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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.
The 2023 Alumni Medallion & Service Award Ceremony will be held on Feb. 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. in Commonwealth Auditorium in the Sadler Center. A recording of the ceremony and videos honoring each of the Alumni Medallion recipients will be available for viewing after the ceremony.
Read about the 2022 recipients in the winter 2022 W&M Alumni Magazine.
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 |
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 |
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, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |