Criteria:
- Is not a graduate of the university
- Demonstrated moral and/or financial support, shared skills, knowledge, personal time and energy to university
- Person should bring distinction to university and should be one with whom university desires to be associated
More than one (1) person can be selected per year
Recipients:
2013
2012
2011
Dr. C. LaVeta Ligon
Richard K. Storey
Dr. Paul E. Stanton Jr.
2010
Dr. J. Scott Gentry
C. Edwin Parker
Carol Gardner Transou
Marcy E. Walker
2009
Mr. Bill Jenkins
Mrs. Debra Myers Wilson
Mr. J. Brian Ferguson
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
Mr. Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr.
1998
1997
1996
Mrs. Kathryn Alice Paxton Jones
Mr. Robert and Mrs. Mary A. Walters*
1995
Dr. Clayton L. Carpenter *
Mr. John E. Seward
Mr. J. D. Swartz
Judge Shirley B. Underwood*
1994
Mr. Buford J. Goldstein
Dr. R. Jack Higgs
Mr. John M. Jones, Sr.
1993
Mr. Bruce Cunningham
Mrs. Sandra G. Powell
Judge Clifford E. Sanders*
Mr. Harry Smith
Mr. Edward K. Vaughan
Dr. Robert J. Alfonso
1992
Mr. Robert C. Petrey*
Mr. Don Starner
Mr. Terry Waite
1991
Dr. Mack P. Davis*
Dr. F. Heisse Johnson*
Mr. Carl A. Jones*
1990
Mr. William B. Greene, Jr.
Mr. Eric Sevareid*
1989
President Emeritus Delos P. Culp*
President Emeritus Burgin E. Dossett*
1988
Mr. J. Madison Brooks*
The Honorable Carl R. Moore
1987
Mr. J. Richard Diehl*
Mr. George W. Kelly*
Mrs. Cecile Cox Quillen*
The Honorable James H. Quillen*
1986
Mrs. Judith Beller
Mr. Ozell Carter*
Mrs. M. Marguerite Keefauver Davis
Mr. Don Knotts *
Mrs. Jean O'Brien
1985
Mr. Steven B. Shockley
1984
Mr. Palma L. Robinson (posthumously)
1983
Mr. Louis Gump
Dr. Calvin Mercer
Judge Ed E. Williams III
1982
Dr. Chales Allen, Sr.
Mr. Ray Pope*
1981
Dr. Burgin E. Dossett, Jr.
Mrs. Ruth Ellis
Mr. Vincent J. Murray
1980
Mr. James Donovan
Mr. Robert E. Sampson
1979
Mr. Charles F. Deleot
Mr. Allen Harris, Jr.*
Mr. James J. Powell
Mr. James Welch*
*Deceased