Since 1978, Carolina Alumni’s Distinguished Service Medal has honored individuals for their remarkable contributions to the Carolina alumni community and the University. The Distinguished Service Medal is the highest honor the association awards for outstanding dedication and service.
2023
Douglas S. Dibbert ’70 | Award citation (awarded June 9, 2023)
Debbie Dibbert | Award citation (awarded June 9, 2023)
Dwight L. Jacobs ’87 | Award citation (awarded May 13, 2023)
Barbara Kilpatrick Lee ’88 | Award citation (awarded May 13, 2023)
Karen C. Shelton | Award citation (awarded May 13, 2023)
2022
Terry Ellen Rhodes ’78 | Award citation
Patricia Ann Timmons-Goodson ’76 (’79 JD) | Award citation
2021
Michael “Mike” Fox ’78 (’79 MAT) | Award citation
William A. “Bill” Keyes IV ’75 (’18 PhD) | Award citation
Teresa Artis Neal ’83 | Award citation
Edward C. “Eddie” Smith Jr. ’65 | Award citation
2020
James E. “Jim” Delany ’70 (’73 JD) | Award citation
Charles E. “Chuck” Lovelace Jr. ’77 (’79 MBA) | Award citation
John L. Townsend III ’77 (’82 MBA) | Award citation
2019
Carol L. Folt | Award citation
William Lee Roper | Award citation
Winston Boyd Crisp ’92 (JD) | Award citation
2018
Phillip L. Clay ’68 | Award citation
Dwight D. Stone ’73 | Award citation
Teresa Holland Williams ’77 | Award citation
2017
Stephen Farmer | Award citation
Michael Kennedy ’79 | Award citation
Sallie Krawcheck ’87 | Award citation
2016
John Burress III ’58 | Award citation
Charlie Loudermilk ’50 | Award citation
Jordy Whichard ’79 | Award citation
2015
H. Shelton Earp III ’70 (MD, ’72 MS) | Award citation
Robyn Shernita Hadley ’85 | Award citation
Thomas Warren Ross Sr. ’75 (JD) | Award citation
2014
W. Lowry Caudill ’79 | Award citation
Donald Williams Curtis ’63 | Award citation
Henry Ell Frye ’59 (JD) | Award citation
Julia Sprunt Grumbles ’75 | Award citation
Hugh A. McAllister Jr. ’66 (MD) | Award citation
2013
C. Knox Massey Jr. ’59 and Mary Ann Keith Massey ’59 | Award citation
H. Holden Thorp ’86 and Patti Thorp | Award citation
Van Louis Weatherspoon ’54 and Kay Massey Weatherspoon | Award citation
2012
John Gray Blount Ellison Jr. ’69 (’72 MBA) | Award citation
William Burwell Harrison Jr. ’66 | Award citation
Randy Kane Jones ’79 (’82 JD) | Award citation
Shirley Ort | Award citation
2011
Erskine Boyce Bowles ’67 | Award citation
John P. “Jack” Evans | Award citation
Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 | Award citation
2010
Barbara Rosser Hyde ’83 | Award citation
Brenda W. Kirby | Award citation
Karol Virginia Mason ’79 | Award citation
Roy Allen Williams ’72 (73 MAT)| Award citation
2009
Dwight Merrimon Davidson III ’77 | Award citation
Fredric Neville Eshelman ’72 | Award citation
Bernadette Gray-Little | Award citation
James Horner Winston ’55 | Award citation
2008
Russell Miller Carter ’71 | Award citation
Dennis and Joan Gillings | Award citation
James Moeser | Award citation
Roger Lee Perry Sr. ’71 | Award citation
2007
William Wallace Guthridge | Award citation
Anthony Stephen Harrington ’63 | Award citation
Jean Almand Kitchin ’70 | Award citation
Nelson Schwab III ’67 | Award citation
2006
Max Carrol Chapman Jr. ’66 | Award citation
Mary Anne Dickson ’63 | Award citation
Carl L. Matheson ’57 | Award citation
C. Dixon Spangler Jr. ’54 | Award citation
2005
Doris Waugh Betts ’54 | Award citation
Richard R. Cole | Award citation
Julian Hart Robertson Jr. ’55 | Award citation
Richard Tyrone “Stick” Williams ’75 | Award citation
2004
Nancy Faison Bryson ’60 | Award citation
Vaughn Douglas Bryson ’60 | Award citation
Marjorie Bryan Buckley ’62 | Award citation
David Gardner Frey ’64 (’67 JD) | Award citation
Willis Padgett Whichard ’62 (’65 LLBJD) | Award citation
2003
Marc Basnight | Award citation
Paul Hardin | Award citation
Margaret Taylor Harper | Award citation
Richard Hampton Jenrette ’51 | Award citation
2002
Harvey Elliott Beech ’52 (LLB) | Award citation
Johnny Harris ’69 | Award citation
Roy Parker ’52 | Award citation
Earl Norfleet “Phil” Phillips Jr. ’62 | Award citation
2001
Richard Allen Baddour ’66 (’75 MA) | Award citation
Richard J. Richardson | Award citation
Frances Angas Weaver ’49 (’77 MSLS) | Award citation
2000
Michael K. Hooker ’69 | Award citation
William Octavius McCoy ’55 | Award citation
Ann Lewallen Spencer ’50 | Award citation
Charles McKimmon Winston ’53 | Award citation
1999
William Preston Aycock II ’65 (’70 JD) | Award citation (PDF)
