Alumni Medallion

The highest and most prestigious award given by the Alumni Association, the Alumni Medallion recognizes outstanding alumni for dedication to and support for William & Mary; leadership in civic engagement in their communities, states or nations; and exemplary accomplishments in their professional lives. The award reflects the honor that recipients bring to the university and its alumni through their actions and contributions. 

Read about the 2023 recipients in the winter 2023 W&M Alumni Magazine and watch a recording of the ceremony

To nominate a deserving individual for the Alumni Medallion, please fill out the online form or download a Word document. To ensure eligibility, you can review the requirements in the Alumni Medallion Policy.

Nominations are due April 1 for presentation the following Charter Day.

Please email the CEO of the W&M Alumni Association at alumniceo@wm.edu with any questions.

Name Class Year Year of Award
Acuff, A. Marshall Jr. 1962, 2007 LHD 1993
Agee, Joseph S. 1952, M.Ed. 1956 2012
Anderson, Alvin P. 1970, 1972 JD 1998
Anderson, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ L. 1962 2015
Andrews, Hunter B. 1942 1988
Andrews, Miner Carl 1927 1943
Andrialis, Robert S. 1965 1996
Anthony, Garner 1953 2000
Anthony, Katy Viola 1921 1937
Armbruster, William A. 1957 1989
Armistead, Frank 1897 1934
Arthur, Roy William 1938 1965
Atwater, Janet Rollins 1984 2018
Barksdale, Martha Elizabeth 1921 1938
Bateman, Herbert H. 1949, 1997 LLD 1999
Beck, Donald C. 1964 2004
Bentley, John Boyd 1919 1970
Bickers, William McKenzie 1929 1981
Blair, Robert 1968 2005
Bland, Schuyler Otis 1892 1942
Boyd, Robert F. 1950, 1952 BCL 2000
Boyd, Sara M. Miller 1955 2000
Brady, Sarah Kemp 1964 2008-2009
Bredin, John Bruce 1936 1965
Brickell, Edward Ernest Jr., 1950 1982
Bridges, Herbert Lee 1893 1934
Bridges, James Malcolm 1925 1937
Brinkley, James W. 1959 1987
Bristow, Joseph Chambers 1904 1935
Broderick, Craig W. 1981 2019
Brooks, Archie Jr., 1876 1934
Brooks, Julian Arlington 1920 1938
Brooksher, K. Dane 1961 1991
Brown, David M.  1978 2003
Brown Jr., Russell E. 1974 2015
Bruce, Jean Canoles 1949 1992
Burke, Linda Beerbower 1970 2007-2008
Burns, Gene A. 1952 2003
Busbee, Howard J. 1965, JD 1967, MLT 1968 2004
Calkins, Robert DeBlois Jr. 1925 1958
Campbell, Dorothy Bayham Wilkinson 1925 1975
Campbell, James Jr., 1925 1975
Capps, John Edgar 1911 1934
Carneal, James Durrette Jr. 1920 1937
Chandler, Alvin Duke 1922 1957
Chappell, Robert Harvey 1948 1968
Charles, Roy Randolph 1932 1961
Cheek, Carl Wayne 1961 2004
Chestnut, Alphonse Felix 1941 1972
Chinnis, Pam Pauly 1946 1976
Christian, D. Bruce 1973 2013
Clarke, Thomas Clifford 1922 1978
Cleaton, Charles William 1926 1963
Close, Glenn 1974 1993
Cocke, Duncan McRae 1932 1980
Cole, Henry Denison 1874 1934
Cole, Waverly  1950 2009-2010
Coleman, Claude C. 1898 1941
Coleman, George Preston 1892 1942
Comey, James 1982, LL.D. 2008 2014
Cowles, Dudley Redwood 1892 1952
Cowles, William Walker 1926 1970
Culp, Clyde E. 1965 2001
Cunningham, Hughes Westcott 1943 1973
Dalton, John Nichols 1953 1974
Daugherty, Guy Wilson 1934 1974
Davis, Colin Randolph 1950 1979
Davis, Henry Jackson 1902 1934
Davis, Richard Joseph 1942 1983
DeMakes, Thomas L. 1965 2022
Dennis, Catherine Teackle 1921 1939
Derring, Paul Neyron 1917 1957
Desaulniers, Constance Warren 1975 2006-2007
DeVita, Vincent Theodore Jr., 1957 1976
Dillon, Lynn Melzer 1975 2008-2009
Dintersmith, Ted 1974 2017
Dovell, Grover Ashton 1908 1934
Driver, James Glenn 1909 1966
Duncan, Marion Moncure 1935 1977
Duncan, Robert Alexander III 1924 1973
Ellis, Jillian A. 1988, 2016 LHD  2018
Ellis, Joseph J. 1965 1997
Engoron, Frances C. 1970 2020
Entwisle, John S. 1944 1993
Faulconer, Robert Jamieson 1943 1985
Fitzgerald, Aubrey H. 1956 2003
Foreman, Alvan Herbert 1899 1934
Foster, Dixon Littleberry 1944 1970
Freeman, Bromley Smith 1933 1977
Gamage, Stewart H. 1972 1990
Gantt, Paul Hawkins 1942 BCL 1975
Garrett, John Henry Jr., 1940 1984
Gates, Robert M. 1965, 1998 LHD 2000
Geddy, Vernon Meredith 1917 1951
George, Henry H. 1965 2008-2009
George, William Brooks 1932 1954
Gerdelman, John W. 1975 2005
Gerdelman, Sue Hanna 1976 2011
Giermak, Chester Frank 1950 1982
Gill, Mary Land 1928 1991
Glacel, Barbara Pate 1970 2001
Godwin, Mills Edwin Jr., 1936 1972
Gofus, Nancy B. 1975 2019
Goodrich, Ernest Whitmore 1935 1979
Gore, Sarah Ives 1956 1998
Grant, Denys 1958 1991
Grimsley, J. Edward 1951 1992
Hall, Channing Moore 1908 1935
Hall, John Lesslie Jr. 1909 1943
Hall, Sidney rtlett 1920 1934
Hanson, Arthur Briggs 1939 1955
Harding, Glenne Hines 1965 2016
Harris, Audrey Murray 1960 1995
Hawthorne, Randall S. 1967, J.D. '70, M.L.T. '71 2007-2008
Hawthorne, Shelby Smith 1967, M.A.Ed. '75 2018
Haynie, Hugh Smith 1950 1977
Healy, Joseph Ewart 1910 1935
Heenan, David A. 1961 2001
Henley, Robert Edward 1906 1956
Henry, Rene Arthur 1954 2011
Hines, Alvin Paul 1900 1937
Hodges, William Thomas 1902 1934
Holbrook, Bruce C. 1971 2022
Hollowell, Thomas P. 1965, JD 1967, MLT 1968 2006-2007
Holt, Lucy Mason 1924 1934
Hooker, Henry Lester 1908 1934
Hopkins, Frank Snowden 1927 1969
Hornsby, Robert Stanley 1941 1970
Hughes, Robert Morton 1873 1934
Hughes, Robert Morton Jr. 1899 1947
Hurst, James 1899 1935
Hutcheson, Charles Sterling 1917 1965
Hyle, Howard Hopkins 1948 1983
I'Anson, Lawrence Warren 1928 1961
Islin, Edward Nelson 1925 1962
Jackson, Elizabeth Burger 1934 1972
Jarboe, Cynthia Satterwhite 1977 2023
James, Edwin Ralph 1916 1978
James, L. Eldon 1934 1989
Jenkins, James Sidney Jr. 1923 1934
Johnson, Edward Claude 1924 1937
Johnson, Emil Oscar 1934 1973
Johnson, John Rochelle Lee Jr. 1928 1963
Jones, William Gustavus 1876 1936
Kale, W. Wilford Jr., 1966 1986
Kaplan, James R. 1957 2002
Keen, Troy 1996 2017
Kaplan, Jane Thompson 1956 2016
