Mount Alumni Awards

Each year since 1990, MTSO has honored exceptional graduates with the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service.

John MountThese awards are made possible by the generosity of the late MTSO Trustee Emeritus John Mount (right) and his wife Ruth. A complete chronological list of Mount Award honorees is below.

Rev. Dr. James W. Moore, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 1990
Rev. Dr. Doris Moreland Jones, MDiv ’69, Specialized Ministry 1990
Rev. Dr. Donald Webb, MDiv ’63, Specialized Ministry 1990
Rev. Grayson L. Atha, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 1991
Rev. Dr. Julia M. Corbett, MDiv ’74, Specialized Ministry 1991
Rev. Ralph Rudy, Jr., MDiv ’64, Service to MTSO 1991
Rev. Joseph V. Crockett, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 1992
Rev. Dr. Tuck Kwan Koo, MDiv ’65, Specialized Ministry 1992
Rev. Carol A. Seckel, MDiv & MACE ’78, Parish Ministry 1992
Rev. Dr. Paul H. Smith, MDiv ’63 & DMin ’74, Service to MTSO 1992
Rev. Dr. Leonard C. Bennett, MDiv ’76 & DMin ’79, Parish Ministry 1993
Bishop Hae-Jong Kim, MDiv ’64, Specialized Ministry 1993
Rev. Jane Power Mykrantz, MDiv ’80, Service to MTSO 1993
Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Sagendorf, MDiv ’65, Service to MTSO 1993
Rev. Mark J. Coale, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 1994
Rev. Dr. Frank G. King, MDiv & MRE ’73, Specialized Ministry 1994
Rev. Howard D. Preston, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 1994
Rev. C. Joseph Sprague, MDiv ’65, Parish Ministry 1995
Rev. Susan Bowman, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 1995
Rev. Raymond M. Vincent, Jr., MDiv ’75, Service to MTSO 1995
Rev. Jonathan B. Almond, MDiv ’70, Parish Ministry 1996
Rev. Edna Darling-Lewis, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 1996
Rev. Hermann O. Knodt, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 1996
Rev. Terry L. MacArthur, MDiv ’76, Specialized Ministry 1997
Rev. Dr. Leonard Budd, DMin ’79, Service to MTSO 1997
Rev. Meredith Coleman, MDiv ’87, Parish Ministry 1997
Rev. Loran Miracle II, MDiv ’94, Service to MTSO 1998
Rev. Kent Beittel, MACE ’77 & MDiv ’78, Specialized Ministry 1998
Rev. Fred Shaw, MDiv ’75, Parish Ministry 1998
Rev. John F. Ross, MDiv ’95, Parish Ministry 1999
Rev. Dr. Robert S. Henderson, MDiv ’69, Specialized Ministry 1999
Rev. Dr. Edward Trimmer, MDiv & MACE ’77, Service to MTSO 1999
Dr. Bruce Moon, MDiv & MACE ’76, Specialized Ministry 2000
Rev. Gwyn Stetler, MAADAM ’90, Specialized Ministry 2000
Rev. Valerie Stultz, MDiv & MALA ’86, Service to MTSO 2000
Rev. Barbara Ripple, MDiv ’85, Parish Ministry 2000
Rev. Louise Williams, MDiv ’83, Service to MTSO 2001
Pfarrer Rainer Viebahn, MDiv ’73, Parish Ministry 2001
Rev. Denise E.R. Baker, MDiv ’79, Specialized Ministry 2001
Dr. Joseph E. Bishman, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 2002
