
Alumni awards
Earlham College presents alumni awards each year to Earlhamites who have demonstrated excellence or achievement in a chosen career, service to the College, active participation in service and volunteer organizations or service to the Society of Friends, or outstanding achievement in athletics. These honors include the Outstanding Alumni Award, Distinguished Service Award, and induction into the Earlham College Athletics Hall of Fame
Alumni awards accepting nominations
The Alumni Council is currently accepting nominations for the 2021 Alumni Awards. Please submit your nomination by Dec. 31 to be considered for the following year’s awards ceremony.
Athletics Hall of Fame accepting nominations
The Hall of Fame Selection Committee is currently accepting nominations for inductees. Please submit your nomination by Dec. 31 to be considered for that year’s awards ceremony. View criteria for the award here.
2019 Award Honorees
In 2019, the College was pleased to honor Avis Stewart `74 as the recipient of Earlham’s 2019 Outstanding Alumni Award, and Stephen Heiny and Charles Meyer `69 as recipients of the Distinguished Service Award. Read their bios below.
Karman Duchon `11 (women’s soccer), John Guthrie `64 (men’s soccer), Fintje Lehman `93 (women’s lacrosse/women’s soccer) and Chris Shaw `10 (football/men’s track & field) were the newest inductees into the Earlham College Athletics Hall of Fame.
Award Recipient Archives
2019 | Avis Stewart `74 Stephen Heiny Charles Meyer `69 |
2018 | Mat Johnson `93 Anne Mathews-Younes `68 John Young `55 |
2017 | Lavona Bane `52 Amanda Mills Wilcox `76 Daniel J. Brat `87 David Stump `72 |
2016 | Ron Berry `95 Sunu P. Chandy `94 Sara Gelser `94 John Iverson |
2015 | Douglas Hamilton `74 Herman B. White `70 Katie Yamasaki `99 David Matthews `65 |
2014 | Howard Federoff `74 Jewell Spears `57 Arthur Wagner `46 Mervyn Love |
2013 | Juan Dies ’88 Helen Greenwood Hansma ’67 Lew Frederick ’73 |
2012 | Don McNemar ’65 Bruce L. Pearson ’53 Ron Oberle ’59 Bill Harvey |
2011 | Charles Matthews ’50 Bill Buskirk ’66 Rebecca Voelkel ’91 Del Harris |
2010 | Rey Carranza ’55 Christine Fukui ’70 Ward Trueblood ’60 Gordon Thompson |
2009 | Margaret Heafield Hamilton ’58 Katherine Kay (Krewson) Pickering ’59 David K. Wagner ’52 State Senator Allen Paul |
2008 | Anne Norton Miller ’66 Fred McClure ’84 Richard Nakamura ’68 Bill Stephenson |
2007 | Liza Donnelly ’77 Priscilla Hayner ’85 Thomas Gottschalk ’64 |
2006 | Dedication of Mills Residence Hall, honoring the Mills Family. |