Heritage Circle

Heritage Circle
The Heritage Circle recognizes donors whose cumulative lifetime and/or realized estate contributions total $25,000 or more.

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Diamond ($1,000,000 and above)

Khalaf Al Habtoor H’10
Al Habtoor Group LLC
Ocee Arnold
The Associated Colleges of Illinois
Roger Babson
Charles Bellatti ’49 H’98
Fred 1918 & Alma Blum
Jim ’66 H’12 & Kaye Bruner
Lew Cummings ’24
Mary Cummings ’24
Harmon H’09 & Millie Deal
Harry & Katherine 
Dunbaugh 1899
Del ’72 & Lisa Dunham
Forrest ’35 & Lois Batterton England ’36
Arthur ’25 & Charlotte Engelbach Hart ’26
Illinois Board of Higher Education
C.A. Johnson 1897
Dr. Donald Kolmer ’52
The Kresge Foundation
Foster & Mary McGaw
James ’32 & Anna Vannier Merrill ’32
Howard H’12 & Vera Million
Steven ’77 & Betsy Huss Mills ’77
C. Reed H’00 & Catherine Parker
A. Boyd & Ruth Badger 
Pixley 1918
Karl & Louise Schewe
Robert ’36 H’87 & Jessica Sibert
Dr. Frances McReynolds Smith ’33
Stephen M. Tillery ’72
U.S. Department of Education
J. Merle ’51 & Ruth Kilton Wade ’39

Platinum ($500,000 to $999,999)

Association of the Open Mind and Spirit, Inc.
Clara Holmes Bain
Loren & Joy French 
Becker ’67 H’15
Vincent Beggs
Ursula Bobbitt
Corrine Burch
James ’43 H’94 & Gratia Coultas
Frank Dinwiddie
Keith Eder ’48
William ’35 & Patricia Fay 
Dr. William Findley ’36 
Martha Fry ’40
William Gardner 1884
Max ’34 & Roberta Gilbert
Jim ’61 H’11 & Cathy Green
Mabel Louise Griswold ’26
Neva Reid Hurley ’30
Arthur & Norma King
Davis & Adalaide Kirby
Katherine Kirby
Vance Kirby
Marjorie Krone ’42
Dr. Elma Lanterman ’40
Albert Lindsay Jr. ’44
The Monticello College Foundation
Marshall ’39 & Martha Parks
Paul ’62 & Stephanie Pratt
Delbert Price ’42
Tom ’76 & Linda Forsaith Purves ’76
Robert Schumann ’25
Herb ’58 & Judee Sherman 
Lawrence Sibert
Deborah Klang Smith ’75 & Henry Dale Smith Jr.
Guy & Edie Sternberg
Harold ’49 & Beulah Park Tholen ’72
Katherine Thompson Tillery ’74 H’11
Virginia Wiehn ’45
Edna Witaschek
Emert Witaschek ’24

Gold ($250,000 to $499,999)

