2022
Richard H. Brodhead
Janet Hill (posthumously)
2021
MaryAnn Black (posthumously)
Peter M. Nicholas ’64
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. ’75
2019
Brenda Armstrong ’70, H.S.’75-’79†
David M. Rubenstein ’70
2018
Thomas M. Gorrie
Sally Dalton Robinson ‘55
2017
Catherine Gilliss B.S.N.’71
Peter Lange
2016
Oscar Dantzler
Bruce A. Karsh ‘77
2015
Albert Buehler
Paula Phillips Burger ‘67, M.A.’74
2014
Cookie Anspach Kohn ‘60
J. Horst Meyer
2013
Daniel T. Blue, Jr. J.D.’73
Gerald Lee Wilson M.Div.’61, M.A.’68
2012
Rebecca Trent Kirkland ’64, M.D.’68
Judith Ruderman Ph.D.’76
2011
James F. Bonk
Karl M. von der Heyden ’62
2010
Jean Fox O’Barr
Robert King Steel ’73
2009
Joel L. Fleishman
Ernest Mario
2008
John A. Forlines, Jr. ’39
N. Allison Haltom ’72
2007
John A. Koskinen ’61
John J. Piva
2006
William (Jim) Wallace, Jr.
Ruby L. Wilson Ed.D.’69
2005
William E. King ’61, M.A.’63, Ph.D.’70
2004
Ernestine Friedl
Samuel L. Katz
2003
Joseph G. Pietrantoni
Nannerl O. Keohane
A. Morris Williams, Jr. ’62
2002
William G. Anlyan HS’55
John Alexander McMahon ’42
2001
Thomas F. Keller ’53
Susan Bennett King ’62
2000
Robert Durden
Ella Fountain Pratt
Charles E. Putman (posthumously)
1998
Thomas A. Langford III M.Div.’78
1997
Charles Johnson
Mike Krzyzewski
1996
William J. Griffith ’50
Eugene A. Stead, Jr.
1995
John Wesley Chandler M.Div.’52, Ph.D.’54, LL.D.’02
Anne Walker Garrard ’25
1994
Isobel Craven Drill ’37
Paul M. Dumas, Jr.
1993
Samuel DuBois Cook LL.D.’79
Pelham Wilder, Jr.
1992
David C. Sabiston, Jr.
Terry Sanford LL.D.’86
1991
Marshall I. Pickens ’25, A.M.’26
Anne Firor Scott
1990
Charles B. Wade, Jr. ‘38
Mary Grace Wilson
1989
W. Kenneth Goodson D.D.’60
Marcus E. Hobbs ’32, A.M.’34, Ph.D.’36
1988
W. M. Upchurch, Jr. ’31, J.D.’36
Richard L. Watson
1987
Juanita M. Kreps A.M. ’44, Ph.D.’48, LL.D.’93
Reynolds M. Price, Jr. ’55
1986
R. Taylor Cole
Mary D. B. T. Semans ’39, LL.D.’83