The Distinguished Alumni Award was created to recognize the person who best exemplifies those attitudes which Poly strives to instill in its young students – FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY, PERSEVERANCE, ACHIEVEMENT, GOODNESS and MERCY.

Online nomination form can be found here.

Distinguished Alumni Award Committee:

A committee has been established to receive, analyze and coordinate recommendations for this award. They will select the candidate who has received national, state or local recognition for excellence in his/her profession and present to the BPIAA Board for approval. 

Members of this committee include: Two Immediate Past Presidents (Immediate past president shall serve as Chairman), the Current Principal/Director, and permanent members.

Criteria: 

To be eligible for nomination, the individual must meet the following criteria:

• Recognition of the objectives of the Alumni Association

  • The education of men and women

  • The advancement of knowledge

  • The rendering of service to industry and to the nation

• Outstanding efforts both in thought and action in promoting the interests and activities of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

• That person who best exemplifies those attitudes which Poly is trying to instill in its young students, viz.: freedom, responsibility, perseverance, achievement, goodness and mercy.

   

Nomination: 

To nominate an individual to be considered for the Distinguished Alumni Award, please complete the online form or click on the pdf link at the bottom of this page to download the application. Once completed, please mail the full application to: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Alumni Office, 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21209. 

Recognition:

The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented at the Annual Alumni Dinner which will be held on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at Martin’s West. For more information on this event, please call the Alumni Office at 410-889-POLY (7659) or email Email Alumni BPI.

Distinguished Alumni Award Committee:

A committee has been established to receive, analyze and coordinate recommendations for this award. They will select the candidate who has received national, state or local recognition for excellence in his/her profession and present to the BPIAA Board for approval.

Members of this committee include: Two Immediate Past Presidents (Immediate past president shall serve as Chairman), the Current Principal/Director, and permanent members.

Criteria:

To be eligible for nomination, the individual must meet the following criteria:

• Recognition of the objectives of the Alumni Association

  • The education of men and women

  • The advancement of knowledge

  • The rendering of service to industry and to the nation

• Outstanding efforts both in thought and action in promoting the interests and activities of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

• That person who best exemplifies those attitudes which Poly is trying to instill in its young students, viz.: freedom, responsibility, perseverance, achievement, goodness and mercy.

Nomination:

To nominate an individual to be considered for the Distinguished Alumni Award, please complete the online form or click on the pdf link at the bottom of this page to download the application. Once completed, please mail the full application to: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Alumni Office, 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21209. 

Recognition: 

The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented at the Annual Alumni Dinner which will be held on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at Martin’s West. For more information on this event, please call the Alumni Office at 410-889-POLY (7659) or email Email Alumni BPI.  

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients:

1969    Joseph Kaplan ’21 - Educator, Geophysicist

1970    Walter H. Feldmann ’15 - Industrialist

1971    Wilmer A. Dehuff ‘ 07 - Educator 

1972    John N. Curlett ’24 - Chairman of the Board, Corkmick & Co., Inc.

1973    Alonzo G. Decker Jr. ’26 -

             Chairman and CEO Black and Decker Manufacturing Co. 

1974    Henry L. Mencken ‘96* - Journalism

             Emory H. Niles ‘09 - Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City 

1975    Major General Hiram Dudley Ives ’24 - General, US Army (Ret.)

1976    J. Harold Lampe ’15 - Educator

1977    Robert Edward Gross ’23 - Surgeon, Educator

1978    E. Robert Kent ’30 - Builder

1979    Elbert N. Carvel ’28 - Governor, State of Delaware 

1980    Allan W. Mund ’23 - Industrialist, Educator

1981    Willard Hackerman ’35 - Engineer

1982    C. Edward Utermohle Jr. ’33 - Public Utilities

             Jacob Blaustein ‘09* - International Affairs

1983    Claude A. Burkert ’27 - Educator

1984    Owen B. Butler ’40 - Chairman of the Board, Procter and Gamble

             Edward L. Rowny ‘33

1985    James A. Sagerholm ’46 - Vice Admiral of the United States Navy 

1986    Harry B. Smith ’39 - Engineer, Inventor;

             President, Westinghouse Defense Center

1987    Fr. J. Allan Panuska S.J. ‘45 Biologist - Priest, University President

1988    Robert W. Lumsden ’41 - Educator 

1989    Wesley H. Rice ’50 - Major General, US Marine Corps (Ret.)

1990    Frederic M. Hewitt ’34 - Engineer

1991    Edward Wenk, Jr. ’37 - Engineer, Policy Advisor, Educator

1992    George V. McGowan ’46 - Chairman, BGE 

1993    Joseph S. McLaughlin ’49 - Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland 

1994    Harry Ratrie ’40 - Chairman, Bryn Awel Corp. 

1995    Clinton C. Emich ‘35 

1996    Timothy D. Baker ’42 - International Health and Preventative Medicine

1997    Walker Lee Robinson ’58 - Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery

1998    M. Gary Alkire ’53 - Major General, US Air Force (Ret.) 

1999    Charles Q. Miller ’63 - CEO Raytheon Engineering Contractors

2000    Edward G. Stuckrath, Jr. ’60 - Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) 

2001    Don Lynn Anderson ’50 - Professor of Geophysics 

2002    Henry Earl Clements ’42 - Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

            Sir John Lang Taylor* ’42 - Diplomatic Service for Great Britain

2003    David A. Sandell ’57 - US Coast Guard; Dean, US Coast Guard Academy;  

             President, Mitchell College

             Richard Duckett King ’37 - US Navy;

             Prof., Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities

2004    R. Bruce Taylor ’60 - Civil Engineer, Environmental Businessman

2005    Carl O. Clark ’55 - Physicist, South Carolina State University,

              Dean, Morgan State University

             Mace Miyasaki* ’57 - Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor

2006    Col. Edwin J Wolf ‘24

2007    Robert E. Meyerhoff ‘41

2008    Francis W. Kuchta ‘41

            William J. Gerardi 

2009    M.J. “Jay” Brodie ‘53

2010    Dr. Thomas R. Foster ‘50

2011    F. Pierce Linaweaver '52
            Philip S. Green ’54

            Salvatore P. Sutera '51 

2012   Bruce A. Hart '64

           Dr. John T. Rettaliata '29  

2013   Dwight Taylor ‘62
           Brig. Gen. Raymond J. Winkel. Jr. ‘64*

2014   Robert G. Keane, Jr '59

2015:  H. Berton McCauley '31*
           Richard W. Magnani '58 

2016   Alan N. Willson, Jr. '57

​​​​​​​2017   Seth Klarman '75
​​​​​​​            Michael Klarman '76
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2018   Dr. Charles Johnson-Bey '84

2019   Michael Wayne Gill '71
​​​​​​​           Kenneth Wayne Wingate '71

​​​​​​​2020   Adrian William Palazzi '70
​​​​​​​           M. Patrick Tracy '72

2022   Ronald Lowman '62

*Indicates the Award was Presented Posthumously