Heritage Circle

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The Heritage Circle recognizes donors whose cumulative lifetime and/or realized estate contributions total $25,000 or more.

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Diamond ($1,000,000 and above)

Khalaf Al Habtoor H’10
Al Habtoor Group LLC
Ocee Arnold
The Associated Colleges of Illinois
Roger Babson
Charles Bellatti ’49 H’98
Fred 1918 & Alma Blum
Jim ’66 H’12 & Kaye Bruner
Mary Cummings ’24
Lew Cummings ’24
Harmon H’09 & Millie Deal
Harry & Katherine Dunbaugh 1899
Del ’72 & Lisa Dunham
Forrest ’35 & Lois Batterton England ’36
Arthur ’25 & Charlotte Engelbach Hart ’26
Illinois Board of Higher Education
C.A. Johnson 1897
Dr. Donald Kolmer ’52
The Kresge Foundation
Foster & Mary McGaw
James ’32 & Anna Vannier Merrill ’32
Howard H’12 & Vera Million
Steven R. ’77 & Betsy Huss Mills ’77
C. Reed H’00 & Catherine Parker
A. Boyd & Ruth Badger Pixley 1918
Karl & Louise Schewe
Robert ’36 H’87 & Jessica Sibert
Dr. Frances McReynolds Smith ’33
Stephen M. Tillery ’72
U.S. Department of Education
J. Merle ’51 & Ruth Kilton Wade ’39

Platinum ($500,000 to $999,999)

Association of the Open Mind and Spirit, Inc.
Clara Holmes Bain
Loren & Joy French Becker ’67 H’15
Vincent Beggs
Ursula Bobbitt
Corrine Burch
James ’43 H’94 & Gratia Coultas
Frank Dinwiddie
Keith Eder ’48
William ’35 & Patricia Fay
Dr. William Findley ’36
Martha Fry ’40
William Gardner 1884
Max ’34 & Roberta Gilbert
Jim ’61 H’11 & Cathy Green
Mabel Louise Griswold ’26
Neva Reid Hurley ’30
Arthur & Norma King
Katherine Kirby
Davis & Adalaide Kirby
Vance Kirby
Marjorie Krone ’42
Dr. Elma Lanterman ’40
Ted ’41 & Joan Larson
Albert Lindsay Jr. ’44
The Monticello College Foundation
Marshall ’39 & Martha Parks
Delbert Price ’42
Tom ’76 & Linda Forsaith Purves ’76
Robert Schumann ’25
Herb ’58 & Judee Sherman
Lawrence Sibert
Deborah Klang Smith ’75 & Henry Dale Smith Jr.
Guy & Edie Sternberg
Harold ’49 & Beulah Park Tholen ’72
Virginia Wiehn ’45
Edna Witaschek
Emert Witaschek ’24

Gold ($250,000 to $499,999)

George Baxter 1896
John ’40 & Margaret Tomlin Bellatti
Walter ’36 & Ruth Bellatti
Emma Lou Benignus ’32
Earl ’44 & Mabel Potter Bennyhoff ’44
Warren ’49 & Marcia Billhartz
Mrs. Don Topkin Blackiston
Chet ’36 H’89 & Louise Bone
Bound to Stay Bound Books Inc.
Robert ’51 & June Reid 
Brand ’47
C.A.C.H.E.
Beulah Hoke Chapman ’31
Diana Dawdy Chesley ’58 H’08
The Clayton Fund 
Paul & Floy Cornelson
Claribel Cully ’36
The Davee Foundation
Delta Foundation
Grace Dewey
Emery & Thelma Beane Erickson ’32
Helen Fyler
Christopher Gard
Joel ’66 & Elise Leaks Harmon ’69
Ray Hartman 1913
Luther Hess 1891
Bill ’66 & Vicki Hood
Ruth James
Betty Jost ’50
Elizabeth Lambert
Eula Todd Langer
Walter & Carol Coultas Lohman ’45
Henry Luce Foundation
Harry Malm ’29
Emmett McBratney 1897
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
Mrs. Thomas McKenna
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Frances Melton
Robert ’36 & Helen Miller
Benjamin & Eunice Mae Montee
National Science Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Ted ’40 & Ella Jane Rogers Rammelkamp ’43
Paul ’62 & Stephanie Pratt
Helen Richards ’32
Homer ’63 & Carol Bycroft Rieken ’63
Jim ’69 & Mary Marshall Scheider ’72
Synod of Lincoln Trails
Cecil Tendick ’29
The Farmers State Bank & Trust Company
Bobby H’09 H’17 & Erin Thomson
Katherine Thompson Tillery ’74 H’11
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Jonathan Utley ’63 H’07
Hobart Williams
William ’39 & Jean Campbell Wilton ’38
Lyle ’33 & Aileen Woodcock
Morrison 1915 & Florence Worthington
George H’19 & Diane Zelcs

