The Alumni Association presents several awards each year in an effort to recognize and honor outstanding alumni.
Nominate an alumna or alumnus for an award.
Nominations for the 2023 Distinguished Alumni, Meritorious Service, and Young Alumni awards are due Friday, November 12, 2022. (Nominations for the 2022 awards were due Friday, November 12, 2021.)
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Distinguished Alumni Awards
The Distinguished Alumni Awards honor a maximum of four people each year for their professional and/or civic accomplishments post-Gettysburg. It's basically our “Alumni Hall of Fame” and includes people like Nobel Laureate Michael Bishop ’57, former UNICEF Executive Dir. Carol Bellamy ’63 and Academy-Award winning cinematographer Owen Roizman ’58. The awards are given during Commencement Weekend.
(The 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award winners will be honored in 2021; no nominees were selected for the 2021 DA awards.)
- The 2020 awardees were Helen Ann Souder Comstock ’54, Mary Hagerty Ehrsam ’90, Leon B. Glover, Jr. ’71, and Dale L. Miller ’68.
- All recipients, 1962-present
Meritorious Service Awards
The Meritorious Service Awards honor two people each year for their volunteer contributions to the College over a significant period of time.
- The 2020 awardees were John J. Duffy, III ’79 and Claudia Bard Veitch ’80.
- The 2021 awardees were James L. Chemel ’71 and Teresa Hanna Lanan ’81 P’12.
- All recipients, 1935-present
Young Alumni Achievement Award
The Young Alumni Achievement Awards honor four “Young Alumni," defined as those who graduated within the last 15 years. Two are for Career Development and two are for Service to Gettysburg College.
- The 2020 awardees were Walter E. Kowtoniuk ’05 and Sneha Shrestha ’10 for Career Development and Justin R. Kollinger ’10 and Allison R. Meckley ’05 for Service.
- The 2021 awardees were Kellen S. Dwyer ’06 and Monique Mathews Gore ’06 for Career Development and Craig L. Martin ’11 and Moira Rafferty Sharkey ’07 for Service.
- All recipients, 1982-present
Learn more about the 2020 and 2021 award recipients.
Lavern H. Brenneman '36 Award
The Lavern H. Brenneman ’36 Award For Exemplary Service to Gettysburg College is presented in recognition of those rare individuals whose distinguished service to Gettysburg College stands head and shoulders above others who have served the institution faithfully. Awardees are selected by the Alumni Board of Directors and the Gettysburg College Board of Trustees.
Phyllis Hicks Utterback Silent Leader Award
The Phyllis Hicks Utterback Silent Leader Award was awarded to Lorna J. Rice ’81 at the February 2020 Alumni Board of Directors meeting.