With honors.
Remarkable professional achievement. Profound service to humanity. Ohio Wesleyan alumni who exhibit these qualities become eligible to receive the Alumni Association's highest honor: the Distinguished Achievement Citation (DAC).
Past recipients of this prestigious award are listed below. To nominate someone, visit the online nomination form.
2020s
| 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Dr. Lindsey N. Godwin '00 | Dan Allender '74 |
| Dr. Jen Henretty '00 | Tim Corbin '84 |
| Dr. William Marks '70 (posthumously) | Tomiquia Moss '99 |
| Vivianne Ngugi '85 | Robin Vierbuchen Sproul '74 |
| James G. Wallar '70 |
| 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Ron Leibman '57 (posthumously) | Dan Glaser '82 |
| Deydre Smyth Teyhen '93 | Larry Heinzerling '67 (posthumously) |
| Vaikuntanath (Ram) Samudrala '93 | Joanne Verburg '72 |
| Beverly White-Seals '72 | |
| 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Joseph Boltinghouse 1940 (posthumously) | Daniel DiBiasio, PhD '71 |
| Jane Mory Cosco '71 | John (Jeff) F. Erdmann lll '85 |
| Carol Hilkirk Latham '61 | Gordon Felt '85 |
| Amy Marasco '76 | Lolly Newman '46 |
| Joseph Wanjui '61 | Sharon Anderholm Wiener '70 |
2010s
2000s
1990s
| 1999 | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Marcia Alice Kunstel '69 | Jean Elinor Carper '53 |
| Edward Doring Miller, Jr. '64 | Lloyd Allen Horrocks '53 |
| Nancy Reynolds Schneider '64 | Gary L. Schaal '63 |
| 1997 | 1996 |
| Alan Francis Geyer '52 | Kathryn Motz Hunter '46 |
| Branch Rickey 1904 | Walter E. James '31 |
| Jeanne Ellen Snodgrass '52 | Robert Lee Milligan '22 |
| 1995 | 1994 |
| James Osmyn Berry '55 | James Hamilton Charlesworth '62 |
| Gerald William Breese '35 | Nancy Newman Eustis '63 |
| George Sallade Howard '29 | Anne Laylin Grimes '33 |
| Grace Chapman Nash '30 | Daniel Quinn Mills '63 |
| Howard Freeman Polley '34 | |
| 1993 | 1992 |
| Philip Richard Dietterich '55 | David H. Smith '53 |
| Judith Binkele McCulloh '56 | Ezra Feivel Vogel '50 |
| Aaron John Sharp '27 | |
| Melvin Van Peebles '53 | |
| 1991 | 1990 |
| Edwin H. Cady '39 | Elden T. Smith '32 |
| Lawrence Eugene Young '35 |
1980s