The Alumni Achievement Award was established in 1957 to recognize alumni of
the University of Illinois who have attained outstanding success and national
or international distinction in their chosen business, profession or life's work,
and whose accomplishments reflect admirably on or bring honor to the institution.
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2009
William E. Geist ’68
MEDIA
Correspondent, CBS “Sunday Morning”; author, humorist
Gerald Schoenfeld ’47
DSSWV
Chairman, Schubert Organization |
2008
Doris Kelley Christopher ’67
ACES
Founder & Chair, The Pampered Chef
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, AM ’71 LAS, PHD ’75
ED
President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sheila C. Johnson ’70
FAA
CEO, Salamander Hospitality LLC; musician, philanthropist
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2007
Phillip L. Francis ’68
ACES
President & CEO, PetSmart
R. Eden Martin ’62
LAS
President, The Commercial Club of Chicago
Dr. Arnyce R. Pock ’81
LAS
Director, United States Air Force Medical Corps
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2006
Roger Ebert ’64 MEDIA
Film critic, author and TV personality
Susan Lindquist ’71
LAS
Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
John McDonald ’43 LAS, JD ’46
LAW
Retired diplomat and co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
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2005
Roxanne Decyk '73 LAS
Director-International, Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies
Alfred G. Harms Jr. '71 LAS
Retired Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy
James J. Stukel, MS '63 ENG, PHD '68 ENG
President, University of Illinois (1995-2005)
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2004
Robert Falls '76 FAA
Tony Award winning Broadway director
Artistic director, Goodman Theatre
Robert T. Fraley '74 LAS, MS '76 LAS, PHD '79 LAS
Agricultural biotechnology pioneer
Clifford B. Saper '72 LAS, MS '72 LAS
Groundbreaking neuroscience researcher
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2003
Robert Badgett Morgan PHD '74 FAA
Retired director of jazz studies
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, Texas
Paul D. Schrage MS '59 MEDIA
Retired senior executive vice president & chief marketing officer
McDonald's Corporation
Chairman, Ronald McDonald House Charities
Phillip Allen Sharp PHD '69 LAS Founding director and institute professor
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2002
Jerry A. Hadley, MS '77 FAA
Grammy Award-winning and internationally renowned opera singer
Steven L. Miller, '67 ENG
Chairman, president and CEO
Shell Oil Co.
Sophie Lau Leung, '69 LAS
Chair, Women's Commission
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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2001
Charles William Gear, MS '57 LAS, PHD '60 LAS
President
Computer Science Research Division at the NEC Research Institute
Walter L. Robb, MS '49 ENG, PHD '51 ENG
Senior vice president for Corporate Research and Development
General Electric Co.
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2000
Linda K. Bunker '68 ALS, MS '69, PHD '73
Nationally renowned sport psychologist and author
Alfred Y. Cho '60 ENG, MS '61 ENG,
PHD '68 ENG
Semiconductor Research vice president
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Father of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
Sheldon Good '55 CBA
Founder and chairman
Sheldon Good & Company
President
International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI)
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