INDUCTION CEREMONY OCTOBER 1, 2021
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HALL OF DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Discussed as early as 1957, the Hall of Distinguished Alumni of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association was established along with the construction of the Helen G. King Alumni House in 1963. The Hall pays tribute to those UK alumni who have distinguished themselves and their alma mater through their contribution to the welfare of the commonwealth and nation in arts, sciences, business, industry, engineering, journalism, politics, military science, religion, agriculture, labor or other fields of endeavor. The first selection of outstanding alumni was made in 1963, when 85 were chosen for the original group of inductees. Two years later in 1965, 39 inductees were chosen and the first official recognition ceremony of the members took place that year in conjunction with the university’s Centennial Anniversary. Additional inductees included three in 1967, 19 in 1970, 21 in 1975, 11 in 1980, 13 in 1985, 13 in 1989, 20 in 1995, 20 in 2000, 19 in 2005, 20 in 2010 and 23 in 2015.
A room was designated in the Helen G. King Alumni House as the Hall of Distinguished Alumni so the association could present visual evidence to the students of the university, its own alumni and the citizens of the Commonwealth of the outstanding men and women who received their college training at the University of Kentucky. For several decades, the Ballroom of the Helen G. King Alumni House contained the photographs and brief biographical information on each of the members. After a major renovation of the facility in 1999, a new exhibit was opened for public display listing the names of every member. In 2010, the plaque was moved to the first floor hallway to provide enhanced visibility to visitors. In 2015, a wall wrap displaying the photos, names and years of degrees was installed in the hallway. In addition, biographies and photos of each inductee are available on the UK Alumni Association website at www.ukalumni.net/HODA. This evening, 27 alumni are being honored, bringing membership in the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni to 333.
PROGRAM
Greeting
TAUNYA A. PHILLIPS
Congratulations
DR. ELI I. CAPILOUTO
Reflection
2019-2020 President UK Alumni Association
President University of Kentucky
JANIE McKENZIE-WELLS 2021-2022 Treasurer UK Alumni Association
Dinner Entertainment
Remarks and Introduction Masters of Ceremonies
Alma Mater JACOB COLEMAN
Piano Performance School of Music UK College of Fine Arts
ADIEL P. NAJERA
Trumpet Performance School of Music UK College of Fine Arts
PAULA L. POPE
Chairwoman 2020 Hall of Distinguished Alumni Committee
CARL W. NATHE
Former UK Public Relations Officer University of Kentucky
AMY JONES-TIMONEY
UK Public Relations & Marketing University of Kentucky
acoUstiKats
Male A Capella Ensemble
WELCOME Through all we have endured the past 18 months, this institution has found new and important ways to honor our mission of advancing Kentucky. This is our North Star – even during a global crisis. As the University for Kentucky, we continue to build a brighter future through the contributions of our students, faculty, staff and alumni. The UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni honors UK graduates who are doing just that — helping us sustain our solemn promise to our community and those we serve. Thank you for joining us this evening to celebrate their remarkable achievements and talent. The 2020 Hall of Distinguished Alumni recipients, while distinct in their accolades and professions, share a common characteristic: they touch the lives of many in deep and profound ways, making us proud to call them UK alumni. On behalf of the UK family, we are appreciative of their contributions, and we honor their service that reflects back on our community and our drive to do more and be more. We join the UK Alumni Association, family, friends and associates in congratulating the 2020 inductees, and we welcome them into the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni with great pride. DR. ELI I. CAPILOUTO
President University of Kentucky
The ultimate measure of any educational institution is reflected in the accomplishments of its graduates. They bring honor to their university and perpetuate a tradition of excellence by distinguishing themselves in their personal and professional life. The University of Kentucky is proud to educate some of the most remarkable individuals who live out the mission of this great university in extraordinary ways. Tonight, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni induction ceremony — finally! — as we pay tribute to those who have had a broad impact and positive effect in their respective fields and beyond. The University of Kentucky Alumni Association is thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievements of these 27 new inductees in the Hall of Distinguished Alumni. They are some of our greatest assets and they are receiving one of the highest honors the University of Kentucky bestows upon its graduates. We are honored to welcome them. TAUNYA A. PHILLIPS
2019-2020 President UK Alumni Association
2020 INDUCTEES HENRY B. “BUB” ASMAN JR.
MARTHA M. McCARTHY
STEVEN L. BESHEAR
L. STANLEY PIGMAN
DANA R. CANEDY
EUGENE POOLE JR.
JON C. CARLOFTIS
TOMMY L. PRESTON
JOE CROSS CREASON*
LAURA M. SCHWAB
JAMES C. DUFF
WILLIAM E. SEALE
O. GENE GABBARD
CHARLES L. SHEARER
DR. F. JOSEPH HALCOMB III
VALERIE STILL
JOHN G. HEYBURN II*
GREGORY L. SUMME
ASHLEY T. JUDD
PAUL C. VARGA
ELMER T. LEE*
PAUL R. WAGNER
ALAN C. LOWE
JOHN A. WILLIAMS
DAVIS MARKSBURY
TERRY WOODWARD
SALLY K. MASON * Inducted Posthumously
HENRY B. “BUB” ASMAN JR. B.A. ’71 — Telecommunications, College of Communication & Information Henry B. “Bub” Asman Jr. of Union, Kentucky, is a two-time Academy Award winning sound editor. He spent 38 years editing the sound for more than 30 films for filmmaker Clint Eastwood and about 40 more films for various other directors in Hollywood. He and his co-editor Alan Murray received six Academy Award nominations for sound editing, winning Oscars in the category of Best Achievement in Sound Editing for the films “Letters from Iwo Jima” and “American Sniper,” both directed by Eastwood. The other nominations were for “Eraser,” “Space Cowboys,” “Flags of our Fathers” and “Sully.” During his senior year, Asman got a chance to take film classes and found his calling. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Asman spent his early years working as a film editor on television commercials and low-budget movies in his hometown of Louisville. He sought out a job in film editing after college and got one with Louisville-based filmmaker William Girdler. In 1976, he made the jump to Hollywood and before long he was able to get a job at Paramount Pictures working as a sound effects editor. One of the first films he worked on at Paramount was a film starring Clint Eastwood, “Escape from Alcatraz.” This film began a career-long working relationship with his co-editor Alan Murray. Asman retired in 2017.
