1983 Alumni Award recipients Dr. Alvin Liberman '36, Christel Marquardt '70, Dale Maulin '71, David Morton '42 and Blaine Yarrington '37This photo is from the first Alumni Association Awards Banquet in 1983 at the St. Joseph Country Club. Honored that year were Distinguished Alumni  Award recipients Dr. Alvin M. Liberman ’36, president of Haskins Laboratories and professor of linguistics at Yale University; Christel E. Marquardt ’70, a partner in the law firm of Cosgrove, Webb and Oman, Topeka, Kansas; W. Dale Maudlin ’71, president of First Midwest Bancorp, Inc., St. Joseph; David H. Morton ’42, senior partner in the law firm of Morton, Reed and Counts, St. Joseph; and Blaine J. Yarrington ’37, retired vice president of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The first Distinguished Faculty Award recipient was Francis Kessler, political science professor.

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