2023 Distinguished Awards Celebration

Awards Administered by the ISU Alumni Association 

Distinguished Alumni Award 

Fouad Alghanim

(’66 Zoology), life member
Founder and Chair
Fouad Alghanim and Sons Group
Kuwait City, Kuwait

Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson

(’74 physics, MS ’76 biomedical engineering,  
PhD ’80 biomedical engineering), life member
Retired VP, Research/Technology 
Chevron Phillips Chemical
San Antonio, Texas

Ken Smith

(’76 landscape architecture)
Principal 
Ken Smith Workshop
New York City, New York

HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn

President Emeritus
World Food Prize
Des Moines, Iowa 

Joan Stark

life member
Homemaker and Volunteer
Woolstock, Iowa

Awards Administered by the ISU Foundation

Order Of The Knoll Campanile Award

C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen

Turk (’59 industrial engineering), life member
Chief Executive Officer
Industrial Hard Chrome Ltd 

Joyce (’59 zoology and physical education), life member
Corporate Secretary
Industrial Hard Chrome Ltd 

ORDER OF THE KNOLL CARDINAL & GOLD AWARD 

Barbara Janson 

(’65 mathematics), life member 
Retired President and Founder
Janson Publications
Dedham, Massachusetts 

ORDER OF THE KNOLL FACULTY AND STAFF AWARD

Lorraine J. Hoffman

(’68 M.S., ’74 bacteriolgy), life member 
Professor Emeritus and Retired Director of Operations Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, Iowa State University 
Ames, Iowa 

ORDER OF THE KNOLL CORPORATION AND FOUNDATION AWARD 

Land O’Lakes, Inc. 

Arden Hills, Minnesota