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 |