Alumni & Friends Award

The UCCS Alumni & Friends Award is given annually to individuals or organizations who have demonstrated a significant contribution to further the growth and development of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.  The criteria for the Alumni and Friends Award are as follows:

• The candidate does not have to be an alumnus
• The candidate can be an individual, organization, business or agency
• The award is not open to current university staff, students or faculty, since these groups already have their own awards programs established
• The candidate must have demonstrated a very strong commitment to our campus

Recipients are recognized at the annual Campus Awards Ceremony in May. Previous recipients of the Alumni & Friends Award are as follows:

• 2024: Stephannie Finley Fortune ’17
• 2023: Lee Ingalls Noble ’76
• 2022: Kevin W. O’Neil ’89
• 2021: Jane Dillon 2022
• 2020: Jim and Karen Possehl
• 2019: Nor'wood Development Group
• 2018: Stephen Ludwig, '93
• 2017: Jim '74 & Janet Gallogly and Margery Gallogly
• 2016: Mike Fryt, '77
• 2014: Charles Emmer, Ent Federal Credit Union
• 2013: Christen Lehmpuhl, '01, '03
• 2012: Nancy Lewis, '80
• 2011: Edna Daniels, '83
• 2010: Becky Medved, '73, '87
• 2009: Dunn & Associates
• 2008: Steve Bach, '68
• 2007: Mary Osborne
• 2006: Lynne Fitzhugh
• 2005: Chandler "Chan" Bergen
• 2004: Mike Vigil, '93
• 2003: Lorne C. Kramer
• 2002: Ronald V. Chernak
• 2001: Joseph and Dorothy Petta
• 2000: Sharon Berthrong, '84, '86
• 1999: Robert Spears
• 1998: James C. Berger
• 1997: Gary L. Burch, '80
• 1996: Matt Coleman and Michael Byram
• 1995: Marge Patterson
• 1994: Yusef Komunyakaa, '75
• 1993: Martha Mattoon
• 1992: Floyd and Dona Hildebrand
• 1991: Scott Oki, '74, '75
• 1990: Florence M. Murphy, '83, and El Pomar Foundation
• 1989: The Schantz Family
• 1987: Marie W. Cannon
• 1986: Bee Vradenburg
• 1985: Ross Lyndon-James
• 1984: Fred M. Betz
• 1983: Digital Equipment Company
• 1982: Chamber of Commerce
• 1981: Virginia Trembly, John W. Riggen, and Brooke Sunderland
• 1980: Arthur C. Herzberger and Roland C. Rautenstraus
• 1978: John W. Armstrong, Sr.