Mount Alumni Awards

Each year since 1990, MTSO has honored exceptional graduates with the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service.

These awards are made possible by the generosity of the late MTSO Trustee Emeritus John Mount and his wife Ruth. A complete chronological list of Mount Award honorees is below.

James W. Moore, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 1990
Doris Moreland Jones, MDiv ’69, Specialized Ministry 1990
Donald Webb, MDiv ’63, Specialized Ministry 1990
Grayson L. Atha, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 1991
Julia M. Corbett, MDiv ’74, Specialized Ministry 1991
Ralph Rudy, Jr., MDiv ’64, Service to MTSO 1991
Joseph V. Crockett, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 1992
Tuck Kwan Koo, MDiv ’65, Specialized Ministry 1992
Carol A. Seckel, MDiv & MACE ’78, Parish Ministry 1992
Paul H. Smith, MDiv ’63 & DMin ’74, Service to MTSO 1992
Leonard C. Bennett, MDiv ’76 & DMin ’79, Parish Ministry 1993
Bishop Hae-Jong Kim, MDiv ’64, Specialized Ministry 1993
Jane Power Mykrantz, MDiv ’80, Service to MTSO 1993
Thomas E. Sagendorf, MDiv ’65, Service to MTSO 1993
Mark J. Coale, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 1994
Frank G. King, MDiv & MRE ’73, Specialized Ministry 1994
Howard D. Preston, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 1994
C. Joseph Sprague, MDiv ’65, Parish Ministry 1995
Susan Bowman, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 1995
Raymond M. Vincent, Jr., MDiv ’75, Service to MTSO 1995
Jonathan B. Almond, MDiv ’70, Parish Ministry 1996
Edna Darling-Lewis, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 1996
Hermann O. Knodt, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 1996
Terry L. MacArthur, MDiv ’76, Specialized Ministry 1997
Leonard Budd, DMin ’79, Service to MTSO 1997
Meredith Coleman, MDiv ’87, Parish Ministry 1997
Loran Miracle II, MDiv ’94, Service to MTSO 1998
Kent Beittel, MACE ’77 & MDiv ’78, Specialized Ministry 1998
Fred Shaw, MDiv ’75, Parish Ministry 1998
John F. Ross, MDiv ’95, Parish Ministry 1999
Robert S. Henderson, MDiv ’69, Specialized Ministry 1999
Edward Trimmer, MDiv & MACE ’77, Service to MTSO 1999
Bruce Moon, MDiv & MACE ’76, Specialized Ministry 2000
Gwyn Stetler, MAADAM ’90, Specialized Ministry 2000
Valerie Stultz, MDiv & MALA ’86, Service to MTSO 2000
Barbara Ripple, MDiv ’85, Parish Ministry 2000
Louise Williams, MDiv ’83, Service to MTSO 2001
Pfarrer Rainer Viebahn, MDiv ’73, Parish Ministry 2001
Denise E.R. Baker, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 2001
Joseph E. Bishman, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 2002
Scott A. Gobbel, MAADAM ’90 & MDiv ’91, Specialized Ministry 2002
Diane Turner Sharazz, MDiv ’88, Service to MTSO 2002
Thomas L. Douce, MDiv ’68, Specialized Ministry 2003
Benita Rollins, MDiv ’82, Parish Ministry 2003
David E. Wilcox, MDiv ’73, Service to MTSO 2003
Larry C. Clark, MDiv & MACE ’81, Specialized Ministry 2004
Roger L. Grace, MDiv ‘84, Specialized Ministry 2004
Donald G. Dixon, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 2004
Mary Ann Moman, MDiv ’78, Service to MTSO 2004
John B. Ellington, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 2005
Susan Kyser, MDiv ’76, Specialized Ministry 2005
Richard H. Parks, MDiv ’81 & DMin ’87, Parish Ministry 2005
Nancy S. Hull, MDiv ’88, Specialized Ministry 2006
Wanda Wilson, MDiv ’80, Specialized Ministry 2006
James W. Stiles, MDiv ’69, Parish Ministry 2006
O. Tarrell Thompson, MDiv ’70, Service to MTSO 2006
Peggy Welch, MDiv ’96, Parish Ministry and Service to MTSO 2007
Ashwin Welch, MDiv and MAADAM ’92, Parish Ministry and Service to MTSO 2007
Walter Hays Jr., MDiv ’63, Specialized Ministry 2008
Benton R. Heisler, MDiv ’86, Parish Ministry 2008
L. Raymond Sells, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 2008
Richard A. Noll, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 2009
Cyndy L. Garn, MDiv ’81, Specialized Ministry 2009
William L. McFadden, DMin ’79, Service to MTSO 2009
Adreana Tartt, MAADAM ’93, Specialized Ministry 2010
Karen L. Wolcott, MDiv ’93, Specialized Ministry 2010
Steven A. Harsh, MDiv ’71, Service to MTSO 2010
Sondra Willobee, MDiv ’82, Parish Ministry 2010
Fred A. Diehl, MDiv ’72, Parish Ministry 2011
Neil J. Bright, MRE ’73, MDiv and MA in Church Music ’76, Specialized Ministry 2011
Walter R. Dickhaut Jr., MDiv ’64, DMin ’74, Service to MTSO 2011
Emanuel Cleaver III, MDiv ’99, Parish Ministry 2013
Gwen Purushotham, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 2013
Karen Oehl, MDiv ’96, Parish Ministry 2013
Ronald Payne, MDiv ’66, Parish Ministry 2013
April Blaine, MDiv ’09, Parish Ministry 2014
Roy Mitchell, MDiv ’05, MTS ’05, Specialized Ministry 2014
Virginia Lohmann Bauman, MDiv ’06, Parish Ministry 2015
Karen M. Cook, MDiv ’03, Parish Ministry 2015
Jeffrey J. Hodge, MACE ’08, Specialized Ministry 2015
Alan J. Morrison, MDiv ’90, MDiv ’90, MALA 90, Service to MTSO 2015
Brice H. Balmer, MDiv ’73, 2016;
Charles R. Harrison, MDiv ’86, 2016
Nathan P. Adams, MDiv ’09, 2017
Barbara Sholis, MDiv ’95, 2017
Andrea Boxill, MACM ’00, 2018
Nancy Day-Achauer, MDiv ’08, 2018
Bradford Price, MDiv ’76 & MAADAM ’86, 2018
Eugene Folden, MDiv ’84, 2019
TaNikka Sheppard, MDiv ’10, 2019
Ellen Sims, MDiv ’06, 2019
Paulette Buford-James, MDiv ’13, 2022
David MacDonald, MDiv ’02, 2022
Grace Imathiu, MDiv ’87, 2022
Judy Alston, MDiv ’16, 2023
Barbara Fant, MTS ’12, 2023
Colleen Ogle, MTS ’85 & MDiv ’87, 2023