Kent State University Citation and Recognition Committee records

Finding Aid

Prepared by Robin Katz, October 4, 2007; Updated January 2020

Inclusive Dates: 1968-2003
Bulk Dates: 1968-1980
Extent: 2.33 cubic feet, 2 record storage boxes and 1 slim document box
Physical Location: 11th floor

Historical Note: The Kent State University Citation and Recognition Committee considers and recommends nominees for honorary degrees and for other special recognition such as the President's Medal and the University Medallion. In addition, the Committee proposes governing criteria for the above honors.

Scope and Content: This collection includes the Committee's requests for nominations, internal Committee correspondence, critera and eligibility for awards, nominee files (including biographical information), ballots, recipient files (including promotional and ceremonial materials), and artifacts. 

Arrangement: In the first box, the Committee's public requests and internal records are filed first. The awards (Distinguished Service, Distinguished Teaching, President's Medal, and University Medallion) are then ordered alphabetically. For each award, an explanation of the criteria is followed by lists of nominees and lists of recipients. For many nominees and recipients there are individual files which are ordered alphabetically. These files include biographical information. The second box contains the Honorary Degree criteria, lists, and individual nominee and recipient files. The third box contains artifacts pertaining to these awards. 

Processing Note: Dates reflect the content of the files, not the date an individual was nominated nor the date an award was conferred. There is a significant difference between the file dates and the dates nominated or conferred for Walton Clarke, Frank Glenn, Bernard Hall, Louis Lane, Paul Pfeiffer, Shannon Rodgers, Richard Schmidt, Howard Vincent, Rose Vormelker, and John Weiser. Please see the Nominee and Recipient Lists folders for nomination or conferral dates.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Requests for Nominations, 1969-1983 and undated
2. Citation and Recognition Committee: member lists, 1976-1978
3. Citation and Recognition Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1968-1973
4. Citation and Recognition Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1974-1975
5. Citation and Recognition Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1976-1978
6. Citation and Recognition Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1979
7. Spirit of America Award: proposal, 1998
8. Award Medals, Ribbons, and Doctoral Hoods: correspondence, quotes, order forms, and receipts related to design and materials, 1968-1996
9. Distinguished Service Award: criteria, procedure for selection, undated
10. Distinguished Service Award: Nominee: Fuldheim, Dorothy, 1975-1976
11. Distinguished Service Award: Recipients: LISTS of recipients from 1965-1984, undated
12. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Bachna, Janet, 1969
13. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Dawson, Frank, 1969
14. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Del Bane, Michael, 1979
15. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Eells, William, 1969
16. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Logelin, Edward, 1978
17. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Norton, James, 1968 and undated
18. Distinguished Service Award: Recipient: Tschantz, Robert, 1969
19. Distinguished Teaching Award: criteria, procedure for selection, 1969 and undated
20. Distinguished Teaching Award: Recipients: LISTS of recipients from 1975-1983 and newspaper clippings, undated
21. President's Medal: criteria, procedure for selection, 1969-1981 and undated
22. President's Medal: Nominees: LISTS of nominees from 1969-1975, 1975
23. President's Medal: Nominee: Ambler, David, 1977
24. President's Medal: Nominee: Barber, Tom,
25. President's Medal: Nominee: Bauer, Frederick, 1973
26. President's Medal: Nominee: Berg, Emil, 1970
27. President's Medal: Nominee: Cook, Dennis, 1977 and undated
28. President's Medal: Nominee: Cowperthwaite, Leroy, 1979
29. President's Medal: Nominee: Doutt, John, 1981
30. President's Medal: Nominee: Erickson, Carl, 1979
31. President's Medal: Nominee: Franklin, Doris, 1971 and 1979
32. President's Medal: Nominee: Garfinkel, Stanley, 1997
33. President's Medal: Nominee: Gorden, William, 1994 and undated
34. President's Medal: Nominee: Harkness, Bruce, 1974 and 1979
35. President's Medal: Nominee: Harvey, Milton, 1975
36. President's Medal: Nominee: Harvey, Virginia, 1974-1982 and undated
37. President's Medal: Nominee: Heiliger, Howard, 1976 and undated
38. President's Medal: Nominee: Jenkins, Marlyn, 1975-1976 and undated