George Baxter 1896
John ’40 & Margaret 
Tomlin Bellatti
Walter ’36 & Ruth Bellatti
Emma Lou Benignus ’32
Earl ’44 & Mabel Potter Bennyhoff ’44
Warren ’49 & Marcia Billhartz
Mrs. Don Topkin Blackiston
Chet ’36 H’89 & Louise Bone
Bound to Stay Bound Books Inc.
Robert ’51 & June Reid Brand ’47
C.A.C.H.E.
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
Beulah Hoke Chapman ’31
Diana Dawdy Chesley ’58 H’08
The Clayton Fund 
Paul & Floy Cornelson
Claribel Cully ’36
The Davee Foundation
Delta Foundation
Grace Dewey
Emery & Thelma Beane Erickson ’32
Jack ’61 H’07 & Doris Gustine Fairfield ’62
The Farmers State Bank & Trust Company
Helen Fyler
Christopher Gard
Joel ’66 & Elise Leaks Harmon ’69
Ray Hartman 1913
Luther Hess 1891
Bill ’66 & Vicki Hood
Ruth James
Betty Jost ’50
Elizabeth Lambert
Eula Todd Langer
Walter & Carol Coultas Lohman ’45
Henry Luce Foundation
Harry Malm ’29
Emmett McBratney 1897
Mrs. Thomas McKenna
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Frances Melton
Robert ’36 & Helen Miller
Benjamin & Eunice Mae Montee
National Endowment for the Humanities
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Ted ’40 & Ella Jane Rogers Rammelkamp ’43
Helen Richards ’32
Homer ’63 & Carol Bycroft Rieken ’63
Jim ’69 & Mary Marshall Scheider ’72
Dr. Axel H’13 & Loreli Steuer H’13
Synod of Lincoln Trails
Cecil Tendick ’29
Bobby H’09 H’17 & Erin Thomson
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Jonathan Utley ’63 H’07
Hobart Williams
William ’39 & Jean Campbell Wilton ’38
Lyle ’33 & Aileen Woodcock 
Morrison 1915 & Florence Worthington

Silver ($100,000 to $249,000)

Susan H’09 & Douglas Allen
Ameren Illinois Act On Energy
William & Sue Hammitt Anderson ’53
Raynor & Dagmar Franson Appell ’46
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Helen Carlile Armstrong ’35
Robert Arnon
Mark Arroll ’56
Walter Balcke 1904
Helen Bartlett 
William ’50 & Shirleanne Butts Batson ’49
Gerry ’78 & Mary Ann Beard 
Toni Blankmann ’74 & Bob Weiner 
Stephen & Patricia Bone
Tom ’71 & Marcy Bramley Burrus ’71
Barrett H’11 & Susan Callaghan
Ossian Cameron ’36
Carlos Campbell 1918
Andrew Carnegie
Bob ’74 & Janet Williams Chipman ’75
A. Baird ’48 & Esther Anderson Chrisman ’49
Compass Group
Congregational Church & United Church of Christ
George Cooke ’30
Jeff & Addie Coultas
Will & Anne Coultas
Council of Independent Colleges
Edgerton Crispin 1902
Charles & Kathryn Cunningham
Parker Doan
Eldon ’31 & Edythe Curtright
Kenneth ’29 & Katherine Danskin
Doris Shuman Dillon 1920
