Alumni Awards

Previous Winners

Outstanding Young Alumni Award
Year Recipient
2009 Briana Marie Corke (A.B.Ed. ’03)
2008 Enrique Murillo (Ph.D. ’99)
2007 Patricia Cotham (M.S.A. ’06)
2006 Travis Lewis (M.Ed. ’00)
2005 Alvera Junice Lesane (M.S.A. ‘01)
2004 Christina M. Bowling (A.B. ’98, M.Ed. ’00)
2002 Tate Gould (A.B.Ed. '97)
2001 Christina Arnette (A.B.Ed. ’91)
2000 Laura Bilbro-Berry (A.B.Ed. ’92)
Excellence in Teaching Award
Year Recipient
2009 John Scott Westefeld (A.B. ’72, M.P.H. ’73, Ph.D.’78)
2008 Cindi Rigsbee (A.B.Ed, ’79, M.Ed. ’03)
2007 Diane Day (M.Ed. ’06)
2006 Jan Schuettpelz (M.Ed. ’04)
2005 Leslie White Baldwin (A.B.Ed. ‘98)
2004 Kathy Foster Durham (A.B.Ed. ’90)
2003 Mitzi M. Safrit (A.B.Ed. ’89)
2002 Darlene Ryan (A.B.Ed. '78)
Sofia Villenas (Ph.D. '96)
2001 John Waszak (A.B.Ed. ’83)
Distinguished Leadership Award
Year Recipient
2009 Musette Sprunt Morgan (A.B.Ed. ’76)
2008 Barbara Chapman (Ph.D. ’81)
2007 Samuel M. Holton
Thomas James
2006 Nancy J. Farmer (A.B.Ed. ’69, M.Ed. ’70, Ed.D. ’82)
2005 James Gordon Merrill (A.B.Ed. ‘73)
2004 Dan G. Lunsford (M.Ed. ’71, Ed.D. ’80)
2003 A. Craig Phillips (A.B. ’43, M.Ed. ’48, Ed.D. ’56)
2002 Elson Floyd (A.B. '78, M.Ed. '82, Ph.D. '84)
Howard Maniloff
2001 The Honorable Howard Lee (M.S.W. ’66)
2000 Gerry House (Ed.D. ’88)
Alumni Achievement Award
Year Recipient
2009 Barnett Wayne Berry (Ph.D. ’84)
Malbert Smith III (M.Ed. ’77, Ph.D. ’80)
2008 Maureen Hartford (A.B. ’65, M.A.C.T. ’72)
2007 Roy Williams (A.B.Ed. ’72, M.A.T. ’73)
2006 Henry Johnson (M.A.T. ’75)
2005 Henry Dickson Corbett III (A.B. ’73, M.A.T. ’74, Ph.D.’79)
2004 Lane S. Anderson III (A.B. ’67, M.A.T. ‘73)
2003 Zollie Stevenson Jr. (Ph.D. ’84)
2002 Charles Coble (A.B. '63, M.A.T. '66, Ed.D. '71)
2001 William Self (M.Ed. ’48, Ed.D. ’56)
2000 Clyde Edgerton (A.B.Ed. ’66, M.A.T. ’73, Ph.D. ’77)
Peabody Award
Year Recipient
2008 Martin Lancaster (A.B. ’65, J.D. ’67)
2006 Julius Chambers (L.L.B. J.D. ’62)
2005 Dean Edwards Smith
Linnea Weblemoe Smith
2004 William C. Friday (L.L.B. ’48)
Ida Howell Friday (M.P.H. ’47)
2003 Betty Lentz Siegel (M.Ed. ’53)
2002 Governor Gaston Caperton (B.S.B.A. '63)
2001 Phillip Schlecty
2000 Governor James B. Hunt Jr. (J.D. ’64)
Special Recognition for Service as a Lifelong Educator
Year Recipient
2002 Reeves H. Wells (A.B.Ed. '32)