The College presented five alumni-related awards in June as part of Alumni Weekend 2004. E. Floyd '49 and Lois McDowell '52, were awarded the Harold B. Brumbaugh Alumni Service Award; Barbara Gumbiner '59, independent organizational consultant and former director of the information exchange and management system for the National Council for International Visitors, received the Alumni Achievement Award; Grettel Wentling '94, research fellow in general surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla., received the Young Alumni Achievement Award; and Stanley Davis Jr. '59, retired executive director of the Chicago and Northern Illinois region of the National Conference for Community and Justice, received the William E. Swigart Jr. Alumni Humanitarian Award. Dr. Perry Habecker '76, staff pathologist at the New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2004 Health Professions Alumni Appreciation Award.

Floyd McDowell earned a master of divinity degree from Bethany Theological Seminary in 1953. He spent the majority of his career as director of development for institutional advancement at Bethany Theological Seminary from 1959 until his retirement in 1991. His service to Juniata has included serving as 1949 class fund agent, participating in a variety of student recruitment programs, and participating in Juniata student programs at the Stone Church of the Brethren.

Lois McDowell has been a member of the Juniata Board of Trustees since 2002. She is a retired elementary school teacher, working in the Lombard, Ill. school district from 1969 to 1991. She earned a master's degree from Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill. in 1985. She chaired the college's Church College Relations Committee from 1992-2003.

Gumbiner started her career in education as a teacher in the Monroeville School District (1959-61), moving on to become director of religious education at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1977. She then moved into public service, becoming program coordinator of the Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors in 1978 and earning a promotion to executive director in 1985. In 1989, she moved to the Institute of International Education. She was named director of professional exchange programs in 1996 and director of administration for the Washington, D.C. office in 1999. She retired in 2002 to become a consultant.

Wentling earned her medical degree at the Mayo Medical School in 1998. She completed her residency in general surgery in 2003 and is currently a research fellow in general surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla. Wentling, has volunteered for overseas medical missions, including African trips to Nairobi, Kenya, Bomet, Kenya, and Tanzania, as well as a mission to Guyana in South America.

Davis earned a master of divinity degree from Bethany Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister of The United Church of Christ. He served as executive director of the Chicago and Northern Illinois Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice from 1984 until retiring in 2003. The organization is a nonprofit human rights organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry, and racism.

Habecker earned a doctor of veterinary medicine from University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He started his career in 1981 as a large animal veterinarian in Mifflin and Chester counties. After serving his residency at the veterinary school he was hired in 1992 as a lecturer in pathology at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. He was promoted to assistant professor of pathology in 1995 and was named staff pathologist in 1999.