Hall of Fame
Reverend Monsignor Addison R. Yehl will be the 2016 Distinguished Service Award recipient. Yehl taught in the Gannon chemistry department for 55 years, beginning in 1951 and retiring in 2006. He became more than just a teacher to Gannon students and took sincere interest in the academic, social and spiritual aspects of the University's community. An avid sports fan and one of the Gannon basketball team's top fans, Yehl was also a major inspiration to student-athletes.
Yehl served as the Gannon men's tennis head coach for seven years (1953-59) and led the Golden Knights to five winning campaigns. He could be seen talking to students at every home basketball game and rewarded his chemistry students with trips to Buffalo Sabre games and the U.S. Tennis Open in New York City. All these things helped him quietly influence the lives of students with advice and counselling while sustaining values during significant times in their lives.
He is legendary at Gannon University as evident with the Yehl Alumni Room in the Waldron Campus Center named in honor of him. Yehl's other prestigious awards include the 1989 Gannon Distinguished Faculty Award, 1998 Monsignor Wilbert J. Nash Principals of Christian Conduct Award and 2002 Archbishop John Mark Gannon Medal of Distinction Award.
