Alumni Association
Willard W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award
The Willard W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award is presented annually to graduates of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation who have demonstrated outstanding personal and professional achievement. Since the award's inception in 1976, recipients have characterized the ideals set forth by Indiana University's first dean of HPER, Willard W. Patty. Under his leadership, the school rose to national stature and produced some of the finest professionals in the fields of health, physical education, and recreation.
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2007 Recipients
Thomas M. Davis
Margot E. Faught
Norman Merrifield
Past Recipients
(1976) Raymond Struck
(1977) Richard J. Tiernan
(1978) Hester Beth Bland
(1979) Harry G. Fritz
(1980) Robert Warner Ruhe
(1981) Fred E. Darling
(1982) Mark E. Dean
(1983) Jack E. Razor
(1984) Clifford T. Seymour
(1985) Robert O. Yoho
(1986) Richard A. Enberg
(1987) Warren E. Schaller
(1988) Walter Paul Kroll
(1989) Robert F. Toalson
(1990) Harold M. Barrow
(1991) Phyllis M. Ford
(1992) Robert H. Kirk
(1993) Steven N. Blair
(1994) Betty van der Smissen
(1994) David Ng
(1995) Morgan Pigg
(1995) Anthony Annarino
(1995) Richard J. Schroth
(1995) Daryl L. Siedentop
(1996) Edward J. Koenemann
(1996) W.P. Buckner, Jr.
(1996) Brent Rushall
(1997) Robert Behnke
(1997) James Anderson
(1997) Louis Twardzik
(1998) Laura Kann
(1998) Michael G. Davis
(1998) Phillip S. Rea
(2000) G. Daniel Howard
(2000) Andrew S. Jackson
(2000) Anne Binkley
(2001) Stephen Bender
(2001) Joan Hult
(2001) Charles Wilt
(2002) Beth Collins Pateman
(2002) Tommy Frederick
(2002) Sandra Little
(2003) Marilyn Looney
(2003) Guy Parcel
(2003) James Peterson
(2004) William Considine
(2004) Bertha M. Cato
(2004) Susan J. Telljohann
(2005) Antoinette Gentile
(2005) Ronald A. Olson
(2005) Donald I. Wagner
(2006) David McSwane
(2006) Tom Crawford
(2006) Eugene Young
