Vision 21 Alumni Award Recipients 1998-present

Alumni, The College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) is proud to recognize outstanding, notable and accomplished alumni and friends of CAE. The recipients of Alumni Awards from 1998-2017 are listed below.

*deceased

1998 Recipients

• Thomas J. Barber*
• Wilbur C. Biggin, III
• Captain Sarah Deal Burrow
• Dr. Paul W. DeVore
• Charles E. Earhart*
• Richard J. Englehart
• Dr. Francis E. Hazard
• Leland C. Keller*
• Scott W. Layman, MEd
• Dr. David McCrory
• Andrew Paton, MEd*
• Timothy J. Paul
• Dr. Charles A. Pinder
• Dr. Gene Poor
• Dr. Alfred Rapp
• Dr. Aruthr James Rosser*
• Dr. David Strahle
• Elbert W. Tischendorf
• Dr. Ronald Todd
• Jack C. Yahner*
• Dr. Karen Zuga

1999 Recipients

• Eric Alander
• Thomas A. Cobbett
• James C. Durkin
• Dr. Mark Freeman
• Michael J. Gagner
• Dr. R. Louis Gysler
• William H. Hafemeister
• Dr. James Hales
• Frank J. Huml
• Sister Jude Keehnen
• Joe Marchetta
• Dr. Benjamin McGinnis*
• Cmdr. Todd Miller
• Vernon Nelson
• Dr. William A. Pakan*
• Michael J. Peth
• Warren F. Pincombe
• Dr. Sam L. Polk, Sr.
• Dr. Donald Smith
• James Snyder
• Wil Tinker

Van Deusen Award Recipient 1999

• Clinton Van Deusen

2000 Recipients

• Lisa Brill
• Andrew J. Calderone
• Greg Cardis
• Dr. Del Carson
• Richard L. Clark
• Dr. David H. Devier
• Christopher C. Everett
• William W. Heasley*
• Thomas L. Kinsel
• Tina Johnson Knauss
• Frank Leamy
• Dale R. Liff
• R. Michael Malinzak
• Dr. Henry S. Paulin*
• John R. Plas
• Robert A. Rateno
• Dr. Eugene G. Ripple*
• Lt. Col. James W. Sprance
• James D. Stemple, Jr.
• Lowell Van Deusen*
• Edward J. Vasel

2001 Recipients

• Dr. Allen Bame
• William Blue
• Gary Bukszar
• Dwain Colvin
• Rev. Ronald Fowler
• Garold Garrett
• Kevin Gray
• Tom Grossman
• David Hout
• John Ledgerwood
• Lt. Col. Michael Lynch
• Lynn Putrich
• Richard Schwabe*
• Arden Sommers
• Carla Rae Spackman
• Pamela Kleckner Sullivan
• Thomas Trotter
• Maj. Herman Valentine
• Jeffry Vogel
• Lt.Col. Blaine Wyckoff
• Donna Zullo-Nelson

2002 Recipients

• Christopher "Kit" J. Armstrong
• Robert Bauer
• Rod Baxter
• L. Kim Bevington
• *Dr. John Samuel Biedler
• Michael Gospodinsky
• James B. Hudkins
• Bruce A. Jentner
• Huo_Teh "John" Kiang
• John T. Lilley
• Greg Maderitz
• Mark Mahaffey
• Harry L. Packard
• Kris A. (Evans) Palcho
• Dr. Wes Perusek*
• Gordon Rice
• Wiliam Riggins
• Mark A. Robinson
• Mark E. Sleepter
• John Welser*
• Dr. Lowell S. Zurbuch

2003 Recipients

• Gerald T. Antonucci
• Michael A. Bailey
• Michael J. Bilderback
• Michael F. Bridge
• Christine Cordiak
• Irene E. Edge
• Robert Gerber
• Kevin Heisey
• Judith E. Jones
• James L. Kinsey
• Kevin P. Knauss
• Tom Marquis*
• Carol Ann Might
• Melvin F. Miller
• Marc O'Brien
• Fred G. Schaub
• Lee Sevier
• Dominique (Fio) Sorbo
• James H. Winkler
• Anthony C. Zampino
• Jeffrey A. Zapp

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2003

• Dr. Gorden Keller

2004 Recipients

• Richard B. Anderson
• John Balazs
• Jerry L. Clancey
• Clinton M. Corwin
• Brian J. Crawford
• Gerald Davilla
• Howard Dillman
• John G. Dye
• Stuart C. Horlak
• Lynette Jamison
• Joseph Karpinski
• Dale Lunsford
• Grant Luton
• Kent H. Marvin
• Daniel L.Moneypenny
• Brian Morgret
• Guy M. Pernetti
• Kevin Shrewsberry
• David W. Stresing
• Carolyn M. Zubek
• Joesph A. Zullo