STEVEN L. BESHEAR B.A. ’66 — History, College of Arts & Sciences J.D. ’68 — Law, J. David Rosenberg College of Law Steven L. Beshear of Lexington, Kentucky, served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He also served as attorney general from 1979 to 1983, lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987 and was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1979. As governor, Beshear expanded the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and launched the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, helping over 500,000 Kentuckians. Kentucky’s unemployment rate dropped from 10.7% to 4.9%, and the state set export records four years in a row. In all, his administration announced almost 2,300 new and expansion projects that created $19.3 billion in investment and more than 87,000 jobs when full employment is attained. Beshear raised Kentucky’s dropout age from 16 to 18 years old and moved the state into the top 10 states in the country in high school graduation rates. Under his leadership, Kentucky’s college/career readiness rate rose from 32% to 64%. As a result of his efforts, he was named Education Governor of the Year by the National Education Association. He is the author of “People Over Politics,” a book about how to make a broken system of government work again. He served as a Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics in 2017. While at UK, he was the Student Body President, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and served as an editor for the Kentucky Law Journal. Additionally, he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health in 2018.
DANA R. CANEDY B.A. ’88 — Journalism, College of Communication & Information Dana R. Canedy of New York City is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the senior vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster. She previously ran the Pulitzer Prizes, serving as a board member, selecting prize jurors, and announcing the winners. She was recently named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women. Her newspaper career includes working at the Palm Beach Post in Florida reporting on law enforcement and crime. She later joined the Plain Dealer in Cleveland to cover law enforcement, suburban government and local business. She worked as an editor on the Metropolitan desk leaving in 1996 to join The New York Times. During her 20 years at the nation’s top newspaper, Canedy worked as a business reporter and as the Florida bureau chief, overseeing all news coverage from the state. She also covered the historic 2001 presidential election recount. Canedy was a lead writer and editor on the Times series, “How Race is Lived in America,” which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She is the author of “A Journal for Jordan” which has been made into a movie to be released by Sony in theaters this Christmas, directed by Denzel Washington and starring Michael B. Jordan. The book tells the story of her fiancé, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, and the 200-page journal he left for their son, Jordan, written before being killed in Iraq. The journal imparted life lessons and his expressions of his love for them. The book has been sold and translated around the world.
JON C. CARLOFTIS B.A.’86 — Communication, College of Communication & Information Jon C. Carloftis of Lexington, Kentucky, is an award-winning rooftop gardener and garden designer. After moving to New York City in 1988, he became one of America’s pioneers in rooftop/small space gardening as he designed and installed rooftop gardens all over Manhattan for such celebrities as Julianne Moore, Edward Norton and Mike Myers. He was a contributing editor of Garden Design magazine and his gardens have been featured in more than 250 national magazines. Carloftis represented Country Home magazine along with five other national magazines to decorate the U.S. Vice President’s house for the holidays under the Obama administration. He has received many awards including the National Garden Club Award of Excellence; Garden Club of America Horticulture Commendation; chosen as one of the top 25 designers celebrating the 25 years of the Garden Conservancy Open Days; included in Southern Living’s Top 50 years of Celebrating the South; a chapter in “Saving Kentucky” by Sally Van Winkle Campbell; Blue Grass Trust’s Award for Landscape Preservation; Ida Lee Willis Award from Kentucky Heritage Council; highest honor in the state for Preservation of Botherum; and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Eastern Kentucky University. He restored the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion Formal Gardens and the historic garden at the president’s home at the University of the Cumberlands. He designed and installed a healing garden in the oncology wing at Baptist Health Lexington and has enhanced the gardens at Maker’s Mark and Castle & Key distilleries. He is the author of “Beautiful Gardens of Kentucky in 2010” and has been named the Salonniere Top 100 Best Party Hosts in America for three years in a row.
JOE CROSS CREASON* B.A. ’40 — Journalism, College of Arts & Sciences Joe Cross Creason of Louisville, Kentucky, was a journalist for The Courier-Journal. During his time at UK, Creason served as sports editor for both the Kentucky Kernel and The Kentuckian and was president of his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega. After graduation, the Benton, Kentucky, native worked at several newspapers in western Kentucky before accepting a writing position at The Courier-Journal in 1941. Except for a two-year period from 1944-1946 when he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater, he would work at The Courier-Journal for the next 34 years developing relationships with citizens from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Creason began his career at The CourierJournal as a sports reporter before being promoted to the staff of the Sunday Magazine section. It was during his 23-year tenure on the Sunday publication that he would annually travel to each of the state’s 120 counties collecting stories. Creason became legendary when he came off the road and was given his own column in 1963. Titled “Joe Creason’s Kentucky,” it focused on the everyday lives of common Kentuckians — their struggles, their hopes, their dreams, and their humor. It would run six days a week and he had complete control of content. Joe Creason Park, located adjacent to the Louisville Zoo and Louisville Tennis Center, is a lasting memorial to the man who captivated readers across the state. In 1975, the University of Kentucky and the Bingham Enterprises Foundation created the annual Joe Creason Lecture Series bringing prominent journalists to Lexington to speak and meet with students and the public. He served as national president of the UK Alumni Association from 1969-1970 and served as longstanding advisor to The Kernel and the UK School of Journalism (Communications) for many years. In 1971, he was awarded UK’s Distinguished Service Medallion. Creason passed away in 1974 at the age of 56.
