2007 Z.G. Clevenger Award Recipients
2007 Winners
Dr. Steve Ahlfeld, David S. McCrea, Dr. Alan Somers
Dr. Steve Ahlfeld
Dr. Steve Ahlfeld was a guard on the Indiana University basketball team from 1972-1975. He was a member of three consecutive Big Ten Championship teams. In 1975 he played on IU’s first undefeated Big Ten and undefeated regular season team in history. He received the Branch McCracken post-graduate academic scholarship. He received his M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1979.
Dr. Ahlfeld has been in private practice in Indianapolis as an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine since 1984. A pioneer in the development of advanced arthroscopic surgical techniques, Dr. Ahlfeld is in his 24th year as the Team Orthopedic Surgeon for Indiana University Basketball. He is owner of the Ahlfeld Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has presented lectures and published articles nationally and internationally related to Orthopedic Surgery and sports Medicine.
Dr. Ahlfeld is a lifetime member of the Indiana University Alumni Association and I Association. He is active in supporting Varsity Club programs and the Indiana University Foundation. He is an inductee of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Dr. Ahlfeld and his wife Helen, a graduate of the Indiana University School of Nursing, have two sons. Adam Ahlfeld is a senior member of the IU Basketball Team majoring in Education. Chris Ahlfeld is a senior at North Central High School and is a member of the school’s football and basketball teams.
David S. McCrea
A native of Bloomington, IN, David graduated from University High School in 1961. He subsequently attended the Indiana University School of Law and graduated in 1968. Since that time he has practiced in the Bloomington firm of McCrea and McCrea, which was started by his father after World War II. He has a general practice with his brother, Edward, and his nephew, Aaron. Since 1981, David has developed a special focus on the representation of individuals who have been injured by toxic chemicals.
David worked as a football manager for Phil Dickens from 1961-64. He was the senior manager in 1964 and was awarded an “I” each of his four years. He is a member of the I Association, the Indiana University Alumni Association, Hoosier Hundred, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the IU Varsity Club, serving as chairman of the Bloomington chapter. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Arts and Sciences Alumni Association and was a charter member of the Indiana Bar Foundation. Currently, he serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Woodburn Guild.
David’s family has a long history with the university, beginning with his great-great uncle, James R. Latimer, who was valedictorian of the 44th class of the university which graduated on July 3, 1873. Since that time 16 other members of his family have attended undergraduate and/or graduate school at the university. David is the son of Robert (BA, 1938; JD 1941) and Dorothy McCrea (1938). He is married to the former Elizabeth Statts (BA, 1966; PhD., 1980) and they have two sons, Robert of Portland, OR and Michael of Smithville, IN. They have restored and reside in the home in Bloomington on South Jordan which has been in the family for 50 years.
Dr. Alan Somers
Dr. Alan Somers won swimming letters in 1961, ’62, and ’63 and was captain of the swim team in 1963. He won five Big Ten championships in the 400-, 2500-, and 1650-meter freestyles and competed in the 1960 Olympic Games in the 400- and 1500-meter freestyles. As the youngest of three representatives of IU in the Olympics, Alan broke the 400-meter record by more than 8 seconds in the freestyle trials.
As a student, he also rode in the Little 500 and was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Alan received his M.D. from IU in 1968 and went on to practice neurology. He has served as a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at IU’s School of Medicine and recently retired from a 31-year general neurology practice here in Bloomington.
He continues to swim on the IU Masters Team and is an active member of the Indiana University Alumni Association, the I Association, 1820 Society, and the Varsity Club. In 2005 Alan and his wife Kathryn established the Marge Counsilman Swimming Scholarship to honor the Matriarch of IU swimming.
He and Kathryn, who received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from IU as well, have three children, two of whom also earned degrees here at IU: Lissa, Amy, and Megan. They live here in Bloomington.