Lasallian Service Award

This award honors an alum for outstanding contributions to the Lasallian spirit and values. This award recognizes individuals who better their professions and communities, those who truly make a difference in our world. Previously this award was named the Religious Service Award.

2025 Recipient: Dr. James Hake B’73

Dr. James Hake B’73 grew up in Owatonna, Minn. before attending Saint Mary’s. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a divisional science major. He then attended the University of Minnesota Medical School followed by a family practice residency in Salinas, Calif.

He spent his medical career in Moses Lake, Wash., as a family doctor while raising his four sons with his wife Terry (Cullen) CST’74. He has been a member of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, participating as a Eucharist Minister and member of the new church building committee and the finance committee.

Jim and Terry began their association with Mission Doctors Association (founded by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles) in 2004 with a one month mission to Cameroon, Africa. A two- month mission in 2007 to Zimbabwe followed. Their positive experiences allowed them to commit to a three-year mission back to Cameroon in 2010.

St. Martin de Porres Hospital in the mountains of Cameroon was run by the Franciscan Sisters who welcomed Jim and Terry into their community.

Jim, along with three Cameroonian doctors, staffed the 225 bed hospital and outpatient clinic with 50,000 annual visits. He managed the care for over 1,000 HIV patients and dealt with malaria patients daily. Jim and Terry last served in Cameroon in 2016 but civil war broke out shortly thereafter preventing further visits. They additionally served on the MDA Board for many years helping in recruiting and supporting other Catholic doctors serving overseas.

Eligibility:

This award honors a degreed alumnus/a of SMUMN for their outstanding contributions to the Lasallian spirit and values. This award recognizes individuals who better their professions and communities and those who truly make a difference in our world. Nominate your Lasallian Service Award nominee here.

The awardee must have achieved the following:

Led a faithful life.
Dedicated life to service.
Impacted the community through their work.
Transformed their community and the lives around them through leadership and service.

Past Recipients:

Most Rev. Robert Brom B'60 – 1985	Most Rev. Frederick Freking, DD '34 – 1985	Most Rev. George Speltz, DD B'32 – 1985
Most Rev. Alfred Stemper '34 – 1985	Br. Alphonsus Pluth, FSC B'39 – 1986	Ronald Wilkins B'39 – 1986
Br. Julius Winkler, FSC B'36 – 1986	Rev. Daniel Corcoran '37 – 1987	Br. Leonard Courtney, Ph.D., FSC B'37 – 1987
Msgr. J. Richard Feiten '45 - 1988	Br. Theodore Drahmann, FSC B'49 – 1989	Br. James Gaffney, FSC B'64 – 1989
Br. John Grover, FSC B'65 – 1990	Br. I. Ambrose Trusk, FSC B'43 – 1990	Rev. James Barnett '60 – 1991
Br. James Miller, FSC B'66, M'74 – 1991	Rev. James Russell B'56 – 1991	Fr. Andrew C. Fabian, OP – 1992
Br. I. Basil Rothweiler, FSC B'38 – 1993	Br. Terence McLaughlin, FSC B'44 – 1994	Br. Martin Spellman, FSC B'54 – 1994
Br. Richard Gerlach, FSC B'35 – 1995	Br. George Pahl, FSC B'36 – 1996	Br. Raymond Long, FSC '43 – 1996
Rev. Paul Nelson B'57 – 1997	Dennis L. Nigon '68 – 1998	Fr. Kenneth Thesing, MM '64 – 1999
Br. J. Francis Walsh, FSC, B'45 – 2000	Br. Gordon Hannon, FSC B'86 – 2001	Br. Norman Wray, FSC B'46 – 2001
Fr. Paul R. Wierichs, CP B‘74 – 2002	Rev. Robert Botthof, OP B'50 – 2003	Stephen Judd B'53 – 2004
Br. Dominic Ehrmantraut, FSC B'67 – 2005	Br. Louis Rodemann, FSC B'61 – 2006	Br. Paul Grass, FSC B'57, M'62 – 2007
Hugh Downey '62 – 2008	Msgr. Roy E. Literski '49 – 2009	Christine (Coglianese) Collins B'93 – 2010
James Cunningham '49 – 2010	James B'91 & Molly (Crosby) B'91 Cave – 2011	Mary Lou (Black) Scheid B’76 – 2011
Barbara (Mulvey) McQuillan B’76 – 2016	Giles Wilborn B'61, M'66 - 2017	Sarah (Bellingham) Laitinen B'07 - 2018
Al Peters B'74 - 2019	Dr. Susan (Orlowski) Paul Caulfield B'80 - 2021	Jennifer (Lawrence) Nelson B'04 - 2021
Sarah Jane (Engle) Maher B'07 - 2022	James P. Izzo B'75 - 2023	Thomas Evon B'76 - 2024