JAMES C. DUFF B.A. ’75 — Philosophy, Political Science, History, College of Arts & Sciences James C. Duff of Bethesda, Maryland, is executive director of the Supreme Court Historical Society. He was Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts from 2006 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2021 where he also served as Secretary of the Judicial Conference of the United States. In between those two periods of service, he was president and chief executive officer of the Newseum and Freedom Forum (2011-2014). Duff is former chairman of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission and has been an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University for 16 years, teaching constitutional law and civil liberties. He was previously managing partner of the Washington law firm of Baker Donelson PC. From 1996 to 2000, Duff served as counselor to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and was his liaison with Congress, the executive branch, and various state and federal organizations involved in the administration of justice. Duff is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a graduate of the UK Honors Program, and was a walk-on on the UK basketball team in 1971-1972. He attended the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1973 and earned a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981. He was named to the UK Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, as well as given the Georgetown Entertainment and Media Law Achievement Award, both in 2012.
O. GENE GABBARD B.S. ’61 — Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering O. Gene Gabbard of Cary, North Carolina, and Naples, Florida, has worked as a private investor and entrepreneur since 1993. He’s worked on more than 25 startups, invested in more than 40 start-up companies on a personal basis and served on more than 20 boards. He is a venture partner in Ballast Point Ventures, venture capital funds, based in Tampa, Florida. During his career, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer (1990-1993) of MCI Communications Corp. (now Verizon Business); was on the board of directors (20052014) of COLT Telecom Group SA, Luxembourg, a provider of telecommunications and data center services to businesses throughout Europe; and became a member of the board (2010) of NetCracker Technology Corp., Waltham, Massachusetts, a leading provider of management and support systems and services to telecommunication carriers throughout the world. Gabbard joined the Mercer University’s Board of Trustees in 1990 and served as a fellow on Mercer’s National Engineering Advisory Board. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and was inducted into the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 1999.
DR. F. JOSEPH HALCOMB III B.S. ’74 — Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering M.D. ’78 — Medicine, College of Medicine Dr. F. Joseph Halcomb III of Camarillo, California, is a physician, engineer and private equity investor with a distinguished career as an executive in the medical device and biotechnology industries. He is Founder and CEO of Phoenix Initiãre and a partner at Telegraph Hill Partners. Both firms are dedicated to helping life science, medical device and health care companies achieve their growth objectives. Dr. Halcomb also served as vice president, drug product and device development at Amgen, a world-wide pioneer in biotechnology. Prior to Amgen, he served as president of the Hall Surgical Division and vice-president, product development at Zimmer, a leading orthopedic device company. He was inducted into the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2014 and serves as chairman of the College of Engineering Campaign Committee. He is also a member of the College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council and Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board and serves as a Trustee of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation. In 2010, Dr. Halcomb established the Halcomb Endowed Fellowship in Medicine and Engineering at UK. After a larger commitment to the endowment in 2016, the Department of Biomedical Engineering became the first named department at the university. He also holds a M.S. degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the degree of Honorary Doctor of Engineering from UK in May 2021.
JOHN G. HEYBURN II* J.D. ’76 — Law, J. David Rosenberg College of Law John G. Heyburn II was nominated to the United States District Court as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky by President George H. W. Bush in 1992. His opinions were known for his indefatigable sense of fairness, respect for litigants, and commitment to clear, logical, and thoughtful rulings. His passions for the rule of law fueled his rise to leadership in the Federal Judiciary. He sought “to ever improve the legal system considered the envy of the world.” Heyburn presided over 7,645 cases in his 23 years on the bench, including some of the most controversial issues that faced the courts including recognition of same-sex marriage, restrictions on access to abortion, racial desegregation of schools and the scope of First Amendment’s guarantees. He served as the Chief Judge of the Court between 2001 and 2008. He was appointed to the Budget Committee for the Judicial Conference in 1994 and named Chair in 1997 where he served in this role until 2005. Through 2004, Heyburn led the annual appropriations process for the Federal Judiciary. In 2007, he was appointed to a seven-year term as Chair of the Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation. As a student in UK’s College of Law, Heyburn was a runner-up in the Sixth Circuit Moot Court Competition. He later served as President of the Law School Alumni Association. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University in 1970. Heyburn passed away in 2015 at the age of 66.
ASHLEY T. JUDD B.A. ’07 — French, College of Arts & Sciences Ashley T. Judd of Franklin, Tennessee and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an award-winning actor, writer, humanitarian and activist. Her work as both an artist and advocate began right here on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Her film and stage career has spanned 30 years and includes indie gems like “Ruby in Paradise” which won the Sundance Film Festival, and box office smashes such as “Double Jeopardy.” Her career also includes Broadway hits such as “Cat on a Hot Tin.” Her films have grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. Since 2004, Judd has traveled to 22 countries in her capacity as global ambassador for nongovernmental organizations such as Population Services International and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. This work includes extensive time in brothels, refugee camps and slums focusing on sex and labor slavery and the root causes of poverty and sex inequality. She takes the sacred stories of the vulnerable and exploited to heads of state and the international community. In 2020, Judd was recognized by the United Nations as Global Advocate of the Year. Ashley’s book “All That Is Bitter & Sweet” was a New York Times best seller and she is often an expert panelist at conferences and is a sought after speaker. In 2010, Judd earned an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her paper, “Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice,” was awarded the Dean`s Scholar Award at Harvard Law School. Ashley was the first actor to go on the record about Harvey Weinstein`s serial predation and is a leader of the #metoo movement and co-founder of Time`s Up. She spends part of each year in the rain forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, studying the endangered, egalitarian great ape bonobos, where she and her partner have a research camp.
