Ovationes Previous Recipients - Chronological

1950

  • Clarence P. Bill
  • E. B. de Sauze
  • Norman J. DeWitt
  • Winifred G. Leutner

1951

  • Fred S. Dunham
  • Clyde Pharr

1952

  • Norman W. DeWitt

1955

  • Clyde Murley
  • Gertrude E. Smith

1956

  • Wilbert L. Carr
  • Russel M. Geer

1957

  • Lillian Gay Berry
  • Selatie E. Stout
  • B. L. Ullman
  • A. Pelzer Wagener
  • Dorrance S. White

1958

  • Harry J. Leon

1959

  • Walter R. Agard
  • Eleanore Cooper
  • Irene J. Crabb
  • James E. Dunlap

1960

  • Annabel Horn
  • Donnis & Gladys Martin

1961

  • Charles C. Mierow

1962

  • Nellie Angel Smith
  • Herbert C. Youtie

1963

  • Alfred P. Dorjahn
  • Lillian B. Lawler

1964

  • John N. Hough
  • James J. Mertz
  • Lucy A. Whitsel

1965

  • Grace L. Beede
  • Chauncey E. Finch

1966

  • D. Herbert Abel
  • Graydon W. Regenos

1967

  • Paul F. Distler
  • Margaret Forbes
  • Clark Hopkins

1968

  • Lucile Cox
  • Mary Bede Donelan
  • William Korfmacher

1969

  • Gertrude Ewing
  • Paul R. Murphy
  • Margaret Smith

1970

  • Mary S. Duerson
  • Edith M. Kovach
  • Oscar E. Nybakken

1971

  • Vivia Craig
  • Gerald M. Erickson
  • Clarence A. Forbes

1972

  • Gertrude C. Drake
  • Norman T. Pratt
  • William H. Willis

1973

  • James W. Alexander
  • Eula G. Cutt
  • Gerald F. Else

1974

  • Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
  • Ethel Poston
  • Richard T. Scanlan

1975

  • Maurice P. Cunningham
  • Elizabeth Hunter
  • Waldo E. Sweet

1976

  • Annie Virginia Cook Aldridge
  • H. Lloyd Stow

1977

  • Geraldine Hodges
  • Graves Haydon Thompson

1978

  • Kay de Pue
  • Alexander Gordon McKay
  • Bert Henry Narveson

1979

  • Herbert W. Benario
  • Raymond V. Schoder
  • Gerda Seligson

1980

  • Ruth Froberg
  • Roger Allen Hornsby
  • J. D. Sadler

1981

  • Henrietta Davis
  • Harry C. Rutledge
  • Gareth L. Schmeling
  • Arthur F. Stocker

1982

  • Charles Luther Babcock
  • Raymond L. Den Adel
  • Christine Sleeper

1983

  • Mark P. O. Morford
  • Kenneth J. Reckford
  • Marcia McCathern Stille

1984

  • Gotthard Karl Galinsky
  • Jane H. Hall
  • Hunter Ripley Rawlings

1985

  • Brent M. Froberg
  • Richard A. LaFleur
  • Margaret Weaver

1986

  • Janice M. Benario
  • Marian West Stocker
  • Susan Ford Wiltshire

1987

  • Dorothy Daniel
  • Meyer P. Reinhold
  • C. Wayne Tucker

1988

  • Tamara Bauer
  • J. Ward Jones
  • Anna Lydia Motto

1989

  • Norma W. Goldman
  • William J. Napiwocki

1990

  • Sally Davis
  • Roy E. Lindahl

1991

  • Martha Abbott
  • Edward E. Best

1992

  • Bobby LaBouve
  • Michelle & Robert Wilhelm

1993

  • Kathy Elifrits
  • Oliver C. Phillips

1994

  • William W. de Grummond
  • Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.
  • Robert W. Ulery, Jr.

1995

  • Naidyne Brown-Bridwell
  • Michael Gagarin
  • Ross S. Kilpatrick

1996

  • Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
  • Jeffrey L. Buller
  • Cathy Daugherty
  • Daniel B. Levine

1997

  • John Breuker, Jr.
  • Theodore A. Tarkow
  • Kathryn A. Thomas

1998

  • G. Edward Gaffney
  • Karelisa Hartigan
  • John F. Miller

1999

  • Ladislaus & Marie Bolchazy
  • Anne H. Groton
  • John F. Hall
  • William H. Race

2000

  • Carter Drake
  • Eddie R. Lowry, Jr.
  • F. Carter Philips

2001

  • Leon Golden
  • Barbara A. Hill
  • Stanley A. Iverson

2002

  • Helena R. Dettmer
  • Michele V. Ronnick
  • Thomas J. Sienkewicz

2003

  • Christopher P. Craig
  • Jane E. Phillips

2004

  • Gregory N. Daugherty
  • Eleanor Winsor Leach
  • Sherwin D. Little
  • James M. May

2005

  • Judith de Luce
  • Ginny Lindzey
  • James S. Ruebel

2006

  • David F. Bright
  • Dawn LaFon
  • James V. Lowe

2007

  • Alice M. Sanford
  • Susan C. Shelmerdine
  • Niall W. Slater

2008

  • Monica S. Cyrino
  • Samuel J. Huskey
  • David W. Tandy

2009

  • Jenny Strauss Clay
  • Julia Dyson Hejduk

2010

  • Carin M. C. Green
  • John H. Hansen
  • Marilyn B. Skinner

2011

  • Peter E. Knox
  • Keely K. Lake
  • Mark F. Williams

2012

  • John C. Gruber-Miller
  • Susan D. Martin
  • Nicoletta Villa-Sella

2013

  • Bob Cape (Austin College)
  • Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota)
  • Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University)
  • Listen to an audio recording of the 2013 Ovationes declaimed in Iowa City by CAMWS Orator James May

2014

  • Georgia L. Irby (The College of William and Mary)
  • Alden Smith (Baylor University)
  • Robert T. White (Shaker Heights High School)