Alumni Awards
Gertrude Rich Award
This award honors the memory of the wife of Claude Rich, director of the IUAA from 1948–1968. Established in 1972, it is given each year to a person who has exemplified the spirit of Mrs. Rich in making outstanding contributions to the IUAA.
Recipients of the Gertrude Rich Award
| 2012 | Sandy Schultz Moberly, BS’63 |
| 2009 | Lynn V. Lewis, BME’66, MS’82, Ed’87 |
| 2008 | Becky Fox, BS’65 |
| 2007 | Audrey Hofelich Beckley, BS’64 |
| 2006 | Donna Berry Spears, BS’79, MPA’81 |
| 2005 | Molly Johnson, AS’68 |
| 2004 | Carolyn Muhn, BA’51 |
| 2003 | Nancy E. Otte, BS’76, OD’78 |
| 2002 | Roselyn R. Cole, BS’60 |
| 2001 | Barbara McElroy Kunkler, GN’51 |
| 2000 | Sandra Jones Obremskey, BS’58, MS’91 |
| 1999 | Marian Louise Armstrong, BS’52, MA’58 |
| 1998 | Adrienne Hitchcock Savage, BS’51 |
| 1997 | Wilma Lippert Kelley, BA’37, MA’40 |
| 1996 | Alice Cunningham Manifold, GN’44 |
| 1994 | Ellen Rome Ehrlich, LHD’94 |
| 1993 | Jane Fletchall, ’36 |
| 1992 | Margaret Pegge Campbell Ewers |
| 1991 | Martha Lea Armstrong, ’45 |
| 1990 | Dorothy Craig Collins, ’40 |
| 1989 | Rebecca Thomas Markel, BSN’59, MSN’72, EdD’86 |
| 1988 | Dot Pinnell |
| 1987 | D. Patricia Ryan, BA’79 |
| 1986 | Doris Marie Seward, BA’38 |
| 1985 | Gene Portteus Branigin, BA’34 |
| 1984 | Sue Hays Talbot, BS’66, MS’71, EdD’92 |
| 1983 | Gayle Karch Cook, BA’56, LHD’93 |
| 1982 | Mildred Stewart Richey, BA’35 |
| 1981 | Dona Roberts Biddle, BA’29 |
| 1980 | Cecilia Hendricks Wahl, BA’38 |
| 1979 | Lucretia Bergdoll Crill, BS’26 |
| 1978 | Jane Bayer Butcher, BA’37 |
| 1977 | Margaret Helen Elliott, MA’33 |
| 1976 | Aline Hewitt Robinson, MS’57 |
| 1975 | Helen Van Curen Blackledge, BS’30 |
| 1974 | Miriam Meloy Sturgeon, BA’38, MA’40 |
| 1973 | Mary Rieman Maurer, BA’16 |
| 1972 | Ruth Smith Kivett, BA/BS’39 |
