Recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award
Kappa Alpha | 4/11/2003

• Gen. George C. Marshall (Beta '01) Chief of Staff U.S. Army, Secretary of State, Author of Marshall Plan, Secretary of Defense, Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize - 1948
• H. Carl Vinson (Kappa '01) U.S. Congressman - 1951
• J. Edgar Hoover (Alpha Nu '14) Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation - 1966
• Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. (Beta Comm. '17) Commandant U.S. Marine Corp. - 1970
• Robert W. Woodruff (Epsilon '09) Chairman of the Board of the Coca-Cola Co. - 1974
• Dr. Ovid Williams Pierce (Alpha Phi '29) Noted novelist of Southern life - 1976
• The Honorable Dean Rusk (Sigma '28) Secretary of State - 1977
• The Honorable Carl B. Albert (Beta Eta '28) U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House - 1981
• The Honorable J. Caleb Boggs (Beta Epsilon '28) U.S. Senator, Governor of Delaware - 1983
• John D. deButts (Beta Comm '36) President and Chairman of AT&T - 1985
• Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (Beta '06) Antarctic Explorer - 1987 (awarded posthumously)
• Clark M. Clifford (Beta Theta '24) Secretary of Defense, Diplomat - 1987
• Dr. Frank A. Rose (Alpha Theta '40) President of Transylvania University, President of University of Alabama - 1989
• Vice Adm. Richard H. Truly (Alpha Sigma '56) Director of National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1991
• John P. Fishwick (Beta Rho '34) CEO of Norfolk and Western Railway - 1992
• Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (Beta '04) U.S. Army General - 1995 (awarded posthumously)
• The Honorable G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery (Beta Tau '40) U.S. Congressman - 1997
• Dr. James Irvin Robertson, Jr. (Zeta '49) Noted Author and Historian - 1998
• Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. (Kappa '38 - Mercer) - Acclaimed Author - 2001