Distinguished Alumni Awards

Bexley graduates are making an impact every day in their careers and in their communities all over the country and around the world. Over the years, the alumni of Bexley High School have recognized Distinguished and Honorary Alumni. Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award have made outstanding accomplishments and received honors or recognition for meritorious work in their chosen fields of endeavor or on behalf of their communities. Recipients of the Honorary Alumni Award are non-alumni who exhibited outstanding service on behalf of the Bexley Schools community.

Past honorees are listed below.  We will recognize and celebrate the newest class of outstanding alumni in 2021 with Bexley High School Distinguished Alumni Awards in November.

Announcing the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients and Emerging Leader:

Jonathan E. Kaplan MD ’65

Jay Schottenstein ’72

Inna Simakovsky ’89

Brett Kaufman ’93

Natalia Fedner ’01

Nominations are currently closed and will be available again for selection in Spring 2023.

  • To be nominated, alumni must have distinguished themselves through professional achievement, service, and/or contributions to society. 
  • Nominees must have graduated from BHS at least 20 years ago.  
  • The award will not be presented posthumously.  
  • Previous nominations will be considered.
  • Alumni may not nominate themselves.

In 2021 we initiated the BHS Emerging Leader Award to honor an outstanding young alumnus, who graduated from Bexley High School within the last 20 years and who is on an exciting path to personal and professional achievement. 

All Past Awards

2001

Honorary Alumni | 2001
  • Barbara Drugan
  • David Hilliard
  • Linda Lucks ’55

2001

Distinguished Alumni | 2001
  • Marc E. Lackritz ’64
  • William B. Salt II, M.D ’65

2002

Honorary Alumni | 2002
  • Joyce Alspach ’38
  • Chuck Cooper
  • Robert Stafford

2002

Distinguished Alumni | 2002
  • Thomas A. Boster ’54
  • Betsy Jackson ’79
  • Robert Weiler ’53

2003

Honorary Alumni | 2003
  • John Barr
  • Charlene Morgan

2003

Distinguished Alumni | 2003
  • Janet W. Bez Ebert ’53
  • Dan L. Vogel ’65

2004

Distinguished Alumni | 2004
  • Michael W. Duffy ’76
  • Carol Miley Middaugh ’62
  • John Schramm ’49

2005

Honorary Alumni | 2005
  • Mayor David H. Madison

2005

Distinguished Alumni | 2005
  • Daryl L. Baxter Kamer ’58
  • William E. Hoyer ’61

2006

Honorary Alumni | 2006
  • Bob Cull

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