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Alumnae Achievement Award

Award Winners
List by Award Year
Click here for list Alphabetically by Last Name

2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970

Name
Year
Field

Ophelia Dahl DS’94
Biography

 

2008 Global Public Health Activist
Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz '57
Biography

2008 Professor of Classical Studies
Katherine Marshall ’67
Biography

2008 Leader in Global Development

Diana Chapman Walsh ’66
Biography

 

2008 College President

JudyAnn Bigby '73
Biography

 

2007 Physician

Judith Perlman Martin '59
Biography

 

2007 Author

In-ho Lee '60
Biography

 

2007 Professor
Persis Drell '77
Biography
2006

Particle Physicist

 

Nora Ephron '62
Biography
2006

Sreenwriter
Director

 

Pamela Melroy '83
Biography
2006

Astronaut
Scientist

 

Carole Beebe Tarantelli '64
Biography
2005

Educator
Psychoanalyst
Italian Parliament Member
Antiterrorist activist
Women’s-rights advocate

 

Ellen Jacobson Levine '64
Biography

2005

Editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping

 

Lois Juliber '71
Biography
2005

Business Leader

 

Louise Dolan '71
Biography
2004

Mathematical Physicist
Superstring Theorist

 

Judith Goslin Hall '61
Biography
2004

Clinical Geneticist
Pediatrician

 

Carol R. Johnson '51
Biography
2004

Landscape Architect

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton '69
Biography
2003

U.S. Senator
Former First Lady
Attorney

 

Barbara Loomis Jackson '50
Biography
2003

Educator
Administrator

 

Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54
Biography
2003

Business Executive
Thai Senator


Luella Gross Goldberg '58
Biography
2002

Corporate and Civic Leader

 

Nayantara Pandit Sahgal '47
Biography
2002

Author

 

Patricia J. Williams '73
Biography
2002

Legal Scholar

 

Frances Daly Fergusson '65
Biography
2001

President of Vassar College

 

E. Story Cleland Landis '67
Biography
2001

Scientific Director of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke

 

Ellen Marram '68
Biography
2001

General Partner of North Castle Partners

 

Nancy Hayes Van de Vate Smith '52
Biography
2001

Contemporary composer and performer

 

Nancy Davidson '75
Biography

2000

Oncologist
Breast-cancer Researcher

 

 Ann Hartman '47
Biography
2000

Social Worker
Dean Emerita, Smith College School of Social Work


Nora Manella '72
Biography
2000

U.S. District Court Judge, Central District of California

 

Ann Beha '72
Biography
1999

Architect
Preservationist

 

Carol Lyons Meyers '64
Biography
1999

Biblical Scholar
Archaeologist
Professor

 

Alice Tepper-Marlin '66
Biography
1999

Social Economist
Founder, Council on Economic Priorities

 

Patricia Lauber Frost '45
1998

Author of juvenile science and fiction

 

Martha McClintock '69
1998

Psychobiologist
Discoverer of pheromones in humans

 

Krishna Roy Riboud '49
1998

Textile Conservator
Scholar

 

Hilda Crosby Standish '24
1998

Physician
Pioneer in Family Planning

 

Cigdem Cizakca Kagiticibasi '61
1997

Social Psychologist in Family Dynamics

 

Sandra L. Lynch '68
1997

Federal Judge, First Circuit Court of Appeals


Anna McCann Taggart '54
1997

Classical Underwater Archaeologist
Researcher

 

Barbara Swan Fink '43
1996

Portraitist
Teacher

 

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz '63
1996

Professor of History
Author

 

Olivia Hood Parker '63
1996

Photographic Artist

 

Sharon Whelan Weiss '66
1996

Professor of Pathology
Surgeon

 

Carolyn Pratt Brock '68
1995

Chemist
Crystallographer

 

Felice D. Gaer '68

1995

International Human-rights Activist

 

 Martha P. Haynes '73
1995

Astronomer
Professor

 

Anne Cohen Heller '41
1994

Endocrinologist
Professor of Medicine

 

Anna Faith Johnson Jones '54
1994

Foundation President
Philanthropist

 

Nannerl Overholser Keohane '61
1994

University President
Educator


Geneva Overholser '70
1994

Newspaper Editor
Journalist

 

Margaret Crissman Funkhouser '52
1993

Public-education Activist

 

Diana Hadden Gale '63
1993

Public Administrator
Civic Leader

 

Carol Ann Newman Gluck '62
1993

Professor of Japanese History

 

Vivian W. Pinn '62
1993

Pathologist Educator

 

Madeleine Korbel Albright '59
1992

U.S. Secretary of State

 

Anne L. Davis '45
1992

Physician

 

Louise Gilman Hutchins '32
1992

Pediatrician
Obstetrician

 

Diane Sawyer '67
1991

Broadcast Journalist
Television Co-Anchor, Co-Editor

 

Claudine B. Malone '63
1991

Management Consultant
Educator

 

Gwendolyn Gunter Morgan '47
1991

Daycare Policy Analyst and Advocate

 

Laurel Cutler '46
1990

Advertising and Marketing Executive

 

Erna Schneider Hoover '48
1990

Inventor
Computer Scientist

 

Florence Marshall '44
1990

Pediatrician
Public Health Activist

 

Alicia Haydock Munnell '64
1989

Economist
Social Security and Pensions Consultant

 

Diane Silvers Ravitch '60
1989

Educator
Activist
Historian

 

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers '57
1989

Urban Planner
Founder, Central Park Conservancy


Virginia Rogers Ferris '49
1988

Ecologist
Professor
Administrator

 

Eleanor M. Garvey '40
1988

Curator
Author
Editor
Teacher

 

Lynn Sherr '63
1988

Print and Broadcast Journalist

 

Christine Durham '67
1987

Judge, Utah State Supreme Court

 

Donna R. Ecton '69

1987

Corporate Executive

 

Leticia Ramos Shahani '51
1987

Diplomat
Civil Servant
Human Rights Activist

 

Anne Pyne Cowley '59
1986

Astronomer
Codiscoverer of extragalactic black hole

 

Emily Browning Visher '40
1986

Psychologist
Co-Founder, Stepfamily Foundation

 

Shirley Young '55
1986

Advertising and Marketing Executive

 

Muriel Morris Gardiner '22
1985

Activist
Author
Child Psychiatrist

 

Terri Grodzicker '63
1985

Molecular Geneticist
Virologist

 

Cokie Boggs Roberts '64
1985

Broadcast Journalist
Television Producer
Writer

 

Linda Cozby Wertheimer '65
1985

Radio Journalist

 

Carolyn G.Heilbrun '47
1984

Author
Historian

 

Renate Pflaum Mayntz '50
1984

Sociologist


Susan Margulies Sheehan '58
1984

Journalist


Ruth Morris Bakwin '19
1983

Pediatrician
Child Psychologist

 

Virginia Foster Durr '25
1983

Civil-rights Activist

 

Dorothy Walcott Weeks '16
1983

Women's Educator
Physicist

 

Andrea Kundsin Dupree '60
1982

Astrophysicist
Author

 

Eleanor Raymond '09
1982

Architect

 

Helen M. Wallace '33
1982

Public Health Advocate
Educator

 

Genevieve Young '52
1982

Editor
Board Member, Little, Brown & Co

 

Jane Fay Desforges '42
1981

Hematologist
Editor, New England Journal of Medicine

 

Amalya L. Kearse '59
1981

Judge, US Court of Appeals

 

Judith Rothschild '43
1981

Abstract Artist


Colette Flesch '60
1980

Director General, European Commission
Public Servant, Luxembourg

Helen Bohen O'Bannon '61
1980

Economist
Administrator

 

Bertha S. Adkins '28
1979

Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

 

 Harriet L. Hardy '28
1979

Physician
Industrial Medicine Consultant

 

Yukiko Domoto Maki '24
1979

Educator
Administrator

 

Phyllis Shapiro Sewell '52
1979

Management Executive
Civil Servant


Harriet Stratemeyer Adams '14
1978

Author of Nancy Drew series, pen name Carolyn Keene

 

Lorna Cooke de Varon '42
1978

Musician
Conductor Emerita, New England Conservatory of Music

 

Margaret Connors Driscoll '35
1978

Chief Justice, Juvenile Court of Connecticut

 

Sally Carrighar '22

1977

Author
Naturalist

 

Marjory Stoneman Douglas '12
1977
Environmental Activist
Author

Ann Haymond Zwinger '46
1977

Illustrator
Naturalist


Ruth J. Dean '22
1976

Anglo-Norman Scholar

 

Phyllis Williams Lehmann '34
1976

Archaeologist
Author
College Professor and Administrator

 

Carroll McCarty Gunderson '24
1975

Leader of the League of Women Voters

 

Jean Trepp McKelvey '29
1975

President, National Academy of Arbitrators
Labor Relations Expert


Barbara Scott Preiskel '45
1975

Vice President, Motion Picture Association of America

 

Carol Rhodes Sibley '23
1975

Educator
Community Activist

 

Dorothea Jameson '42
1974

Professor of Psychology

 

Virginia Goldman Miles '36
1974

Marketing Executive
Consultant

 

Lila Manfield Sapinsley '44
1974

Rhode Island State Senator
Lobbyist


Elizabeth Brenner Drew '57
1973

Writer
TV Journalist
Editor, Atlantic Monthly

 

Joan Richman '61
1973

Television Producer, CBS and NBC News


Marion Klein Sanders '25
1973

Journalist
Editor, Harper's

 

Odette Alarcon '53
1972

Physician
Sex Educator

 

Anna M. Baetjer '20
1972

Professor
Public-health consultant

 

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield '16
1972

Bacteriologist
Professor


Phyllis Curtin '43
(Phyllis Smith Cook)
1971

Opera Singer

 

Santha Rama Rau Wattles '45
1971

Novelist

 

Patricia Zipprodt '46
1971

Costume Designer

 

Jocelyn R. Gill '38
1970

Astronomer

 

Elisabeth Luce Moore '24
1970

Public Servant