Washington University Founders’ Day Distinguished Alumni Awards, 1955-1989
| 1955 | Benno E. Lischer | |
| 1955 | Louis H. Renfrow | |
| 1955 | Edgar H. Keys | |
| 1955 | Otto W. Brandhorst | |
| 1956 | J. Floyd Alcorn | |
| 1958 | Leo M. Shanley | |
| 1959 | William R. Alstadt | |
| 1960 | John Harry Dawe | |
| 1961 | Max Kornfeld | |
| 1962 | Edward G. Hampp | |
| 1965 | George W. Burnett | |
| 1967 | Cornelia M. Thompson | |
| 1968 | Doyle J. Smith | |
| 1969 | Russell C. Wheeler | |
| 1971 | Roger Hombs | |
| 1974 | Robert J. Gorlin | |
| 1975 | John G. Durham | |
| 1984 | Earl E. Shepard | |
| 1987 | John E. Gilster | |
| 1989 | William S. Brandhorst |