Susan Haughton Ehringhaus ’66 (’68 JD) | Award citation (PDF)
Joel Lawrence Fleishman ’55 (’59 JD, ’60 MA) | Award citation (PDF)
Edward Hooper Hardison ’55 | Award citation (PDF)
Howard Nathaniel Lee ’66 (MSW) | Award citation (PDF)
1998
Anthony Eden Rand ’61 (’64 LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
James Terry Sanford ’39 (’46 LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
Charles Milton Shaffer Jr. ’64 (’67 JD) | Award citation (PDF)
1997
Stuart Osborne Bondurant Jr. ’50 | Award citation (PDF)
Esphur E. Foster | Award citation (PDF)
Paul Fulton ’57 | Award citation (PDF)
James Baxter Hunt Jr. ’64 (LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
Ernest Warriner Williamson ’51(’52 MEd) | Award citation (PDF)
1996
J. Allen Adams ’52 (’54 LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
Timothy Brooks Burnett ’62 | Award citation (PDF)
Thomas Stephen Kenan III ’59 | Award citation (PDF)
Eleanor Saunders Morris ’55 | Award citation (PDF)
1995
William J. Armfield IV ’56 | Award citation (PDF)
Woody L. Durham ’63 | Award citation (PDF)
C. Felix Harvey III ’43 | Award citation (PDF)
Douglass Hunt ’46 | Award citation (PDF)
Charles B. Kuralt ’55 | Award citation (PDF)
1994
Walter Royal Davis | Award citation (PDF)
Maurice John Koury ’48 | Award citation (PDF)
Anne Ellen Queen | Award citation (PDF)
Paul Joseph Rizzo ’50 | Award citation (PDF)
Richard Yates Stevens ’70 (’74 JD, ’78 MPA) | Award citation (PDF)
Richard Allen Vinroot ’63 (’66 LLB) | Award citation (PDF)
1993
Henry Wilkins Lewis ’37 | Award citation (PDF)
Betty Ray McCain ’52 | Award citation (PDF)
W. Travis Porter III ’53 (’60 LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
Wade Marvin Smith ’60 (’63 LLBJD) | Award citation (PDF)
1990
William McWhorter Cochrane ’37 (’41 LLBJD) | Award citation
Elizabeth Stetson Dowd ’53 | Award citation
James A. Harrell Sr. ’44 | Award citation
John A. Tate Jr. ’38 | Award citation
1989
Robert C. Eubanks Jr. ’61 | Award citation
Lloyd M. Jard ’43 | Award citation
Dean E. Smith | Award citation
Ralph N. Strayhorn Jr. ’47 (’50 LLBJD) | Award citation
1988
William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) | Award citation
Christopher C. Fordham III ’47 (CMED) | Award citation
J. Carlyle Sitterson ’31 (’32 MA, ’37 PhD) | Award citation
N. Ferebee Taylor ’42 | Award citation
1987
Raymond Howard Dawson ’58 (PhD) | Award citation
Sarah Virginia Dunlap | Award citation
S. Philip Harris Jr. ’54 | Award citation
Mebane Moore Pritchett ’57 | Award citation
Edward L. Rankin Jr. ’40 | Award citation
1986
Ida Howell Friday ’47 (MPH) | Award citation
William Clyde Friday ’48 (LLB) | Award citation
1985
R. Mayne Albright ’31 (’34 MA, ’36 JD) | Award citation
Orville Bentley Campell ’42 | Award citation
Sibyl Goerch Powe ’47 | Award citation
Kenneth Claiborne Royall Jr. ’40 | Award citation
James Edgar Wadsworth ’34 (’41 MEd) | Award citation
1984
Ray Simpson Farris Jr. ’62 (’67 JD) | Award citation
Barbara Byrd Fordham ’49 | Award citation
J. Harold Lineberger ’26 | Award citation
Joseph W. Lineberger ’33 | Award citation
1983
W. Thomas Bost Jr. ’35 | Award citation
Bernard Joseph Flatow ’41 | Award citation
Daniel Lindsey Grant ’21 | Award citation
Grace Rutledge Hamrick ’41 | Award citation
Edward M. O’Herron ’38 | Award citation
1982
Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles ’41 | Award citation
Charles Milton Shaffer ’35 & Charlotte Winborne Shaffer ’34 | Award citation
Clarence Earl Whitefield ’44 & Jane Pittard Whitefield ’48 | Award citation
1981
Grace Mewborn Aycock ’69 (MSW) | Award citation
George Watts Hill Sr. (class of 1922) | Award citation
Robert B. House (class of 1916) | Award citation
Nancy Howard Sitterson ’42 | Award citation
Louise Ellington Taylor | Award citation
1980
Henry A. Foscue Sr. ’26 | Award citation
Charlie Justice ’50 | Award citation
Fred W. Morrison (class of 1913; 1913 MA) | Award citation
Corydon P. Spruill (class of 1920) | Award citation
Thomas J. White Jr. ’27 | Award citation
1979
L. Roy Armstrong ’26 | Award citation
Albert Coates (class of 1918) | Award citation
James Evans Davis ’40 (’42 CMED) | Award citation
C. Knox Massey Sr. ’25 | Award citation
Hugh M. Morton ’43 | Award citation
1978
Archibald K. Davis ’32 (’76 MA) | Award citation
Frank Borden Hanes Sr. ’42 | Award citation
Frank Hawkins Kenan ’35 | Award citation
Porter Cowles Pickell ’33 | Award citation
J. Maryon Saunders ’25 (’26 MA) | Award citation