2006 Alumni Award Recipients
Lois Taurman is the 2006 "Alumna of the Year." The award is given in recognition of efforts on behalf of the university. Taurman, a local attorney, was a three-sport star athlete at Bellarmine. She graduated in 1983 with a biology degree and was just weeks shy of earning a Bellarmine nursing degree when she was paralyzed in an accident in 1984. She went on to earn her nursing degree in 1985 as well as a master’s degree in education and a law degree from the University of Louisville. She also continued to pursue her love of sports and has won national and international acclaim as a wheelchair athlete in both track and field and fencing. This spring the National Collegiate Athletics Association presented her with their “Inspiration Award.”
The Rev. Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan Distinguished Service Award was awarded to two recently retired faculty members. The co-winners of the award were Tom Kemme, who taught English for 40 years, and Maureen Norris, who served as dean and/or taught in the school of education for more than 25 years.
Bellarmine also inducted six alumni into its Gallery of Distinguished Graduates: Carl Herde, Kevin Kramer, Nancy Kremer, Judge Steve Mershon, Chris Morris, and Rosemarie Young. The Gallery was established to recognize alumni who have distinguished themselves in professional accomplishment, community service or demonstration of attitudes consistent with Christian doctrines.
