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Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Honoring our most dedicated alumni

Each year, we shine a spotlight on IU alumni who have set themselves apart as leaders in their chosen fields and significant contributors to their community, state, nation, or world. The Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA) is the highest honor an IU graduate can receive.

Nominate an IU alum for the Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Recognize an IU alum for their service, accomplishments, philanthropy, or contributions to Indiana University, the IU Alumni Association, and the IU Foundation.

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The DASA Club difference

Since 1953, Indiana University’s DASA recipients—collectively known as the DASA Club—have donated more than $2 million to support deserving IU students.

Learn about the DASA Club Scholarship

Meet the 2025 honorees

The 2025 class exemplifies the varied pursuits and accomplishments of Indiana University’s esteemed alumni. These videos provide a glimpse into their paths to success.

Past recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Service Award

  • Abrahamson, Shirley Schlanger, JD’56, LLD Hon’86 (deceased)
  • Adams, Mildred P., BS’48, MS’52, EdD’64 (deceased)
  • Alltop, J. Howard, Sr., BA’29 (deceased)
  • Anderson, Hanson H., BA 1911, MA’29 (deceased)
  • Anderson, Kathy, BS’71
  • Ando, Kaoru, BS’36, LLD’80 (deceased)
  • Armstrong, Lewis S., BS’26 (deceased)
  • Armstrong, William S., BA’51 (deceased)
  • Aron, Daniel E., BS’83
  • Atkins, Thomas I., BA’61 (deceased)
  • Atkinson, George H., PhD’71
  • Baker, Laurence D., BA 1918 (deceased)
  • Baldwin, William R., MS’56, PhD’65 (deceased)
  • Balfour, Lloyd G., LLB 1907, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Ball, Mildred Morgan, BS’60
  • Banks, Glenn L., BS’50 (deceased)
  • Barker, Sarah Evans, BS’65, LLD’99
  • Barnes, David K., MA’44, PhD’47 (deceased)
  • Barnett, John V., Sr., ’34 (deceased)
  • Barnhart, Dean L., BA 1911 (deceased)
  • Barnhart, Hugh A., BA 1915 (deceased)
  • Barr, John A., LLB’30, LLD’73 (deceased)
  • Barton, Miles S., DDS’33 (deceased)
  • Bayh, Birch Evans, Jr., JD’60, LLD’95 (deceased)
  • Bays, Karl D., MBA’58 (deceased)
  • Beckley, Kenneth A., BS’62
  • Begdes, Mehmet Kutsi, MA’40, PhD’44 (deceased)
  • Bell, Joshua D. ArtD’89
  • Berry, Lillian Gay, BA 1899, MA 1905 (deceased)
  • Bingham, Rebecca Taylor, BS’50, MLS’69 (deceased)
  • Black, Joseph M., BA’41, MD’44 (deceased)
  • Bluher, Antonia W., BS’83
  • Bluhm, Maurice L., BA 1913 (deceased)
  • Boone, Clarence W., Sr., BA’53, MD’56 (deceased)
  • Booth, Kathryn R., BS’72
    Botti, Chris S., ’84
  • Bowen, Otis R., BA’39, MD’42, LLD’76 (deceased)
    Brantly, Kent P., MD’09
  • Bray, Esther D., BS’25, MA’27 (deceased)
  • Breckenridge, Cora, BS’59, MS’63
  • Breckenridge, Sr., Franklin E., BS’63, JD’68
  • Brinkman, P. Delbert, MA’63, PhD’71 (deceased)
  • Brown. Angela M., ’86
  • Brownlee, Lawrence, MM’01
  • Bundles, S. Henry, Jr. BA’48 (deceased)
  • Butcher, Jane Bayer, BA’37 (deceased)
  • Butcher, Joseph O., BA’36 (deceased)
  • Cadou, Eugene J., Sr., BA 1917 (deceased)
  • Carmichael, Hoagy H. LLB’26, DM Hon’72 (deceased)
  • Carmichael, William P., BS’65
  • Carmony, Donald F., MA’31, PhD’40 (deceased)
  • Carr, Willard Z., Jr., LLB’50 (deceased)
  • Carroll, William F., Jr., PhD’78
  • Carter, Pamela L., JD’84, LLD’99
  • Chamness, Ivy L., BA 1916, MA’28 (deceased)
  • Clapacs, J. Terry, BS’65, MBA’69
  • Clevenger, Zora G., 1904 (deceased)
    Cole, Roselyn R., BS’60
  • Collins, James F., MA’65, LLD’99
  • Comer, James P., BA’56, ScD’91
  • Conrad, Martin L., BA’21 (deceased)
  • Cook, Gayle Karch, BA’56, LHD’93
  • Cosner, Robert R., BS’41 (deceased)
  • Cox, Jesse H., BS’44 (deceased)
  • Cozad, James W., BS’50, LLD’82 (deceased)
  • Cressey, Donald R., PhD’50 (deceased)