Silver ($100,000 to $249,000)

Terry & Mary Beth Airsman
Airsman Hires Funeral Home Inc.
Susan & Douglas Allen
Ameren Illinois Act On Energy
William & Sue Hammitt Anderson ’53
Raynor & Dagmar Franson Appell ’46
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Helen Carlile Armstrong ’35
Robert Arnon
Mark Arroll ’56
Walter Balcke 1904
Helen Bartlett
William ’50 & Shirleanne Butts Batson ’49
Gerry ’78 & Mary Ann Beard
John T. Bellatti
Toni Blankmann ’74 & Bob Weiner
Stephen & Patricia Bone
Robert ’51 & June Reid Brand ’47
Tom ’71 & Marcy Bramley Burrus ’71
Barrett & Susan Callaghan
Ossian Cameron ’36
Carlos Campbell 1918
Andrew Carnegie
Bob ’74 & Janet Williams Chipman ’75
A. Baird ’48 & Esther Anderson Chrisman ’49
Congregational Church & United Church of Christ
George Cooke ’30
Jeff & Addie Coultas
Will & Anne Coultas
Council of Independent Colleges
Edgerton Crispin 1902
Charles & Kathryn Cunningham
Conrad ’57 & Pat Carlson Damsgaard ’53 H’04
Joan H’14 & Jeff DeBoer
Department of Justice
Parker Doan
Eldon ’31 & Edythe Curtright
Kenneth ’29 & Katherine Danskin
Doris Shuman Dillon 1920
Mildred Dinwiddie
Elisabeth Engelbach
Dr. Friedrich ’24 & Alice Hebberd Engelbach
Ernst & Young
Richard Ewert ’34
Jack ’61 H’07 & Doris Gustine Fairfield ’62
Dr. Barbara A. Farley
Fidelity Foundation
Paul ’43 H’73 & Lucille Findley
Doris Fitch
Ford Foundation
Henry Galant ’40
Beryl Totten Galaway ’28
General Electric Foundation
Wilmith Gillham
Walter ’41 & Phillis Cowan Greenholt ’48
Mabel Gregory 1908
Carl 1916 & Dorothy Gustafson
Neal ’60 & Dianna Hart
Robert ’35 & Beatrice Hayes Hartman ’34
Gary ’74 & Debra Kurtock Haynes ’76
Claire Heckmann ’64
Emma Hembrough
Walter Hendrickson Jr. ’58
Leo ’46 & Lorraine Heneghan
Duane ’71 H’20 & Sharon Hess
Lyndle ’30 & Mary Louise Hess
Dr. Kenneth 1923 & Miriam Hiatt
Roger ’50 & Valencia Forwood Huson ’49
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation
Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
Illinois Valley Paving Company
Dorothy Ivemeyer ’61
ITT Blackburn Corporation
Edwin Jackson 1905
Norman Jones ’34
Robert Jones Jr. ’11
James Kellogg ’34
John ’47 & Doris Kurtock
Dick Levi
Levi, Ray & Shoup Inc.
Bob ’65 & Ann Lindquist
Alta Linnenburger ’66
Carrie Mackness
Greg ’88 & Liz Airsman May ’91
Charles ’60 & Verneva McPike
Harold ’37 & Phyllis Meenen
Bill ’56 & Marilyn Hurley Merris ’64
David ’72 & Ellen Rammelkamp Miller ’72
William & Martha Behr Miller ’48
Richard ’51 H’03 & Rachel Mills
James Mills ’56
Dr. Donald H’93 & June Mundinger
NCAA
Conrad Noll III ’65 & Judy Noll
Isabel Cully Norfleet ’36
North Central College
Laverne Noyes
Steve H’12 & Maggie Oetgen
Pactiv Corporation
James & Amanda Patten
Wilbur ’30 & Vera Conrad Patterson
Louis & Doris Prather
Drs. Susan L. Pratt ’80 & Jay R. Anders ’79
Bob ’67 & Cathy Randall
Fred Rankin 1887
Reynolds Consumer Products
Rockefeller Foundation
Ruth Mallonee Roper ’25
Steve & Nancy Ray Ross ’65
Cranston & Richard Yates Rowe Jr. ’44
Helena Rubinstein Foundation Inc.
John & Anita Rundquist H’97
Marjorie Yeck Satterthwaite
Vernon ’26 & Gladys Scholfield
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Shell Oil Company Foundation Inc.
Phil Shelton ’65
Jim ’82 & Lisbeth Enz Spradlin ’83
Kenneth Stark ’29
State Farm Companies Foundation
Jean Coultas Statler
Dr. Axel H’13 & Loreli Steuer H’13
Mary Flo Stewart
Ross Thomas ’18
U.S. Department of Commerce
United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
U.S. Bank
Frayn Utley
Benjamin Vanderhorst ’51
Jim ’65 H’15 & Joan Voyles
Dan ’69 & Lynne Oberlander Walters ’69
Jon & June Ware
Elzie Weber 1909
Addison Wilber ’28
John Williamson ’78
Roy ’50 & Aileen Burge Wright ’37
Iver & Natalee Yeager

