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Alumni Awards

Each year, the Auburn Alumni Association recognizes members of the Auburn Family for extraordinary accomplishments, significant professional achievements and distinguished service to others.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards and Young Alumni Achievement Award are the highest honor bestowed 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

2024 Young Alumni Achievement Award Recipient

Parker Duffey ’06

2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients standing together in front of flowers and LAA sign.

(L-R): Auburn University President Christopher B. Roberts, Auburn Alumni Association Board of Directors President LuAnne L. Hart ’80, Parker Duffey ’06, John H. Watson ’60, Lester Howard Killebrew Sr. ’68, Carol Elsen Godfrey ’86, Gary R. Godfrey ’86, Gerald S. Leischuck ’64 and Chief Engagement Officer and Auburn Alumni Association Director Kurt Sasser ’11.

View 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards Photo Album

2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards

2023 Past Recipients

Recipients of the 2023 awards were honored at the Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala on
February 25, 2023.

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Robert E. Lowder ’64
Michael B. McCartney ’57 (Posthumous)
Charles D. McCrary ’73
John Thomas Walter, Jr. ’55

2023 Young Alumni Achievement Award Recipient

Rose-Gaelle Belinga ’09