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Robert L. Stearns Award
The Stearns Award was initiated in 1953, the year of the resignation of Robert L. Stearns (A&S’14) as the sixth president of the University. He had presided over CU since 1939. The award recognizes members of the faculty and staff for extraordinary achievement or service in any one or combination of the following areas: teaching, service to the University, work with students, research or off-campus service. Award winners receive a medal.
Award Recipients
2011
Bernard Amadei
Brian Cabral (Rec’79)
David Getches
Daniel Liston
2010
John Cumalat
Richard Noble
Ric Porreca
Robert Schulzinger
2009
Douglas A. Burger
Patricia N. Limerick
Owen “Brian” Toon
2008
Barbara Bintliff
David Clough (ChemEngr’69, PhD’79)
Marvin Caruthers
2007
Daniel N. Baker
Polly E. McLean
Uriel Nauenberg
2006
Michael D. Breed
Jeffrey S. Lipton (MBA’75, MFin’79)
David O. Norris
Richard L. Wobbekind (MEcon’79, PhD’84)
2005
Cathy Comstock (MCompLit’75, PhD’81)
Dale Mood
Gary J. Rottman
2004
Richard J. Castro (MPE’73)
Robert Spillman
Ronald Stump
2003
Ceal Barry
Robert A. Pois
Robert E. Sievers
2002
Alphonse Keasley Jr. (PhDSpch’01)
Laurence D. Nelson (Acct’69)
William Wei
2001
Jean E. Delaney (Hist’70, MA’72)
Dennis C. Jackson
Richard Jessor
2000
John Cooper
Robert L. Hohlfelder
Kevin J. McCarthy
1999
Susan K. Avery
Larry D. Singell
1998
Judson G. Hurd
James W. Palmer
1997
John J. DeBell (Psych’83)
William R. Deno (Arch’72, MS’73)
1996
Kris C. McCandless (Soc’72, MPubAf’78)
Charles R. Middleton
James E. Schafer (Bus’67, MBA’71)
1995
Bruce R. Ekstrand
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
1994
James N. Corbridge Jr.
Evelyn M. Krohn (MedTech’45)
1993
Robert R. Fink
Lanny Pinchuk
1992
Charles N. Fasanero
Gladeane Goode Lefferdink (Mus’57)
Patricia H. Magette
1991
John G. “Pete” Copeland
Ronald A. James (A&S’59, MJour’67)
1990
Gordon Johnson (MBA’82)
1989
Emily M. Calhoun
F. Wayne Scott
John R. Taylor
Shirley Youngren
1988
John R. Carnes
Ward Churchill
J. Beverly Hathaway
Kaye Howe
Richard K. Knaub
Eugene H. Smith
1987
Peter J. Barden (MBA’70)
Vincent W. Beach
Julius London
Edward W. Murrow (Acct’59)
1986
David Breternitz
Homer Clark
Jenny Kate Collins
George Maler (ElecEngr’45, MS’56)
Charles Nilon
N. Mildred Nilon
William Weber
1985
Wendell Burchett
Lillian Pohorilak
Kenneth A. Reed (MBA’49)
Aladeen Smith
1984
C.F. Alan Cass (A&S’63)
Jackson F. Fuller (ElecEngr’44)
C. Dean Graves (PE’51, MPubAd’56)
David Hawkins
Neil Hartley Sadler
Theo. Volsky Jr.
