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2007 LAS Alumni Awards

Ceremony:
Thursday, October 18, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Scheman Building

ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Alumni Merit Award
Judith (Goetsch) Brandlin
Modern Languages BS 1964
Los Angeles, California
President and Founder
Stone Soup, Inc.

Alumni Medal
Steven Mores
Journalism BS 1967
Harlan, Iowa
President and Co-Publisher
Tribune Newspapers, Inc.

James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award
Theresa Etler
Speech Communications BA 1998
Kansas City, Missouri
Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Johnson and Johnson

Impact Award
Elizabeth Cole Beck
History BS 1974
History MS 1977
Ames, Iowa
Interim Director
ISU Honors Program

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Citation of Merit
Burton Christensen
Chemistry BS 1952
Henderson, Nevada
Retired Senior Vice President
Merck Research Lab

Richard Matzke
Geology BS 1959
Alamo, California
Retired Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Chevron

John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award
Darleane Hoffman
Chemistry BS 1948
Chemistry PhD 1951
Oakland, California
Professor of Chemistry
University of California-Berkeley

Distinguished Service Award
Carol Elliott
Political Science BS 1972
Gallatin Gateway, Montana
Retired Vice Commander
Air Intelligence Agency, Kelly Air Force Base

Dean's Arts and Humanities Medal
Burt Drexler
Ames, Iowa
Retired Theatre Professor
Iowa State University

Carol Wilson
1970 BS Music
Germany
Professional Opera Singer

ENGLISH
English Outstanding Alumni
Richard Caplan
Psychology BS 1949
Iowa City, Iowa
Physician (Retired)
University of Iowa Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities

Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch
English MS 1994
Rhetoric and Professional Communications PhD 1998
Arden Hills, Minnesota
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota

GEOLOGICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Geology Outstanding Alumni
Richard Iverson
Geology BS 1977
Vancouver, Washington
Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey

GREENLEE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
Schwartz Award
Richard Doak
Journalism (Science and Technical) BS 1962
History MS 1964
Johnston, Iowa
Senior Editorial Columnist
Des Moines Register

MUSIC
Outstanding Music Alumni Award

Carol Wilson
1970 BS Music
Germany
Professional Opera Singer

Outstanding Music Alumni Educator Award
Peter McCoy

1985 BM Music
Norwood, New York
Associate Professor of Music
State University of New York @ Potsdam

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Distinguished Alumni Award
Rodney Peffer
1975 BA Distributed Studies
San Diego, California
Professor of Philosophy
University of San Diego

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Alumni Achievement Award
Terrence Tobin
1979 BA Political Science
1979 BA Economics
Clive, Iowa
Director
Principal Enterprise Capital

WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Alumni Educational Achievement Award
Kimberly Contag
1980 BA Spanish
1980 BA International Studies
Mankato, Minnesota
Professor of Spanish
Minnesota State University

Susan Sandholm-Petersen
1973 BS English
West Des Moines, Iowa
World Languages Teacher
Waukee Community Schools

Alumni Professional Achievement Award
Christopher Sorensen
1991 BS in Engineering
Paris, France
Engineer in the Audio and Videoconferencing Service
France Telecom

Classical Studies Outstanding Professional Achievement Award
Paul Mitchell
1990 BA History
1999 PhD Economics
Madison, Wisconsin
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin

Richard Matzke
  • Richard Matzke
    2007
    LAS Citation of Merit
Air Force Aerospace Studies - Anthropology - Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology - Chemistry - Computer Science
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology - Economics - English - Genetics, Development & Cell Biology - Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
Philosophy & Religious Studies - Physics and Astronomy - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology - Statistics - World Languages & Cultures

African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies