Reverend Martin Deppe ’57 was presented the George B. Walter ’36 Service to Society Award. Martin Deppe has played a role in some of the key movements and moments of recent history. A United Methodist pastor who served six Chicago-area congregations between 1961 and his retirement in 1999, Deppe's dedication and his devotion to human rights and civil liberties are evident in his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket and Clergy and Laity Concerned about the Vietnam War and with individual such as Martin Luther King, Jr., William Sloane Coffin, and Abraham Heschel. His leadership roles in groups organized to seek social and economic justice are, literally, too many to mention.
Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2007