1973 Recipients

Mrs. DeWende won international awards for her design of apparel, decorative accessories and home furnishings.

In 1960, she founded Bolivia's first exporting firm of handmade products, making the production, sale and export of Bolivian handicraft economically important and financially beneficial for hundreds of small family enterprises.

For this she received high honor form the Bolivian government. She organized the Bolivian Federation of Business and Professional Women.

Dr. Veatch received master's and doctoral degrees from New York University. In the late 1940s, she helped prepare teachers in Washington, D.C., for desegregation.

She was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Jersey City State College and Arizona State University.

An author of several textbooks, she produced an internationally distributed videotape series for teachers, exemplifying the learner-centered educational philosophy.

Mr. Bouton, who attended WMU from 1957 to 1961, was a major league baseball pitcher for eight seasons. In 1964, he won 18 regular season games plus two World Series games for the New York Yankees.

He is the author of the best seller Ball Four and two other sports books. He was a television sportscaster in New York from 1970 to 1976. Following a baseball comeback with the Atlanta Braves in 1978, he became a self-employed businessman.

Mr. Thomas joined U.S. Steel Corporation in 1952, upon graduation from the University of Michigan Law School. He rose through the ranks from tax supervisor to executive vice president and a member of the board of directors.

In 1982, he was named vice chairman-administration and chief financial officer of what became USX Corporation.

He was one of the original directors of the WMU Foundation and served on numerous other boards, including Manufacturers Hanover Corporation and Allegheny General Hospital.