| Recipient of the McNaughton Medal for Public Service
 Richard G.
Lugar, the senior United States Senator
from the State of Indiana, has served his constituents since 1976.
Mr. Lugar was graduated from Denison University in 1954, receiving a
degree in economics. As a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford
University, he studied economics, political science and philosophy.
He first entered politics as the mayor of Indianapolis in 1967,
serving two terms. During his mayoral tenure, he led the unification
of the Indianapolis downtown and urban neighborhoods with
surrounding communities. Known as Unigov, the alliance spurred the
area’s economic growth and civic activism and also improved racial
relations. In the U.S. Senate, Mr. Lugar has served in numerous
leadership positions including Chairman of the National Republican
Senatorial Committee, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
Co-Chairman of the Arms Control Observer Group in 1985, and member
of the Select Committee on Intelligence from 1977-84 and 1993 to the
present.  Recognized as a national leader in agriculture, nutrition
and forestry, Richard Lugar serves both Indiana and national
interests in his role as chairman of the Senate Agricultural
Committee. He successfully fought for reforms to federal nutrition
standards in the food stamps program during the 1995-96 welfare
reform debate. Mr. Lugar has influenced policy and public opinion
among his peers in such important discussions as the debate
concerning U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf War and
ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use,
production and stockpiling of chemical weapons. In 1997, National
Journal named the Senator as a top 100 decision maker in
government, noting his leadership in foreign policy, pro-market
agriculture policy and consensus building. DePauw University awarded
Senator Lugar an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1972.
The McNaughton Medal for Public Service
John McMaughton graduated from DePauw University
in 1942, served in the United States Navy during World War II, and
earned a degree from the Harvard University School of Law, where he
later taught. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at DePauw, he was named a
Rhodes Scholar while attending Harvard.
Mr. McNaughton held the position of Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and had just
been appointed Secretary of the Navy when he, his wife and one son
were killed in a tragic airplane crash on July 19, 1967. Clearly
destined for even higher responsibilities, Mr. McNaughton already
was recognized as one of America’s most brilliant public servants.
Later in 1967, the friends and family of John and
Sally McNaughton, led by then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara,
established a memorial at DePauw in the form of the McNaughton Medal
for Public Service.
The McNaughton Medal has been awarded on six
previous occasions: in 1972 to Dr. Percy L. Julian, a 1920 DePauw
graduate who was one of the foremost chemist of the 20th
century; in 1984 to William D. Ruckelshaus, then administrator of
the United States Environmental Protection Agency; in 1987 to Lee H.
Hamilton, a 1952 DePauw University graduate, at that time the
Indiana Ninth District’s Representative in the United States
Congress, in May 1990 James T. Laney, then President of Emory
University; in October 1990 to Dan Quayle, a 1969 graduate of
DePauw, at that time the Vice President of the United States; and in
1993 to Civil Rights leader Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., a 1957 graduate
of DePauw.
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