Awarded since 1950, the Honorary Alumni Award is given to an individual (or individuals) who has shown unusual interest and given substantial service to the general Westbrook College Alumni Association. Nominations can be submitted by members of the Board of Directors or by other alumni of Westbrook College. This individual will become an honorary member upon the unanimous vote of the Board of Directors. The recipients, in order of the year the Honorary Alumni Award was presented, are:
Elsbeth Melville Percy, HA '50
Elizabeth Kimball, HA '51
Ethel Dewing Proctor, HA '52
Ruth Billings, HA '53
M. Lucille Kidder, HA '55
Grace A. Dow, HA '58
Dorothy M. Healy, HA '58
Thelma H. Adams, HA '59
Marion A. Blewett, HA '59
Constance Curry, HA '59
Margaret Giroux, HA '62
Sarah W. Jackson, HA '62
M. Greta Kerr, HA '64
Margaret K. Gonyea, HA '66
Rebecca Thurman Bernstein, HA '67
Helene Fenderson McGorrill, HA '68
Katherine W. Hildreth, HA '69
Edward York Blewett, LL.D., Litt.D, HA '70
Iona M Grant, HA '70
Eleanor N. Johnson, HA '70
Pauline G. Carter, HA '71
Bernice R. Clark, HA '71
Catherine R Dickinson, HA '72
Ethel S. Brown, HA '77
Edward O. Hooghkirk, HA '77
Vaughn Twaddel, HA '77
Anna Allen, HA '78
Walden K. McFarland, HA '78
Freda Schilling, HA '78
Kerry Riddle Courtice, HA '79
Mary Lou Kiley, HA '79
Richard F. Bond, HA '80
Charles R. Cushing, HA '80
Myron Hager, HA '81
Deborah L. Pratt, HA '82
Theodore Perry, HA '83
Mary Rines Thompson, HA '83
Roger C. Lambert, HA '84
M. Diane Curl Roberts, HA '84
Richard A. Simmons, HA '84
Carleton G. Lane, HA '85
Jane S. Moody, HA '85
Charles W. Redman, Jr., HA '85
Gladys A. Hager, HA '86
Richard H. Roberts, HA '86
James I. Armstrong, Ph.D., HA '87
C. Joy Jacobsen, HA '87
Phyllis Elhady Hoffman, HA '88
Widgery Thomas, Jr., HA '88
Jack D. Finley, HA '89
Bradford Dudley Daziel, HA '90
Nancy Pingree Drake, HA '91
Emerson H. Drake, M.D., HA '91
Robert O'Day, HA '92
Eleanor Parker Merrill, HA '93
Richard R. Eakin, Ph.D., HA '94
Irving H. Schlesinger, HA '94
James D. Graffam, HA '95
Maryellen G. Beaulieu, RDH, HA '96
Richard Morrell, HA '96
Kent Taylor, HA '97
Sandra Featherman, Ph.D., HA '98
Harland C. Goodwin, HA '98, HA '02
James Henrichs, HA '98
Kenneth H. Batchelder, HA '99
Phoebe E. Horne, HA '99
Roberta C. Gray, HA '00
Stephen K. Halpert, HA '00
Bernard Featherman, HA '01
Jeffrey B. Doss, D.D.S., HA '02
Sally Boyers Jones, HA '03
Scott R. Marchildon, HA '03
Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., HA '04
Cally Gurley, HA '04
Capt. William G. Gatchell, HA '05
W. Stanton Maloney, Ph.D., Professor emeritus, HA '06
James "Jim" Cyr, HA '07
Given since 1961, the Alumni Achievement Award is presented to graduates of Westbrook College who have distinguished themselves by a high level of performance in business or professional life, by services of unusual quality in civic activities or organizations, or by extraordinary, devoted and loyal service to the Westbrook College Alumni Association. The recipients, in order of the year the Tower Award was presented, are:
Audrey White Beyer '37 (1961)
Edna Knight Buzzell '39 (1961)
Alice Williams Carkin '05 (1961)
Barbara Chick Hannaford '36 (1961)
Anne Laird O'Rourke '51 (1961)
Julia C. Pratt '39 (1961)
Marguerite Morse Shaw '37 (1961)
Dora Leighton Wish '99 (1961)
Heloise E. Withee '40 (1961)
Marjorie Clarke Hall '42 (1962)
Elaine A. Johnson '44 (1963)
Gloria C. Ferris '50 (1964)
Gay Adams Kitto '50 (1965)
Helene Rabb Cahners Kaplan '40 (1966)
Wilma Parker Redman '41, HON '92 (1967)
