Alumni Awards
Distinguished Alumni Award
At Friends we prepare our students to be citizens with strong minds and kind hearts, people who lead by example. Each year Friends Academy presents the Distinguished Alumni Award to someone who has let his/her life speak. It is our hope that others will find the recipient’s life inspirational and will be motivated to devote themselves to a life of service.
Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
1990 Robert Albertson ’45
1991 Frederick Willits ’30
1992 Saidie Scudder ’24
1994 Esther Hicks Emory ’19
1995 Leon Rushmore ’27
1996 Victoria Baum Bjorklund ’70
1997 Evette Beckett-Tuggle ’74
1998 Angela Van Rynbach ‘65
1999 Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel ’83
2000 Stephen Mills ’77
2001 Donald Smith ’44
2002 Diana Dickson Wittmer ‘67
2003 Kathleen Catapano ’95
2004 Elizabeth Keefer ‘66
2005 Warren Titus ‘44
2006 Peter Darbee ’71
2007 James Greene ’74
2008 Thomas Carter ’59
2009 John Gambling ’69
2010 Susan Stein Danoff ’60
2011 Peter Galbraith ’56
2012 Barbara Boyle Weaner ’73
2013 Marja Brandon ’79
2014 Sharon McGee Crary ’89
2015 Paul Hand ’68
2016 Laurence Corash ’61
2017 Todd Jacobson ’93
2018 William M. Wicker ’67
Alumni Association Award
For the past several years, the Friends Academy Alumni Association has presented its Alumni Association Award to a graduate of distinction. The board has continued a theme that this award be presented to a member of the 50th reunion Class, and it is the highest honor given by the Alumni Association each year. Members of the 50th reunion class are invited to nominate classmates by sharing unselfish acts of kindness or special accomplishments; note that criteria is left purposefully non-specific to allow for the myriad of ways that “distinction” can be defined.
Alumni Association Award Winners
2009 Donald Pollitt ’34
2010 Ward Burian ’54
2011 Craig White ’61
2012 Vincent Van Brunt ’62
2013 William Sugden ’63
2014 Lesley Birkett Jacobs ’64
2015 Angela Van Rynbach ’65
2016 Nancy Rauch Douzinas ’66
2017 Diana Dickson-Witmer ’67
2018 Lesley Graham ’68