Alumni Awards

Please use the form below to nominate an alumnus/a whom you believe deserves recognition through the Lees-McRae Distinguished Alumni Award or the Alumni Service Award. 

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Alumni Service Award

The Alumni Board will present the Alumni Service Award during Homecoming. This award recognizes an individual who has consistently demonstrated extraordinary commitment, dedication, leadership, and service to the advancement of Lees-McRae College and the Alumni Association.

Nominees must:

  • Be an alumnus/a of Lees-McRae College.
  • Provide significant service to Lees-McRae College and/or the Lees-McRae Alumni Association.
  • Demonstrate a continuing interest in Lees-McRae by attending alumni events on and off campus and by contributing time, energy, or money to programs of the institution.
  • Manifest and commend the hallmarks of the Lees-McRae graduate in his/her life.

Distinguished Alumni Award

The Alumni Board will award the Distinguished Alumni Award during Homecoming. This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the college and whose achievements reflect honor on Lees-McRae College.

Nominees must: 

  • Be an alumnus/a of Lees-McRae College
  • Demonstrate a respectable profession or life mission for which the college is exceptionally proud.
  • Distinguish himself or herself in business, life work or worthy endeavor.
  • Manifest and commend the hallmarks of the Lees-McRae graduate in his/her life.
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    Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

    Year Recipient
    1970 Mr. Dick Ellis ’48
    1971 Mr. Don Baker ’57
    1971 Mr. Warren Jefferies ’39
    1972 Ms. Martha Guy ’40
    1972 Gen. George S. Boylan Jr. ’39
    1973 Mr. Auburn E. Andrews ’35
    1973 Mr. H. Jack Faw ’35
    1974 Mr. J. C. Roudebush ’62
    1975 Mrs. Lucile Gragg Beaman ’52
    1975 Ms. Charlotte Kubota ’47
    1976 Ms. Pat White ’54
    1976 Mr. Fred I. Dickerson ’31
    1976 Mr. Lantz Sykes ’47
    1977 Lt. Col. Paul Callahan ’40
    1977 Mrs. Jane Ormand Fairfax ’56
    1977 Mr. Sam Vickery ’39
    1978 Dr. Donald G. Hayes ’56
    1979 Mr. Howard Abernethy ’40
    1979 Mrs. Eloise Eagle Abernethy ’40
    1980 Mrs. Jackie Hefner Brown ’42
    1980 Ms. Lou Efird ’54
    1981 Mrs. Gwen Groome Masters ’49
    1981 Mr. Bill Cochran ’54
    1981 Mr. Elbert L. Peters Jr. ’50
    1982 Mr. Don Masters ’49
    1983 Mr. Paul McEwen ’36
    1984 Dr. Larry Hopkins ’70
    1985 Mrs. Roma Burleson Melton ’48
    1985 Mr. Gary Stacy ’60
    1985 Dr. L. O. Rupe ’35
    1985 Dr. Ivan Stafford ’34
    1986 Mr. Dick Weaver ’57
    1987 Mrs. Ethel Boyd Beam ’39
    1987 Dr. Hugh Lee McKinney ’39
    1987 Lt. Col. Asa "Pat" Adair ’41
    1988 Mr. Charles B. VonCannon Sr. ’35
    1988 Mr. Thomas Ferebee ’40
    1989 Mrs. Edith Colvard Crutcher ’42
    1989 Dr. Denny Wolfe ’63
    1990 Mrs. Marie Bach Hogan ’48
    1990 Mr. John McConnell ’40
    (Given Posthumously)
    1991 Mr. John Cates ’82
    1992 Dr. Jake Bradsher ’39
    1993 Dr. Jack Robinson ’49
    1994 No Award Given
    1995 Mr. Billy R. Loflin ’47
    1996 Mrs. June Minton Smith ’55
    1997 No Award Given
    1998 Mrs. Pat Smith Tilley ’55
    1999 Coach Fred I. Dickerson ’31
    2000 Mrs. Jane Baucom Stephenson ’57
    2001 Mr. Carl Edward "Ed" Hipps ’55
    2002 Ms. Martha McAfee ’86/’03
    2003 Mr. Creighton W. Pendarvis ’56
    2003 Mrs. Helen Jones Brown ’56
    2004 Mrs. Barbara Sides Rice ’55
    2005 Mr. Alvin E. Dresser ’40
    2005 Mrs. Carol Lowe Timblin ’60
    2006 Mr. Thomas Lane Hurley ’64
    2007 No Award Given
    2008 Mr. Leslie John Broussard ’90
    2009 Capt. Kenneth D. Sullivan ’59
    2010 Mrs. Kimberly Garrison Palmisano ’83
    2011 Mr. Fred Street ’52
    2011 Mrs. Johnnie Grant Street ’53
    2012 Mr. Rick Owen ’00
    2013 Mr. Robert Mark Mauldin ’76
    2014 Martha Stone Penny ’59
    2015 Mr. David Charles Vance ’61
    2016 Mr. Steve Tatum ’74
    2017 Mr. Ed Shelton ’60
    2018 Arch Hoxton ’64
    2019 Amy Beane ’96
    2020 Julia McCombs ’76
    2021 No Award Given
    2022 Mr. James Mahan ’59
    2023 Mr. Jesse Pope ’02
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    Alumni Service Award Recipients

    Year Recipient
    1992 Mrs. Doris Ramsey Caldwell ’40
    1993 Mr. Fred "Satch" Lyle ’49
    1993 Mrs. Martha "Mot' Jones Lyle ’49
    1994 Mr. John W. McNeely Jr. ’49
    1994 Mrs. Martha Harper McNeely ’48
    1995 Dr. Max Garland Rieves ’49
    1996 No Award Given
    1997 No Award Given
    1998 Mr. Don E. Masters ’49
    1998 Mrs. Gwen Groome Masters ’49
    1999 Mr. Fred I. "Coach" Dickerson ’31
    2000 Mr. Sam Vickery ’39
    2001 Mrs. June Minton Smith ’55
    2002 Mrs. Becky Campbell Lakey ’58
    2002 Mrs. Lucile Gragg Beaman ’52
    2002 Mrs. Jane Ormand Fairfax ’56
    2003 Mr. Wendell Boggs ’57
    2003 Mrs. Tana Boggs ’57H
    2004 Mrs. Ethel Boyd Beam ’39
    2005 Mr. Bob Seals ’40
    2005 Mrs. Jean Aven Seals ’41
    2006 Mr. Robert Clemmer ’65
    2007 No Award Given
    2008 Ms. Martha McAfee ’86/’03
    2009 Mr. Roy Krege ’81H
    2009 Mrs. Marion Krege ’81H
    2010 Ms. Catherine Day Button ’89
    2011 Ms. Karol Ogburn Laws ’50
    2011 Ms. Jean Ogburn Neal ’52
    2012 Ms. Lynn Swisher Neese ’90
    2013 Mrs. Karen Gobble Meade ’86
    2014 Ms. Gail Miller ’72
    2015 Mr. Tommy Byerly ’66
    2016 Mr. James Berry ’69
    2017 Ms. Talia Freeman ’07
    2018 Mr. Gary T. Moss, Jr. ’99
    2019 Ms. Frankie Needham ’55H
    2020 Ms. Deena Powell Chambers ’75
    2020 Mr. Justin Kitts ’07
    2021 No Award Given
    2022 Mr. James Berry ’69
    2023 Ms. Talia Freeman ’07

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