  • Danielson, Donald C., BS’42, LLD’94 (deceased)
  • Danielson, Patricia Peterson, BA’45 (deceased)
  • Dant, Charles G., BS’32 (deceased)
  • Davis, Chester E., BS’44 (deceased)
  • Davis, Madelyn Pugh, BA’42 (deceased)
  • Davis, Merrill S., BA 1912, MD 1914 (deceased)
  • Dawson, Martha E., MS’54, EdD’56 (deceased)
  • De Las Alas, Antonio, LLB 1908 (deceased)
  • Dean, Everett S., BA’21, MS’38 (deceased)
  • DeCoudreaux, Alecia A., JD’78
  • Deggans, Eric C., BA’90
  • Delachaux, Francois, MBA’63
  • DeVault, Virgil T., BS’27, MD’29, DSc’77 (deceased)
  • Dillin, S. Hugh, BA’36, LLB’38, LLD’92 (deceased)
  • Doninger, Clarence H., BS’57, JD’60
  • Doster, Gayl, BS’60
  • Duggan, Andrew M., ’45 (deceased)
  • Dukes, Betty D., BA’41, MD’43 (deceased)
  • Dunn, Oscar L., BS’36, LLD’71 (deceased)
  • Dutton, C. Ben, BS’38, LLB’40, LLD’70 (deceased)
  • Dykhuizen, Fred, BS’26 (deceased)
  • Earnhart, Don B., BS’49, LLD’86 (deceased)
  • Edmondson, Frank K., BA’33, MA’34 (deceased)
  • Edwards, Edward E., BS’28, MS’34 (deceased)
  • Eichhorn, Frederick F., BS’52, JD’57 (deceased)
  • Elliott, Byron K., BA’20, LLD’55 (deceased)
  • Ellis, Frances H., BA 1914, MA’28 (deceased)
  • Ellis, Larry R., MS’75
  • Elmore, David G., BS’55, JD’58 (deceased)
  • Enberg, Richard "Dick", MS’59, HD’62 (deceased)
  • Eschbach, Jesse E., II, BS’43, JD’49, LLD’86 (deceased)
  • Eskew, Philip N., Sr., MS’33 (deceased)
  • Estes, Sidney H., EdD’67 (deceased)
  • Evans, Daniel F., Jr., BA’71, JD’76
  • Evans, H. Dean, EdD’66 (deceased)
  • Everitt, Robert H., BS’61, LLB’65
  • Ferguson, Curt, BS’80
  • Ferree, E. Mark, LLD’77 (deceased)
  • Ferrey, Edgar E., BA’42 (deceased)
  • Fidlar, Marion M., BA’34, MA’36, PhD’42 (deceased)
  • Fletchall, Eugene D., BS’32, LLB’34 (deceased)
  • Franklin, Joseph A., Sr., BS’27 (deceased)
  • Frick, David R., BA’66
  • Friedlander, Ezra "Zeke", BA’62, LLB’65
  • Frowick, Robert H., BA’53, MA’57 (deceased)
  • Fuller, Magdalene Z., BSN’59, MSN’60 (deceased)
  • Fullmer, Harold M., BS’42, DDS’44 (deceased)

