Distinguished Service Award Recipients
| 2012 | Dr. Stanley Stephens, BA '65 | |
| 2011 | Michael Collette | |
| 2010 | Pat Griffin | |
| 2009 | Ray Freer, BA '65 | |
| 2008 | Judy (Baker) Matas, BA '68 | |
| 2007 | H.L. Baker, BA '61 | |
| 2006 | J. Douglas Nelson | |
| 2005 | Robert L. Coffman, BA '72 | |
| 2004 | Linda S. Cummins | |
| 2003 | Kathryn R. Strickler Paul E. Strickler | |
| 2002 | Louise M. Spall, BA '67 | |
| 2001 | Shirley King Coolidge, BS '60 Duane C. Hoak, '55 | |
| 2000 | Theodore Baker, BA '72 & MMin '76 E. Darlene Miller, BS '62 | |
| 1999 | Thomas R. Harbron, '57 Beverley Miller Pitts, BA '68 | |
| 1998 | Sid D. Guillen James P. Rouintree | |
| 1997 | Donald L. Collins, BA '51 Jack C. Lewis | |
| 1996 | Lawrence C. Reynolds, BA '48 & BDiv '59 Richard M. Young | |
| 1995 | Robert N. Smith, BS '53 Gibb E. Webber, BA '56 | |
| 1994 | Joe K. Womack | |
| 1993 | H.L. Baker, BS '61 Hollis S. Pistole, BA '45 | |
| 1992 | Kenneth F. Hall, BA '48 James E. Massey | |
| 1991 | Gladys F. Roark Richard E. Snyder, BS '62 | |
| 1990 | Kenneth E. Cook, '51 Gertrude Wunsch | |
| 1989 | Margaret L. Camm, '75 | |
| 1988 | Gustav Jeeninga, BA '51 Frederick V. Shoot | |
| 1987 | Walter Kufeldt, BA '47 | |
| 1985 | Martin L. Norris, BTh '49 | |
| 1984 | Maxine Line Linamen, BS '50 Larry C.F. Maddox, BA '66 | |
| 1983 | F. Dale Bengtson, BS '57 | |
| 1982 | Geraldine Hurst Reardon, BA '67 | |
| 1981 | Cleda Achor Anderson, '46 Robert Glen Falls, BA '48 | |
| 1979 | Ronald Fowler Lottie M. Franklin, BTh '39 & BA '40 | |
| 1978 | Adam W. Miller, BA '39 | |
| 1977 | Marie Strong, BS '45 | |
| 1976 | W. Shirell Fox, BA '50 James D. Macholtz, BS '51 Blanche L. Martin, '26 | |
| 1975 | Dorothy Morrison Blevins-Dicus, BA '43 Robert A. Nicholson, BS '44 Robert H. Reardon, BA '40 | |
| 1974 | Vila A. Deubach, '65 Robert W. McCurdy, BA '59 | |
| 1973 | Helen A. Holton, BA '46 Cynthia Taylor Kane, BTh '23 | |
| 1972 | Samuel J. Cornelius, BS '53 Harold F. Linamen | |
| 1971 | Norman E. Beard, BS '55 & MDiv '58 | |
| 1970 | Robert W. Macholtz, BS '49 Lowell D. Smith, BA '60 |