Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement

This award is named in honor of Robert Hutchings Goddard '08, pioneer in the field of rocketry. Award recipients will have demonstrated exceptional professional achievement in his or her chosen field. Qualifications sought in candidates include, but are not limited to, outstanding leadership skills, business acumen, and innovative approaches to technical challenges, pre-eminence in teaching or research, and/or entrepreneurship.

In 1926, Dr. Goddard's first liquid fuel rocket was launched in Auburn Massachusetts. Larger scale experiments and a skeptical local government made it necessary for Dr. Goddard, who was to become recognized as the father of the United States space program, to move to New Mexico in 1930. There, he carried on a major series of tests until 1942 at which time he was called to Washington as Chief of Navy Research on jet-propelled planes.

2006	Peter B. Myers '46, Robert L. Diamond '56, John P. Casey '76, William N. Giudice '76
2005	Marshall S. Levine '55, Philip G. Baker '65, W. Todd Akin '70, Michael J. Dolan '75, Judith Nitsch '75, Eric A. Hahn '80, Chartsiri Sophonpanich '80
2004	James L. Bartlett, Jr. '39, John H. Williams '49, Joseph D. Bronzino '59, Aram Mooradian '59, James S. Tyler '59, Gary Goshgarian '64, Richard M. Gross '69, Homoud A. Al-Rqobah '74, Jonathan R. Barnett '74
2003	David S. Jenney '53, Francis P. Barton '68, Michael R. Paige '68, Mark J. Freitas '78,
2002	Curtis R. Carlson '67, Paul A. Lacouture '72, Daniel A. Funk '77, Bruce D. Minsky '77,
2001	Donald L. Poggi '51, H. Richard Freeman '61, Donald H. Foley '66, Donald K. Peterson '71, Francis M. Scricco '71,
2000	Edward Sydor '50, David Cyganski '75,
1999	Harvey D. Egan '59, William J. Dowd '64, Carleton F. Kilmer Jr. '64, John S. Thompson Jr. '69, Vijay R. Kirloskar '74,
1998	Arthur E. Martell '38, Jackson L. Durkee '43, Richard A. Kashnow '63, Steven C. Halstedt '68, Roger J. Heinen '73
1997	Jacques L. Metenier '47, (posthumously), Robert L. Brass '57, Charles C. Johnston '57, David K. Heebner '67,
1996	Martin G. Bromberg '51, George C. Messenger '51, Hans H. Koehl '56, John C. Petrillo '71, Ronald L. Zarrella '71
1995	Brian J. Kelly '55, Tarek M.A. Shawaf '55, William A. Kerr '60,
1994	Douglas G. Noiles '44, Werner M. Neupert '54, Frederick J. Costello '59, Gordon H. Sigman, Jr. '59
1993	C. Stewart Gentsch '58, Michael S. Gutman '58, Marshall B. Taylor '68,
1992	Caleb D. Hammond '37, Francis J. Oneglia '42, Samuel W. Williams Jr. '42
1991	Herman Medwin '41, Robert A. Foisie '56, Roger H. Tancrell '56
1990	Philip A. Wild '50, Arthur J. LoVetere '60, David J. Welch '60, George Lemmon III '65
1989	Irving James Donahue Jr. '44, Donald E. Ross '54, Henry M. Strage '54, R. Kingman Webster '54, Windle B. Priem '59
1988	Romeo J. Ventres '48, John J. Gregory '53
1987	Robert H. Beckett '57, John D. Daly '57, David P. Norton '62, Gary K. Willis '67
1986	C. James Ethier '36, Donald E. Smith '41, Frederic A. Stevens '61, Ward D. MacKenzie Jr. '61
1985	Paul N. Kokulis '45, Paul A. Allaire '60
1984	John P. Burgarella '50, Wilfrid J. Houde '59, David E. Monks '64
1983	George A. Cowan '41, S. Bailey Norton Jr. '43, Earl G. Page Jr. '43
1982	C. Chapin Cutler '37, John M. Townsend Jr. '42
1981	Harold S. Black '21, John C. Metzger Jr. '46
1980	Raymond J. Forkey '40, Robert C. Stempel '55
1979	Charles F. Jones '48, Alfred Strogoff '49
1978	Joseph Glasser '35, Alan R. Pearlman '48, George T. Abdow '53
1977	O. Vincent Gustafson '29, Norman N. Feldman '47
1976	Leslie J. Hooper '24, Donald Taylor '49
1975	Sigurd R. Wendin '25, C. Marshall Dann '35, Richard T. Whitcomb '43
1974	George R. Rich '19, Ravindra L. Kirloskar '38, Howard C. Warren '42, William R. Grogan '46
1973	Richard Walberg '23, M. Lawrence Price '30, Hilliard W. Paige '41, George E. Comstock III '46
1972	Ray W. Heffernan '19, Howard C. Freeman '40, Robert H. Grant '42
1971	William R. Steur '35, Robert F. Stewart '50
1970	Walter L. Abel '39, Anson C. Fyler '45
1969	Walter B. Dennen '18, Michael C. Sodano '31, John Lott Brown '46
1968	F. Holman Waring '12, Milton E. Berglund '26, James J. Clerkin '45
1967	Leon W. Hitchcock '08, Arthur E. Smith '33
1966	Theophilus Brown '01, Alfred W. Francis '17, Charles C. Bonin '38
1965	James E. Smith '06, Harold B. Whitmore '21, Carl C. Clark '45
1964	Charles Hollerith '17, George E. Feiker Jr. '39
1963	Richard J. Dearborn '03, Selden T. Williams '16
1962	Oliver R. Wulf '20, Albert J. Kullas '38
1961	Fred B. Seely '07, Arthur T. Larned '12

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