Alumni Achievement Award
The Alumni Achievement Award was established to recognize alumni who have distinguished themselves as leaders in their chosen field of endeavor by demonstrating a high standard of performance over and beyond normal expectations and realizing exceptional achievement in that field. No more than three alumni may be chosen each year to receive this award. The criteria include:
- Recognized as a leader in his/her chosen field of endeavor by demonstrating a high standard of performance over and beyond the normal expectations and realizing exceptional achievement in the field.
- Actively involved in the affairs of his/her community, church, civic matters, etc.
- Shown continued support for Barton College since graduation.
- Present during Homecoming to receive the award.
Award Recipients
| 2019 | Scott Edward Hemby, ’87 |
| 2018 | Kristie Lamm Bass, ’98 Gregory Lee Abeyounis, ’93 |
| 2017 | Linda Hanna Walling, ’78 Leigh Liles Foushee, ’97 |
| 2016 | Richard T. Clayton, ’77 Amy J. Denton, ’94 |
| 2015 | Mary Kay Grever Irwin, ’98 |
| 2014 | Lisa Boykin Batts, ’84 Thomas E. Brown Jr., ’83 |
| 2013 | R. Casey Prince, ’01 Donald E. “Chip” Bailey, ’86 |
| 2012 | Mary Elliott Strickland, ’86 |
| 2011 | W. Lyndo Tippett, ’63 Don E. Lassiter, ’74 |
| 2010 | Susan Maxwell Bane, ’87 Greg Killingsworth, ’75 Jess Maghan, ’63 |
| 2009 | Bobby Bennett, ’67 Scott Cruikshank, ’95 Steve Hart, ’92 |
| 2008 | Morgan P. Dickerman III, ’79 Gareth C. Hosford, ’91 |
| 2007 | Thomas F. Arrington Jr., ’73 Jack Edward “Eddie” Ferguson, ’97 Russell T. Rawlings, ’78 |
| 2006 | A. Stephen Ginn, ’59 Sharon H. Ginn, ’59 |
| 2005 | Reverend Charles Edmond Barnes, ’86 Eric Wayne Sellers, ’79 |
| 2004 | Dr. R. Carl Frazier Jr., ’80 Phyllis Parish-Howard, ’79 |
| 2003 | James W. Bishop, ’59 Dr. Marvin Joyner, ’68 |
| 2001 | Dr. Debra Wallace, ’79 Bobby Dean White, ’79 |
| 2000 | Miriam “Mickey” Moore Dunn, ’47 Dr. William Preston Nixon Jr., ’64 |
| 1999 | Walter B. Jones Jr., ’67 Donna J. Simms, ’76 Mary Elizabeth Burton-Williams, ’85 Dr. Martin K. Williams, ’85 |
| 1998 | George C. “Chuck” Finklea Jr., ’78 Edward Earl “Eddie” Summerlin, ’69 Katherine A, Vaughan, ’71 William A. Vaughan Jr., ’68 |
| 1997 | Thomas Edward Brown III, ’73 Dr. Donald W. Cameron, ’65 |
| 1996 | Major General Ellis Williamson, ’40 Dennis R. Sherrod, ’79 |
| 1995 | Robert L. “Bobby” Dunn Jr., ’60 Vivian M. Hamilton, ’56 Rick R. Stewart, ’68 |
| 1994 | Dr. Thomas G. Aycock, ’69 Dr. C.E. Maurice Belanger, ’64 Rev. A. Franklyn Brooks Jr., ’61 James V. Creasy, ’41 |
| 1993 | Gilbert Douglas Ferrell, ’54 Dr. Samuel Franklin Freeman Jr., ’33 Edward Daniel Shingleton, ’63 |
| 1992 | Robert Van Andrews, ’73 William Cole Andrews, ’73 Dr. William Ruffin Batchelor, ’62 |
| 1991 | Kenneth Hill Brinson, ’59 Nan Mattox Cheek, ’54 James Edwin Rogers Sr., ’39 Phillip H. Warren, ’71 |
| 1990 | Don E. Lee Jr., ’59 Kenneth R. Thornton, ’64 Mary Brewer Walters, ’36 |
| 1989 | G. Barry Lamm, ’58 Ambrose N. Manning, ’43 Dr. Kaoru Nonaka, ’57 Margarette D. Silverthorne, ’28 |
| 1988 | Dr. Johnas F. Hockaday Jr., ’51 Dr. G. Howard Phillips, ’50 Gerald H. Quinn, ’59 |
| 1987 | Eva Mae Whitley Brothers, ’34 Aaron E. Fussell Sr., ’46 Harold W. Hardison, ’46 Dr. Richard L. Harrison Jr., ’68 Lill C. Tomlinson, ’15 |
| 1986 | John Thurman Denning, ’36 Dr. Griffith A. Hamlin, ’39 Myra Joyner Mitchiner, ’36 Rev. Fred William Wiegmann, ’30 |
| 1985 | Onnie R. Cockrell Jr., ’38 Dewitt C. Daughtry, ’35 Hazel Gunter Sorrell, ’37 Dr. Woodrow B. Sugg, ’39 |
| 1984 | Sarah Loftin Adams, ’36 David C. Hardison, ’49 Joseph Q. Holliday, ’42 Harriet S. Plyler, ’11 |
| 1983 | Dr. Gilbert D. Davis Jr., ’46 Henry C. Hilliard, ’56 Dr. Darwin W. McCaffity, ’49 A.J. Walston, ’58 |
| 1982 | Elizabeth House Arline, ’36 Robert E. Carr, ’38 Selz C. Mayo, ’35 Samuel T. Ragan, ’36 |
| 1981 | Dr. Milton L. Adams, ’37 George Max Barber, ’57 Samuel M. Jones, ’16 Bethany Rose Joyner, ’47 |
| 1980 | Robert L. Denny, ’38 Lawrence A. Moye, ’20 E. Thomas Parham, ’63 |