Alice B. McGinty '43 (1968)
Pamela Jessop Miley '56 (1969)
Celia Crie Perry '57 (1970)
Barbara Pead Kraft '41, M.D., (1971)
Jadine Raynes O'Brien '51 (1972)
Noriko Sakanishi Feeney '66 (1973)
Elizabeth A. Weiant '41 (1974)
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat '48 (1975)
Carol A. Fredriksen '60 (1976)
Wilma Additon Bradford '39 (1977)
Nancy Rutter Miles '41 (1978)
Alice M. Savage, M.D., Ph.D., '55 (1979)
Gail Cross-Poline '65 (1980)
Joyce Bibber '56 (1981)
Tina Segalla Grant '71 (1982)
Margaret Courtenay Stone '41 (1983)
Louise Parker James '43 (1984)
Joyce Kelley Butler '53 (1985)
Patricia Hayden Langlin '44 (1986)
Mary Cooper Nyburg '37 (1987)
Leslie Ann Skurla, D.M.D. '70 (1987)
Patricia Davis Klingenstein '49 (1989)
Donna Stetson Leith '68 (1990)
Carley Jane Warren '51 (1991)
Barbara Cobban Kern '47 (1992)
Nancy A. Babson '52 (1993)
Jean Hight Childs '46 (1994)
Gilda E. Nardone '68 (1995)
Gardinal Keefe '46 (1996)
Donna Lee Cheney '62 (1997)
Victoria Brandt Miele '63 (1998)
Eleanor Manning Morrell '49 (1999)
Josephine Sloboda Abplanalp '45 (2000)
Beverly Jebb Muntzing '51 (2001)
Paul Peterson '94 (2002)
Geraldine Horsman Mattson '53 (2003)
Laura Feyche Sprague '74 (2004)
Sandra Featherman, Ph.D., HA '98 (2005)
Jeannette E. Crooker '51 (2006)
Deborah Wills Endl '67, D.M.D. (2007)
Given since 1960, the Alumni Service Award is presented by a vote of the Board of Directors to the alumna/alumnus who has done the most for the Board of Directors or in any other way shown extraordinary and loyal service to the Westbrook College Alumni Association. The recipients, in order of the year the Alumni Service Award was presented, are:
Maxine MacMillan Ingalls '46 (1960)
Nancy L. Johnson '50 (1961)
Priscilla Denby Stevenson '49 (1962)
Cynthia Snow Simpson '56 (1963)
Reta Dodge Rumrill '44 (1964)
Alice Going Jackman '48 (1965)
Marilyn Kidder Shurtleff '54 (1966)
Virginia Danforth McFarland '50 (1967)
Susan Walton Jordan '63 (1968)
Martha Gilson Wishart '58 (1969)
Jackie Hall Snelling '56 (1970)
Margaret Reardon Blackwell '56 (1971)
Donna Stetson Leith '68 (1972)
Wilma Additon Bradford '39 (1973)
Roberta Perry Berry '63 (1974)
Deborah Schofield Reed '64 (1975)
Joanne Burnham Edwards '59 (1976)
Joan Connolly Johnson '65 (1977)
Ruth Mears Mott '51 (1978)
Hazel E. Lundy '35 (1979)
Karen Temple Amato '65 (1980)
Priscilla Goodwin Chappell '41 (1981)
Marilyn A. Lalumiere '62 (1982)
Elizabeth Wooley '72 (1983)
Judith Hall Hawkes '59 (1984)
Ruth Pollitz Richmond '41 (1985)
Mildred Holbrook O'Day '47 (1986)
Heloise E. Withee '40 (1987)
Irene Bouchard Bragdon '68 (1988)
Sunny Meserve Harmon '49 (1989)
Elisabeth Schmiedtgen '40 (1990)
Sheila Foran '66 (1991)
Mildred Ashmead Schlesinger '42 (1992)
Judith Colwell Parker '58 (1993)
Robin Okolo Lampron '83 (1994)
Judith Freedman Caplan '69 (1995)
Shelley Weinrieb Amster '71 (1996)
Elizabeth Winslow Johnson '47 (1997)
Louise Parker James '43 (1998)
Beverly Burpee Finley '44 (1999)
Martha Herald Banfield '60 (2000)
Stacey L. Anderson-Mulrey '86 (2001)
Constance Strout-Wood '54 (2002)
Victoria Brandt Miele '63 (2003)
Colette Styffe Lankau '64 (2004)
Sheila Taylor Jones '60 (2005)
Carolyn Swett Lee '60 (2005)
Tonia Hanson Tibbetts '91 (2006)
Bettie Brown Leonard '47 (2007)
Note: From 1960 to 1977 this award was the Alumna of the Year Award. From 1978 to 1989 this award was the Alumni Service Award. In 1990 the award was renamed The Heloise E. Withee '40 Alumni Service Award.
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