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...

Nomination Procedure

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.

NWSA Top Aggie Nomination Form

Past Recipients...

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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