Mortar Board alumni awards
Purpose of the awards:
The Alumni Achievement Awards and the Distinguished Lifetime Membership Awards are given by Mortar Board, Inc. and the Mortar Board National Foundation to alumni who have demonstrated Mortar Board’s continuing commitment to the ideals of scholarship, leadership and service. These alumni are models for the collegiate members as well as living illustrations of what Mortar Board stands for.
Eligibility of Award Recipients:
Any alumnus or alumna of Mortar Board, initiated as an undergraduate, who is not currently a National Council member, a section coordinator, a National Foundation trustee, or an advisor to a collegiate chapter, is eligible. Honorary members are eligible five years after the date of their initiation. Previous recipients are not eligible to receive another award.
Eligibility of Nominators:
Nominations may be submitted by alumni chapters, collegiate chapters, or individual Mortar Board members.
Nominate an alumna or alumnus.
Alumni Achievement Award
The Alumni Achievement Awards honor members who:
- Have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their profession or their career, or are noted for outstanding community service, or both;
- Have shown a continuing commitment to the Mortar Board ideals of scholarship, leadership, and service;
- Are an outstanding role model for collegiate members;
- Are between five and 40 years from their undergraduate degree.
2011 recipients
Carolyn Woo, Ph.D. (Purdue University, 1974) — worldwide educational leader, global entrepreneur
Melissa Page Ingwersen (Northwestern University, 1981) — coalition builder, community leader, corporate banker
Stephen Corn, M.D. (Boston University, 1981) — champion of healthcare, clinical innovator, inventor, mentor
2010 recipients
Teresa Long, M.D., MPH (University of California Berkeley, 1978) — preventive medicine practitioner, woman of firsts
Kunle Oguneye, MBA (Valparaiso University, 1996) — altruistic author, volunteer, entrepreneur with a cause
Bethany Rubin Henderson, M.A., J.D. (The University of Pennsylvania, 1997) — visionary, activist, developer of leaders
2009 recipients
Shontrai Irving (Indiana University, 1996)
Jo Ann Rohyans, M.D. (Miami University, 1968)
2008 recipients
Nancy Rogers, J.D. (The University of Kansas, 1968)
Kimberly Till (The University of Alabama, 1976)
Marilyn Wirtz (The University of Iowa, 1977)
2007 recipients
Steven D. Bishop (Purdue University, 1985)
Susan R. Komives, Ed.D. (Florida State University, 1967)
Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran, Ph.D. (Pomona College, 1968)
Distinguished Lifetime Membership Award
The Distinguished Lifetime Membership Awards honor members who:
- Have retained connections or contacts with Mortar Board in either collegiate or alumni areas;
- Have demonstrated outstanding community or campus service on a national or international plane;
- Epitomize the true meaning of a Lifetime of Service;
- Have had substantial years pass since being awarded their undergraduate degree.
2011 recipients
Betty Whitney Alderson (University of Kansas, 1945) — heart and soul of Mortar Board
Janice Sheldon Baumback, M.S.W. (University of Washington, 1943) —joyful philanthropist
Diane Miller Selby (The Ohio State University, 1961) — resourceful servant-leader
2010 recipients
Mary P. (Miller) Hoy, Ph.D. (Iowa State University, 1963) — educational leader
Helen Dickerson Wise, D.Ed. (The Pennsylvania State University, 1948) — national leader
Shirley Brooks-Jones (The Ohio State University, 1991) — ambassador
2009 recipients
Shelia Castellarin (The Ohio State University, 1957)
John Mount (The Ohio State University, made honorary member in 1981)
2007 recipients
Audrey Finkelstein (The University of Miami, 1937)
Marian Fredman (The Pennsylvania State University, 1953)
Alumni Chapter Torch Award
The Mortar Board alumni committee honors outstanding alumni
chapters. Representatives
from torch chapters are invited to come to the national conference
to accept their awards.