1983
Charles A. Byers (MMus’52)
Helen B. Duhon (Jour’38)
J.K. Emery (Jour’48)
Richard L. Harpel (MPubSer’63, EdD’70)
Wallace Leiper
David A. Lind
Wyn Owen
1982
Robert Athearn
Clifford Calhoun
Rosetta H. Clark
John W. Marr
David Prescott
Robert B. Rhode
Joe Ben Wheat
1981
Wilmar F. Bernthal
Frank Prentup
Jeannette Royer
Hobart Smith
Klaus Timmerhaus
Harold Walton
1980
H.H. “Bud” Arnold (Econ’52, Law’55)
Joanne Easley Arnold (A&S’52, MJour’65, PhD’71)
Frank S. Barnes
William E. Briggs (MMath’49, PhD’53)
M. John Loeffler (A&S’46, MGeog’48)
Olwen O. William (A&S’51)
C. Marie Wood
1979
Peter Albersheim
Charles A. Barth
D. Wilson Crumpacker
Courtland H. Peterson (A&S’51, Law’53)
Dan Stavely
1978
C. Michael Baier (Acct’42, MBA’63)
Cal A. Briggs
Fred Casotti (Jour’49)
Ivar Pearson
Max S. Peters
Ruth Purkaple
E. James Quigley (MPubSer’57)
Leo C. Reithmayer
1977
Edwin P. Banks (MPolSci’52)
DeVon M. Carlson (ArchEngr’47)
Berton Coffin
Mildred Coffin
Virginia A. Fassler
John E. Moreland (Bus’43, MFin’55)
Robert S. Wasley (MAcct’41)
1976
F. Kendrick Bangs (MPubSer’46)
Eloise V. Braidwood
Roderick L. Downing (CivEngr’14)
Mabel M. Irwin
Benjamin H. Spurlock (MMechEngr’50)
Thomas E. Starzl
1975
Roland E. “Doc” Balch
Willa E. Green
Barbara Schindler Jones (MComm’59, PhD’68)
Gordon Meiklejohn
Omer C. Stewart
Howard B. Waltz
1974
Albert A. Bartlett
William H. Baughn
Bertha Black
Donald E. Carline
A. Dwight Grotewold (MPubSer’64)
George S. Lesser (Bus’33)
Reuben Zubrow
1973
Willard B. Cook (Bus’33, MBA’51)
Harold C. Heim (Phar’32)
Howard H. Higman (Art’37, SocSci’42)
Charlotte York Irey (MThtr’65)
Pauline A. Parish
Keith R. Porter
1972
Peggy Tague Earnest
John N. Hough
Calvin Grieder
1971
Gordon H. Barker
Stanley J. Cristol
Thorrel B. Fest
Burton W. Jones
Tim K. Kelley
William B. Markward
1970
Sam J. Akins
Alice Clyncke
John J. Conger
Lawrence D. Coolidge
Stephen A. Romine (MEdu’40, EdD’47)
Homer P. Rainey
1969
Charles L. Evans
Dorothy L. Greenman (Edu’32)
Otis Lipstreau
Hugh McMillan
Karl H. Stahl
1968
C. Henry Kempe
Evelyn M. Mitchell (A&S’28)
Jack D. Ogilvy (A&S ex’25)
A. Gayle Waldrop
Norman F. Witt (MChem’28, PhD’37)
1967
Norma Mitchell
Margaret Robb
Don W. Sears
Russell “Sox” Walseth (PE’48, MEdu’53)
1966
John W. Bartram (Chem’41)
Joseph W. Cohen
Austin W. Scott Jr.
Muriel Sibell Wolle (MA’30)
1965
M. Helen Carpenter (Engl ex’22)
Roland C. Rautenstraus (CivEngr’46, MS’49)
Martin F. Schmidt (Bus’34, MBA’34)
Eugene Wilson
1964
James W. Broxon
Clifford Houston (A&S’27, MEdu’28, EdD’33)
Warner L. Imig (MMus’42)
Aubrey J. Kempner
S. Harrison Thomson
1963
Frank Eastom (ElecEngr’21)
John R. Little (EdD’48)
Louise McAllister (Bus’37)
Lawrence A. Warner
1962
Leo V. Aspinwall (MBA’32)
D. Mack Easton
Dorothy R. Martin (Psych’34, MA’36, PhD’47)
1961
W. Otto Birk
Harold A. Hoffmeister (A&S’25)
Charles G. Vavra (A&S’25)
1960
Mary Ethel Ball (A&S’14)
W. Stuart Cuthbertson (MA’24)
Frederic P. Storke (Law’17)
Warren O. Thompson (A&S’22)
1959
Charles A. Hutchinson (A&S’22)
Edward C. King
Henrietta A. Loughran
Theordore T. Puck
1958
W.F. Dyde
Clarence L. Eckel (CivEngr’13, MS’21)
Jacob Van Ek
1957
Earl C. Crockett
William B. Draper
Claribel Kendall (A&S’12)
Walter Orr Roberts
1956
Waldo E. Brockway (CivEngr’17)
Elizabeth Fay Selleck (A&S’14)
Clare Hebard Small
Frank C. Potts
1955
Bly Ewalt Curtis (A&S’39)
Ruth T. Colestock (Nurs’20)
Walter B. Franklin (A&S’22, Law’25)
1954
Benjamin S. Galland (Law’19)
Francis Wolle (MA’16)
1953
Harry G. Carlson
Colin B. Goodykoontz
