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For more than 50 years, UCO has honored its most outstanding alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award. This prestigious, annual award recognizes alumni who have become world-class ambassadors of UCO. Distinguished Alumni Award recipients have demonstrated distinctive and notable accomplishments in their careers and professional lives, as well as service to their communities and to the university.

Each of the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients received recognition during the annual awards ceremony, Oct. 5, 2018, part of Central’s Homecoming Week.

This year’s six Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are Marjorie Bennett (BS ‘39); Mike Collison (BA ‘91); Alisa Green (BS ‘08); Bill Pink, Ph.D. (M.Ed. ‘94); Joli Sanders (MFA Interior Design); and J. Michael Steffen (BS ‘72). Read more about the honorees in the following pages.