Nominate Someone for an Award | Submit a Class Note | Alumni | Friends Select School Nominate Someone for an Award | Submit a Class Note | Alumni | Friends Select School Alert Info Nominate Someone for an Award In This Section Nominate Someone for an Award Recognize outstanding alumni, faculty, and staff who have made significant contributions to the school and community. Please email Angela Winterrowd to learn about the criteria for each award and how to nominate a classmate or teacher. RECENT AWARD RECIPIENTS For past winners, see the Alumni and Teaching Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame. AWARD INFORMATION Distinguished Alumni Award The Distinguished Alumni Award honors an alum who has displayed distinctive achievement in a chosen field or endeavor and has made significant contributions to public service and community. 1973 - R. Jean Brownlee '29 1974 - Calvin Morris '59 1975 - John R. Everett '37 1976 - Anna Hawkes Hutton '27 1977 - Admiral William W. Behrens '39 1979 - Dorothy Buckley Crawford '17 1981 - Walter N. Read '35 1982 - Dr. Joel J. Nobel '52 1983 - Richard L. Ashbrook '38 1984 - Louise Bowen Ballinger '27 1985 - Andrea K. Delgado '63 1987 - Domina Eberle Spencer '37 1988 - Peter Solmssen '48 1989 - Peter Orion Price '58 1990 - Muriel Morisey '65 1991 - David Goodman '72 1997 - Louis Massiah '72 1998 - Bruce Toll '61 1999 - John Wallace '68 2000 - Gilda Mann Ellis '45 2001 - Elizabeth Woods '71 2002 - Eugenia Oster Kaledin '47 2003 - Judith Haviland Chase '50 2006 - Saranne Rothberg '81 2007 - Michael Fitts '71 2008 - Joanne Green Breuer '55 2009 - Darryl J. Ford '83 2010 - Wendell Pritchett '82 2011 - Marsha Levick '68 2012 - Steve Abrams '76 2013 - Ben Seltzer '62 2013 - Andrea Kremer '76 2014 - Clarence "Billy" Williams '85 2015 - John W. Chin '83 2016 - Gaby Jordan '76 2018 - Susan Taylor '75 2019 - Eric Blumenfeld '81 2023 - Rachel Zimmerman ‘85 2024 - The Honorable Vincent J. Hughes ’74 2025- Jeffrey Tubbs ’95 Meritorious Service Award The Meritorious Service Award honors an individual for sustained and exemplary service to Friends Select School. Eligible individuals include alumni and other qualified “honorary” alumni of the Friends Select community, such as faculty, staff, trustees, and parents and guardians. 1973 - H. Carlton Draper '19 1974 - Sarah Pithouse Becker '23 1975 - G. Laurence Blauvelt, faculty/staff 1976 - Ruth Hallowell Gray '30 1979 - Margaret I. Conover '16 1980 - Clayton E. Ranck '34 1981 - Walter A. Smith '52 1983 - Gerald Zeigerman '57 1984 - Marlene Flanagan Milner '57 1984 - George Milner '57 1985 - Suzanne Root '54 1986 - Lois Meadowcroft Baker '37 1987 - Gene Kerrick, faculty/staff 1987 - Ginnie Kerrick, faculty/staff 1988 - Judy Love Keogh '55 1989 - Ellen Speiser Katz '52 1990 - William Sigmund Gross '58 1997 - Dorothy Sigman Stratford '39 2002 - Ed Smiley, faculty/staff 2006 - Michael Fox '70 2007 - Dick Hoffman, faculty/staff 2008 - Dan Fascione '49 2009 - Charles X Block '81 2010 - Josie Whitlock, faculty/staff 2011 - Richard Wolgin '67 2012 - Robin J. Bernstein '67 2012 - Frank Mustin '41 2013 - Ann Wallace, faculty/staff, board of trustees 2014 - Michael Noonan, faculty/staff 2015 - Joseph E. Ronan, esq. '72 2016 - Martha Eisenberg '85 2016 - Rick Hunt '74 2018 - Bill Blauvelt ’63, faculty/staff 2019 - Tammy Mayo, faculty/staff 2024 - Ingrid Lakey ’89, P’27 2025- Tracy Romans ’75 Distinguished Teaching Award The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed significantly to the life of the school through their teaching and mentoring over a minimum of five years. Criteria include a commitment to the school community; a record of outstanding teaching effectiveness; an ability to inspire, promote, and sustain the intellectual and developmental needs of students; a pedagogical approach that is innovative, intellectually rigorous, creative, and engaging; and a commitment to Quaker values, practice, and service. 