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.
| 2008 | Alfred A. Molinari Jr. ’63, Scott W. Ramsay ’68, Maryann Bagdis Goebel ’73, Robert A. Brown III ’78, Stephan A. Mezak ’78 James M. Welch '83 |
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| 2007 | Ernest S. Hayeck '47, William W. Rawstron '57, Domenico Grasso '77 |
| 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, |
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| 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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