ELMER T. LEE* B.S. ’49 — Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering Elmer T. Lee of Frankfort, Kentucky, joined the Air Force in 1942 where he flew on missions as a radar bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress. In 1946, he was honorably discharged and returned home to study electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky. He graduated with honors in 1949 and proceeded to take a position with George T. Stagg Distillery in Frankfort (renamed Buffalo Trace in 1999). Initially a maintenance engineer, Lee was promoted to plant superintendent in 1966. In 1969, he held the dual titles of plant manager and master distiller, becoming the distillery’s first master distiller. He would continue to hold both titles until his retirement in 1985. In 1984, Lee created Blanton’s Single-Barrel Bourbon which became the first single-barrel bourbon to be sold commercially. In retirement, Lee served as an ambassador and held the title of Master Distiller Emeritus for Buffalo Trace, educating visitors on the heritage and unique qualities of Kentucky’s bourbon whiskey. The award-winning Elmer T. Lee Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey was bottled from barrels Lee continued selecting himself into his 90s. Lee received numerous accolades during his lifetime. He was inducted into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2001. He received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from both Whisky Advocate in 2002 and Whisky Magazine in 2012, and Whisky Magazine inducted Lee into its Hall of Fame. Lee passed away in 2013 at the age of 93.
ALAN C. LOWE B.A. ’86 — History, College of Arts & Sciences M.A. ’89 — History, College of Arts & Sciences Alan C. Lowe of Knoxville, Tennessee, is director of the American Museum of Science and Energy and the K-25 History Center, both located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Previously, he held positions at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives in Washington. He served as director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in New York and the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center at the University of Tennessee. From 2009 to 2016, Lowe was the founding director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, and from 2016 to 2019 was executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois. Lowe has served on the boards of the Central Illinois Foodbank, Illinois Humanities, the Illinois Association of Museums, WUOT, and the East Tennessee Economic Council. He was a trustee of the Lincoln Academy, and president of both the Blount Mansion Association and the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. Lowe served on the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress, and was awarded the Federal Executive Board’s Public Service Award. He is a graduate of Leadership Knoxville. Currently Lowe serves on the Board of Childhelp Tennessee and on the Advisory Board for the UK Department of History. He co-hosts American POTUS, a popular podcast about the presidency, and hosts AMSEcast, a podcast dedicated to science, engineering, and technology.
DAVIS MARKSBURY B.S. ’80 — Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Davis Marksbury of Lexington, Kentucky, co-founded Exstream Software in 1998 providing customer relationship document software solutions to enterprises around the world. Marksbury served as CEO of Exstream until it was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2008. An entrepreneur since the age of 26, Marksbury is a pioneer in the document software industry, with Exstream being the third company he successfully launched to address complex technology challenges in the industry. He first founded PDR Information Services, a consulting company that focused on helping Fortune 500 companies build information management strategies. In 1992, Marksbury and Dan Kloiber started a spinoff company, PDR Advanced Technology, which developed StreamWeaver, a print stream processing software solution. Marksbury and Kloiber then founded Exstream Software after selling StreamWeaver to Pitney Bowes. Marksbury currently serves as Chairman of the Marksbury Family Office and Family Foundation. Marksbury is a member of the Kentucky Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame, was a regional winner of the 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and has twice been a member of the Inc. 500. Generosity from his family foundation to the UK Engineering department helped construct the Davis Marksbury Building and donations to UK Athletics has provided funding for facilities. Davis serves on the boards of several technology companies and has served on the UK Athletics Board, Board of Trustees of Centre College and the Board of Trustees of the Bluegrass Community Foundation.
SALLY K. MASON B.A. ’72 — Zoology, College of Arts & Sciences Sally K. Mason of Hilton Head, South Carolina, is senior fellow and executive search consultant for the Association of Governing Boards. She is president emerita at the University of Iowa, having served as the 20th university president (2007-2015). Trained as a cell/developmental biologist, she also retired as professor emerita from the UI Department of Biology. Mason oversaw a historic era of campus transformation, including rebuilding in the wake of the 2008 flood, renewal of an arts campus for the 21st century, construction of a state-of-the-art children’s hospital and biomedical discovery research center, and the first new residence hall since 1968. During her eight years as president, she helped raise $1.7 billion in private funds through the For Iowa, For Evermore campaign. Her career includes positions at the University of Kansas and Purdue University, and she has held many leadership positions in higher education and national organizations. She served two consecutive terms as a presidential appointee to the National Medal of Science Committee, including a term as chair. Initially appointed to this committee in 2006 by President George W. Bush, she was reappointed by President Barack Obama in 2008. Mason is currently a trustee for two private universities, Des Moines University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She earned a master’s degree from Purdue University in 1974, and a doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1978. She also holds honorary doctorates from UK and Notre Dame University.
MARTHA M. McCARTHY B.A. ‘66 — Elementary Education, College of Education M.A. ‘69 — Elementary Education, College of Education Martha M. McCarthy of Marina Del Rey, California, is a presidential professor in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is also a chancellor’s professor emeritus at Indiana University (IU), where she served as associate dean of the faculties and was founding director of the Indiana Education Policy Center and the High School Survey of Student Engagement. Her research focuses primarily on education law and policy, and the evolution and reform of leadership preparation programs. McCarthy has served as President of the Education Law Association and the University Council for Educational Administration and has received lifetime achievement awards from both organizations. Among other recognition, she was named the first female Living Legend by the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership. McCarthy was inducted into the UK College of Education Hall of Fame in 1990 and named a University of Florida (UF) Alumna of Outstanding Achievement. In 2013, IU established the Martha McCarthy Institute on Law and Policy. She earned a specialist in education degree in 1974 and a doctorate in 1975, both from UF. She won the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the University of Florida College of Education. Early in her career, she was an award-winning inner-city teacher in Lexington and school administrator in Louisville. McCarthy has written or coauthored more than a dozen books and more than 350 articles or chapters. She has been a legal columnist for several journals and has served on 12 editorial boards for professional journals pertaining to school law, educational leadership, or educational research.
