Undergraduate and Graduate Alumni Leadership and Service Awards

The Alumni Leadership and Service Awards recognize a graduating senior and a graduate student who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and service during their time at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The prestigious awards are given during commencement by the Alumni Association. Nominations may be made by any student, faculty or staff member.

To nominate a student for the Alumni Leadership and Service Award, please complete and submit the following nomination.

Undergraduate nomination form

Graduate nomination form

Previous Recipients of Undergraduate Alumni Leadership and Service Award

Year	Recipient	Major	Program
1957	Diane Mazza	Journalism	Campus
1958	Del Rapier	Journalism	Campus
1959	Camille Rezutko Bokar	Drama	Campus
1960	Mary Ann O’Brien Tierney	Drama	Campus
1961	Maryanne O’Connor Donahue	Music Education	Campus
1962	Barbara Curran	Journalism	Campus
1963	Katharine Gibson	History	Campus
1964	Rachel Eberle Ambrose	Journalism	Campus
1965	Christina Bahl	Mathematics	Campus
1966	Marilyn Marks Oberhausen	English	Campus
1967	Jane Jones Lane	English	Campus
1968	Judy Guess Rucker	Music Education	Campus
1969	Kathleen Rocap Williams	Journalism	Campus
1970	Mary Ellen Jones Gould	Elementary Education	Campus
1971	Mary Jo Sidwell	Art	Campus
1972	Bonnie Kennedy	Speech and Hearing Pathology	Campus
1973	Jeannette Hagelskamp	Mathematics	Campus
1974	Dawn Tomaszewski	Journalism	Campus
1975	Margaret Wade	Elementary Education	Campus
1976	Diane Chandler Hickman	Biology	Campus
1977	Barbara Cebuhar	Biology	Campus
1978	Mary Beth Fitzgerald Eisenhard	Business	Campus
1979	Margaret Owen Miller	Business	Campus
1980	Patty Hand Curley	Special Education	Campus
1981	Donna Buress Hardesty	Journalism/English	Campus
1982	Rita Mankus	Chemistry	Campus
1983	Christina Walsh	History/Theatre	Campus
1984	Mary Nabeeha Baroody Mary Czyrnek Sroka	Music Therapy/Music Education Religion	Campus WED
1985	Virginia Majella Ryan Perkins Shirley Menard Gidley	Religion Business Administration	Campus WED
1986	Angela E. White Cynthia S. Salazar	Management/Mathematics Religion	Campus WED
1987	Maria Price Margaret Jane McCafferty	Theology Psychology	Campus WED
1988	Carlene Schindel Rebecca Knoy Nachtrieb	Business Administration Business Administration	Campus WED
1989	Julie Hostetler Kosey Wilma Finchum Johnson	Psychology Business Administration	Campus WED
1990	Katie O’Donoghue Ly Lisa Anne Bute Michels	Paralegal Business Administration	Campus WED
1991	Melissa Ryan O’Keefe Dorothy Bonwell Yaw	Special Education/Elementary Education Business Administration	Campus WED
1992	Jayne Ann McMullen Virostko Marilyn Doll	Mathematics Journalism	Campus WED
1993	Lori Stalker Brown Tracee Lutes	Business Administration/Mathematics Business Administration	Campus WED
1994	Stephannie Marie Keefe Gambill Barbara Rieli Facemyer	Paralegal Theology	Campus WED
1995	Julianne Louise Gildea VandeWater Margaret Ann Horak	Psychology Theology/Psychology	Campus WED
1996	Laura Denise Clayto Gayle Kathryn Hampel Rozmaryn Kathleen Bristow Allen	Psychology Paralegal Management	Campus Campus WED
1997	Ruth Enriquez Jennifer Heimberg Jennings	Business Administration Journalism	Campus WED
1998	Catherine Mickey Saunders Mary Alice Moran Devor	History/Social Science Theology	Campus WED
1999	Crystal Powers Amy Henkelman	Biology Early Childhood Education	Campus WED
2000	Cathy Bishop Cynthia Burtschi Good	Psychology Psychology	Campus WED
2001	Jeanine DiVincenzo Mary Jo Harney	Early Childhood Education History/Social Science	Campus WED
2002	Gloria Haynes Elizabeth Bohanan Matthews	Journalism Psychology	Campus WED
2003	Amy Woltman Karen Guess	Paralegal Early Childhood Education	Campus WED
2004	Elizabeth Goodman Catherine Ann Spung	Individualized and Digital Media Elementary Education	Campus WED
2005	Jennifer Sahr Julie L. Johnson-Young	Marketing Professional Writing	Campus WED
2006	Amy Rewa Susan Strole-Kos	Psychology Computer Information Systems	Campus WED
2007	Kelly McGary Katrina Doty	Kindergarten Education Early Childhood Education (P-3/MI)	Campus WED
2008	Janice Paul Deanna Reed	Preschool-Grade 3 Education/Mild Intervention Digital Media Communications	Campus WED
2009	Carolyn Ouellet	Accounting	Campus
2010	Chanel Reeder Joann Kruger Benjamin	Advertising/Digital Media Kindergarten Education	Campus WED
2011	Brittany Simmerman Rebecca Gross	Pre-Professional Mathematics	Campus WED
2012	Nicole Coutlangus Patricia Jones	English Advertising	Campus WED
2013	Amber Slaughterbeck	Social Science/History	Campus
2014	Tiffany Marshall Amanda Payton	Biology Marketing	Campus Campus
2015	Cecilia Gray Noelle Hingsbergen	Women and Theatre Equine Studies	Campus Campus
2016	Haylie Davenport William (BJ) Riley Lisa Behringer	Accounting Business Administration Human Resource Management	Campus WOL WOL
2017	Na-Shaunda Rayford Katia Orozco	Criminology Psychology	Campus Campus
2018	Brittany Norris Harmony Walsh Allison Payonk	Business Administration Elementary Education Music Therapy	Campus Campus Campus
2019	Kayla Moats	Marketing and Graphic Design	Campus
2020	Olivia Wendel Heather Eckert	Music Therapy Human Services	Campus WOL
2021	Elizabeth “Izzy” Reel	Professional Writing	Campus
2022	Jilliann Reese	Business Administration and Information Technology	Campus
2023	Maura Secrest	Pre-Professional Studies	Campus
2024	Katrina Strow	Exercise Science	Campus

Previous Recipients of Graduate Alumni Leadership and Service Award

Year	Recipient	Program
2009	Becky L. Douglas	Pastoral Theology
2010	Debra Jelinek Gombert	Music Therapy
2011	Nancy Swanson	Music Therapy
2012 (May)	Jeffrey Shick	Pastoral Theology
2012 (Dec)	Darla Hopper	Leadership Development
2013 (May)	Stephanie Miller Pence	Leadership Development
2013 (Dec)	Susan Snider Turner	Leadership Development
2014 (May)	Melissa Ayotte	Art Therapy
2014 (Dec)	Noah Coley Jessica Simpson Cornelius	Leadership Development Leadership Development
2015 (Dec)	Kristin Craig	Leadership Development
2016 (Dec)	Emilee Roberts	Leadership Development
2017 (May)	Christine O’Connor	Leadership Development
2017 (Dec)	Stephanie Wray	Art Therapy
2018 (Dec)	Charlotte Reed	Art Therapy
2019	Naomi Nothdurft	Art Therapy
2020	Nathan Mensah	Music Therapy
2021	Emma Campbell	Leadership Development
2022	Vaida Naris	Art Therapy
2023	Tammy Walker	Nursing
2024	Kirby Gilliam	Music Therapy