Mildred Dinwiddie
Elisabeth Engelbach
Dr. Friedrich ’24 & Alice Hebberd Engelbach
Ernst & Young
Richard Ewert ’34
Dr. Barbara A. Farley
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fidelity Foundation
Paul ’43 H’73 & Lucille Findley
Doris Fitch
Ford Foundation
Henry Galant ’40
Beryl Totten Galaway ’28
General Electric Foundation
Wilmith Gillham 
Walter ’41 & Phillis Cowan Greenholt ’48
Mabel Gregory 1908
Carl 1916 & Dorothy Gustafson
Neal ’60 & Dianna Hart
Robert ’35 & Beatrice Hayes Hartman ’34
Gary ’74 & Debra Kurtock Haynes ’76 
Claire Heckmann ’64
Emma Hembrough
Walter Hendrickson Jr. ’58
Leo ’46 & Lorraine Heneghan 
Duane ’71 H’20 & Sharon Hess
Lyndle ’30 & Mary Louise Hess
Dr. Kenneth ’23 & Miriam Hiatt
Roger ’50 & Valencia Forwood Huson ’49
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation
Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
Illinois Valley Paving Company
Dorothy Ivemeyer ’61
ITT Blackburn Corporation
Edwin Jackson 1905
Norman Jones ’34
Robert Jones Jr. ’11
James Kellogg ’34
John ’47 & Doris Kurtock 
Ted ’41 & Joan Larson
Alta Linnenburger ’66
Carrie Mackness
Charles ’60 & Verneva McPike
Harold ’37 & Phyllis Meenen
Dr. Marjorie & Michael Meier
Bill ’56 & Marilyn Hurley Merris ’64
David ’72 & Ellen Rammelkamp Miller ’72
William & Martha Behr Miller ’48 
James Mills ’56
Richard ’51 H’03 & Rachel Mills
Dr. Donald H’93 & June Mundinger
NCAA
Isabel Cully Norfleet ’36
North Central College
Laverne Noyes
Steve H’12 & Maggie Oetgen
Pactiv Corporation
James & Amanda Patten
Wilbur ’30 & Vera 
Conrad Patterson 
Louis & Doris Prather
Drs. Susan L. Pratt ’80 & Jay R. Anders ’79
Bob ’67 & Cathy Randall
Fred Rankin 1887
Reynolds Consumer Products
Rockefeller Foundation
Ruth Mallonee Roper ’25
Steve & Nancy Ray Ross ’65
Cranston & Richard Yates Rowe Jr. ’44
Helena Rubinstein Foundation Inc.
John & Anita Rundquist H’97
Marjorie Yeck Satterthwaite
Vernon ’26 & Gladys Scholfield
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Shell Oil Company Foundation Inc.
Jim ’82 & Lisbeth Enz Spradlin ’83
Kenneth Stark ’29
State Farm Companies Foundation
Jean Coultas Statler H’09
Mary Flo Stewart
Ross Thomas ’18
United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
U.S. Bank
Frayn Utley
Benjamin Vanderhorst ’51
Jim ’65 H’15 & Joan Voyles
Dan ’69 & Lynne Oberlander Walters ’69
Jon H’08 & June Ware
Elzie Weber 1909
Gene ’63 H’13 & Lyn Wells
Addison Wilber ’28
John Williamson ’78
Roy ’50 & Aileen Burge 
Wright ’37
Iver & Natalee Yeager
George H’19 & Diane Zelcs

