Since 1981, the Ufer Award has been presented each year to a Letterwinners M Club member in recognition for his or her outstanding service to the University of Michigan Athletic Program.

Chip Warrick Named 2007 Ufer Award Winner

Woodward A. “Chip” Warrick, Jr. is the 2007 winner of the Ufer Award, presented annually since 1981 by the Letterwinners M Club in honor of an individual for his or her outstanding service to the University of Michigan athletic department.

Over the last seven decades, Warrick has built up a long list of accomplishments at and support of the University of Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan wrestling teams of 1943 and 1944; graduated from Michigan’s engineering school in 1946, and the Michigan Business School in 1947; was president of the UofM Club of Cincinnati in 1961 and 1962; and president of the Letterwinners M Club in 1967 (at which time the club was called the Varsity M Club).

Warrick was also instrumental in the move to admit women into the Lettewinners M Club and onto the club’s executive board, and in the creation of the Ufer Award, which happens to be in honor of Warrick’s college roommate, Bob Ufer.

In the early ‘60s, Warrick also helped develop the pipeline of strong Michigan football
recruits from the Cincinnati area by helping to land Bob Timberlake, Mel Anthony, Carl
Ward and other M football stars. In the decades to follow, many Michigan football
greats originated in southwestern Ohio.

More recently, Warrick provided significant support for Michigan’s new and much
improved wrestling facilities.

Past Ufer Award Winners

1981 Robert P. Ufer, Sr.
1982 Douglas F. Roby
1983 Newton C. Loken
1984 Paul G. Goebel, Sr,
1985 Clifford P. Keen
1986 Donald B. Canham
1987 David F. Rentschler
1988 Howard L. Wikel
1989 Roger Zatkoff
1990 Kenneth “Red” Simmons
1991 Don W. Robinson
1992 Robert G. Forman
1993 Allan M. Renfrew
1994 Glenn E. “Bo” Schembechler
1995 Jerry F. Hanlon
1996 Donald A. Lund
1997 Wallace D. Grant
1998 Gordon A. “Red” Berenson
1999 Gordon R. “Jack” Harvey
2000 Richard J. Kimball
2001 Michael R. Shatusky
2002 Richard M. Leach, Sr.
2003 William C. Martin
2004 Ronald J. Kramer

2005 Jon Urbanchek

2006 Carol Hutchins