Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service
This award is named in honor of Herbert Foster Taylor '12, the first full-time alumni Secretary-Treasurer. Award recipients will have demonstrated an extraordinary personal commitment and exceptional service to WPI and/or the WPI Alumni Association, and through his or her leadership efforts will have affected positive change on behalf of the university.
Herb Taylor returned to WPI in 1920 as a professor of civil engineering and served as part-time secretary of the Association from 1921 until he became the first full-time secretary in 1924. During the next two decades he energetically conceived and implemented a variety of alumni projects that included the Alumni Fund, and student recruiting program, a placement bureau and many other meaningful activities that survive today.
| 2007 | Charles F. H. Crathern ‘52, George H. Long, Jr. ‘57, Michael J. Stephens ‘57, Curtis R. Carlson ‘67, Joseph L. Ferrantino ‘67, William D. Cunningham ‘77 |
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| 2006 | John Lott Brown '46, Mary Sherman '76, Frederick Rucker ' 81 |
| 2005 | Howard G. Freeman '40, Robert H. Cahill '65, Philip B. Ryan '65, Patricia Graham Flaherty '75 |
| 2004 | Kimball R. Woodbury '44, James S. Adams '49, Gordon E. Walters '54, Paul J. Keating, II '64, Brian D. Chace '69, James L. Carr, Jr. '74, Joan B. Szkutak '79 |
| 2003 | James G. McKernan '48, Francis W. Madigan, Jr. '53, Robert E. Maynard, Jr. '63 |
| 2002 | John M. Tracy '52, Robert H. Beckett '57, Charles M. Stasey '57, Paul S. Kennedy '67, Joseph J. Maggi '67 |
| 2001 | August C. Kellermann '46, Richard A. Coffey, Jr. '51, Raymond R. Hagglund '56, John W. Powers '61 |
| 2000 | Alfred Green '45, Lester Reynolds '50, Harlan Williams '50, F. David Ploss '70, Anne McPartland Dodd '75 |
| 1999 | William A. Julian '49, Edward A. Saulnier '59, Stephen E. Rubin '74 |
| 1998 | Paul H. Bergstrom '38, John H. McCabe '68 |
| 1997 | Donald G. Craig '57, Douglas W. Klauber '67 |
| 1996 | Edward S. Coe '31, Bradley E. Hosmer '61 |
| 1995 | Henry S.C. Cummings '50, William J. Firla '60, Patrick T. Moran '65 |
| 1994 | Allen H. Levesque '59, Joel P. Greene '69 |
| 1993 | George T. Abdow '53, Michael A. DiPierro '68 |
| 1992 | Samuel W. Mencow '37, Alex C. Papianou '57 |
| 1991 | Edward J. Bayon '31, Henry W. Nowick '56, Daniel Maguire '66 |
| 1990 | C. Marshall Dann '35, William P. Densmore '45, Fritz E. Johanson '40, Paul W. Bayliss '60 |
| 1989 | Walter L. Abel '39, Walter J. Charow '49 |
| 1988 | Raymond J. Perreault '38, Clark L. Poland '48, Richard A. Davis '53 |
| 1987 | J. Morrison Smith '37, Gerald Finkle '57 |
| 1986 | John R. Brand '36, Walter G. Dahlstrom '36, John E. Hossack '46, Walter B. Dennen Jr. '51 |
| 1985 | Donald E. Ross '54, Richard B. Kennedy '65 |
| 1984 | Robert Fowler '36, C. John Lindegren '39 |
| 1983 | Edwin C. Campbell '43 |
| 1982 | Julius A. Palley '46, G. Albert Anderson '51 |
| 1981 | Leonard H. White '41, Walter J. Bank '46, Edwin B. Coghlin Jr. '56, Harry W. Tenney Jr. '56 |
| 1980 | Leonard G. Humphrey Jr. '35, Plummer Wiley '35, Peter H. Horstmann '55 |
| 1979 | Arthur E. Smith '33, Irving James Donahue Jr. '44 |
| 1978 | Richard F. Burke, Jr. '38, Robert M. Taft '38 |
| 1977 | Gordon F. Crowther '37, Thomas B. Graham '38 |
| 1976 | Lincoln Thompson '21, Robert E. Higgs '40 |
| 1975 | Earl C. Hughes '14, Edwin B. Coghlin '23, Carl W. Backstrom '30 |
| 1974 | Chester M. Inman '14, C. Eugene Center '30, Luther C. Leavitt '34 |
| 1973 | John W. Coghlin '19, Gabriel O. Bedard '28, Albert M. Demont '31, Francis S. Harvey '37 |
| 1972 | Wayne E. Keith '22, William E. Hanson '32 |
| 1971 | Andrew L. Wilkinson '28 |
| 1970 | Chandler W. Jones '26 |
| 1969 | Daniel F. O'Grady '30 |
| 1968 | Charles R. Michel '37 |
| 1967 | James J. Shea '12 |
| 1966 | Thomas L. Counihan '24 |
| 1965 | Raymond J. Forkey '40 |
| 1964 | Arthur W. Knight '29 |
| 1963 | Phillip R. Delphos '26 |
| 1962 | George A. Walker '22 |
| 1961 | James W. Cunningham '12, (posthumously), Helge S. Johnson '24, Alfred E. Rankin '04 |
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