Kelly, Herbert V. Sr., 1941, 1943 BCL 1987
Kelly, James Sands 1951 1964
Kennard, Rolfe Ewing 1924 1963
Kent, William Patton 1876 1934
Kent, Yelverton Oliver 1930 1977
Kilgore, Ann Hitch 1944 1967
King, William Stirling 1926 1967
Kinnamon, Jeanne Thomas Sheridan 1939 1982
Kohlhagan, Gale Gibson 1969 2005
Koons, Joseph R. 1968 1994
Koontz, Amos Ralph 1910 1934
Kraemer, Richard C. 1965 1995
Lagakos, Gregory George 1935 1971
Lambert, Anne Nenzel 1935 1995
Lambert, Jay Wilfred 1927 1960
Larson, Ralph Kermit Thomas 1928 1955
Lavin, Linda 1959 1984
Layne, Mildred Eloise 1932 1985
LeClair, Gary 1977 2014
Lidwin, John Thomas Jr. 1932 1971
Lipscomp, Phillip Doddridge 1891 1938
Little, John Peyton Jr. 1874 1937
Long, Charles Henry 1912 1938
Lowe, Ottowell Sykes 1923 1959
MacDonald, Stephen Ashby 1908 1935
Magill, Susan Aheron 1972 2006-2007
Malvin, Fred 1955, M.S.T 1958 2017
Mapp, George Walter 1894 1934
Mapp, John A. 1935 1990
Mason, Aubrey Leonidas 1947 1967
Mason, Raymond Adams 1959 1983
Mathews, Nancy W. 1976 2013
Matthews, Suzann Wilson 1971 2007-2008
McCaskey, Thomas Glenn 1931 1972
McLeod, H. Elizabeth 'Bee' 1983, MBA 1991 2021
McCormack, Mark Hume 1951 1981
McCurdy, Charles Post Jr. 1933 1936
McGlothlin, James W. 1962, 1964 BCL 1988
McLaughlin, Virginia L. 1971 2015
McKenney, Shepard W. 1962, 1964 BCL 1991
Metcalf, Wayne Carr 1913 1951
Midyette, Marilyn Ward 1975 2011
Mikula, Thomas M. 1948 2001
Miller, Alan B. 1958 1999
Mims, William C. 1979 2020
Monark, Ronald J. 1961 2002
Montague, Suzanne Garrett 1925 1960
Montgomery, Joseph W. 1974 1996
Mooney, J. Robert 1966 2011
Morpurgo, Jack Eric 1938 1972
Morton, Cynthia Casson 1977 2019
Morton, Douglas N. 1962 1995
Morton, John Flood Jr., 1958 1980
Murphy, William R. 1948 1998
Murray, James B. 1974 JD 1999
Muscarelle, Joseph L. 1927 1982
Nance, Peter M. 1966 2020
Neufeld, Peter 1958 2002
Newton, Blake Tyler 1911 1956
Newton, Blake Tyler Jr. 1935 1968
Newton, Robert Murphy 1916 1934
Nimmo, Anna Koenig 1945 1988
Nunn, Vernon Leslie 1925 1954
Oliver, George Jeffries 1931 1966
Owens, Carroll W. Jr. 1963 1997
Owens, Donald G. 1965, J.D. '71 2013
Owens, Patrisia Bayliss 1962 2007-2008
Paschall, Davis Young 1932 1964
Peebles, Anne Dobie 1944 1969
Penny, Pamela Jordan  1977, HON J.D. ’16 2024
Person, William Lunsford 1924 1978
Philpott, Sharon K. 1985 2021
Plumeri, Joseph J. 1966 1996
Pollard, John Garland Jr., 1923 1952
Powell, Michael K. 1985, D.P.S. 2002 2011
Powers, Christopher B. 1973 2019
Pullen, Thomas Granville Jr. 1917 1946
Pullen, William Edward 1922 1964
Pulley, R. Bradshaw 1939 1989
Quaintance, Carroll Brown 1924 1934
Quittmeyer, Charles Loreaus 1940 1976
Ramsey, Barbara 1975 2023
Ramsey, Harold Winfrey 1927 1983
Ramsey, Lizinka Ewell Crawford 1933 1946
Randolph, John H. 1964, M.Ed. 1968 1994
Robb, Robert Gilchrist 1895 1940
Roberts, Aubry Addison 1935 1970
Roberts, Austin L., III 1969, 1971 MA 1994
