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Distinguished Citizens Award

The Distinguished Citizens Award, first presented in 1982 at the Medical University of Ohio's first convocation, recognizes outstanding citizens of Toledo, northwest Ohio and the state of Ohio who have made significant contributions to MUO, to the community or to the State of Ohio.

1982 - 1989
1982
Glidden L. Brooks, M.D., first
president, Medical University of Ohio

Marion C. Anderson, M.D., second
president, Medical University of Ohio

Paul E. Gillmor, member and president
of the Ohio Senate

Vernal G. Riffe, Jr., member
and speaker of the Ohio House
of Representatives

1983
Edwin D. Dodd, chairman and chief
executive officer, Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Gerald B. Mitchell, chairman and chief executive officer, Dana Corp.

Barney Quilter, state representative
and speaker pro tem of the
Ohio House of Representatives

Maurice A. Schnitker, M.D., Toledo
physician and member of the Mayor's
Committee to Study the Feasibility
of Establishing a Medical School in Toledo

Robert A. Stranahan Jr. chairman
of the board and president, Champion
Spark Plug Co. and Toledo civic leader
and philanthropist

1984
C. Douglass Ford, M.D., Toledo
physician and former president
of the Ohio State Medical Association

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Jones Jr., civic leaders and philanthropists

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin S. Kobacker, civic leaders and philanthropists

Sister Mary Lawrence, O.S.U., former dean and president of Mary Manse College and member of the first MUO Board of Trustees

Harry Meshel, member of the Ohio Senate and president of the Ohio Senate


1985
Edward J. Eppstein, Toledo developer
and civic leader

J. Slater Gibson, Toledo attorney and member
of the first MUO Board of Trustees
Member of Mayor's Committee to study

Rene C. McPherson, chairman
and chief executive officer, Dana Corp.

Edward J. Searles, Toledo businessman

Gregor Sido, M.D., Toledo physician
and member of the Mayor's Committee
to Study the Feasibility of Establishing
a Medical School in Toledo

1986
Stanley J. Arnonoff, member
of the Ohio Senate and president pro
temp of the Ohio Senate

Bernard R. Baker II, Toledo attorney
and member of the first MUO
Board of Trustees

Paul Block Jr., publisher of The Blade and first chairman of the MUO Board of Trustees

Walter H. Hartung Jr., M.D., Toledo physician, former president of the MUO Foundation and medical historian

1987
Ashel G. Bryan, chairman and chief
executive officer, MidAm Bank and
president, philanthropist. Former chairman
of the MUO Board of Trustees and former
member and president of MUO Foundation

William E. Hinig, member of the Ohio House of Representatives

David L. Hobson, member of the Ohio Senate

B. Leslie Huffman Jr., M.D., first chairman
of the Department of Family Medicine
at MUO.Former president of the Ohio
Academy of Family Physicians and
of the American Academy of Family Physicians

1988
Clair F. Martig, chairman and chief executive officer, France Stone Co., civic leader and philanthropist

Mr. & Mrs. Harold McMaster, civic leaders and philanthropists

Lester G. Parker, M.D., Sandusky, Ohio,
Physician

Oliver E. Todd, M.D., Toledo physician

Roy Treuhaft, Toledo civic leader and former MUO Board of Trustees
1989
Theodore M. Gray, member of the Ohio Senate

William Harris, Toledo television
personality and host of the Children's
Miracle Network Telethon

John F. McCarthy, Toledo attorney
and MUO Foundation officer

Jack Mitchell, Toledo radio personality
and host of the Children's Miracle
Network Telethon

Patrick A. Sweeney, member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Orris Tabner, Toledo television personality
and host of the Children's Miracle
Network Telethon

1990 - 1998
1990
Thomas H. Anderson, chairman
of The Andersons, civic leader,
philanthropist and former member
of the MUO Board of Trustees
and MUO Foundation officer

M. Ben Gaeth, member of the Ohio Senate

Richard C. Heymann Jr., Toledo
businessman and former member
of theMUO Board of Trustees
and MUO Foundation officer

Marcy Kaptur, Member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from Ohio

Willard I. Webb, III, chairman
and chief executive officer, Ohio Citizens
Bank, and civic leader

1991
Elsa L. Brown, Ph.D. R.N., first dean
of the College of Health Sciences at MUO

John Glenn, Member of the U.S. Senate
from Ohio and former NASA astronaut

Allen G. Jackson, M.D., Bryan, Ohio,
physician and director of the Bryan Area
Health Education Center

Betty Montgomery, member of the Ohio Senate

J. Robert Navarre, M.D.,Toledo physician
and member and president of MUO Foundation
1992
Linda J. Furney, Member of the Ohio Senate

Elaine H. Hairston, Ph.D., chancellor
of the Ohio Board of Regents

John P. Kemph, M.D., former vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College of Medicine at MUO.

Charles J. Ping, Ph.D., president
of Ohio University

Gene Wright, M.D., Lima, Ohio, physician and director of the Lima Area Health Education Center

1993
James G. Diller, M.D., Toledo physician

Richard H. Finan, member of the Ohio
House of Representatives

Roland A. Gandy, Jr., M.D., Toledo physician

Wayne M. Jones, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives

David A. Katz, Toledo attorney
1994
John D. Willey, retired associate
publisher of The Blade and former member
of the MUO Board of Trustees.
Member of Mayor's Committee to study
the feasiblility of establishing a
Medical School in Toledo

Jack Ford, member of the Ohio House of Representatives

John Gibbs, M.D., (posthumously)
Toledo physician
1995
Gerald Huber, manager of the Chrysler Corp. Toledo Jeep assembly plant

JoAnn Davidson, speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives

Robert J. King, president and chief
executive officer of Fifth-Third Bank
of Northwest Ohio
1996
Frank Clemons, former member
of the MUO Board of Trustees

Randy Gardner, member of the Ohio
House of Representatives

Donald E. Andrews, executive director
of the Cherry Street Mission, Toledo

S. Amjad Hussain, M.D., Toledo physician
1997
Elizabeth S. Ruppert, M.D., professor
emerita of pediatrics at MUO and
president of the Ohio chapter
of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Dorothy Bryan, Bowling Green, Ohio, artist and philanthropist

Richard Ransom, Toledo businessman

Carlton Finkbeiner, Toledo mayor

1998
George Isaac, Bryan, Ohio,
businessman and former member
and chairman of the MUO Board
of Trustees

D. Ross Irons, M.D., Bellevue, Ohio, physician

Mary T. Wolfe, Perrysburg, Ohio,
community and cultural leader

1999
No awards were given