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2004

• Dr. Richard Bentley

2005 Recipients

• Jack Bias
• James M. Contant
• Ronald G. Dilley
• John H. Emmons
• Charles Gardner
• John E. Gauch
• Theodore Harrison
• Donata Hunt
• William Kinney
• George Koutras
• Dale Lumby
• Anthony Mangano
• Michael Manios
• Kelly Lynn Masarik
• Samual Mishler
• Sam Pagano
• Roger Quinn
• Dennis Resek
• Dr. Peter Savoy
• James Sebastian
• Stephen Stofsick

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2005

• Jack & Elsie Joy

2006 Recipients

• William Bates
• Rifka Cohen Claypool
• Christopher Cogan
• Michael Czayka
• Vincent DiMascio
• Michael Dragomier*
• Kevin Fetsko
• Jay Katz
• Timothy Keblesh
• Scott Koeppl
• Matthew Kupetz
• Scott Kutz
• Allen Maurer
• Vas Patibandla
• Tony Roncone
• Beth Anne Shaup
• Doug Shoup
• Mike Sperko
• Brooks Weingart
• Michael Zeno
• Mark Zuranski

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2006

• Dr. Shirley Barton

2007 Recipients

• Martin Bates
• James Colledge
• David Cox
• Alfred Dalcher
• Jim Elco
• Michael Gerda
• Robert Heimann
• Howard Herendeen
• Frank Lindsay
• Eric Marschik
• Otto Miller
• George Mountcastle
• Arthur Nash
• Kenneth Obermiyer
• E. Jay Robson
• Ben Satyshur
• Sr. Theresa Sharp, SND
• Eric Shelhron 
• Pat Sica
• Gregory Wilson
• Daniel Wolfe

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2007

• Dr. Carol Cartwright

2009 Recipients

• Prakash R. Chhatwani
• Susan Flaviano
• Richard Frantz Jr.
• Dr. Carl V. Gorman*
• Joseph Herrmann
• Brian Heston
• Michael Keller
• John S. Kovach
• Alan M. Kuznicki
• Stuart K. Lau
• Domenic Maiani
• William Schloman
• Randall Schneider
• John W. Schroth
• Victor Stefan

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2009

• George Schneider, Jr.*

2010 Recipients

• Concetta Atlagovich
• John Bacher
• Shawn Dakin
• Richard Gray
• Mindy Graham
• Corey Jarvis
• Kenneth Johnson
• Michael Konicki
• Marcus Kilgore
• Myron Koyle
• Donald Masarik
• Kenneth McElravy
• John Newman
• G. Vaughn Smith
• George Tsarwhas

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2010

• Capt. Allen Maurer

2011 Recipients

• Andrew Behary
• James R. Cody
• Mark Ferrara
• John Fu
• Alejandro Galioto
• Stephanie Malby Johnson
• William Kessler
• Col. Lawrence Pence
• Lt. Col. Daniel Sarachene
• Leanne Schumacher
• Brian Schweinhagen
• Ashlee Steiner

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2011

• Dr. Leland C. Keller*

2013 Recipients

• Wes Aubihl
• Keith Bee
• Captain Jason W. Dowd
• Captain Daniel Fahl
• Timothy Hall
• Alexander Peric
• Maggie Prochaska
• Troy Spear

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2013

• Dr. Michael Salkind

2014 Recipients

• Donald Ball
• Peter Michael Cook
• Martin Dusel
• Corey Head
• Mark White

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2014

• Dr. Charles W. Keith*

2015 Recipients

• Charlie Baker
• Justin Christopher
• Kenneth Myers
• Joseph A. Svette, Jr.
• J. Anthony Zalar

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2015

• Michael Dragomier*

Outstanding Contributor 2015

• Ralph D. Cantrell

2016 Recipients

• Danny Ganim 
• Thomas D. Hurley
• Lt.Col. David A. Kraft
• Halle A. Norris
• Tyler Yost

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2016

• Capt. Daniel Wolfe

Outstanding Contributor 2016

• Allen L. Maurer

2017 Recipients

• Thomas Cobett
• Mark Gatsios
• Anthony Mirando
• Roberto Uribe Ph. D
• Deborah Mason Terrill

Van Deusen Award Recipient 2017

• 1G3 Alumni Chapter

Distinguished Contributor 2017

• Joseph Rich

2018 Recipients

• Van Deusen Award: Alejandro Galioto, ’98
• Distinguished Alumni Aeronautics: Theodore Orris, ’83
• Distinguished Alumni Engineering: William E. Fisher, ’73
• Distinguished Contributor: Russ Kukwa
• Professional Achievement Award: Lt. Colonel Dennis Flanagan, ’74
• Young Alumni Award: Nick Gertz, ’12
• Faculty Award: Dr. Darwin Boyd
• Staff Award: Lawrence Epps