Rev. Scott A. Gobbel, MAADAM ’90 & MDiv ’91, Specialized Ministry 2002
Rev. Diane Turner Sharazz, MDiv ’88, Service to MTSO 2002
Rev. Thomas L. Douce, MDiv ’68, Specialized Ministry 2003
Rev. Benita Rollins, MDiv ’82, Parish Ministry 2003
Rev. Dr. David E. Wilcox, MDiv ’73, Service to MTSO 2003
Rev. Larry C. Clark, MDiv & MACE ’81, Specialized Ministry 2004
Rev. Roger L. Grace, MDiv ‘84, Specialized Ministry 2004
Rev. Donald G. Dixon, MDiv ’63, Parish Ministry 2004
Rev. Mary Ann Moman, MDiv ’78, Service to MTSO 2004
Rev. John B. Ellington, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 2005
Rev. Susan Kyser, MDiv ’76, Specialized Ministry 2005
Rev. Dr. Richard H. Parks, MDiv ’81 & DMin ’87, Parish Ministry 2005
Rev. Nancy S. Hull, MDiv ’88, Specialized Ministry 2006
Rev. Wanda Wilson, MDiv ’80, Specialized Ministry 2006
Rev. James W. Stiles, MDiv ’69, Parish Ministry 2006
Rev. O. Tarrell Thompson, MDiv ’70, Service to MTSO 2006
Rev. Peggy Welch, MDiv ’96, Parish Ministry and Service to MTSO 2007
Rev. Ashwin Welch, MDiv and MAADAM ’92, Parish Ministry and Service to MTSO 2007
Rev. Walter Hays Jr., MDiv ’63, Specialized Ministry 2008
Rev. Dr. Benton R. Heisler, MDiv ’86, Parish Ministry 2008
Rev. Dr. L. Raymond Sells, MDiv ’63, Service to MTSO 2008
Rev. Richard A. Noll, MDiv ’81, Parish Ministry 2009
Rev. Cyndy L. Garn, MDiv ’81, Specialized Ministry 2009
Dr. William L. McFadden, DMin ’79, Service to MTSO 2009
Adreana Tartt, MAADAM ’93, Specialized Ministry 2010
Rev. Karen L. Wolcott, MDiv ’93, Specialized Ministry 2010
Dr. Steven A. Harsh, MDiv ’71, Service to MTSO 2010
Rev. Sondra Willobee, MDiv ’82, Parish Ministry 2010
Rev. Fred A. Diehl, MDiv ’72, Parish Ministry 2011
Rev. Neil J. Bright, MRE ’73, MDiv and MA in Church Music ’76, Specialized Ministry 2011
Rev. Dr. Walter R. Dickhaut Jr., MDiv ’64, DMin ’74, Service to MTSO 2011
Rev. Dr. Emanuel Cleaver III, MDiv ’99, Parish Ministry 2013
Rev. Dr. Gwen Purushotham, MDiv ’75, Specialized Ministry 2013
Rev. Karen Oehl, MDiv ’96, Parish Ministry 2013
Rev. Ronald Payne, MDiv ’66, Parish Ministry 2013
Rev. April Blaine, MDiv ’09, Parish Ministry 2014
Rev. Roy Mitchell, MDiv ’05, MTS ’05, Specialized Ministry 2014
Rev. Virginia Lohmann Bauman, MDiv ’06, Parish Ministry 2015
Rev. Karen M. Cook, MDiv ’03, Parish Ministry 2015
Rev. Jeffrey J. Hodge, MACE ’08, Specialized Ministry 2015
Rev. Alan J. Morrison, MDiv ’90, MDiv ’90, MALA 90, Service to MTSO 2015
Brice H. Balmer, MDiv ’73, 2016;
Charles R. Harrison, MDiv ’86, 2016
Nathan P. Adams, MDiv ’09, 2017
Barbara Sholis, MDiv ’95, 2017
Andrea Boxill, MACM ’00, 2018
Nancy Day-Achauer, MDiv ’08, 2018
Bradford Price, MDiv ’76 & MAADAM ’86, 2018
Eugene Folden, MDiv ’84, 2019
TaNikka Sheppard, MDiv ’10, 2019
Ellen Sims, MDiv ’06, 2019
Paulette Buford-James, MDiv ’13, 2022
David MacDonald, MDiv ’02, 2022
Grace Imathiu, MDiv ’87, 2022