National Distinguished Service Key

The National Distinguished Service Key

Description

The Fraternity's highest distinction, the National Distinguished Service Award, established in 1956, recognizes Brothers for outstanding service to the Fraternity on the national level, above and beyond the call of duty. A blue key with diamonds and certificate are awarded at National Conventions (and on rare occasions at other special functions) to those who have distinguished themselves through outstanding service to the National Fraternity. Selection is made by a committee composed of past recipients as appointed by the National President. This award was created in 1956.

Past Recipients

Below is a complete listing of National Distinguished Service Key recipients as listed on the Alpha Phi Omega national website.

Year	Recipient	Home Chapter	School
1956	C. J. Carlson	Beta Theta	University of Wisconsin-Madison
1956	Ray O. Wyland	Beta Iota	New York University
1958	H. Roe Bartle	Iota	Park University
1958	Daniel Den Uyl	Alpha Gamma	Purdue University
1958	Frank Reed Horton	Alpha	Lafayette College
1958	Dean Arno Nowotny	Alpha Rho	University of Texas at Austin
1958	Kent D. Shaffer	Kappa	Carnegie Mellon University
1960	Harry C. Barnett	Beta Beta	Michigan State University
1960	Henry S. Miller	Gamma Omicron	Queens College
1960	Harold F. Pote	Beta Iota	New York University
1960	Joseph David Scanlon	Delta Omicron	Wabash College
1962	Marion R. Disborough	Gamma Mu	University of Evansville
1962	Sidney Bertrand North	Pi	Kansas State University
1962	William S. Roth	Rho	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1964	George Francis Cahill, CAE	Alpha Gamma	Purdue University
1964	Lawrence L. Hirsch	Beta Gamma	Central YMCA College
1964	Lewis N. Jones	Beta Sigma	Texas Tech University
1964	Armand G. Spizzirri	?	?
1966	Joseph A. Brunton, Jr.	Gamma Omicron	Queens College
1966	Tom T. Galt	Delta Kappa	Emory University
1966	Irwin H. Gerst	Epsilon Chi	Los Angeles City College
1966	Julius W. Hayworth	Kappa Theta	Wake Forest University
1966	Robert James Hilliard	Gamma Alpha	University of Washington
1966	Lester R. Steig	Zeta	Stanford University
1968	E. Ross Forman	Zeta Theta	Drexel University
1968	James Arthur Lovell	Beta Theta	University of Wisconsin-Madison
1968	Howard R. Patton	Mu	Indiana University
1970	Glen T. Nygreen, Ph.D.	Gamma Alpha	University of Washington
1970	Frans L. Victorson	Upsilon Gamma	Lake Michigan College
1972	Ed M. Andrews	Gamma Lambda	Clemson University
1972	Aubrey Bertrand Hamilton	Alpha Phi	Washington University
1972	Douglas Harris	Xi Sigma	Carson-Newman College
1974	Alden G. Barber	Chi	University of California at Los Angeles
1974	Lucius E. Young	Zeta Phi	Howard University
1976	R.L. Brittain	Beta Zeta	University of Georgia
1976	Lorin Allan Jurvis	Delta Nu	Yale University
1976	John Franklin McMullan	Zeta Sigma	University of Delaware
1978	John E. Hanke	Eta	Northern Illinois University
1978	Earle Maurice Herbert	Chi	University of California at Los Angeles
1980	Roger A. Sherwood, CAE	Eta	Northern Illinois University
1980	Sidney P. Smith	Pi Sigma	The College of San Mateo
1984	Charles Phillip Zlatkovich, Ph.D.	Alpha Rho	University of Texas at Austin
1984	V. Ray Hancock	Zeta Beta	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
1986	Berkeley P. Duncan	Alpha Alpha	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1986	Alex M Lewandowski	Zeta Tau	Central Methodist University
1988	Fred L. Pollack	Phi	Syracuse University
1988	Betsy Ullrich	Delta Rho	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1990	Bob Barkhurst	Pi Beta	University of Dubuque
1990	Stan Carpenter, Ph.D.	Xi Omicron	Tarleton State University
1992	Charles G. Bowen	Alpha Rho	University of Texas at Austin
1994	David B. Corning	Gamma Alpha	University of Washington
1994	M. Richard Rose	Iota Upsilon	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
1996	Joseph Morrone, Jr.	Zeta Theta	Drexel University
1996	Gerald A. Schroeder, J.D.	Mu Alpha	Georgetown University
1998	John Charles Jadel	Zeta Kappa	Bowling Green State University
1998	Kay Hairgrove Krenek	Beta Sigma	Texas Tech University
2000	Lisa M. Covi, Ph.D.	Kappa	Carnegie Mellon University
2000	Wilfred M. Krenek	Alpha Rho	University of Texas at Austin
2002	Patrick W. Burke, CAE	Zeta Beta	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
2002	James L. Chandler	Omicron Tau	Alma College
2002	David Paul O'Leary	Kappa	Carnegie Mellon University
2004	Jack A. McKenzie	Gamma Lambda	Clemson University
2004	John M. Wetherington	Gamma Theta	University of Colorado at Boulder
2006	David A. Emery	Iota Phi	University of California at Davis
2006	Philip M. Pfeffer, Ph.D.	Zeta Nu	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
2006	Anthony Ploughe	Alpha Gamma	Purdue University
2006	Philip H. Prince, Ph.D.	Gamma Lambda	Clemson University
2008	Fred C. Heismeyer, III Ed.D.	Lambda Omicron	West Virginia University
2008	Michael C. Nathan	Zeta Omicron	California Polytechnic State University
2008	mrn Tomusiak	Alpha Chi	Massachusetts Institute of Technology