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Alumni Merit Award

Current Recipients

College of Arts and Sciences

  • 2008 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Beth A. Katz, BS'00
    Sept. 27, 2008

    It was apparent from her first days on the Creighton University campus that Beth Katz would be an agent of change.

     

  • Full citation

College of Business Administration

  • 2008 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Thomas K. Nichting, BSBA'83
    Sept. 27, 2008

    Tom Nichting exudes the quiet confidence of a successful business leader – one who commands the respect of customers, employees and fellow CEOs.

     

  • Full citation

School of Dentistry

  • Thomas Kiefer, D.D.S.2009 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Thomas M. Kiefer, BA'73, DDS'77
    April 24, 2009

    Dr. Tom Kiefer has a great sense of humor, and he enjoys it best when the joke’s on him. For example, when he calls Creighton’s Office of Alumni Relations, he identifies himself very simply … as the bald-headed dentist in South Omaha.

  • Full citation

Graduate School

  • 2008 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Beth Balkus Fink, MS'02
    Sept. 27, 2008

    Beth Fink’s successful career as an educator is distinguished by her advance from teacher to assistant principal to the principal of the most diverse Millard District middle school—all by the age of 30!

  • Full citation

School of Law

  • 2008 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Walter J. Smith, JD'72 
    May 9, 2008

    A native Nebraskan, Walt Smith came to Creighton University to earn the juris doctor degree. But he left this campus with something more.

  • Full citation

School of Medicine

  • Allen D. Dvorak, MD'692009 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Allen D. Dvorak, MD'69
    Sept. 11, 2009

    Allen D. Dvorak, M.D., graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1969. Since then, he has led a purposeful life, choosing his priorities and life’s journey with deliberation and unabashed enthusiasm.

  • Full citation

School of Nursing

  • 2008 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    Elizabeth Mohar Buschkemper, BSN'78
    Sept. 27, 2008

    Since earning her bachelor of science in nursing degree from Creighton University’s School of Nursing, Betsy Mohar Buschkemper, now a Family Nurse Practitioner has honed her considerable skills in patient assessment and management.

  • Full citation

School of Pharmacy and Health Professions

  • 2009 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
    John M. Blazek, BSPHA'77 MBA'86
    Oct. 2, 2009

    John Blazek earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Creighton University in 1977. From the beginning, his personal and professional insights and goals have been firmly grounded in the Creighton credo of service to others – his church, his family, his community and his alma mater. He has held steadfastly to these priorities, all while becoming a highly accomplished businessman.

  • Full citation

An Alumni Merit Award is given annually to an outstanding alumna/alumnus at the respective school's/college's Alumni Reunion Dinner or other designated alumni event.

Criteria for the Award

  • Being a degreed alumnus/alumna of Creighton University.
  • Having provided distinguished service to the University and/or to his/her own community together with a way of life that clearly exemplifies the University Credo.
  • Having a personal quality that marks him/her as cultured and of high moral principles guided by the Jesuit ideals of being men and women for others.

Requirements

  • When completing questions 1 and 2 on the nomination form, it is critical that nominators provide specific examples of how the nominee meets the criteria for this citation.
  • A supporting resume/curriculum vitae must accompany the nomination.
  • Up to three letters of support will be accepted.