  • Gassoway-Reichle, Lynn E., DDS’74
  • Gates, Robert E., BS’42, LLB’49 (deceased)
  • Gates, Robert M., MA’66
  • Geiger, Dillon D., BS’29, MD’31 (deceased)
  • Gill, George N., BA’57, LHD’94 (deceased)
  • Gill, Jack M., PhD’63, DSc’01
  • Gilliatt, Neal, BS’39 (deceased)
  • Gilman, Alan B., BA’52, MBA’54 (deceased)
  • Glaubinger, Lawrence D., BS’49, LLD’93 (deceased)
  • Goggans, Louise, BA’56, MS’69, MedScD'82
  • Gonso, Harry L., BS’70, JD’73
  • Gosman, James H., BS’36, MD’38 (deceased)
  • Gramley, Lyle E., MA’52, PhD’56, LLD’84 (deceased)
  • Gray, Carl M., LLB’61, LLD’81 (deceased)
    Gray, Moses W., BS’69 (deceased)
  • Greenough, William C., BA’35, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Grimes, John S., BA’29, JD’31 (deceased)
  • Guthrie, Wayne, LLB’20 (deceased)
  • Gutwein, Matthew R., BA’85, JD’88
  • Hackett, John Thomas, BS’54, MBA’58 (deceased)
  • Halleck, Charles A., BA’22, LLB’24, LLD’65 (deceased)
  • Hardy, Ruth Herdrich, BA 1915 (deceased)
  • Harker, Russell P., BA 1912, LLB 1913, JD’67 (deceased)
  • Harlos, Cecil E., BS’23 (deceased)
  • Harrell, Charles E., BA’33, LLB’36 (deceased)
  • Harris, William H., MA’67, PhD’73 (deceased)
  • Harrison, Ann Shilling, BS’67
  • Hasbrook, Thomas C., BS’42 (deceased)
  • Hatcher, Richard G., BS’56 (deceased)
  • Haugh, Robert C., BA’48 (deceased)
  • Hawkins, Grant W., Sr., BA’33 (deceased)
  • Hawkins, Howard R., BS’38, JD’41 (deceased)
  • Hayes, Joseph A., ’42, LHD’70 (deceased)
  • Heckard, Mary E., GN’21 (deceased)
  • Heffernan, Joseph V., JD’30 (deceased)
  • Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, BA 1907, MA 1908 (deceased)
  • Herold, Don, BA 1913 (deceased)
  • Hertzer, Norman R., BA’64, MD’67
  • Hickam, Hubert, LLB’13 (deceased)
  • Hill, John W., LLD’71 (deceased)
  • Hill, Patton J., Sr., BA’20, MA’34 (deceased)
  • Hillis, Elwood H., BS’49, JD’52 (deceased)
  • Hillis, Margaret E., BM’47, DM’72 (deceased)
  • Holland, James P., MA’58, PhD’61 (deceased)
  • Hornbostel, Charles C., BS’34 (deceased)
  • Hsie, Abraham W., MA’65, PhD’69 (deceased)
  • Hunt, V. William, BA’66, JD’69
  • Hurst, Mercedes, BA’24 (deceased)
  • Hutton, Edward L., BS’40, MS’41, LLD’92 (deceased)
  • Inman, Garnett, BS’40 (deceased)
  • Inskeep, Harriett Simmons, BA’48, MA’55, LHD’96
  • Inskeep, Julie, BA’72, MS’74
  • Inskeep, Richard G., BS’50, LHD’06 (deceased)
  • Irwin, Glenn W., Jr., BS’42, MD’44, LLD’86 (deceased)

