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2024 Lifetime Achievement Award

We are pleased to announce the four recipients of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards (LAA).

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes alumni for outstanding achievements in their professional lives, personal integrity and stature and service to the university. Established in 2001, LAA recipients are selected by a committee of Auburn administrators, trustees, faculty and alumni and is the highest award given by the association.

2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Lester Killebrew ’68
Emily ’64 and Gerald ’64 Leischuck
John Watson ’60
Carol ’86 and Gary ’86 Godfrey

The awards ceremony will take place June 8. Check back in Spring of 2024 for more details on the recipients and the ceremony.

2023 Award Recipients

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award winners

(L-R): John Morris, senior vice president for Advancement and president, Auburn University Foundation; Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Charles McCrary ’73; John Walter, Dale Walter and Jeff Walter, sons of Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Tom Walter ’55; Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Bobby Lowder ’64; Young Alumni Achievement recipient Rose-Gaëlle Belinga ’09; Tim McCartney ’80, son of Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Mike McCartney ’57 (awarded posthumously); and LuAnne Hart ’80, president, Auburn Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Click below for photos from the past Lifetime Achievement Awards

2023 award Recipients

Bill Barrick-circle headshot for LAA

Michael B. McCartney ’57

Jere Beasley -circle headshot for LAA

J. Thomas Walter ’55

JoeForehand-circle headshot for LAA

Bobby Lowder ’64

Octavia-circle headshot for LAA

Charles D. McCrary ’73

2022 Past AWARD Recipients

Anita Newcomb standing with ski poles in front of snowy mountain

Ms. Anita Gentle Newcomb ‘76
Independent director
Luther Burbank Corporation

Bill McNair sitting on bench in park

Mr. William “Bill” R. McNair ‘68
Vice President of Network Operations (retired), Bellsouth
Partner, MCN Investments, LLC

Major James Hoskins walking in park

Major James “Jim” M. Hoskins ‘81
Chairman and CEO (retired)
Scitor Corporation

Jim Bullington sitting in his office in wheelchair

Diplomat James R. Bullington ‘62
Retired Diplomat, Former Ambassador to Burundi

2021 Past award Recipients

Bill Barrick-circle headshot for LAA

Allen Reed ’70
RETIRED CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO GM ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Aviation Management

Jere Beasley -circle headshot for LAA

Brooks Moore ’48
RETIRED PRESIDENT CONTROL DYNAMICS
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering

JoeForehand-circle headshot for LAA

Raymond Elliott Loyd ’61
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS DERBY FABRICATING
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Mechanical Engineering

Octavia-circle headshot for LAA

Cecil Stanford Harrell ’58
RETIRED FOUNDER PHARMACY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Pharmaceutical Science

2020 Recipients

Bill Barrick-circle headshot for LAA

William E. Barrick ’68
William E. Barrick ’68 was a first lieutenant in the Army, earning a Bronze Star for Meritorious Service in Vietnam.

Jere Beasley -circle headshot for LAA

Jere Locke Beasley, Sr. ’59
Jere Locke Beasley, Sr. ’59 is the founding member of Beasley Allen Law Firm and has practiced law as an advocate for victims of wrongdoing since 1962.

JoeForehand-circle headshot for LAA

Joe W. Forehand, Jr. ’71
Joe W. Forehand, Jr. ’71 served as chairman and CEO of Accenture, where he led the company through a split and a major global rebranding campaign.

Octavia-circle headshot for LAA

Octavia Spencer ’94
Octavia Spencer ’94 had her breakthrough when she starred as Minny Jackson in the period film “The Help”.