Bronze ($50,000 to $99,999)

Airsman Hires Funeral Home Inc.
Terry & Mary Beth Airsman
George I. Alden Trust
William Allen ’40
American Express Foundation
American Orchid Society
Lena Cassell Ammons
Viola Anderson
A. Wadsworth ’37 & Betty Applebee
John Badger
Henry Barber ’30
Ryan ’97 & Laura Barke
Dr. Charles ’29 & Margaret McCarty Barlow ’30
Merrill Barlow ’26
Charles Beck ’43
Robert ’70 & Sandra Stallings Bellatti ’70
Gary Branson
Dan ’72 & Vickie Ware 
Brooks ’72
Edward Brown ’27
L. Vernon Caine H’75
Edward Capps 1887
Caterpillar Foundation
Bill ’58 & Julie Cellini
Elaine Chapman & Dennis Backstrom
Chartwells
Mary Chesley
Claridge Products - 
Paul Edward Clavey ’51
William ’40 & Catherine Clark
Leila Corey
George W. Curry Jr. ’71
Conrad ’57 & Pat Carlson Damsgaard ’53 H’04
Elmer ’27 & Abbie Young Danner ’29
Joan H’14 & Jeff DeBoer
Paul F. Doolin ’50
John ’71 & Cindy Hazlet Dooling ’73
George ’59 & Pam Dow 
Earnway Edwards 1910
Donald R. Eldred H’04
Elliott State Bank
F. Osborne & Jeannette Elliott
Gladys Elliott
Louise Epling
George Evans ’38
Exxon Education Foundation
Mike ’92 & Beth Doty Fletcher ’92
Constance Chandler Frackelton
Dorothy Frank
Mark ’73 & Jane Frech
Marian Deatherage French ’31
Frances Frisch ’31
Ivan ’48 & Gladys Garrison
Dorothy Neff Glaum ’44
Jane Greenholt Gonseth ’43
Lillian Havenhill Green 1912
Mary Ellen Greene
Bill ’63 & Sandy Selcke Gussner ’65
Wayne ’53 & Patricia Hannah 
Robert & Audrey Heintz
Ken ’74 & Sara Hieke 
Robert A.P. Holderby
Harry ’24 & Ruth Howard
Morton Dennis Hull
International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
Jacksonville Savings Bank
Hiram Jones 1844
James S. Kemper Foundation
Blanche Kilpatrick
Norma King
Fredrick ’31 & Alice Jephson Kirkman ’31
John Knoeppel 1911
Beverly Koeppel
Ernest Land ’50
Levi, Ray & Shoup Inc.
Roscoe Linder 1913
Bob ’65 & Ann Lindquist
Rebecca Rantz Long ’41
Clarence Lorentz ’39
Suzanne Randolph Lucas
MBNA America
Sally Osborne Mackie ’50
Patrick H’09 & Rosanne Mathis
Greg ’88 & Liz Airsman May ’91
Ralph & Johnnie McNaughton
James Meeks 1889
Merz Pharmaceuticals
Margaret Wright Minter
Bob Moore ’78 & Sherry Kwater
J. Cordell ’36 & Wilma Moore 
Dr. Mina Dill Morris ’26
Conrad Noll III ’65 & Judy Noll
Mae Noll
Northminster Presbyterian Church
J. Leo O’Brien
D.K. Pearson
Harriet Pearson
Pepsi Inc.
Phi Alpha Literary Society
Mike Pinson ’63
John Porter ’68 H’13 & Iris Lugo
Linda Newman Price ’70 
Charles ’50 & Mary Lee Coultas Ransdell ’50
Albert Rice 1874
Kristine Rikli
Dolores Rix ’48
Ernest Roodhouse ’24
SBC Foundation
Henry Scarborough 
Henry ’73 & Martha Bryan Schmitt ’73
Rexel Scholfield ’36
Louise Schrader ’25
Berthe & Louise Schroeder
William Schwaner ’33
Harvey ’42 & Audrey Grone Scott ’41
Sigma Pi Literary Society
Alma Churchill Smith
Carol Smith
J. Fairbank Smith
State of Illinois 
The Teagle Foundation Inc.
Dick ’49 & Joan Teckenbrock
Paul Thursby ’52
Margaret Tingle
Dorothy Ware
Dorothy Asa White ’39
Louise Boring Wood ’34
William Ransom ’27 & Dorothy Jane Wood
Benjamin ’29 & Ione Wright
Edward & Helen Young

Society of 1829 ($25,000 to $49,999)