  • Jacobs, David H., Jr., ’76
  • James, Daniel, BA’27, JD’29 (deceased)
  • Jasper, Paul G., LLB’32 (deceased)
  • Johns, Marie Collins, BS’79, MPA’82
  • Johnson, Fred Bates, BA 1902, LLB 1910 (deceased)
  • Johnson, George A., BA’15 (deceased)
  • Johnson, Lacy, JD’81
  • Johnson, Richard L., BS’55 (deceased)
  • Jones, Booker T., Jr., BME’67, DM Hon’12
  • Jones, Eli S., BA 1914, MD 1916 (deceased)
  • Jones, Frank B., BS’48, MS’51 (deceased)
  • Jordan, Harold W., BS’32 (deceased)
    Jordan, Alice M., BA’90, MS’97
  • Jorgensen, Jane M., BS’72
  • Keck, William H., BS’41 (deceased)
  • Keith, Leroy, Jr., MS’69, EdD’70
  • Kelley, Estel W., BS’39, LLD’71 (deceased)
  • Kettler, Edgar F., BS’48 (deceased)
  • Kidd, Robert Louis, BA’23, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Kim, Young-Jin, MBA’84
  • Kimberling, John F., BA’47, JD’50 (deceased)
  • Kintner, Earl W., JD’38 (deceased)
  • Kipp, Albrecht R.C., BA 1906 (deceased)
  • Knapp, Sandy Altman, BS’70
  • Lansing, Dorothy I., BA’44, MD’47 (deceased)
  • Laskin, Daniel M., BS/DDS’47, DSc’01 (deceased)
  • Leff, Dale Stark, BS’69
  • Lennon, Polly Jontz, BA’49 (deceased)
  • Lesher, Richard L., DBA’63, LLD’79
  • LeSuer, William M., PhD’48 (deceased)
  • Ligocki, Kathleen, BA’78, LHD’02
  • Lindley, Ernest K., ’20 (deceased)
  • Lindsey, J. Frank, LLB 1913 (deceased)
  • Lofton, Thomas M., BS’51, JD’54, LLD’00 (deceased)
  • Long, Clarence W., BS’39 (deceased)
  • Lucas, Robert A., BS’43, JD’49, LLD’94 (deceased)

  • Maroon, Joseph C., BA’62, MD’65
  • Marshall, Edwin Cochran, BA’68, BS’70, OD’71, MS’79
  • Martin, Wallace H., BA 1917 (deceased)
  • Masters, Keith, BA’25 (deceased)
  • Mathers, Thomas N., BA’36, LLB’39 (deceased)
  • Maurer, Mary Rieman, BA 1916, LLD’67 (deceased)
  • Maurer, Michael S., JD’67
  • Mays, Rose, MS’74
  • Mays, William G., BA’70, MBA’73, DSc’00 (deceased)
  • McCarty, C. Walter, 1915 (deceased)
  • McCarty, Virginia Dill, BA’46, LLB’50, LLD’86 (deceased)
  • McGee, James, BA’77
  • McGreevey, John W., LHD’86, BA’87 (deceased)
  • McMurtrie, Uz, BA 1908 (deceased)
  • Meister-Armington, Irene W., BA’48, MA’49 (deceased)
  • Metz, Arthur R., BA 1909 (deceased)
  • Meyer, Jayma M., BS’75
  • Miles, Richard M., MA’64
  • Miller, Arthur L., BA’22 (deceased)
  • Miller, Jeanne S., BA’46, LLB’48, LLD’89
  • Miller, Patricia R., BS’60
  • Miller, Peggy Gordon Elliott, EdD’75
  • Miller, Samuel Hudson, BS’38 (deceased)
  • Miller, Thomas M., BS’52 (deceased)
  • Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia I., BA’63, MA’65
  • Mobley, Tony A., MS’62, ReD’65
  • Mogge, Arthur R., BA’19 (deceased)
  • Morgan, Dolores A., MD’68 (deceased)
  • Morris, James T., BA’65 (deceased)
  • Muhler, Joseph C., BS’47, DDS’48, PhD’52 (deceased)
  • Murray, Dwight H., MD 1917 (deceased)
  • Neal, Homer A., BS’61, DSc’84 (deceased)
  • Neff, Robert E., BA 1911 (deceased)
  • Nelms, Charlie, MS’71, EdD’77
  • Nelson, Alice McDonald, ’24 (deceased)
  • Nettl, Bruno, BA’50, MA’51, PhD’53 (deceased)
  • Newsom, Herschel D., BA’26 (deceased)
  • Nolan, Val, Jr., BA’41, JD’49 (deceased)
  • Nyland, Georgia Belle, GN’42 (deceased)
  • O’Bannon, Judith A., BS’57, LHD’04