L. STANLEY PIGMAN B.S. ’81 — Mining Engineering, College of Engineering L. Stanley Pigman of Wilmington, North Carolina, is an entrepreneur who began his early professional career after college as a project engineer with a new mining company, Sierra Coal, a subsidiary of General Electric. Later in 1992, he joined two colleagues to form Sugar Camp Coal. Eventually, Pigman formed his own company, Pigman Coal Sales, providing sales services to an independently owned start-up company for a new mining project in western Kentucky. He built several more businesses that own and lease coal properties, then relocated his company headquarters to High Point, North Carolina. Pigman, who earned a mining engineering scholarship to UK, routinely initiates and financially supports programs that connect high school youth with engineering and technology. A longtime advocate for Project Lead the Way in Eastern Kentucky schools, Pigman and his wife, Karen, recently committed to funding 16 new high school chapters of the Kentucky Technology Student Association. The Pigmans have not only endowed need-based scholarships within the UK College of Engineering, but he and his family provide scholarships for 70 UK engineering students each year. Their scholarship has benefitted more than 200 Pigman Scholars thus far, including 20 first-year students this fall. Pigman sits on the UK College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, the Mining Engineering Foundation, the President’s Capital Campaign Committee and the UK College of Engineering Capital Campaign Committee. He has endowed the L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power and helped fund the SPARK lab in UK’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Pigman was inducted into the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2009 and the university awarded him an Honorary Degree of Humane Letters in 2017.
EUGENE POOLE JR. A.S. ’80 — Hopkinsville CC B.A. ’85 — Architecture, College of Design Eugene Poole Jr. of District Heights, Maryland, is the jurisdiction executive and the senior project executive of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The Hopkinsville, Kentucky, native is an architect and certified project construction manager with over 30 years of professional design/construction management executive-level experience. His work includes Air Force defense initiatives and Joint Air Force/Navy, and Air Force/Army Mil-Con construction projects overseas and within the United States. Poole is a decorated former United States Air Force officer who was honorably discharged after serving three tours of duty. His private industry architectural work includes hotel resorts, high schools, colleges, high-end mixed-use and retail buildings, casino and gaming resorts, private residences, urban planning, civic and religious facilities, health care facilities, airfield runway restoration repair and pilot training support facilities. His more recent government projects include the globally iconic U.S. Capitol Dome Restoration project, U.S. Supreme Court, Library of Congress, Senate and House Office Buildings, design/construction for three U.S. Presidential Inaugural ceremonies, the ongoing design/management of the new U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Exhibition Hall Museum, and he currently serves on numerous professional industry boards. The aggregate total of his professional career accomplishments, including the capital complex construction and management programs, are at nearly $5.7 billion. Poole is an ordained preacher and a former professor of religion and philosophy. He holds two bachelor’s degrees and four master’s degrees from institutions which include: University of Kentucky, George Washington University, and Maples Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary. He is currently a 4.0 Doctoral (Ph.D.) candidate studying Eastern/Western religion philosophy and spiritual counseling at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C.
TOMMY L. PRESTON B.A. ’56 — Journalism, College of Communication & Information Tommy L. Preston of Nashville, Tennessee, founded The Preston Group in 1968, a consulting services firm that expanded into 42 states and D.C., leading to many national recognitions. Preston began his career as the youngest Kentucky newspaper editor in 1956 at the Carrollton News-Democrat, where he was born, and used unusual strategies and tactics to impact results for clients representing corporations, institutions and themselves as circumstances dictated. Later, his training in the U.S. Army proved beneficial for subsequent counterterrorism efforts, and he founded Preston Global, a companion firm, for strategies and training to attenuate violence at schools and other venues. He also conducted studies about foreign and domestic terrorist cell capabilities. He was senior advisor to Gov. and U.S. Senator Wendell Ford and appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security by Gov. Steve Beshear. He became the first such director to complete the U.S. Army War College National Security Program. Preston has been involved with many organizations, such as the Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education, Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, the International Association of Counterterrorism Professionals, the National Center for State Courts Advisory Council and the American Negotiation Advisory Board. He is enshrined on the Florida Public Relations Association’s Wall of Fame and was also the first Kentuckian elected to the Public Relations Society of America College of Fellows.
LAURA M. SCHWAB J.D. ’98 — Law, J. David Rosenberg College of Law
Laura M. Schwab of San Clemente, California, is the global sales and marketing officer of Rivian, the electric car company launching several new vehicles this year and electrifying Amazon’s world-wide delivery fleet. From 2015 to 2020, she was president of Aston Martin the Americas, the first female to serve in the role in the company’s history and one of only two women to ever hold this title in the automotive industry. She was responsible for overseeing sales, service, marketing and communications to dealers and customers across two continents. During her tenure, the Americas became the company’s largest sales region in the world. Schwab was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where her academic achievements complemented her skills on the tennis court earning a full tennis scholarship to the University of Notre Dame. She double majored in government and Spanish. Attending law school at UK opened up a variety of career options, and after graduating she chose to move to California to work for an automotive industry start up. From there, she joined Jaguar Land Rover, where she would spend the next 15 years, most recently as its global head of marketing based in England. Throughout her career, Schwab has championed the empowerment of women in the workplace and has spent her time helping to advance the careers of others along the way.
WILLIAM E. SEALE B.A. ’63 — Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences M.S. ’69 — Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment Ph.D. ’75 — Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment William E. Seale of Annapolis, Maryland, and Key Largo, Florida, is a partner in the ProFunds Group. As chief investment officer, he developed the financial models and investment techniques that direct the investments of the over 200 ProShares and ProFunds. Seale is a professor emeritus of finance at George Washington University, where he had been chairman of the Department of Finance and senior associate dean of the business school. He also was engaged in a consulting and expert witness practice through his firm, Financial Markets Group Inc. Seale was a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, worked as government relations vice president for a New York futures exchange and was a senior legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Walter D. Huddleston. He has been involved in many organizations, such as the Kansas City Board of Trade, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New York Board of Trade and the New York Futures Exchange. Seale was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha at UK. He was named to the UK College of Agriculture Hall of Distinguished Alumni, served as a community member on the UK Board of Trustees Investment Committee and is on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Board of Trustees. Seale is also an active pilot who owns several airplanes and holds a private pilot certificate with instrument and seaplane ratings.
