KEARNEY Six University of Nebraska at Kearney alumni will be recognized during 2012 Homecoming activities.

The six will be honored at the 32nd-annual Homecoming Awards Banquet Friday.

Jamie Gutierrez of Omaha, class of 1989; William C. Bill McGahan of North Platte, class of 1964, master of science 1968, educational specialist 1981; and Jeanette Keller Wojtalewicz of Omaha, class of 1984, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dan Whelan of Schaumburg, Ill., class of 2000, will receive the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, and Jerry and Nancy Stahr Dulitz of Kearney, class of 1965, will receive the Jim Rundstrom Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Gutierrez is president and owner of Midwest Maintenance, a building service provider headquartered in Omaha. As a leader in the housekeeping industry, Midwest Maintenance maintains more than 8 million square feet of office, industrial, health-care and arena space. The company has been Omahas largest minority-owned, woman-owned and Hispanic-owned business since 1998.

Gutierrezs company has been recognized as one of the fastest growing Inner City 100 businesses by Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Inc. magazine.

McGahan is a retired educator who spent 48 years in education, 42 in a variety of positions with North Platte St. Patrick schools. For 37 of those years, he served as superintendent of the North Platte Catholic Schools system before retiring in 2011.

McGahan was a charter member of UNK Educational Administration Advisory Committee, serving from 1991 to 2011. He served on 24 Nebraska Department of Education school accreditation team visits to Nebraska schools.

Wojtalewicz is chief financial officer for Catholic Health Initiative Nebraska, a position she has had since 2010. CHI Nebraska is a $1 billion company that includes hospitals and organizations such as Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center and the Nebraska Heart Hospital in Lincoln, St. Marys Hospital in Nebraska City, and the Physicians Network and Health Connect at Home.

Wojtalewicz is a member and was past president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She is treasurer of the board of the Nebraska Surgery Center in Lincoln and president-elect of the board for the Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium in Omaha. Wojtalewicz served as a member of the UNK Gold Torch Society from 2006 to 2008.

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