39. President's Medal: Nominee: Kitchin, Paul, 1977
40. President's Medal: Nominee: Kitner, Harold, 1975-1979
41. President's Medal: Nominee: Kritzer, Hyman, 1974 and 1979
42. President's Medal: Nominee: Lips, Rosemary, 1973
43. President's Medal: Nominee: McVay, Christina, 1999-2001
44. President's Medal: Nominee: Mitchell, John, 1980 and undated
45. President's Medal: Nominee: Mulvihill, Donald. 1981-1982 and undated
46. President's Medal: Nominee: Perry, Murvin, 1977-1978 and undated
47. President's Medal: Nominee: Portteus, Elnora, 1971-1974
48. President's Medal: Nominee: Powers, Murray, 1971-1972
49. President's Medal: Nominee: Raup, Hallock, 1980
50. President's Medal: Nominee: Rees, Trevor, 1971
51. President's Medal: Nominee: Resick, Matthew, 1975
52. President's Medal: Nominee: Rosen, Carl, 1980 and undated
53. President's Medal: Nominee: Urban, George, 1971
54. President's Medal: Nominee: Van Winkle, Harold, 1973-1976
55. President's Medal: Nominee: Waida, Julia, 1979
56. President's Medal: Nominee: Wallace, Carol, 1974
57. President's Medal: Nominee: White, Robert, 1971
58. President's Medal: Nominee: Whitney, Henry, 1982-1983
59. President's Medal: Nominee: Williams, Chester, 1992
60. President's Medal: Recipients: LISTS of recipients from 1969-2002, 1973-2003 and undated
61. President's Medal: Recipient: Armstrong, Foster, 1991
62. President's Medal: Recipient: Bhargava, Triloki, 1996-1998
63. President's Medal: Recipient: Begala, Joseph, 1971
64. President's Medal: Recipient: Brown, Glenn, 1980 and undated
65. President's Medal: Recipient: Clarke, Walton, 1975-2000
66. President's Medal: Recipient: Corey, Stanley, 1971-1972
67. President's Medal: Recipient: Cummins, Kenneth, 1981
68. President's Medal: Recipient: Curtis, Earle, 1972
69. President's Medal: Recipient: Dante, Harris, 1971
70. President's Medal: Recipient: Dexter, Ralph, 1975-1977
71. President's Medal: Recipient: Feinberg, Melvyn, 1980 and undated
72. President's Medal: Recipient: Frank, Glenn, 1971 and 1980
73. President's Medal: Recipient: Gildzen, Alex, 1992
74. President's Medal: Recipient: Golding, Lawrence, 1974-1975
75. President's Medal: Recipient: Gravereau, Victor, 1976-1978
76. President's Medal: Recipient: Halem, Henry, 1982 and 1998 and undated
77. President's Medal: Recipient: Hall, Bernard, 1979
78. President's Medal: Recipient: Herrick, Arthur, 1969
79. President's Medal: Recipient: Holm, James, 1973
80. President's Medal: Recipient: Infante, Dominic, 1996
81. President's Medal: Recipient: Lewis, Elizabeth, 1972
82. President's Medal: Recipient: Mahan, John, 1994-1995
83. President's Medal: Recipient: Marovitz, Sanford, 1998-1999
84. President's Medal: Recipient: McGrath, James, 1975
85. President's Medal: Recipient: Montgomery, James, 1971
86. President's Medal: Recipient: Morbito, Joseph, 1976-1978
87. President's Medal: Recipient: Myers, Raymond, 1972-1981
88. President's Medal: Recipient: Novotny, Elmer, 1973
89. President's Medal: Recipient: Nurmi, Martin, 1975-1977
90. President's Medal: Recipient: Pfeiffer, Paul, 1981 and 1996
91. President's Medal: Recipient: Pringle, Kenneth, 1971-1972
92. President's Medal: Recipient: Read, Gerald, 1969 and undated
93. President's Medal: Recipient: Riley, Charles, 1980
94. President's Medal: Recipient: Safford, Phillip, 1995-1998
95. President's Medal: Recipient: Seidel, Beverly, 1978
96. President's Medal: Recipient: Shaw, Roger, 1979 and undated
97. President's Medal: Recipient: Sommers, Ronald, 1993
98. President's Medal: Recipient: Treichler, Robert, 1994
99. President's Medal: Recipient: Varga, Richard, 1980
100. President's Medal: Recipient: Vincent, Howard, 1975
101. President's Medal: Recipient: Vormelker, Rose, 1967-1977
102. President's Medal: Recipient: Watson, Walter, 1996 and undated
103. President's Medal: Recipient: Weiser, John, 1975
104. Outstanding Alumnus Award: Recipients: LISTS of recipients from 1958-1979, undated
105. President's Medal: Recipient: eligibility, undated
106. University Medallion: Nominee: Brown, Samuel, 1998
107. University Medallion: Recipients: LIST of recipients from 1988-2002, 2003
108. University Medallion: Recipient: Broadbent, Robert, 1996
109. University Medallion: Recipient: Burnstine, Andrew, 1993-1994 and undated
110. University Medallion: Recipient: Carlisle, Marian, 1998
111. University Medallion: Recipient: Glauser, Toni, 1992
112. University Medallion: Recipient: Morgan, Margaret, 1995
113. University Medallion: Recipient: Morgenthaler, Lindsay, 1995-1996
114. University Medallion: Recipient: Redinger, Rachel, 1996
115. University Medallion: Recipient: Schwebel Family, 1994-1995
116. University Medallion: Recipient: Strawbridge, Herbert, 1995-1996
117. University Medallion: Recipient: Williams, Bill, 1999