Bronze ($50,000 to $99,999)

George I. Alden Trust
William Allen ’40
American Express Foundation
American Orchid Society
Lena Cassell Ammons
Viola Anderson
A. Wadsworth ’37 & Betty Applebee
John Badger
Henry Barber ’30
Greg ’74 & Tonya Johnson Baise ’76
Ryan ’97 & Laura Barke
Dr. Charles ’29 & Margaret McCarty Barlow ’30
Merrill Barlow ’26
Charles Beck ’43
Chet ’36 H’89 & Louise Bone
Gary Branson
Dan ’72 & Vickie Ware Brooks ’72
Edward Brown ’27
L. Vernon Caine H’75
Edward Capps 1887
Caterpillar Foundation
Bill ’58 & Julie Cellini
Elaine Chapman & Dennis Backstrom
Chartwells
Mary Chesley
Claridge Products - Paul Edward Clavey ’51
Compass Group
Leila Corey
Frank & Judy Cummings
George Curry Jr. ’71
Elmer ’27 & Abbie Young Danner ’29
Paul F. Doolin ’50
John ’71 & Cindy Hazlet Dooling ’73
George ’59 & Pam Dow
Earnway Edwards 1910
Donald R. Eldred H’04
Elliott State Bank
Gladys Elliott
Louise Epling
George Evans ’38
Exxon Education Foundation
Mike ’92 & Beth Doty Fletcher ’92
Constance Chandler Frackelton
Dorothy Frank
Mark ’73 & Jane Frech
Marian Deatherage French ’31
Frances Frisch ’31
Ivan ’48 & Gladys Garrison
Dorothy Neff Glaum ’44
Jane Greenholt Gonseth ’43
Lillian Havenhill Green 1912
Mary Ellen Greene
GROWMARK, Inc.
Bill ’63 & Sandy Selcke Gussner ’65
Wayne ’53 & Patricia Hannah
Robert & Audrey Heintz
Ken ’74 & Sara Hieke
Robert A.P. Holderby
John Hinde
Harry ’24 & Ruth Howard
Morton Dennis Hull
International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
Jacksonville Savings Bank
Hiram Jones 1844
James S. Kemper Foundation
Kent Jones ’69
Blanche Kilpatrick
Norma King
Fredrick ’31 & Alice Jephson Kirkman ’31
John Knoeppel 1911
Beverly Koeppel
Ernest Land ’50
Roscoe Linder 1913
Rebecca Rantz Long ’41
Clarence Lorentz ’39
LPL Financial
Suzanne Randolph Lucas
Sally Osborne Mackie ’50
Jack & Marilyn Haynes Mann ’74
Patrick H’09 & Rosanne Mathis
MBNA America
Ralph & Johnnie McNaughton
James Meeks 1889
Dr. Marjorie & Michael Meier
Memorial Health System
Merz Pharmaceuticals
Margaret Wright Minter
J. Cordell ’36 & Wilma Moore
Bob Moore ’78 & Sherry Kwater
Dr. Mina Dill Morris ’26
National Financial Services LLC
Mae Noll
Northminster Presbyterian Church
J. Leo O’Brien
D.K. Pearson
Harriet Pearson
Pepsi Inc.
Phi Alpha Literary Society
Mike Pinson ’63
John Porter ’68 H’13 & Iris Lugo
Tom ’80 & Ann Bishop Prather ’80
Linda Newman Price ’70
Charles ’50 & Mary Lee Coultas Ransdell ’50
Albert Rice 1874
Kristine Rikli
Dolores Rix ’48
Ernest Roodhouse ’24
SBC Foundation
Henry Scarborough
Hank ’73 & Martha Bryan Schmitt ’73
Rexel Scholfield ’36
Louise Schrader ’25
Berthe & Louise Schroeder
William Schwaner ’33
Harvey ’42 & Audrey Grone Scott ’41
Sigma Pi Literary Society
Alma Churchill Smith
Carol Smith
J. Fairbank Smith
Brian & Marilyn Zupsich Smith
State of Illinois
The Teagle Foundation Inc.
Dick ’49 & Joan Teckenbrock
Paul A. Thursby
Margaret Tingle
Dorothy Ware
Gene ’63 H’13 & Lyn Wells
Dorothy Asa White ’39
Louise Boring Wood ’34
William Ransom ’27 & Dorothy Jane Wood
Benjamin ’29 & Ione Wright
Edward & Helen Young

