Alumni Awards
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
(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
Michael B. McCartney ’57
J. Thomas Walter ’55
Bobby Lowder ’64
Charles D. McCrary ’73
2022 Past AWARD Recipients
Ms. Anita Gentle Newcomb ‘76
Independent director
Luther Burbank Corporation
Mr. William “Bill” R. McNair ‘68
Vice President of Network Operations (retired), Bellsouth
Partner, MCN Investments, LLC
Major James “Jim” M. Hoskins ‘81
Chairman and CEO (retired)
Scitor Corporation
Diplomat James R. Bullington ‘62
Retired Diplomat, Former Ambassador to Burundi
2021 Past award Recipients
Allen Reed ’70
RETIRED CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO GM ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Aviation Management
Brooks Moore ’48
RETIRED PRESIDENT CONTROL DYNAMICS
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering
Raymond Elliott Loyd ’61
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS DERBY FABRICATING
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Mechanical Engineering
Cecil Stanford Harrell ’58
RETIRED FOUNDER PHARMACY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.
Auburn University Bachelor of Science
Pharmaceutical Science
2020 Recipients
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 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.
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 Spencer ’94
Octavia Spencer ’94 had her breakthrough when she starred as Minny Jackson in the period film “The Help”.