  • Paige, Roderick, MS’62, PED’70
  • Patrick, James E., BS’41, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Pauley, Jane, BA’72, LHD’96
    Pavy, Raymond E., BS’65 (deceased)
  • Pell, Wilbur F., Jr., BA’37, LLD’81 (deceased)
  • Peterson, J. Dwight, BA 1919, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Pfau, Norman E., Jr., BS’65
  • Piercy, Josephine K., BA 1918, MA 1919 (deceased)
  • Pinnell, W. George, DBA’54 (deceased)
  • Poling, Harold A., MBA’51, LLD’90 (deceased)
  • Popoff, Frank P., BA/MBA’59, DSc’88
  • Powell, Alma C., BS’70, MS’72
  • Poynter, Nelson Paul, BA’24, LLD’76 (deceased)
  • Raper, Howard R., DDS 1906 (deceased)
  • Rapp, George F., MD’57
  • Redding, Gerald Raymond, BS’26, JD’28 (deceased)
  • Reed, Philip B., BS’28, MD’30, MD’32 (deceased)
    Reed, Richard A., BSW’95, MSW’96
  • Reed, Vergil D., BS’22 (deceased)
  • Renuart, Victor E., Jr., BS’71
  • Rice, Joe C., BA’27, MS’36 (deceased)
  • Rich, Claude T., BA’29 (deceased)
  • Richardson, David B., BA’40 (deceased)
  • Richardson, Dow L., BA’28, LLD’82 (deceased)
  • Richardson, Jeff, BA’73, JD’77, MPA’81
  • Ritchey, James O., BS 1916, MD 1918, MS’21, DSc’70 (deceased)
  • Robbins, D. Walter, Jr., BS’42, MS’43 (deceased)
  • Robinson, Adam M., Jr., BA’72, MD’76, LHD’10
  • Robinson, James J., BA 1914 (deceased)
  • Robinson, Ray E., MM’58, DME’69 (deceased)
  • Rothrock, David A., Jr., BA/MA’32 (deceased)
  • Rowland, Sallie W., BS’54 (deceased)
  • Ruckelshaus, Jill S., BA’58
  • Rucker, Robert D., BA’74
  • Russell, Joseph J., MS’68, EdD’71
  • Ryan, D. Patricia, BA’79
  • Ryan, John Michael, Sr., JD’48 (deceased)
  • Ryan, John William, MA/PhD’59, LLD’88 (deceased)

