Written on back: "President Richard Hammill, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Mich., congratulates John R. Shull on his citation as Alumnus of the Year by the university's Alumni Association at the homecoming luncheon the last of April. Shull is educational secretary for the Columbia Union Conference, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and he was cited for the honor because of his contribution to Christian education in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, and as a person who combines high ideals with a congenial personality, as a husband and father who has upheld the best of Christian principles in his home, as a professional whose career is marked by excellence, as a citizen who has responded to the needs of his community, and as a Christian whose devotion to his God and to his church has been unquestioned; 1969"
