ALUMNA/ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR

2023 William "Weegee" Sawyers, '74
2022 YLonne Polly Fullen Swails, ’72
2019 Dr. R Charles Byers, ’68 
2018 Ms. Judith ‘Judy’ Ellis Mason, ’78
2017 Ms. Betty Bates, ’72
2016 Mr. Francisco Newman, Jr., ’53
2015 Judge Donald L. Graham, ’71
2014 Mr. Glover L. Smiley, ’77
2013 Mr. Maurice Gregg, ’66
2012 Mr. Anthony Warren Rogers, ’52
2011 Mr. Vernon A. Bell, Sr., ’64
2010 Dr. Ann Brothers Smith, ’64
2009 Judge Richard E. Fields, ’44

2008 Judge Reggie B. Walton, ’71
2007 Mr. Carl E. Moyler, ’54
2006 Mrs. Jean Watson Jeffery, ’60
2005 Mr. Howard Wilson, ’55
2004 Mrs. Opal Carter, ’47
2003 Mr. Moreno G. Miller, ’55
2002 Mr. Vandy L. Miller, ’54
2001 Mrs. Rosemarie Cook Glover ’49
2000 Mr. Acie McGhee, Jr., ’54
1999 Mr. Hughie E. Mills, ’49
1998 Reginald S. Lee, D.D.S., ’50
1997 Dr. James W. Holley, III, ’49
1996 Dr. Morris L. Woodson, ’40
1995 Dr. James S. Brown, ’52
1994 Mr. Franklin P. Justice, ’67
1993 Mr. Charles Milton Kates, ’52
1992 Mrs. Georgia Floyd Morris, ’44
1991 ALUMNA OF THE CENTURY
Mrs. Mary McGhee Hairston, 1913
1990 Mr. Preston A. Davis, ’49
1989 Dr. Beny Jene Primm, ’50
1988 Dr. Ancella Radford Bickley, ’50
1987 Dr. James W. Reed, ’54
1986 Mrs. Jean Freeman Peters, ’49
1985 Mr. Edouard E. Plummer, ‘49
1984 Mr. Drue E. Culumns
1983 Rev. Carl D. Hughes, ’42
1982 Mr. James R. Willis, Esq., ’49
1981 Mrs. Augusta Alexander Clark, ’54
1980 Dr. Angela Gallion Kennedy, ’64
1979 Dr. John Mosley, ’62
1978 BG Dallas C. Brown, Jr. ’54
1977 Mr. Sherman R. Smoot, ’27
1976 Dr. Vincent E. Reed, ’52
1975 Mr. Joseph C. Peters, ’49
1975 Mr. Madison Broadnax, ’40
1974 Dr. Gertrude Cain Ridgel, ’42
1973 Dr. Charles N. Jordan, ’38
1972 Mr. Gloster M. Current ’41
1971 Dr. Thomas Jenkins, ’46
1970 Dr. James S. Wade, ’40
1969 Dr. Booker T. White, ’29
1968 Mrs. Della Brown Taylor, ’43
1967 Mr. George B. Rayford, ’38
1966 Dr. Prince Ahmed Williams, ’28
1965 William L. Lonesome Esq., ’33
1964 Mrs. Katherine Coleman Johnson, ’37
1963 MG Edward Greer, ’48
1962 Rev. J.J. Turner, ’31
1961 Mrs. Mary Ellis, ’36
1960 Mr. Daniel Acker, ’31
1959 Dr. Mary L. Williams, ’35
1958 Dr. Leander Shaw, Sr., ’35
1957 Mrs. Josephine Morris Rayford, ’32
1956 Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, ’43
1955 Mr. Mark H. Caldwell, ’26
1954 Dr. Angie Turner King, ’2