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Past UHAA Award Recipients

With more than 200,000 alumni from which to choose, The University of Houston Alumni Association is truly honoring someone when they are selected for one of their four awards. The names below represent the very best this university has to offer.

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

1949
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1967
1968
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1970

1971

1972


1973

1974
1975

1976
1977
1978

1979

1980

1981

1982


1983


1984


1985

1986



1987



1988

James L. Sibley
Ernest Mayeux
Jack Valenti
Sherwood Crane
Johnny Goyen
William W. Sherrill
Charles A. Saunders
Joel H. Berry, Jr.
Harry H. Montgomery, Jr.
Thomas Menefee
John J. Toomey
Ralph Poling
Walter M. Rainey, Jr.
Roger W. Jeffery, Sr.
Judge Roy Hofheinz
Dr. John McGivney
Congressman Bob Casey
Dan Rather
Dr. Arleigh Templeton
Welcome Wilson
LeRoy Melcher, Sr.
Harry H. Hedges, Jr.
Elsa Rosborough
Larry Blyden
Judge Bill Elliott
Most Reverend Rene H. Gracida
Guy V. Lewis
Judge Wendell A. Odom
Judge Criss Cole
Howard W. Pollock
John B. Van Ness
Byron G. “Pappy” Bond
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel
Roy Wiese
Dave Williams
Robert W. Baldwin
Archie Bennett, Jr.
Elvin Hayes
Leonard Rauch
Richard “Racehorse” Haynes
Kenneth Reese
Charles B. Marino
Kathryn J. Whitmire
Peter H. Roussel
Judge Shearn Smith
Judge Ruby Kless Sondock
E. Virginia Barnett
John E. Kolb
Charles E. McMahen
Dr. Kenneth L. Lay
Vassar Miller
Mickey L. Herskowitz
Kenneth L. Schnitzer
James C. Shindler
Ned Battista
Roy H. Cullen, Jr.
Jack M. Rains
Duane B. Adams
Joseph Rodney Canion
Larry W. Gatlin
1989


1990


1991


1992


1993


1994


1995


1996

1997

1998

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2006


2007

2008



2009


2010
Sam P. Douglass
Dr. Louis Green
Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson
Victor Costa
C.F. Kendall, II
Dr. Robert W. Lawless
Congressman Tom DeLay
John J. Moores
Leonard Rosenberg
Katherine Mize
Jim Nantz
Don D. Sykora
Carl Lewis
Dr. Shirley Rose
John O’Quinn
Dr. Bernard Harris
Tom Jarriel
Regina Rogers
Valerie King Freeman
Congressman Gene Green
Hakeem Olajuwon
Doug Drabek
Elizabeth D. Rockwell
Jane Cizik
Gene McDavid
Morrie Abramson
Emyre Robinson
Burdette W. Keeland
Kenneth L. Barun
The Honorable Mary E. Bacon
Dr. B. Montgomery Pettitt
Dominique Sachse
Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Judge Vanessa Gilmore
Melvyn Wolff
The Honorable Michael Cemo
The Honorable Vidal Martinez
Dr. Kathryn "Kaye" Stripling
Leroy Burrell
Rose Cullen
Charles Matthews
Dr. Anastacio "Tatcho" Mindiola
The Honorable Margaret Spellings
Dr. Herman Suit
Dr. Patricia Potter Wilson
Carol L. Lewis
Jack Moore
Senator John Whitmire
Gerald McElvy
The Honorable Martha Wong
Dr. Dorothy F. Caram
Marvin Nathan
Col. Barrye L. Price, Ph.D.
Christopher Theofanidis
Karen W. Katz
Miguel R. San Juan
Alvin L. Zimmerman
Richard Coselli
Elizabeth Ghrist
Jim Perdue

Chair's Award Recipients (formerly the Alumni President's Award)

1969

1970
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1972
1973
1974
1975

1976
1977
1978
1979


1980

1981

1982

1983


1985
Robert W. Baker
Max Levine
Colonel W. B. Bates
Mrs. Ray Dudley
Harry H. Fouke
Dr. Philip G. Hoffman
Robert W. Kneebone
C.F. McElhinney
Aaron J. Farfel
Bessie M. Ebaugh
L. Standlee Mitchell
Mrs. Gus Wortham
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Roy Cullen
Mrs. Marty Harris
Don D. Jordan
George P. Mitchell
Bill Yeoman
Eric Hilton
A.A. White
John R. Butler, Jr.
Dr. Barry Munitz
George A. Butler
Mack H. Hannah, Jr.
Frell L. Albright
Elliott A. Johnson 
Roland S. McGinnis
William T. Slick
1986
1988
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
2000

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2003
2004

2005
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2007

2008
2009
2010
Stewart Orton
John T. Cater
James T. Ketelsen
Corbin Robertson, Sr.
John Walsh
Robert C. Lanier
Rev. William Lawson
Dean John M. Ivancevich
Max Watson
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Goerke
Tom Tellez
Lee W. Hogan
Cheryl L. Thompson-Draper
Charles T. Bauer
Lucile B. Melcher
Wilhelmina “Beth” Robertson
Tilman Fertitta
The Honorable William P. Hobby
Gasper Mir, III
Robert Mosbacher, Jr.
Dena Lewis
A.J. Yeoman
Jim McIngvale
Bill Moffit
Carolyn Farb, D. Hum., h.c.
Carey C. Shuart
Bruce Williams

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
2000
2002
2003

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2005

2006

2007

2008



2009
2010
Murray Stinson
Jim Wiseheart
Pleas Doyle
Billie Schneider
Stephen Harcrow
Janet A. Blair
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Lilie
Larry & Joanne Doherty
The Honorable Thaddeus “Bo” & Josanna Smith
Richard Coselli
Graham Painter
Matthew & Shirley Provenzano
J. Downey Bridgwater
Sharon Stinson
Cathy Coers Frank
Francie Willis
Margaret Bock
Sonny Messiah-Jiles
J.W. “Willie” Burns
David Doll
Christopher Mims
Linda and Stanley Binion
Tommy and Elaine Ebner
George Leroy Hall
Robert Planck

Outstanding Volunteer Award Recipients

2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

2009
2010
Don McKusker
Becky Hyatt
Sherman Smith, Jr.
Jeffrey D. Fuller
Cynthia Oliver Coleman
Alton “Red” Veselka
Perry Pace, III
Patty Godfrey

Rising Star Award for Service Recipients

2010 Katie Kalenda Daggett

Rising Star Award for Achievement Recipients

2010 Jim Parsons
 
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