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 2025 recipients in the winter 2025 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, Betsy Calvo | 1970, 2015 HON J.D., P ’00 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Buck, Warren W. III | 1970 M.S., 1976 Ph.D., 2013 D.Sc. | 2025 |
| 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, Lawrence B. "Larry" | 1974, P ’13, P ’15 | 2025 |
| 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 |