Selection process
The Syrena Stackpole Award recognizes an alumna for her lifetime of outstanding service and dedication to Wellesley. The award is usually presented to an alumna at or after her 50th Reunion. The recipient is chosen by the AVP for Alumnae Relations and Global Engagement in consultation with the WCAA Board and College administrators.
Award presentation
The award is presented by the AVP for Alumnae Relations and Global Engagement at the College Update & Awards presentation during Reunion.
Recipients
| 2026 | Lulu Chow Wang '66 Diana Chapman Walsh '66 |
2025 | Georgia Murphy Johnson '75 Charlotte Hayes '75 |
2024 | Debra DeVaughn '74 |
| 2023 | Dorothy Chao Jenkins ’68 Lynne Marie Miller ’73 |
| 2022 | Laura Daignault Gates ’72 |
| 2021 | Marilyn Twomey Smith ’70 Bunny Winter ’70 Lois D. Juliber ’71 Andrea G. Levitt ’71 |
| 2019 | Karen E. Williamson ’69 |
| 2018 | Ellen Genat Hoffman ’68 Ellen Gill Miller ’73 |
| 2017 | Karen Capriles Hodges ’62 Kathy Stone Kaufmann ’67 |
| 2016 | Maud Chaplin ’56 Barbara Bywater Creed ’66 |
| 2015 | Shirley Young ’55 |
| 2014 | Corty Banks Fengler ’64 Carol DeCesare Goode ’64 Janet C. McCaa ’64 |
| 2013 | Barbara Martini Johnson ’58 Constance Follett Rieben ’58 |
| 2012 | Toni Murphey Harkness ’57 |
| 2011 | Christine Grimstad Franklin ’61 Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 |
| 2010 | Molly Sanderson Campbell ’60 Beatrice Strand MacDonald ’60 |
| 2009 | Mary-Alice Ewing Raymond ’44 Pamela Koehler Daniels ’59 |
| 2008 | Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28 Luella Gross Goldberg ’58 |
| 2007 | Alice Rigby Chace ’32 |
| 2006 | Katherine Curtis Rigler ’61 |
| 2005 | Nancy Foshay Braitmayer ’55 |
| 2004 | Hilda Crosby Standish ’24 Marion Eddy Wheeler ’24 |
| 2003 | Georgia Sue Herberger Black ’58 |
| 2002 | Janice Lane Hunt ’52 |
| 2001 | Mary Sime West ’26 |
| 2000 | Mary Ellen Crawford Ames ’40 |
| 1999 | Amalie Moses Kass ’49 |
| 1998 | Nardi Reeder Campion ’38 |
| 1997 | Elisabeth Kaiser Davis ’32 |
| 1996 | Phyllis Meras ’53 |
| 1995 | Emiko Ishiguro Nishino ’45 Peter Ramsey |
| 1994 | Harriet B. Creighton ’29 |
| 1993 | Natalie Gordon Stone ’38 |
| 1992 | Anne Mitchell Morgan ’57 |
| 1991 | Nannerl Overholser Keohane ’61 |
| 1990 | Mary Dooley Bragg ’40 |
| 1989 | Class of 1919 |
| 1987 | Constance Chick Shepard ’47 |
| 1986 | Mildred McAfee Horton |
| 1985 | Martha Schwanke Schauss ’40 |
| 1984 | Edith Levy Elsas ’34 |
| 1983 | Eleanor H. Little ’08 |
| 1982 | Harriet Segal Cohn ’28 |