Greater Gustavus Award

The Greater Gustavus Award is the highest award given by the Gustavus Alumni Association. It is awarded to those "who by deed, have notably advanced and aided Gustavus Adolphus College."

Greater Gustavus Award Recipients
Class Year
Name
Year Awarded
  The Gustavus Faculty 2021
1974 Robert "Stick" and Cindy Peterson 2019
  Friends of the Linneaus Arboretum 2018
  Herbert & Corinne Chilstrom 2018
  Ken Westphal 2016
  Warren Wunderlich 2016
1963 Paul F. Tillquist 2015
  Jack and Kris Ohle 2014
1951 Ray Lundquist 2014
1961 Bruce and Sue Gray 2013
1977 Jon and Anita Thomsen Young 2012
1942 Walter Youngquist 2011
1966 Mark Anderson 2010
1965 Susan Pepin Peterson 2008
1964 Jim Peterson 2008
1974 Russ and Jan Ledin Michaletz 2007
  Gustavus Library Associates 2006
 1955 George Torrey 2005
1938 Richard Hillstrom 2004
  Steve & Barb Wilkinson 2004
  Philip Lindau 2003
1941 Marian Swanson Johnson 2002
  Chester Johnson 2002
  Richard Q. Elvee 2001
1960 Dennis Johnson 2000
1959 Lois Madsen Allen 2000
1956 Clyde Allen 2000
1967 Warren Beck 1999
  The Gustavus Volunteer 1999
  Axel Steuer 1999
1949 Milt Brostrom 1998
  Elaine Brostrom 1998
  Drell & Adeline Bernhardson 1997
  Lee Jaeger 1996
  Patricia Hayes Lund 1995
  Melva Lind 1994
  Gretchen Taylor 1992
1949 John S. Kendall 1991
  F.W. Olin Foundation, Inc. 1990
  Thomas Gover 1987
1952 Paul Granlund 1986
1950 Edna Spaeth Granlund 1986
1950 Gerhard Alexis 1983
1958 Owen Sammelson 1982
1937 Raymond & Florence Sponberg 1981
1920 Oscar B. Augustson 1980
  Herbert & Bernice Gustavson 1980
  Edward A. Lindell & Patricia E. Lindell 1979
1958 Robert A. Peterson 1978
1931 Ethel Jorgensen Johnson 1977
  Edgar Johnson 1977
  Arthur H. Anderson 1977
1931 A.W. Arthur 1976
  Frank & Marge Barth 1975
  Mrs. Harold L. Schaefer 1974
1953 David R. Lindenberg 1973
  Russell Lund 1972
  Lloyd Engelsma 1972
1956 Cecil Eckhoff 1971
1929 Maurice Moe 1971
1920 Ruth Nelson Johnson 1970
1960 Robert Swiggum 1969
1933 Evelyn Sponberg Young 1968
1931 Ebba Edquist Carlson 1968
  Vernon Erickson 1967
1917 Philip Eckman 1965
1936 Sylvia Benzon Anderson 1964
1934 Ren Anderson 1964
  Leonard Kendall 1964
  Evan E. Anderson 1962
1926 Alice Jackson Jaenson 1961
  George E. Carlstrom, Sr. 1961
1935 Lloyd O. Swanson 1960
1930 Edgar M. Carlson 1959
1921 Hobart Johnson 1957
1903 C.E. Sjostrand 1957
1933 Conrad Peterson 1955
  E.C. Carlton 1955
1926 Roy Hendrickson 1954
1916 Walter Youngquist 1953
  Emil Swenson 1948
1902 H.P. Linner 1946
1894 D.L. Tilderquist 1946
1893 Henry N. Benson 1946
1910 Bertha Almen Vickner 1945
  Edwin J. Vickner 1945
  Rev. Dr. Herbert and Corinne Chilstrom 2018
  Friends of Linneaus Arboretum 2018