Society of 1829 ($25,000 to $49,999)

Abbott Laboratories
Allstate Foundation
American Telephone & Telegraph
Joyce James Andrilenas
Ruth Anspaugh
Betty Applebee
Frank Arena ’40
Julie Bachler
David & Suzanne Baetz
Richard ’56 & Sylvia Bagby
Mike ’86 & Lisa Lonson Bauersachs ’85
Beard Implement Company
Paul Benignus ’33
Robert ’70 & Sandra Stallings Bellatti ’70
David Blackorby & Elizabeth Piontek
Elizabeth Hudson Boba ’41
Bob ’78 & Carolyn Bonjean
Corwin & Caroline Hammond Booth ’48
Steve Bordner ’77
Jeff ’78 & Marty Huss Boss ’78
John ’55 & Sharon Bostic
Ken Bradbury Foundation
Henry & Monica Bradsher
Margaret Braverman
Len Brink ’66
Buena Vista University
James ’31 & Lillian Deatherage Bunch ’33
Nick & Beth Capo
Eddie ’70 & Sandra Carpenter
Mildred Chamberlain
Chevron Texaco
Tim ’01 & Stephanie Elpers Chipman
Barbara Ornsbee Clark ’42
William ’40 & Catherine Clark
Ronald Clements ’61
Allen Crosby ’50
Bill & Ruth Cross
Jim & Joanna Davis
Donald Deatherage ’61
Deluxe Check Printers Foundation
Peter Dieterich ’60
Elma Shipe Dixson ’31
Brown Dobyns ’35
Russell Donovan ’43
Doyle Plumbing & Heating Company
Russell ’28 & Margaret Dunlap
Edward Jones Trust Co
F. Osborne & Jeannette Elliott
Jim ’62 & Ann Elliott
Roger Engels ’62
Rebecca Barr Evers ’66
Anne Bellamy Fay ’60
Ralph Floreth
David & Caryn Jung Frank
Dick & Heidy Fry
Maurice Funk
Clarence Gamble ’29
W. Leslie Garnett
Harold ’30 & Ameda Gibson
Joy Goin
Janet Gee-Sokolis
W. W. Grainger Inc.
Helen Grandcolas ’37
Bruce Haines ’51
Don ’66 & Pearl Newberry Hawrysz ’64
John & Helen Patterson Hinde ’45
The Hope Fund
Esta Lou Hubbert
Steve ’74 & Jean Hunt
ILMO Products Company
Illinois Road Contractors Inc.
International Business Machines
Jacksonville Journal Courier
Jacksonville Memorial Hospital Foundation
Wallace & Ruth Jamison
Elizabeth Johnson
Meribeth Fyler Jones
Jack Kasper
John H’09 H’22 & Betty Kay
Gladys Kittel 1916
Robert Knight ’47
Christine Knox
Helen Robinson Kohr ’47
David Koss Henry Kransz ’61
Chuck ’65 & Reva Krell
Greg ’80 & Kendra Langdon
James ’37 & Louise Thomas Lewark ’38
Gerald A. Lucas ’69 Family
Lucille M. Findley Memorial Foundation
Carla Malottke
Zoe Marshall ’32
Richard ’64 & Judith Schauerte Martin ’64
Bill Maxey ’75
Clifford Maxwell 1908
Jack McCarty ’65
Alta McCullough ’33