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

1. Honorary Degree: guidelines for selection, 1966-1977 and undated
2. Honorary Degree: Nominees: LISTS of nominees from 1969-1975, 1975
3. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Anuszkiewsicz, Richard, 1978-1979
4. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Armstrong, Neil, 1971
5. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Ashby, Eric, 1969-1971
6. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Barich, Dewey, 1972
7. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Berkowitz, Sidney, 1973
8. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Boulez, Pierre, 1974
9. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Burkett, Lowell, 1969
10. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Carlitz, Leonard, 1977 and undated
11. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Carter, Jimmy, 1996
12. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Clark, Ramsey, 1971
13. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Cronin, John, 1971
14. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Darpoh, Benjamin, 1973-1974
15. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Doxiadis, Constantinos, 1972
16. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Eisely, Loren, undated
17. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Erb, Donald, 1980-1981
18. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Flanigan, Frances, 1981
19. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Freidrich, Carl, 1969 and undated
20. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Fuller, Buckminster, 1972 and undated
21. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Fuldheim, Dorothy, 1975
22. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Gardner, John, 1969-1972
23. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Germer, Edward, 1939-1980
24. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Glenn, John, 1968 and 1998
25. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Graham, Martha, 1976 and undated
    Scope and Content: Includes a section of the book Martha Graham: a biography by Don McDonagh.
26. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Hall, Manly, 1947-1974
    Scope and Content: Includes the Program for Expansion and Research of the Philosophical Research Society (with biography of Manly P. Hall on page 26); Codex Hall: An Ancient Mexican Hieroglyphic Picture Manuscript by Charles Dibble (with preface by Manly P. Hall); and Philosophy, Religion, Science Journal Summer 1973 (all unsigned articles by Manly P. Hall).
27. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Hanks, Nancy, 1976
28. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Hoffer, Eric, 1971
29. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Hoggatt, Don, 1998
30. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Huxtable, Ada, 1972
31. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Jones, Vincent, 1969
32. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Kamerick, John, 1968 and undated
33. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Kendall, Donald, undated
34. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Kolko, Gabriel, 1968 and undated
35. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Lamb, Harold, 1972
36. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Lausche, Frank, 1968 and undated
37. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Logelin, 1977-1978
38. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Maidenberg, Ben, 1975-1976
39. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Malik, Adam, 1974
40. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Malcolm, Donald G., 1957-1973
    Scope and Content: Includes his publications "The Use of Simulation in Management Analysis" in Report of the Second Sysyem Simulation Symposium; "Real-Time Management Control in a Large Scale Man Machine System" in The Journal of Industrial Engineering; Design and Implementation of an Integrated Management System for Highway Management; On the Construction of a Multi-Stage, Multi-Person Business Game; Application of a Technique for Research and Development Program Evaluation; Bibliography on the Use of Simulation in Mangement Anaylsis; On the Need for Improvement in Implementation of O.R.; Gremex-A Research and Development Mangement Simulation Exercise; and the Robert Morris Associates Bulletin Vol. 47 September 1964 No. 1. 
41. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Manchester, Raymond, 1972-1973
42. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Mandalari, Steve, 1973 and 1978
43. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Mays, Benjamin, undated
44. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Metcalf, Paul, 1977-1978
45. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Moberly, David, 1980-1981
46. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Morkin, Robert, 1969
47. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Nader, Ralph, 1971
48. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Patzer, Roland, 1974
49. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Powell, Colin, 1994 and 1999
50. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Price, Don, 1969
51. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Peter, Paul and Mary, 1995-1997
52. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Peterlin, Anton 1973 and 1979
53. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Radley, Virginia, 1980
54. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Redinger, Rachel, 1980
55. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Reeve, Christopher, 1997-1998
56. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Rhodes, James, 1968 and undated
57. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Scwartz, Michael, 1991
58. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Shriver, Phil, 1968
59. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Silverman, Jerry, 1980
60. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Spahr, Charles, 1968-1969
61. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Stevens, Lillian, 1970-1971
62. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Sulzberger, Marion, 1974
63. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Tankersley, G.J., 1974 and undated
64. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Torrey, Charles 1972
65. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Tune, Tommy, 1997
66. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Voinovich, George, 1996
67. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Vormelker, Rose, 1968-1969
68. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Wald, George, 1972 and undated
69. Honorary Degree: Nominee: Willis, Catherine, 1992-1993
70. Honorary Degree: Recipients: LISTS of recipients from 1924-2002, 1975-2003
71. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Allard, Linda, 1991
72. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Blacklow, Robert, 1998
73. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Brown, Glenn, 1999 and undated
74. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Cohen, Robert, 1997
75. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Dreyer, John, 1959-1976
76. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Dohnanyi, Christopher, 1993 and undated
77. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Donaho, Barbara, 1992
78. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Drilon, José, 1975-1976 and undated
79. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Eells, William, 1982
80. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Eisenhower, Milton, 1968
81. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Enarson, Harold, 1972 and undated
82. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Ervin, John, 1969 and undated
83. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Fawcett, Harold, 1965 and 1969 and undated
84. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Fletcher, Arthur, 1972 and undated
85. Honorary Degree: Recipient: George, Vance, 1997 and undated
86. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Gingold, Josef, 1980
87. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Goodall, Rae Prosser, 1996
88. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Goodlad, John, 1972 and 1974 and undated
89. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Grasselli, Jeanette Brown, 1999 and undated
90. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Guzetta, Dominic, 1971
91. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Hambro, Edvard, 1971
92. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Hamilton, Virginia, 1996 and undated
93. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Harris, Patricia Roberts, 1976
94. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Hirsch, Carl, 1999
95. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Holtz, Carl, 1993-1994
96. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Huggins, Maurice, 1972 and 1974
97. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Huntington, Judith, 1997
98. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Kwun, Oh Ik, undated
99. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Lambo, Thomas, 1969-1970 and undated
    Scope and Content: Includes sheet music to the national anthem of Nigeria; photographs of Thomas Lambo and President Robert White in doctoral hoods, of Thomas Lambo at Commencement, and of Thomas Lambo speaking to a group of Nigerian men.
100. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Lane, Louis, 1973
101. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Lawsche, Charles, 1954-1974
102. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Lax, Peter, 1976 and undated
103. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Lee, Sherman, 1969 and undated
104. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Martinez, Arthur, 1999
105. Honorary Degree: Recipient: McGovern, John, 1972-1973 and undated
106. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Mosher, Charles, 1975-1976
     Scope and Content: Includes 1976 KSU Commencement program.
107. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Murray, Henry, 1971
108. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Norton, James, 1973
109. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Olmstead, Earl, 1997
110. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Ong, John, 1980-1981
111. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Ocasek, Oliver, 1973-1975
112. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Pake, George, 1969 and undated
     Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of George Pake.
113. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Pelczynski, Aleksander, 1995-1996
114. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Pilliod, Charles, 1974 and undated
115. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Ping, Charles. 1994
116. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Quarles, Benjamin, 1970-1974
117. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Rao, CR, 1999
118. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Reston, James, 1974
119. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Rodgers, Shannon, 1980
120. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Schillp, Paul, 1974-1975
121. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Schmidt, Richard, 1975-1979
122. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Scott, John, 1999
123. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Seaborg, Glenn, 1975 and undated
124. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Semon, Waldo, 1980
     Scope and Content: Includes pamphlet from B F Goodrich Lecture Series.
125. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Shalala, Donna, 1993
126. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Stokes, Louis, 1999
127. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Stopher, Robert, 1976
128. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Strong, Maurice, undated
129. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude, 1977
130. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Waldheim, Kurt, 1976-1977 and undated
131. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Walsh, Julia Montgomery, 1982
132. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Wilson, Lois, 1971-1975
     Scope and Content: Includes Time still photograph of Lois Wilson in The Great Gatsby silent film; KSU's The Women with Miss Lois Wilson program; KSU Lecture Series program featuring Lois Wilson; and Lois Wilson Day program.
133. Honorary Degree: Recipient: Zahedi, Ardeshir, 1974

Box 3
Folder -- Contents

1. Artifact: President's Medal Certificate in Holder: Recipient: Henderson, Linnea, 1984
2. Artifact: Gift Medal, undated
3. Artifact: Official Medal, undated