The Distinguished Alumni Award is a recognition designed to honor alumni of Southwest High School. Honorees are selected for their outstanding contributions to their community, alma mater, or country in their chosen career or community service.
The Distinguished Alumni Award is a new tradition for Southwest, a high school with an outstanding history of excellence. In honoring Southwest High School alumni, we hope to inspire current students to be lifetime learners and community leaders beyond Southwest. This recognition will be bestowed upon alumni who have exhibited or continue to exhibit a diverse array of admirable qualities such as leadership, generosity, integrity, dedication, and creativity and who have shared of their talents via their occupation, special interest or contributions to Southwest.
Anyone may nominate up to three Southwest alumni per year. Please fill out nomination form below.
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The Southwest Foundation will retain all applications for future consideration if the nominee is not selected as a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient the year the nomination is received.
Past Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award
Distinguished Alumni Nomination Form
Our Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize alumni for their outstanding contributions to their community, alma mater, or country in their chosen career or community service.
The Foundation encourages alumni, current families, and the community to nominate their friends, family, and classmates who are deserving of this award. The Distinguished Alumni Committee is chaired by Jodi Perelman & Dan Froelich.
The Committee looks forward to hearing about the amazing accomplishments of Southwest's alumni community.