22 |
| 1951 | Ariel C. Haldeman, BTh '24 J. Frank Shaw, '28 |
| 1950 | Carl H. Kardatzke, BTh '24, BDiv '30 & BS '44 James R. Tackett, '19 |
| 1949 | Daisy Maiden Boone, BTh '43 & BS '45 Vern Schield, BTh '24 |