CHARLES L. SHEARER B.S. ’64 — Accounting, Gatton College of Business & Economics M.A. ’67 — Economics and International Diplomacy, Gatton College of Business & Economics Charles L. Shearer of Louisville, Kentucky, is the former president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He served as Transylvania’s 24th president and is the longest-serving president in the university’s history after 27 years in office. Shearer helped grow the institution’s student enrollment by more than 75 percent, with corresponding growth in the number of faculty members and majors offered. Financial aid and scholarship programs increased exponentially under his leadership, ratings for the university’s academic quality attained unprecedented heights and the school’s endowment grew to an all-time high. A number of state-of-the-art buildings and facilities were added during Shearer’s tenure and he oversaw the school’s transition from the scholarshipbased NAIA to the non-scholarship Division III of the NCAA. Shearer started as an instructor in economics and accounting at Henderson Community College, then served as an assistant professor of economics at Ferris State University. At Michigan State University, he was a graduate assistant in the Department of Economics. He also served as director of operations and as the director of the Liberal Arts Program in Professional Management at Albion College. Shearer was named vice president for finance at Transylvania University in 1979 before becoming president in 1983. Shearer also holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Transylvania in 2010 and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from UK in 2012 for his lifetime service to higher education.
VALERIE STILL B.S. ’00 — Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food & Environment Valerie Still of Palmyra, New Jersey, is a former professional basketball player and coach, author and musician. She also earned a master’s degree in African and African American studies and is finishing her Ph.D. in sports humanities at The Ohio State University, where she was a graduate research and teaching associate. She was a member of the UK women’s basketball team (1979-1983) and holds UK career records (men and women) in scoring (2,763) and rebounding (1,525). Still played professional basketball in Italy, hosted her own television show and was a TV commentator for men’s basketball. Later in the USA, she played in the American Basketball League, winning two world championships with the Columbus Quest and earning MVP for both championship series. She then joined the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and became a WNBA assistant coach with the Mystics and Orlando Miracle. She founded the Valerie Still Foundation, a nonprofit organization that assists youth in their development and launched STILL Java, a socially-conscious gourmet coffee company to assist charities and women and children in underdeveloped countries. She is a member of the UK Athletic Hall of Fame inaugural class and was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2019. Still is a recipient of the Jefferson Award for her public service. As president of the Dr. Clarence B. Jones Institute for Social Advocacy she continues Dr. Jones’ legacy of public service, social justice and civic engagement through youth empowerment programs and social advocacy.
GREGORY L. SUMME B.S. ’78 — Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering Gregory L. Summe of Naples, Florida, is the co-founder and co-chairman of NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company, which has announced a pending merger with Virgin Orbit. He was also the co-founder of NextGen Acquisition Corp I, which has merged with Xos, Inc., a leading manufacturer of electric commercial vehicles. Summe is also the founder and managing partner of Glen Capital Partners LLC, a value-oriented hedge fund. He was managing director and vice chairman of Global Buyout at the Carlyle Group (2009-2014) and responsible for the buyout funds in financial services, infrastructure, Japan, the Middle East and Africa. He was also the chairman, CEO and president of PerkinElmer Inc. (1998-2009) and a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (2008-2009). Summe was previously with AlliedSignal, now Honeywell International, serving successively as the president of General Aviation Avionics, Aerospace Engines Group, and Automotive Products Group. Earlier, he was the general manager of Commercial Motors at General Electric and was a partner with McKinsey & Co. Inc. In addition to serving as co-chairman of NextGen II, Summe is a director of NXP Semiconductors NV, the State Street Corp., Avantor Inc. and Pella Corp. He was previously the chairman of Freescale Semiconductor and Euromax Intl and co-chairman of NextGen I. He is a former director of Biomet Inc., TRW Corp., LMI Aerospace, Veyance, and Automatic Data Processing. He has a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is in the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction.
PAUL C. VARGA B.B.A. ’85 — Finance, Gatton College of Business & Economics Paul C. Varga of Louisville, Kentucky, was elected president and chief executive officer of BrownForman Corporation in 2005 and became chairman of the company in 2007 before retiring in 2018. He has been a member of the company’s board of directors since 2003. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as president and CEO of the company’s Brown-Forman Beverages subsidiary and served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Brown-Forman Beverages. During Varga’s tenure at Brown-Forman, he partnered with the University of Kentucky’s Alcohol and Health Education Office to support alcohol awareness and education programs on campus. He was inducted into the UK Gatton College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2009 and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UK Lewis Honors College. Varga is a charter member of the UK Tennis Hall of Fame and a Kentucky Tennis Hall of Fame inductee. He was a two-time AllSEC performer (both athletically and academically), became UK’s second player to ever qualify for NCAA singles competition and is the second winningest player in the school’s history. Varga also earned his master’s in business administration at Purdue University in 1987.
