Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI

Awarded by
WPI Alumni Association

This award is named in honor of Herbert Foster Taylor, Class of 1912, the first full-time alumni Secretary-Treasurer. 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, student recruiting program, a placement bureau, and many other meaningful activities that survive today.

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Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Details
2009 Federick J. Costello '59 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 Douglas E Sieber, Sr. '82 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Douglas E Sieber, Sr.

2009 Wilfrid J. Houde '59 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 Joyce S Kline '87 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Robert Martin Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Windle B. Priem '59 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Alfred A. Molinari, Jr. '63 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Alfred A. Molinari, Jr.

2015 Michael Aghajanian ’80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 Philip Wild '50 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Bruce E. Beverly '73 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Bruce E. Beverly

2011 Rev. Peter J. Scanlon Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 John Wilson '65 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Leonard E. Redon '73 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Leonard E. Redon

2007 Charles F. H. Crathern '52 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 Paula Frafassi Delaney '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Steven C. Halstedt '68 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Steven C. Halstedt

2007 George H. Long Jr. '57 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 John FitzPatrick '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2014 Thomas B. Newman, Jr. '64 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

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2007 Michael J. Stephens '57 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 Judith Nitsch '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Robert R. Martin '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

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2007 Curtis R. Carlson '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Merrill E. Spiller, Jr. '51 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Michael J. Aghajanian '80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Michael J. Aghajanian

2007 Joseph L. Ferrantino '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Hans H. Koehl '56 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Michael E. Grilli '66 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 William D. Cunningham '77 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 John J. Gabarro '61 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Stuart C. Kazin '61 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Michael S. Gutman '58 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Morgan R. Rees '61 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2018 George F. Gamache '68 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Posthumously

Read the Citation: 2018 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, George F. Gamache

2008 Joaquim S. Ribeiro '58 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Michael P. Zarrilli '71 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Roger E. Lavallee '73 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 William A Krein '62 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, William A Krein

2008 Walter T. Towner, Jr. '83 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 William F Gasko '65 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, William F Gasko

2009 Robert C. Labonte '54 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 James P Dunn '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, James P Dunn