Abbott Laboratories
Allstate Foundation
American Telephone & Telegraph
Joyce James Andrilenas ’38
Ruth Anspaugh
Frank Arena ’40
Julie Bachler
David & Suzanne Baetz
Richard ’56 & Sylvia Bagby
Greg ’74 & Tonya Johnson Baise ’76
Beard Implement Company
Paul Benignus ’33
Elizabeth Hudson Boba ’41
David Blackorby & Elizabeth Piontek
Bob ’78 & Carolyn Bonjean
Corwin & Caroline Hammond Booth ’48
Steve Bordner ’77
John ’55 & Sharon Bostic
Keith ’73 & Nancy Utter Bradbury ’75
Margaret Braverman
Len Brink ’66
Buena Vista University
James ’31 & Lillian Deatherage Bunch ’33
Nick & Beth Capo
Eddie ’70 & Sandra Carpenter
Mildred Chamberlain
ChevronTexaco
Barbara Ornsbee Clark ’42
Ronald Clements ’61
Bill & Ruth Cross
Frank & Judy Cummings
Jim & Joanna Davis
Donald Deatherage ’61
Deluxe Check Printers Foundation
Department of Justice
Peter Dieterich ’60
Elma Shipe Dixson ’31
Brown Dobyns ’35
Russell Donovan ’43
Doyle Plumbing & Heating Company
Russell ’28 & Margaret Dunlap
Jim ’62 & Ann Elliott
Roger Engels ’62
Rebecca Barr Evers ’66
Anne Bellamy Fay ’60
Ralph Floreth
David & Caryn Jung Frank
Dick & Heidy Fry
Maurice Funk
Clarence Gamble ’29
W. Leslie Garnett
Harold ’30 & Ameda Gibson
Joy Goin
W. W. Grainger Inc.
Helen Grandcolas ’37
Bruce Haines ’51
Don ’66 & Pearl Newberry 
Hawrysz ’64
John Hinde
John & Helen Patterson 
Hinde ’45
The Hope Fund
Esta Lou Hubbert
Steve ’74 & Jean Hunt
ILMO Products Company 
Illinois Road Contractors Inc.
International Business Machines
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
Wallace & Ruth Jamison
Elizabeth Johnson
Kent Jones ’69
Meribeth Fyler Jones
Jack Kasper
John H’09 & Betty Kay
Ken Bradbury Foundation
Gladys Kittel 1916
Robert Knight ’47
Christine Knox
Helen Robinson Kohr ’47
David Koss
Henry Kransz ’61
Chuck ’65 & Reva Krell
Greg ’80 & Kendra Langdon
James ’37 & Louise Thomas Lewark ’38
Gerald A. Lucas ’69 Family
Carla Malottke
Zoe Marshall ’32
Richard ’64 & Judith Schauerte Martin ’64
Clifford Maxwell 1908
Jack McCarty ’65
Alta McCullough ’33
Merck Company Foundation
Venice Meyer ’80 H’16 & Lyle Zetterlund
Vivian Villiger Meyer ’34
Joseph ’59 & Doris Millard 
Mobil Chemical Company
Laura Reed Mohan ’37
George ’34 & Lee Ella Moore
Jack Moore
Roderick & Francine Fitt 
Mundy ’74
Fred Muntman
National Starch & Chemical Company
Ruby Rose Nattress ’33
Nestle Beverage Company
John ’42 & Doris Mengden Newbery ’44
Louis Niebur ’41
Frank ’46 & ’95 & Frances Norbury
Emy Osburn
Byron ’52 & Dolores Parry 
Passavant Area Hospital Foundation
Dr. Richard & Nancy Pfau
Betty Fisherkeller Pine ’53
William & Martha Pollom
John Power ’73 H’17 & Judith Fay
Tom ’80 & Ann Bishop 
Prather ’80
Richard ’49 & Joyce Pratt
Frederick Henry Prince Foundation
Leslie Proksa
Purina Mills Inc.
Mary Ellen Quintal
Joe Racey
Jeanne Rantz Rammelkamp ’40
Julian ’39 & Mabel Tippitt Rammelkamp ’41
Rose Ranson 1918
C. Ernest Read ’31
George Reardon
George Reilly ’56
Cesta Mary Riefler
Damon Runyon ’66
Marian Rees Russell ’48
Jack & Carole Ann McNamara Ryan ’59
Bob Schillerstrom ’74
Melvin & Suzanne Schoneweis
Robert & La Nita Schuster
Dianne Wiley Seim ’66
Marcia Short ’86
Eleanor Capps Siefkin
Brian & Marilyn Zupsich Smith
Elizabeth Query Smith
Malcolm Smith ’32
The Nic Soer Memorial 
Golf Tournament
Minnie Spires ’32
James & Rachelan Bienert Stronach ’76
Myra Bobbitt Stubblefield ’27
William ’41 & Jacqueline 
Clark Sullivan
Ryan Tanner ’02 & Jay Krottinger
Steve ’70 & Sara Hedrick Tavender ’70
Dr. Robert ’36 & Natalie Thrall
Times Mirror
United Church of Christ
U.S. Department of Interior/National Park Service
Leona Stanford Vollintine Trust
James & April Wade
Ronald ’58 & Margaret Wallace
Richard Wallarab
Lee ’44 & Judith Westrate
Marain Bernice Wheeler 1919
Linda Cox White ’73
O. Bliss Williams
Art ’51 & Marilyn Shaffner Williamson ’52
Buel & Pearl Wilson
Velma Wray 1922