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Award winners
Deborah Briggs
FAA Distinguished Legacy Award
VP, Betsy Hotel of South Beach
Barbara Crowder
Retired judge
Madison County Circuit Court
Richard Ahrenkiel
Owner/founder
Lakewood Semiconductors
Susan Rankaitis
Professor of art
Scripps College
Bob Frump
Acclaimed investigative reporter
Won Polk, Loeb awards
Christina (Crawford) Steed
Executive VP
Flowers Communications Group
Rod Lovett
Director of championships
National Junior College Athletic Assn.
Jennifer Dillavou
UIAA president
UI associate vice chancellor
Matt Cho
Partner, Adjacency
Founder, [co][lab]
Terri Reifsteck
VP of marketing
Visit Champaign County
Anne Carpenter
Scientist, imaging platform senior director
Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT
Lori Bitter
President
The Business of Aging
Jeanne Gang
World-renowned architect
Designed Chicago’s Aqua Tower
Wei Wei Jeang
Texas attorney
Grable Martin Fulton PLLC
Laura Hettiger
TV anchor, host, reporter
KMOV, St. Louis
Bonner Denton
Professor of chemistry, biochemistry
University of Arizona
Martin Fackler
Former assistant Asia editor
The New York Times
Gerry Beyer
Law professor
Texas Tech
Charles Shields
Literary biographer, playwright
New York Times best-seller
Dan O’Neill
VP of corporate partnerships
Tepper Sports & Entertainment
Tim Simpson
4-year football starter
1992 Dike Eddleman Award
Kathy Pherson
President
Globalytica
Tom Starr
AT&T Labs
Distinguished Engineering Alum
Arielle Gross
Global Business Marketing
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