Dr. Edward F. Knipling ’30
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Year Awarded: 1962

Port Lavaca, TX

Knipling received bachelor and master’s degrees in Entomology and later a Doctorate degree from Iowa State University. He was instrumental in establishing the USDA Cotton Insects Basic Research Lab at A&M and developed methods of control for typhus disease, malaria, yellow fever, plague, dysentery, and other human diseases during WWII. He also developed a system for eradicating the screw worm which saved the livestock industry millions of dollars and authored 118 scientific papers in the Entomological Field.



Knipling has been awarded the President’s Medal of Merit, Distinguished Service Award, U.S.D.A., and Progressive Farmer Man of the Year in Service to Southern Agriculture.

William W. Lynch ’22
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Year Awarded: 1962

Marshall, TX

Lynch received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1922. He was employed with Edison Electric Institution, an organization of the investor owned electrical utility industry in America, and later became President. He also served as Vice President and Director of Texas Utilities and Director of the Republic National Bank, Employers National Insurance Company, Texas Employers Insurance Association, Employers Casualty Company, Dallas’ Citizens Council, and the State Fair of Texas.



Lynch served as President of the Texas A&M Research Foundation and was a Councilman at Large for The Association of Former Students.

John W. Newton ’12
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Year Awarded: 1962

Dallas, TX

Newton received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1912. During his career, Newton was President of the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. He also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Governing Boards of State Supported Colleges and Universities and a member of the Texas Commission of Higher Education.



He was a President of the Beaumont A&M Club, a trustee of Texas A&M Research Foundation and served on The Association of Former Students Board of Directors.

GEN Bernard A. Schriever ’31
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Year Awarded: 1962

San Antonio, TX

Schriever received a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering in 1931 and received his master’s from Stanford University. He was Commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division and established and implemented techniques for the development of the ATLAS, TITAN, and MINUTEMAN ICBM weapon systems and the THOR IRBM.



His awards include the Distinguished Service Medals and Oakleaf Cluster, Legion of Merit, Air Medal, Purple Heart, and two Unit Citations. Schriever served as a Councilman at Large for The Association of Former Students.

Tyree L. Bell ’13
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Year Awarded: 1964

Dallas, TX

Bell received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1913. Bell was President of Austin Road, Austin Paving, and Austin Worth Construction Co. Bell was twice named “Engineer of the Year” by the Dallas Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers and was the Director of the State Fair of Texas and former president of the Cotton Bowl.



He served on The Association of Former Students Board of Directors and was largely responsible for the creation of the Texas A&M System. While a student at Texas A&M, he was a member of Ross Volunteers and was a four year letterman in football.

R. Wofford Cain ’13
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Year Awarded: 1964

Athens, TX

Cain received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1913. During his career, he was Chairman of the Board of Southern Union Gas Company, which he helped organize, and which is one of the largest natural gas producing and distributing concerns in the Southwest. He also was a Chairman of the Board of Aztec Oil & Gas Company and the Former Director of Mercantile National Bank in Dallas.



Mr. Cain was a Trustee and Chairman of the Texas A&M Foundation and supporter of Aggie athletics. He established numerous Opportunity Award Scholarships and has made possible the furnishing and exterior lighting of the All Faiths Chapel on the A&M campus, the construction of A&M’s outdoor Olympic swimming pool, and the completion of the Letterman’s Lounge and Texas A&M Hall of Fame.

"A&M afforded me the opportunities I have had in my life. I have only tried to help A&M, in turn, help others."

J. Harold Dunn ’25
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Year Awarded: 1964

Dallas County, TX

Dunn received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1925 and a master’s degree in 1938. He was Chairman and CEO of Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp. He served on the Texas A&M System Board of Directors and was President of The Association of Former Students.

"The friends you make through the years make life worthwhile… I don’t know how anyone could have a more interesting and pleasant life than has been my privilege."

Henry B. Zachry ’22
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Year Awarded: 1964

Uvalde, TX

Zachry received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1922. He was President and Chairman of the Board of H.B. Zachry and Co. Zachry’s multimillion–dollar firm constructed the upper decks at Kyle Field in 1979, the chancellor’s house, and the modular dormitories.



Two A&M facilities- the campus’ Zachry Engineering Center, which houses many of the office, laboratories and classrooms of the College of Engineering, and the Texas Engineering Extension Service’s training center in San Antonio-are named for him. Outside Texas, Zachry’s company built part of the Alaskan pipeline, laid roads in Peru and Chile, erected dams in the United States and Canada and ventured into the Sinai to construct modular housing for peacekeeping troops.



He and his son Bartell Zachry, Jr. ’54 are the only father-son recipients of the Distinguished Alumnus Award.

"Zachry was a giant of a man and personified the high ideals of Texas A&M. He loved this university and gave untiringly and generously in support of it."

  - Harvey R. “Bum” Bright ’43

Wilfred T. Doherty ’22
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Year Awarded: 1966

Houston, TX

Doherty received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1922. He served as the Vice President of the Robert A. Welch Foundation, President and Director of the Mound Company, Director of Fidelity Oil & Royalty Company, First National Bank and Texas National Bank of Houston, and Director of the Bank of the Southwest.



In 1953, he was named to Texas A&M’s Board of Directors and served as President for four years. He was a leading figure in support of the A&M building and utilities program, married student housing, putting emphasis on the quality of faculty, and the development of data processing, nuclear science, and space technology. Doherty also served on The Association of Formers Students Board of Directors and the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees.

"Texas A&M has been very good to me… Regardless of what I may do I will never be able to repay my debt to Texas A&M. God bless the Aggies and keep them what they are forever."

Richard A. Goodson ’27
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Year Awarded: 1966

Jacksonville, TX

Goodson received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Administration in 1927. He served as President of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and was a Director of Southwestern Life Insurance Co., Frito Lay, Inc., the First National Bank in St. Louis, St. Louis Union Trust Co, and the General American Life Insurance Co.



Goodson also served as a member of the Advisory Councils of the University of Missouri, the Graduate Research Center of Southwest, Dallas, and the St. Louis Research Council.