PAUL R. WAGNER B.A. ’70 — English, College of Arts & Sciences M.A. ’72 — Communication, College of Communication & Information Paul R. Wagner of Charlottesville, Virginia, is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning independent filmmaker, who has received multiple grants of support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wagner’s documentaries and dramatic features have premiered at the Sundance, Toronto, Telluride, and Rotterdam film festivals. His films include “Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle,” about the first African American labor union; “Signature: George C. Wolfe,” a portrait of the New York theatrical writer and director; “Thoroughbred,” an inside look at the world of big-time horse racing produced for Kentucky Educational Television; and “Out of Ireland,” a history of Irish emigration to America featuring Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne. His “Windhorse” was the first digital feature film, shot secretly inside China and Nepal, receiving awards for Best US Feature Film and Best Director at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. His collaborations with scholars, including several at the Smithsonian Institution, have resulted in films such as “Good Work: Masters of the Building Arts” and “The Stone Carvers,” which won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary. In 2018, “Black in Blue” told a story of triumph and tragedy about UK football players Nate Northington, Greg Page, Houston Hogg, and Wilbur Hackett, the men who broke the color line in the SEC. His current film project is a feature documentary about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS B.S. ’62 — Accounting, Gatton College of Business & Economics John A. Williams of Paducah, Kentucky, is the founding executive of Computer Services Inc., headquartered in Paducah and is now chairman emeritus. His career also includes accounting and management consulting with Arthur Andersen & Co. in St. Louis; and serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps (1963-1965) directing development of experimental data processing systems at the 7th Army Headquarters in Germany. He has been active in many organizations, such as the Association of Financial Technology (president), Boy Scouts Kentucky/Tennessee (president), Kentucky Chamber of Commerce (vice president), Federal Reserve — Louisville (chairman), among others. Williams also lectured on banking technology at UK, LSU, Nebraska and Georgia, and he was a faculty member at Paducah Community College. John also served on state commissions, such as the Kentucky State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Kentuckians for Excellence in Education Task Force, the Higher Education Study Task Force, and the Tax Reform Commission and was founding co-chairman of the Leadership Institute for School Principals. Williams received the Entrepreneurship Award from Murray State and an honorary doctorate. He has received the Paducah Chamber of Commerce Summit Award, the Leadership Kentucky Flame of Excellence Award, and is in the Gatton College of Business & Economics Hall of Fame, and the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. The college also has a classroom and an endowed scholarship in his name.
TERRY WOODWARD B.S. ’63 — Commerce, Gatton College of Business & Economics Terry Woodward of Owensboro, Kentucky, is the owner and CEO of Wax Works, Inc., one of the nation’s leading authorized wholesale home entertainment distributors. Located in Owensboro, Wax Works is one of the largest video distributors in America, servicing online and retail accounts nationwide. Woodward has long been of service to the business community. He was chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) during the first three years of its existence; a board member of the Country Music Association; a board member and chariman of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers; and a trustee and chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (renamed the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in 2018). Inc. magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990, he was awarded the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2005 and was inducted into the IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2018. Woodward worked part-time at Wax Works, Owensboro’s only record shop, as a teenager. After graduating from UK, he worked at Texas Instruments, the Owensboro-Daviess County Hospital, and Modern Welding Company. In 1968, he returned full-time to Wax Works which was a record store as well as a “one-stop” distributor of recorded product to other retail outlets. The company’s Disc Jockey division expanded to include 230 retail outlets in 37 states and the fifth-largest music chain in the nation before being sold in 2000 to focus in its DVD distribution business.
PAST INDUCTEES
A Sam Abell Lewis Robeson Akers* George Alfred Akin* Rex Lebert Allison* Ralph G. Anderson* Ralph John Angelucci* William Bolling Arthur*
B Harvey Arthur Babb* Robert Henry Baker* Merl Baker* Mira S. Ball Thomas Austin Ballantine* Trudy Webb Banta William M. Bass III John D. Baxter* A. Sidney Behrman* Thomas P. Bell* Virginia M. Bell Carlyle Wilson Bennett* Wendell Erdman Berry Joyce Hamilton Berry Henry Carlisle Besuden* George Blanda* Sarah Gibson Blanding* Deane B. Blazie Amy L. Bondurant Aberdeen Orlando Bowden*
Joseph Aubrey Boyd Harrison Dudley Brailsford* Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr.* John Bayne Breckinridge* Stephen B. Bright Smith Dudley Broadbent Jr.* Marion Thomas Brooks* Llewellyn Chauncey Brown* John Young Brown Jr. Louis Allen Bryan* John Rice Bullock* Marion Estel Bunch* Timothy A. Byers
C Lt. Gen. John H. Campbell, USAF (Ret.) Alexander Capurso* Robert M. Carey James William Carnahan* Julian Morton Carroll John Maurice Carter* Samuel A. Cassidy* Harry Monroe Caudill* James A. Caywood* John Sharpe Chambers* Albert Benjamin Chandler* Virgil Munday Chapman* Paul W. Chellgren Wendell Cherry* Judith Grisham Clabes Jerry D. Claiborne*