2010: Calvin Bourgeault, Patricia Noonan, Ralph Reinwald 2011: Anne Thomforde-Thomas, Janet Goldstein '57, Gene Kerrick 2012: John Colgan-Davis, Bob Harnwell, Margaret Sheets 2013: Olive Tatman, Constance Thompson, Robert Gross 2014: Wendy (Waloff) Buckingham, Jayden Sampson, Larry Butler 2015: Walter Palmer "Bok" Read, Charlotte Blake Alston, Norka Maldonado, posthumously 2016: Jenn Gorzelany Weinheimer 2018: Lynda Greenwade Thorp 2019: Herb Kerns 2023- Linda Patterson faculty/staff 2024- Jim Brubaker 2025- Natalie Mayer P'32 Athletic Hall of Fame The Athletic Hall of Fame honors an alum or coach who has exemplified outstanding athletics as well as good sportsmanship while representing Friends Select School. For alumni, the nominee's class year must be at least five years from the time of nomination. The nominee may also have served the school as a coach or administrator for a minimum of five years. Inducted 1996-1997 Virginia Hutton Millar ’40 Allen B. Clayton ’45 J. Wilson Ferguson ’51 Kemel Dawkins ’68 Gary S. Albright ’71 Darryl Ferguson ’77 Erica Abel, ’82 Robert Jones, Jr. ’82 Inducted 1997-1998 Joseph J. McLaughlin ’37, Coach Helene Tilhou Decray ’46 Andrew D. Lucine ’46 Laurence C. Eisenlohr ’75 John M. Eisenlohr ’76 Charles T Mitchell III ’76 Mary S. Eisenlohr ’78 Derek A. Evans ’82 Kenneth A. Bailey, Coach Inducted 1998-1999 Mary Ellen Senat Dixon ’29 Mitchell A. Bayer ’74 Robert W. Place ’79 William B. Place ’79 Inducted 1999-2000: Herbert J. Weintraub ’40 Inducted 2000-2001 James H. Mearns III ’41 Terrance Mcmenamin ’66 Michael A. Fitts ’71 Margaret Kerrick ’83 Martha Kerrick ’83 Inducted 2001-2002 Robert Kutteroff ’46 Joseph R. Sickenberger ’59 Barbara A. Sprague ’78 Marc G. Rothman ’81 Inducted 2002-2003 Betty L. Tayes, Coach Allen B. Massiah ’69 Lyn Walton Gill ’62 Trixie Beller Heck ’69 Inducted 2003- 2004 Jerry J. Steingard ’57 James Lipschutz ’61 Keith L. Wapner ’71 Malcolm J. Ford, Jr. ’80 Nora M. Witt ’86 Inducted 2004-2005 Colin Convey ’93 Inducted 2008-2009 Hank Beresin ’87 Herb Kerns Inducted 2009-2010 Kristen Cox ’98 Harris G. Haviland ’22 Jennifer Swift ’93 Inducted 2010-2011 Fenita Moore ’98 Mike Noonan John Wieland ’55 Inducted 2011-2012 Kevin Black '95 Alex Claypool '95 Paul Norris '95 Inducted 2012-2013 Corey Riley ’94 Alex Swift ’91 Inducted 2013 Stephen Cox ‘01 Lucinda Covington ‘84 Bevan Lawson ‘80 Inducted 2014 Ed Burnley, Coach Lawrence Schlosser ’00 Megan Roe ’01 Kelli Sawyer ’03 Mia Curran ’06 Nolan Borgman ’08 Inducted 2015 J. Michael Dzuba ‘64 James Gibbs ‘74 Ebony Woods ‘02 John Noonan ’05 Inducted 2016 The 1981-1982 Championship Boys Basketball Team Linda Farber '84 Sonya Bishop '06 Zach Winthrop '09 Inducted 2017 1949 InterAc Championship Boys Soccer Team John Fugett ‘03 Brittany Purr ‘04 Inducted 2018 Phoebe Hopkins ’08 Maya O’Donnell-Shah ’02 Oliver Ingram ’11 David Levit ’73 Inducted 2019 Grace Finkbiner ’12 Inducted 2023 Jim Wong' 73 Ben Holl '13 Inducted 2024 Betty Everett ’42 Paul Marcucci ’69 Bruce Gessner ’74 Emily Payne ’14 Inducted 2025 Zina Robbins-Maldonado ’16 Patrice Canuso Kirby ’85 Beth Feldman Folkman ’80 SUBMIT A NOMINATION Where Next? Career Opportunities Support Friends Select Alumni