The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal has been awarded since 1978 to alumni and others who have provided outstanding service to the GAA and/or the University. It is presented at the Annual Alumni Luncheon each spring.
2021
Teresa Artis Neal ’83
Michael “Mike” Fox ’78 (’79 MAT)
William A. “Bill” Keyes IV ’75 (’18 PhD)
Edward C. “Eddie” Smith Jr. ’65
2020
James E. “Jim” Delany ’70
Charles E. “Chuck” Lovelace Jr. ’77
John L. Townsend III ’77
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)
Susan Haughton Ehringhaus ’66 (’68 JD)
Joel Lawrence Fleishman ’55 (’59 JD, ’60 MA)
Edward Hooper Hardison ’55
Howard Nathaniel Lee ’66 (MSW)
1998
Anthony Eden Rand ’61 (’64 LLBJD)
James Terry Sanford ’39 (’46 LLBJD)
Charles Milton Shaffer Jr. ’64 (’67 JD)
1997
Stuart Osborne Bondurant Jr. ’50
Esphur E. Foster
Paul Fulton ’57
James Baxter Hunt Jr. ’64 (LLBJD)
Ernest Warriner Williamson ’51(’52 MEd)
1996
J. Allen Adams ’52 (’54 LLBJD)
Timothy Brooks Burnett ’62
Thomas Stephen Kenan III ’59
Eleanor Saunders Morris ’55
1995
William J. Armfield IV ’56
Woody L. Durham ’63
C. Felix Harvey III ’43
Douglass Hunt ’46
Charles B. Kuralt ’55
1994
Walter Royal Davis
Maurice John Koury ’48
Anne Ellen Queen
Paul Joseph Rizzo ’50
Richard Yates Stevens ’70 (’74 JD, ’78 MPA)
Richard Allen Vinroot ’63 (’66 LLB)
1993
Henry Wilkins Lewis ’37
Betty Ray McCain ’52
W. Travis Porter III ’53 (’60 LLBJD)
Wade Marvin Smith ’60 (’63 LLBJD)
1990
William McWhorter Cochrane ’37 (’41 LLBJD)
Elizabeth Stetson Dowd ’53
James A. Harrell Sr. ’44
John A. Tate Jr. ’38
1989
Robert C. Eubanks, Jr. ’61
Lloyd M. Jard ’43
Dean E. Smith
Ralph N. Strayhorn Jr. ’47 (’50 LLBJD)
1988
William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD)
Christopher C. Fordham III ’47 (CMED)
J. Carlyle Sitterson ’31 (’32 MA, ’37 PhD)
N. Ferebee Taylor ’42
1987
Raymond Howard Dawson ’58 (PhD)
Sarah Virginia Dunlap
S. Philip Harris Jr. ’54
Mebane Moore Pritchett ’57
Edward L. Rankin Jr. ’40
1986
Ida Howell Friday ’47 (MPH)
William Clyde Friday ’48 (LLB)
1985
R. Mayne Albright ’31 (’34 MA, ’36 JD)
Orville Bentley Campell ’42
Sibyl Goerch Powe ’47
Kenneth Claiborne Royall Jr. ’40
James Edgar Wadsworth ’34 (’41 MEd)
1984
Ray Simpson Farris Jr. ’62 (’67 JD)
Barbara Byrd Fordham ’49
J. Harold Lineberger ’26
Joseph W. Lineberger ’33
1983
W. Thomas Bost Jr. ’35
Bernard Joseph Flatow ’41
Daniel Lindsey Grant ’21
Grace Rutledge Hamrick ’41
Edward M. O’Herron ’38
1982
Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles ’41
Charles Milton Shaffer ’35
Charlotte Winborne Shaffer ’34
Clarence Earl Whitefield ’44
Jane Pittard Whitefield ’48
1981
Grace Mewborn Aycock ’69 (MSW)
George Watts Hill Sr. ’22
Robert B. House ’16
Nancy Howard Sitterson ’42
Louise Ellington Taylor
1980
Henry A. Foscue Sr. ’26
Charlie Justice ’50
Fred W. Morrison ’13 (’13 MA)
Corydon P. Spruill ’20
Thomas J. White Jr. ’27
1979
L. Roy Armstrong ’26
Albert Coates ’18
James Evans Davis ’40 (’42 CMED)
C. Knox Massey Sr. ’25
Hugh M. Morton ’43
1978
Archibald K. Davis ’32 (’76 MA)
Frank Borden Hanes Sr. ’42
Frank Hawkins Kenan ’35
Porter Cowles Pickell ’33
J. Maryon Saunders ’25 (’26 MA)