Thomas D. Clark* Earle Chester Clements* David Horace Clift* Joseph Clinton Clifton* Jennifer Burcham Coffman Edward M. Coffman* John Winston Coleman Jr.* Blanton Long Collier* Martha Layne Collins Bert T. Combs* Pleasant Jefferson Conkwright* Maurice G. Cook Lucille E. Couch* Virgil L. Couch* Joseph W. Craft III Glenwood W. Creech* Constantine W. Curris
D John Albert Dabney* Edward Friend Danforth* Frank Daugherty* Mark E. Davis L. Berkley Davis Jr. Lewis Berkley Davis* Robert Randall Dawson* Dermontti F. Dawson John F. Day Jr.* Brady J. Deaton Elbert DeCoursey* Thomas B. Deen
David B. Dick* Frank Graves Dickey* Herman Lee Donovan* Adron Doran* Robert Mortimer Drake Jr. Eugene L. DuBow Charles Kenney Duncan* William Adolphus Duncan*
E Jack Jones Early Adolph M. Edwards Jr.* Philip R. Edwards* John W. Egerton* Crawford Hatcher Ellis* Joseph Alvie Estes* Richard L. Eubanks* Harold J. Evans*
F Holloway Fields Jr.* William Goebel Finn* Dr. Ernest Lee Fletcher William L. Fouse* Virginia Gaines Fox Evelyn Gall Freyman*
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G Carol Martin Gatton Chloe Gifford* Lyman Vernon Ginger* John Duncan Goodloe* Joel C. Gordon James Hiram Graham* William R. Grant* Calvin G. Grayson* Jack Gregory Harlan Hobart Grooms* John Owen Gross* Allen Wyant Gullion* John R. Guthrie
H Clifford O. Hagan T. Marshall Hahn Jr.* Paul Bryan Hall* Joe B. Hall Holman Hamilton* Thomas T. Hammond John Lewis (Jim) Hampton* Seth W. Hancock James F. Hardymon II T George Harris* David V. Hawpe* Mark E. Hay Angelo Henderson* Hall Massillon Henry*
Louis Edward Hillenmeyer* Morton J. Holbrook* W. James Host Dr. Ardis D. Hoven Frank Leland Howard* Walter D. Huddleston J. S. Hudnall* Robert Milton Huffaker* Guy Alexander Huguelet* Roger L. Hulette* Edwin Ward Humphreys* Terence Hunt G. Samuel Hurst* John B. Hutson*
I Margaret Ingels*
J Stonewall Jackson* Keen Johnson*
K Susan J. Keig Mervin Joe Kelly* Garvice Delmar Kincaid* Margaret Isadora King* William E. Kirwan II Albert Dennis Kirwan*
L Clay Lancaster* Charles Otis Landrum* David M. Lawrence Robert G. Lawson Thomas W. Lewis Howard L. Lewis Leo Logan Lewis* Nancy Duke Lewis* William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.* James W. Little* Elizabeth Hardwick Lowell* James E. Luckett* Joel Irvine Lyle*
M William Carpenter MacCarty* William R. Markesbery* Henry Neal Marsh* Robert Richard Martin* Bobbie Ann Mason Ira E. Massie* Dr. James W. May Jr. William Henry McAdams* Robert T. McCowan* James F. McDonald Robert Charles McDowell* Dianne McKaig* Marguerite McLaughlin* W. Rodney McMullen
Peggy S. Meszaros* Roger E. Mick John Elvis Miller* Robert Lee Mills* Hugh Meglone Milton II* Wickliffe B. Moore* Thomas Hunt Morgan* Thomas Volney Munson* William Benjamin Munson* Eger Vaughn Murphree* Marilyn J. Musacchio F. Story Musgrave
N Thomas B. Nantz* Charles M. Newton* William Hord Nicholls* Thomas Michael Tollover Niles Ervin John Nutter*
O Herbert W. Ockerman Dr. Jeffrey P. Okeson Clarence Hilmann Osthagen*
P Robert Parks* Paul E. Patton William Hugh Peal*
PAST INDUCTEES Beverly Moore Eaves Perdue Peter Perlman Alfred Meredith Peter* Shirley H. Phillips* Jean Ritchie Pickow* George W. Pirtle* Forrest Carlisle Pogue* Carl F. Pollard Paul Aldermandt Porter* Julius C. Powell* Andreas Robert Prindl
Q William O. Quirey*
R Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey* Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr.* Murray Raney* Stephen Augustus Rapier* Oliver H. Raymond* George Fults Reddish* Scott Reed* William E. Rentz* Barbara L. Rice Hugh Tim Richardson* Patrick James Riley David Leer Ringo* Earnest O. Robbins II George Roberts*
Joseph Kastle Roberts* Sharon Porter Robinson James E. Rogers Jr.* Warren W. Rosenthal Wimberly C. Royster*
S William Davis Salmon* Howard L. Schnellenberger* Herman F. Scholtz* David C. Scott* James Graves Scrugham* Vivian Carol Shipley Ernest Clifford Simpson* William R. Sims Dudley Smith* Col. Elizabeth R. Smith Jr.* John T. Smith* Mary L. Smith Harry Magee Sparks* Thomas Arthur Spragens* Elvis Jacob Stahr* Marcia K. Stanhope Augustus Owsley Stanley* Robert Burgess Stewart* Arthur B. Still Richard Charles Stoll* John George Stoll* Ted Strickland James W. Stuckert William B. Sturgill*
Chris T. Sullivan Mary E. Sweeny*
T Jesse Washington Tapp* Joseph G. Teague* Daniel Voiers Terrell* Reese S. Terry Jr. Walter G. Tevis* W. Reid Thompson* John James Tigert* Myra Leigh Tobin* Lee T. Todd Jr. William Henry Townsend* Harry Sheehy Traynor* Kenneth Herndon Tuggle*
U Thomas Rust Underwood* James Randolph Urbaniak
V Harriet D. Van Meter* Jefferey A. Van Note Douglas Joseph Von Allmen
W Earl Dickens Wallace*
Sim Louis Ware* George Withrow Warwick* James Stephen Watkins* George Reynolds Watkins* William Snyder Webb* Elizabeth E. Weiner Alvin Charles Welling* Charles T. Wethington Jr. S. J. Whalen* Don Whitehead* Richard E. Whitt* Mary Purcell Wiedeman* Bell Irvin Wiley* Doris Wilkinson John Davis Williams* Emery Wilson Ollie James Wilson* James Wilmer Wine Jr.* Ralph Hicks Woods* William T. Woodson* George C. Wright
Y Sung Chul Yang C. Robert Yeager* William T. Young* * Deceased
THANK YOU
ALMA MATER
Thank you the 2020 Hall of Distinguished Alumni Selection Committee: JENNIFER Y. BARBER DR. MICHAEL A. CHRISTIAN JENNIFER B. COFFMAN FRANKLIN H. FARRIS JR. SONJA FEIST-PRICE CAMMIE D. GRANT JOHN R. GUTHRIE THOMAS T. HAMMOND TOM D. HARRIS DR. JEFFREY P. OKESON PAULA L. POPE TAUNYA A. PHILLIPS D. MICHAEL RICHEY JILL H. SMITH REESE S. TERRY JR. RACHEL WATTS WEBB CHARLES T. WETHINGTON DR. EMERY A. WILSON
Hail Kentucky, Alma Mater! Loyal sons and daughters sing; Sound her praise with voice united; To the breeze her colors fling. To the blue and white be true; Badge triumphant age on age; Blue, the sky that o’er us bends; White, Kentucky’s stainless page.