Rick ’85 & Natalie Meidel
Merck Company Foundation
Vivian Villiger Meyer ’34
Venice Meyer ’80 H’16 & Lyle Zetterlund
Joseph ’59 & Doris Millard
Mobil Chemical Company
Laura Reed Mohan ’37
George ’34 & Lee Ella Moore
Jack Moore
Roderick & Francine Fitt Mundy ’74
Fred Muntman
National Philanthropic Trust
Ruby Rose Nattress ’33
Nestle Beverage Company
John ’42 & Doris Mengden Newbery ’44
Preston Newell ’65
Louis Niebur ’41
Frank ’46 & ’95 & Frances Norbury
Emy Osburn
Byron ’52 & Dolores Parry
Dr. Richard & Nancy Pfau
Frederic & Jan Pigott
Betty Fisherkeller Pine ’53
John Power ’73 H’17 & Judith Fay
Curt ’66 & Mary Pradelt
Richard ’49 & Joyce Pratt
Frederick Henry Prince Foundation
Leslie Proksa
Purina Mills Inc.
Mary Ellen Quintal
Joe Racey
Jeanne Rantz Rammelkamp ’40
Julian ’39 & Mabel Tippitt Rammelkamp ’41
Rose Ranson 1918
C. Ernest Read ’31
George Reardon
George Reilly ’56
Cesta Mary Riefler
Dave ’83 & Peggy Beckmeyer Ringhausen ’85
Damon Runyon ’66
Marian Rees Russell ’48
Jack & Carole Ann McNamara Ryan ’59
Bob Schillerstrom ’74
Melvin & Suzanne Schoneweis
Robert & La Nita Schuster
Schwab Charitable
Dianne Wiley Seim ’66
Marcia Short ’86
Eleanor Capps Siefkin
Jessica Sibert
Elizabeth Query Smith
Malcolm Smith ’32
The Nic Soer Memorial Golf Tournament
Minnie Spires ’32
James & Rachelan Bienert Stronach ’76
Myra Bobbitt Stubblefield ’27
William ’41 & Jacqueline Clark Sullivan
Doug Sutton ’64
Ryan Tanner ’02 & Jay Krottinger
Steve ’70 & Sara Hedrick Tavender ’70
Dr. Robert ’36 & Natalie Thrall
Times Mirror
United Church of Christ
U.S. Department of Interior/National Park Service
Leona Stanford Vollintine Trust
James & April Wade
Ronald ’58 & Margaret Wallace
Richard Wallarab
Lee ’44 & Judith Westrate
Linda Cox White ’73
O. Bliss Williams
Art ’51 & Marilyn Shaffner Williamson ’52
Buel & Pearl Wilson
Richard ’62 & Joanne Woodruff
Velma Wray 1922

"Without scholarships from our generous donors, I would not be at Illinois College working hard toward my degree. I cannot live the life that I desire without education, so thank you to every last donor. Everything is appreciated and you are helping more individuals than you may realize."
D'ajahnae Croft ’23 is a student leader on campus and has been recognized with a competitive Newman Civic Fellowship.