Awards

Honorary Degree - 1997

LL.D.

Doctor of Laws

Commencement

Indianapolis, Indiana

Presenter: Myles Brand

President's Medal for Excellence - 1992

Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology Preview

Bloomington, Indiana

Presenter: Thomas Ehrlich

About John T. Myers

Born in Covington, Indiana, Myers graduated from Covington High School in 1945 and earned his B.S. at Indiana State University in 1951. He served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1946. He graduated from Indiana State University in 1951. Afterwards, he was a cashier and trust officer with the Fountain Trust Company from 1952 to 1966 and worked as a farmer in Fountain County.

He was first elected to congress in 1966 and was reelected fourteen more times, serving from 1967 until his retirement in 1997.