Throughout the weekend, alumni reunited with friends, shared laughs and enjoyed a host of activities, including the Alumni Association’s All-Alumni Champagne Brunch, June 17.Wittenberg Magazine P.O. Box 720 Springfield, Ohio 45501-0720
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Alumni World
Alumni honored during Alumni Weekend 2000 activities More than 300 alumni returned to campus, June 16-18, for Alumni Weekend 2000.
During the brunch, the association honored six distinguished alumni. Receiving the Alumni Citation Award were: Alfred Gilbert Belles ’62, of Macomb, Ill.; Ronald Lee Lancaster ’60, of Hamilton, Ontario; Kathryn Sanders Rieder ’34, of Wooster, Ohio; Bertrand Ayres Trompeter ’50, of Louisville, Ky.; and the Rev. Lemon Leander Uhl, Class of 1875 (posthumously). During an almost 30-year career as a professor at Western Illinois University, Belles received numerous awards. He has also been a tireless volunteer for Wittenberg throughout the years, including organizing the largest grass roots scholarship campaign in the college’s history, to create a scholarship in honor of fraternity brother Robert Horn ’64, who is battling Lou Gehrig’s disease. Lancaster was honored with the Alumni Citation Award for the second time. The first award, in 1980, came the same year he was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame on the heels of his 19-year career as a star quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He has since built a spectacular career as the head coach of the Hamilton Tiger Cats. A Springfield native, Rieder studied music while at Wittenberg. She went on to enjoy a long career as a music educator in Marysville and Orrville, Ohio. A writer and composer, Rieder produced hundreds of articles on music and on religious and inspirational topics, including several songs and operettas for grade-school children. A long-time member of Wittenberg’s Benjamin Prince Society, she has also established a scholarship fund to benefit students studying music education or church music. After studying business at Wittenberg, Trompeter went on to become chairman of the John F. Trompeter Company, a wholesaler of tobacco products, candy and confectioneries. As a Wittenberg volunteer, Trompeter has taken a number of leadership roles in the Alumni Association, in fund raising and in student recruitment. He was also nominated to the Hall of Fame of the American Wholesale Marketing Association in Washington D.C. The last time Wittenberg honored the Rev. Uhl was more than a century ago — 1895 when he received an honorary doctorate. As a missionary, educator and evangelist, Uhl served as president of the Lutheran Church in India. He was founder of the Lutheran higher education mission in India, including personally founding a high school and a college. In gratitude, he was awarded the Coronation Memorial Medal by the Indian Government in 1911. But in spite of 50 years of living and working in India, Uhl still regarded Springfield as his home. He is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery. Also honored at Alumni Weekend was Martha Michelfelder Scott, of Wilton, N.H., who received the Class of 1914 Award. Scott is the retired top fund-raising executive for Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire. She graduated from Wittenberg in 1950 after transferring to Springfield for her last two years. In that time, Scott was involved in student government and other organizations, and she was selected as the 1949 Homecoming Queen. Her long dedication to Wittenberg has continued as a member of the national advisory board for the current $70 million Defining Moments Campaign. She also personally designed and implemented a plan for the Class of 1950 reunion gift, which exceeded $1.3 million. 
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