  • Sanders, James Leroy, 1905 (deceased)
  • Schilling, George A., BA 1915, LLB 1916 (deceased)
  • Schofield, Lorna G., BA’77
  • Scott, Gloria Dean Randle, BA’59, MA’60, PhD’65, LLD’77
  • Searles, Richard C., BA’70
  • Seward, Doris M., BA’38 (deceased)
  • Shackelford, Harry M., BA 1917 (deceased)
  • Shanks, Robert Horton, BS’54 (deceased)
  • Shields, V. Sue, LLB’61
  • Shine, J. Robert, BS’45, LLD’95 (deceased)
  • Shockney, Brian T., BS’90, MHA’94
  • Shortz, William, BA’74
  • Showalter, Grace Montgomery, BA 1915, LLD’67 (deceased)
  • Shumate, Michael D., BS’67
  • Simic, Curt, BS’64
  • Smith, Darwin Eatna, BS’50 (deceased)
  • Smith, George P., II, BS’61, JD’64, LLD’98
  • Smith, Johnnie Rutland, MS’31, PhD’34 (deceased)
  • Souder, Wilmer, BA 1910, MA 1911 (deceased)
  • Spaletto, Todd, BS’93
  • Sparks, William J., BA’26, MA’29, DSc’66 (deceased)
  • Steckler, William E., LLB’36, JD’37 (deceased)
  • Steele, Ruel W., LLB’48 (deceased)
  • Steele, Sage, BS'95
  • Steen, Lowell H., M.D., BS’45, MD’48 (deceased)
  • Steingraber, Fred G., BS’60 (deceased)
  • Stempel, John E., BA’23 (deceased)
  • Stewart, Milton R., BA’68, JD’71
  • Stokes, Lillian S., MSN’69, PhD’98 (deceased)
  • Stoner, Richard B., BS’41, LLD’94 (deceased)
  • Stout, Juanita Kidd, JD’48, LLM’54, LLD’66 (deceased)
  • Strack, William N., BA 1915, LLB 1917 (deceased)
  • Summers, Paul R., BA/LLB’23 (deceased)
  • Summers, Phillip M., BS’60, MS’63 (deceased)
  • Talbot, Sue H., BS’66, MS’71, EdD’92
  • Taliaferro, George, BS’51 (deceased)
  • Taliaferro, Viola, JD’77 (deceased)
  • Tamthai, Pusadee P., MS’75, PhD’82
  • Tangerman, Margaretta S., BA’46 (deceased)
  • Tash, Paul, BA’76
  • Taylor, Jeri, BA’59, LHD’07
  • Tempel, Eugene R., MA’73. EdD’85
  • Teter, Nellie Showers, BA 1893 (deceased)
  • Thomas, Isiah L., BA’87
  • Thornburg, James F., JD’36 (deceased)
  • Thorne, Muriel M., BA’46, MA’50 (deceased)
  • Timmons, Gerald D., DDS’25 (deceased)
  • Tobias, Randall Lee, BS’64, LLD’97
  • Torres, Isaac P., MBA’00
  • Troutt, Martha Lute, BA 1918, MA’28 (deceased)
  • Utley, Robert M., MA’52, LHD’83 (deceased)

  • Van Tassel, Charles J., Jr., MD’46 (deceased)
  • VanDerveer, Tara, BA’75
  • Veller, Don A., BS’35, MS’38, PEDir’47, PED’50 (deceased)
  • Veneracion, Andrea O., MM’62 (deceased)
  • Volker, Joseph F., DDS’36, DSc’70 (deceased)
  • Von Tress, Edward C., BA’21 (deceased)
  • Votaw, Verling M., BA’25, MA’26 (deceased)
  • Wahl, Cecilia H., BA’38 (deceased)
  • Waibel, Jill S., M.D., BS’92
  • Walker, Austin E., MS’48 (deceased)
  • Walther, Joseph E., BS/MD’36, DSc’97 (deceased)
  • Watson, Bernard C., BS’51
  • Waymire, Joseph O., BS’29 (deceased)
  • Weathers, Gertrude Force, BA 1918, MA’30 (deceased)
  • Webb, Charles H., DM’64
  • Webb, Karen Schuster, BA’68, MS’73, PhD’80
  • Webb, Ronald J., BS’60
  • Wedeking, Albert J., BA 1913, MA 1915 (deceased)
  • Weigand, James E., EdD’64 (deceased)
  • Welch, R. Dewey, BS’52 (deceased)
  • Wells, Herman B, BS’24, MA’27, LLD’62 (deceased)
  • Wentworth, Jack R., BS’50, MBA’54, DBA’59 (deceased)
  • Whitlock, Douglas, BS’26, LLB’28 (deceased)
  • Wilcox, Howard S., Sr., BA’42 (deceased)
  • Williams, Edgar G., MBA’48, DBA’52 (deceased)
  • Wilson, Harrison B., Jr., MS’51, HSDir’55, HSD’60 (deceased)
  • Wilson, Lucia Showalter, BA’22 (deceased)
  • Wilson, Milton, MCS’45, DCS’51 (deceased)
  • Windes, Charles Dudley, LLB 1914 (deceased)
  • Wong, Desmond C., BS’73 (deceased)
  • Wylie, David G., BS’23 (deceased)
  • Young, Grace Philputt, BA 1908, MA 1914 (deceased)
  • Young, John L., BS’21 (deceased)

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