Alum of the Year Recipients
- 2024 Aristotle Papanikolaou,
- 2023 Teresa Hord Owens
- 2022 George Fitchett
- 2021 Joseph Edelheit
- 2020 Audrey K Gordon
- 2019 Joseph L. Price
- 2018 Mark Toulouse
- 2017 John A. Corrigan Jr.
- 2016 Peter Iver Kaufman
- 2015 Laurie L. Patton
- 2014 David L. Carrasco
- 2013 Michael K. Kinnamon
- 2012 Ann Taves
- 2011 Theodore F. Peters
- 2010 Robert M. Franklin, Jr.
- 2009 Robert S. Ellwood
- 2008 Emilie M. Townes
- 2007 John C. Holt
- 2006 (no award)
- 2005 Roger D. Haight
- 2004 Catherine M. Bell
- 2003 Robert Scott Appleby
- 2002 William R. LaFleur
- 2001 Daniel L. Overmyer
- 2000 James M. Wall
- 1999 Lisa G. Sowle Cahill
- 1998 Elbert C. Cole
- 1997 Rebecca Chopp
- 1996 John Buchanan
- 1995 Peter J. Paris
- 1994 James M. Gustafson
- 1993 Schubert M. Ogden
- 1992 Philip S. Y. Shen
- 1991 Catherine L. Albanese
- 1990 Larry L. Greenfield
- 1989 Marilyn Chapin Massey
- 1988 Douglas E. Sturm
- 1987 Jay P. Dolan
- 1986 Jaroslav Pelikan
- 1985 John B. Cobb Jr.
- 1984 Charles Houston Long
- 1983 Robert T. Handy
- 1982 Marjorie Hyer
- 1981 Winthrop Still Hudson
- 1980 Jill Raitt
- 1979 F. Dean Lueking
- 1978 Massey Hamilton Sheperd
- 1977 James Luther Adams
- 1976 Charles L. Feldstein
- 1975 William A. Johnson
- 1974 Paul Hunter Beckelhymer
- 1973 Bernard MacDougall Loomer
- 1972 William Grant Black
- 1971 Christopher C. Smith
- 1970 Bernard E. Meland
- 1969 Sidney E. Mead
- 1968 Huston C. Smith
- 1967 Ernest C. Colwell
- 1966 Adam D. Beittel
- 1965 John Knox
- 1964 Anna Dorothy Wylie
- 1963 Winfred Ernest Garrison
- 1962 Oren Huling Baker
- 1961 John T. McNeill
- 1960 Christian Bert Jensen
- 1959 Eugene Exman
- 1958 John Burt Bouwman
- 1957 Charles T. Holman
- 1956 Charles Conrad Browne
- 1955 Robert Theodore Handy
- 1954 William Henry Bernhart
- 1953 Frances Helen Mains
- 1952 Leonard Mallory Outerbridge
- 1951 Harold A. Bosley
- 1950 Herbert Winston Hansen
- 1949 Benjamin E. Mays
- 1948 Edgar J. Goodspeed
- 1947 Roy A. Burkhart