<h2>Distinguished Alumni</h2>
<h3>Previous Winners</h3>
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<td width="60"><strong>Year</strong></td>
<td width="181"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td width="198"><strong>Degree at SIUE</strong></td>
</tr>
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<td>1974</td>
<td>Margaret F. Blackshere</td>
<td>Education</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1975</td>
<td>Arthur T. Towata</td>
<td>Art & Design</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1976</td>
<td>James D. Milligan</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1977</td>
<td>Judge Milton S. Wharton</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1978</td>
<td>Ralph F. Korte</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1979</td>
<td>Joe B. McAdams, Jr.</td>
<td>Psychology</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1980</td>
<td>Jane K. Bruker</td>
<td>Nursing</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1982</td>
<td>Alfred C. Hagemann</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1983</td>
<td>Mike E. Jantzen</td>
<td>Art & Design</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1984</td>
<td>Dee A. Joyner</td>
<td>Social Science</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1985</td>
<td>James B. McPike</td>
<td>Economics</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1986</td>
<td>John A. Fruit</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1987</td>
<td>P. Dewayne Staats</td>
<td>Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1988</td>
<td>Hulas H. King</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1989</td>
<td>Robert J. Baer</td>
<td>Education</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1990</td>
<td>Jo Ann Harmon</td>
<td>Sociology</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1991</td>
<td>Edward E. Giberson</td>
<td>Art</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1992</td>
<td>Mara M. Meyers</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1993</td>
<td>Ed E. Hightower</td>
<td>Education</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1994</td>
<td>John E. Oeltjen</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1995</td>
<td>L. Thomas Lakin</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1996</td>
<td>Gordon D. Bush</td>
<td>Geography</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1997</td>
<td>Gail A. Myers Liniger</td>
<td>Business Administration</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1998</td>
<td>John Klobnak</td>
<td>Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>1999</td>
<td>William Plaschke</td>
<td>Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>2000</td>
<td>David Herndon</td>
<td>Government</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>2001</td>
<td>William Gray Potter Jr.</td>
<td>English</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>2002</td>
<td>Stephen Jankowski</td>
<td>Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>2003</td>
<td>Lendell Phelps Jr.</td>
<td>Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td>2004</td>
<td>Justice Philip J. Rarick, III</td>
<td>Sociology</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td height="27">2005</td>
<td height="27">Shelby Steele</td>
<td height="27">Sociology</td>
</tr>
<tr class="textbody">
<td height="27">2006</td>
<td height="27">John Simmons</td>
<td height="27">Political Science</td>
</tr>
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<td height="27">2007</td>
<td height="27">Keith Alper</td>
<td height="27">Mass Communication</td>
</tr>
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