NWSA Top Aggie Award
The Top Aggie Award is the highest honor bestowed on NWSA alumni by its alumni association. This award recognizes alumni who have displayed exemplary commitment and service to community, church, education, family, or in their occupational field.
How to nominate...
The nomination deadline for the 2023 NWSA Top Aggie Award is March 10, 2023.
To nominate someone for the NWSA Top Aggie Award, click on the button below and complete the nomination form.
Past Recipients...
Award Recipients
2024
Sid Stivland 1964
Brian Bohnsack 1966
2023
Donna (Miller) Swan 1955
Larry Rivard 1968
2022
Eloise (Wold) Sobtzak 1957
Keith Miller 1958
Gary Pedersen 1964
2021
Vern Cleveland 1964
Ed Grove 1955
Gordon Syverson 1954
2020
No event due to COVID-19 Pandemic
2019
Leon Flancher, faculty 1958-1963
Robert Glass '55
Bill Weber '67
2018
LeRoy Opdahl '64
Robert Fehr '67
Bill Zurn '68
2017
Marilyn (Hovet) Dehning '56
Donald Diedrich '56
Daniel Wilkens '61
2016
Clayton Engelstad '48 Adv
Barbara (Hylland) Lunsetter '56
Stanley Overgaard '65
2015
LeRoy Sondrol '55
William "Buzz" Baldwin '65
Larry Wilkens '65
2014
Marlys (Sargent) Engelstad '49
Richard Widseth '49
2013
Lowell Hamrick '53
Beulah (Stolaas) Vad '58
Willie Huot '68
2012
Helen (Rasmussen) Tangen '41
Mark Chisholm '52
Richard Olson '62
2011
Allen '51 and Lorraine (Zippoy) Love '54
David Eblen '56,
Dell Christainson '56
Adrian Van Dellen '61
2010
Clifford Steinhauer '48
Terry and Bette (Hovet) Nelson '60
Terry Stadstad '60
2009
Walter Lunsetter '32
Willard Brunelle '49
2008
Charles Vind '48
Wallace Sparby ex. '53
Ray Anderson '58
Karen Good '68
2007
Ray Dusek '57
Patrick McKeever '62
Lloyd A. Petri '67
2006
Daniel Letnes '30
Betty McVeety Nisbet '36
Mary Randall Norgart '50
David Tucker '61
2005
Dennis Driscoll '50
Lyle Kasprick '50
Merlin Skretvedt '54
Keith Chisholm '55
Glen '55 and Marlys (Love) Finkenbinder '55
Arnie Skeie '55
2004
Stan Alseth '35
Evelyn Holy Bancroft '54
Margaret Lerud Garr '34
Bill Gatheridge '64
Richard Holmgren '33
Wayne Odegaard '64
2003
Johanna Nabben Green '23
Rodney Lindstrom '33
Myrtle Hanson Marti '38
Les Nielsen '55
2002
Charles "Casey" Brantner '50
David Haugo '52
Ralph and Carol Green Tucker '52
Donald Strickler '62
2001
Evangeline Anderson Myhre '46
Raymond Johnson '46
Roger Kasprick '51
JoAnne Straus Carlson '61
2000
Andy Skaar '40
LeRoy Johnson '49
Dr. Andrew Nielsen '49
Roger Odegaard '60
1999
Evelyn Bierbaum Peterson '29
Hazel Stephenson Halvorson '29
Forrest Mykleby '44
John Drees '64
1998
Ronald Filipy '58
Maynard Helgaas '53
Eva Mykleby Pearson '38
Robert Heckman, faculty '60-'68
1997
Keith D. Bjerke '57
Morris R. Dahl '37
Elaine Johnston Maruska '37
Ernest W. Swift '62
1996
Sanna Hanson Brovold '29
Joan Phillips Flaat '41
Clarence H. Sargent '41
Paul M. Proulx '46
Marilyn Balstad Melby '55
1995
Donald M. Nelson '40
Gerhard A. Ross '45
Eunice Peterson Waterworth '50
1994
Dorothy Hanson Bender '39
Glen V. Holmquist '44
Robert W. Larson '29
Allan C. Magnusson '49
Grant E. Peterson '44
1993
Leonard Hapka '43
Charles R. Samuelson '43
John R. Thompson '38
1992
Lucille Hedlund Kildal '37
Wallace W. Miller '24
Leonard Yutrzenka '42
1991
Herbert W. Schroeder '31
Dennis D. Warnes '51
Wayne L. Pedersen '66
Peter E. Fehr '49
1990
Marvin E. Jensen '45
Milton O. Warner '20
1989
Dorothy Larson Billberg '39
Art Brandli '59
Orvis P. Engelstad '44
William I. Gatheridge '39
1988
Ernest Newhouse '28
Delsie Filipi Lofton '38
Walter '38 and Charlene Walters '43 Stromstad
1987
Marshall Evans '37
Harris Peterson '42
1986
Alton Knutson '41
Kenneth '61 and Judy Rivard '64 Schuster
1985
Burnett Bergeson '35
Pauline Finkenbinder Purath '45
Stanley Sahlstrom (Honorary)
1984
Claudia Hanson Deery '64
William Menzhuber, staff
Ken '44 and Rose Marie Kochmann '47 Price
Rodney '49 and Jean Anderson '50 Webster
1983
Lillie Christianson, staff
Albert Kopecky '23
Richard Swenson '53
1982
Allan Dragseth '57
Charles and Bonnie Vesledahl Holmquist '52
1981
Selvin Erickson '31
Eugene C. Miller, staff
1980
Harlene Hagen '55
B. E. Youngquist, staff
1979
Ted Peet '29
Bruce Beresford, staff
1978
Rodney Mosher '51
Ruth Ann Kruta, staff
1977
Ralph Hamrick '27
Charles Whiting, staff
1976
Ole Flaat '16
Tillie Gebhardt, staff
1975
Myrtle Brown
Walter Fehr '57
1974
Berneil Nelson '43
Olaf C. Soine, staff
1973
Noel Hanson '35
Iver J. Johnson '23
Oscar Knutson '19
1972
Andy Anderson and William Barron, staff
Edwin Widseth '32
1971
Harry Soderburg, staff
William Strickler '30
1970
Herschel Lysaker, staff