Robertson, James Moody 1929 1959
Robinson, Albert Pemberton Slaughter 1918 1938
Robinson, Samuel Warne 1937 1979
Rose, Jeanne 1933 1953
Rosovsky, Henry 1949 1987
Sadler, W. Samuel 1964, M.Ed. 1971 2009-2010
Salasky, Milton 1931 1987
Salle, Julian Aurelius 1881 1936
Sands, George Dewey Jr., 1939 1982
Saunders, Joseph Henry 1917 1936
Schaubach, G. Elliott Jr. 1959 1997
Sell, Patricia D. King 1958 1996
Sell, Stewart 1956 2023
Shewmake, Oscar Lane 1903 1939
Shield, James Asa 1924 1962
Shields, Joyce House 1964 2014
Showalter, Joan Frances 1955 1985
Simpson, Robert L. Sr. 1938, 1940 BCL 1997
Sizemore, H. Mason Jr. 1963 1998
Smith, Howard Chandler 1920 1948
Smith, Howard M. Jr., 1943 1993
Smith, Jane Spencer 1948 1986
Smith, Rebecca Beach 1971, 1979 JD 1997
Smith, Willard Sanders 1944 1986
Spratley, Claude Vernon 1901 1948
St. George, Nicholas 1960, J.D. 1965 2009-2010
Stafford, Helen Thomson 1948 1991
Stewart, R.E.B, Jr. 1927 1988
Stinnett, Harry Caskie 1932 1973
Stofan, Ellen R.  1983, D. Sc. '16 2018
Storm, Harriet Nachman 1964 1981
Stottlemyer, Todd A.  1985, P ’16, P ’21 2024
Stousland, Charles Eugene Jr., 1941 1975
Stout, Walter W. 1964 2016
Stryker, Henry Morris 1918 1950
Stub, Thomas Jefferson Jr. 1899 1940
Sulfridge, Hugh Leander 1916 1937
Sullivan, Timothy J. 1966 1993
Taliaferro, Warner T. Langhorne 1876 1934
Taliaferro, William Churchill Lyons 1892 1934
Tang, Michael 1976 2022
Taylor, Charles Albert Jr. 1909 1934
Taylor, Preston Phillips 1915 1937
Terrell, Emmett Herman 1899 1934
Thompson, Theresa 1967 2006-2007
Thompson, William Greenwood Jr. 1928 1936
Tillar, Ruth Weimer 1945 2012
Todd, Lee Barnhardt 1927 1979
Trammell, Jeff 1973 2017
Trice, Robert 'Bob' H. Jr. 1968 2021
Tuck, William Munford 1919 1967
Tuthill, John Wills 1932 1968
Tyler, Harrison 1949 2008-2009
Ukrop, Barbara Berkeley 1961 1987
Ukrop, James Edward 1960 1981
Velz, Richard Anthony 1936 1980
Verkuil, Paul R. 1961 1990
Vest, Walter Edward 1902 1936
Wager, John Phillip 1895 1938
Wakefield, David D. 1952 2005
Wallace, Robert Perry 1920 1935
Waller, Raymond T. 1940 1988
Walsh, Martin ‘Art’ D 1966, J.D. 1973 2015
Walsh, Patrick J. 1966 2004
Ward, Winfred O. 1954 2006-2007
Ware, Harry Hudnall Jr. 1922 1950
Warner, Susan 'Sue' Roache 1964 2021
Wertz, Gail W. 1966 2022
Watkins, H. Thomas III 1974 2023
Wetter, Virginia Forwood Pate 1940 1969
Weymouth, John 1894 1935
Wilkins, Harry Day 1924 1968
Wilkins, James Edward 1899 1935
Willett, Henry Irving 1925 1966
Williams, Lloyd Haynes 1929 1935
Williams, Sunshine Trumbo 1944 2008-2009
Wilson, James Southall 1904 1934
Winder, Arthur James 1925 1962
Wolf, Henry C. Esq. 1964, JD 1966 2012
Worrell, Everett Eldridge 1894 1937
Wright, Carol Achench 1949 2003
Wright, Ernest Linwood 1915 1969
Yonkers, Ann Harvey 1963 2016
Young, Earl "Tuggy” 1959 2009-2010
Young, Roscoe Conkling 1910 1935
Zable, Walter Joseph 1937 1971
Zollinger, John Edward 1927 1963