Since 1995, the PSR Alumnx Council has presented its Distinguished Alumnx Awards to graduates who have provided outstanding service in their ministry or profession and show distinguished leadership in faith communities on a local, regional, or national level. Award recipients represent a wide range of professions, including parish pastors, scholars, activists, denominational leadership, non-profit leaders, journalists, and artists. A list of past recipients is below.
Announcing Distinguished Alumnx of 2023!
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Alumnx Awards. The work and ministries of these five remarkable individuals are emblematic of PSR’s mission to create a world where all can thrive!
Awards will be presented at the 2023 Alumnx Gathering and Banquet on Saturday, April 22, 2023.
Past Recipients
| 2020 | Patricia de Jong, Bonnie Bonetti Bell (posthumous), Diana Becton, Deborah Lee |
| 2017 | John Deckenback (posthumous), William Johnson, Karen Oliveto, Patricia St. Onge |
| 2015 | Megan Rohrer, Kim Klein, Terry Messman, Evan Golder |
| 2013 | Yvette Flunder, Lauren Friesen, Victoria Kolakowski, Ray Welles |
| 2011 | George Aki, Roberta Rominger, Fred Plumer, John Vaughn |
| 2010 | Carla DeSola, Eugene Nelson, Joon Kwan Un |
| 2009 | James Corson, John Corson, Richard Corson, Roberta Corson, Herbert Dimock, Lynice Pinkard |
| 2008 | Doug Adams, Diane Darling, Frederick H. Talbot, Shigeo Tanabe |
| 2007 | Dorsey Odell Blake, Paul Chaffee, Mary Ellen McCarthy, Toshimasa Yamamoto |
| 2006 | Daniel Aprá, Wallace Fukunaga, David Sammons, Wendy Taylor |
| 2005 | Jon Eckels, Cynthia Winton-Henry, James Treat |
| 2004 | James Chuck, Jim Mitulski, Dorothy Mae Williams |
| 2003 | Lynne Hinton, Robert Rue Parsonage, Kealahou Alika |
| 2002 | Stewart M. Hoover, Linda Seger, Michael Yoshii |
| 2001 | Edwina Hunter, David Kaupu, Paul Jeffrey, Lyda Pierce |
| 2000 | W. Bruce MacKenzie, Ronald E. Parker, Pat Schneider |
| 1999 | Robert Leland, Daniel F. Romero, Robert John Russell |
| 1998 | Sr. Diane Kennedy, Michael Rhodes, Rabbi Harold Schulweis |
| 1997 | Bishop Wilbur Choy, Richard Gelwick, Susan Lyon |
| 1996 | Mary Jacobs, Carol Keim, Bishop Roy Sano |
| 1995 | Teruo Kawata, Robert Lemon, Bishop Roy Nichols, Barbara Troxell |