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The Executive Council established the Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Service in 1997 to recognize and honor those members of the association who have been a credit to the School and its teachings. The Distinguished Service Award is the highest distinction that can be bestowed on an alumna or alumnus by the association.
Recipients are those living alumni who, through outstanding service, have improved the quality of life in a community on a local, national or global level. Nominated by the alumni body at large, recipients are selected by the Alumni Association’s Presidents Council, composed of the president and past presidents, as well as the executive director and past executive directors.
This year, the association honors Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold ’91 and health care advocate and administrator Lars Egede-Nissen ’58. These two extraordinary members of the St. Paul’s School community were recognized during the association’s annual meeting held on Saturday, May 3, during Anniversary Weekend.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, poet and translator who revels in complicated ideas, Eliza Griswold ’91 is sharing her knowledge and passion as director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism at Princeton University. At a time when the public’s trust in the media has plummeted while the safety of reporters is under increasing threat, Griswold’s work feels more essential than ever.
Inspired by his physician father’s commitment to the practice of being a compassionate person, Lars Egede-Nissen ’58 dedicated his own professional life to pursuing his quest for every American to have access to compassionate and high-quality health services. At the forefront of hospice care administration in the United States, he built and ran programs and facilities with an ear and empathy for those in his care.
Mr. Peter Wright ‘60
Mr. Ted Landsmark ‘64
Ms. Judy Jordan ‘79, P’12
Mr. Coleman “Coley” Burke ‘59
Mr. Robert “Bob” Hall ‘65
Ms. Caroline Randall Williams ‘06
Mr. E. Q. Sylvester ‘57
Dr. Etienne Poirot ’79
Mr. Victor Young ’74
The Form of 1970 (SPS Sparks)
Ms. Lee C. Rhodes ’81
Mr. John H. Shattuck ’61
Mr. William Taft ’62
Mr. Theodore Achilles ’54
Mr. Peter Mack McBride ’89
Mr. Albert Gurney ’48
Dr. Katharine McK. Esselen ’98
Mr. Randa Wilkinson-Bouvier ’75
Mr. Christopher Gallagher ’87
Mr. Andrew Gauldin ’89
Mr. David P. Hunt ’57
Mr. Sam Beard ’57
The Hon. John F. Kerry ’62
Ms. Katherine A. Tarbox ’00
Mr. William R. Matthews Jr. ’61
Mr. David Nelson ’80
The Hon. Nicholas Platt ’53
Ambassador Tatsuo Arima ’53
Mr. Richard Barth Jr. ’85
Dr. Bayard D. Clarkson ’44
Mr. Kevin Gover ’73
Mr. Jonathan T. M. Reckford ’80
Ms. Meg Vaillancourt ˆ74
Dr. Richard E. Schade ’62
Mrs. Michel McQueen Martin ’76
The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold III ’55
Mr. Trevor A. Patzer ’92
Mr. Charles D. Best ’94
Mr. Robert S. Mueller III ’62
Mr. James Wesley Kinnear III ’46
The Rt. Rev. G. P. Mellick Belshaw ’47
Mr. James Forney Bodine ’40
Mr. T. Edward Hambleton ’30
Ms. Karen Louise Sawyer ’74
Mr. Amory Houghton Jr. ’45
Mr. Minoru Bernard Makihara ’50
Dr. Jennifer Walser Wilson ’86
Ms. Lorene E. Cary ’74
Mr. Marshall J. Dodge Jr. ’29
The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr. ’37
Mr. Eliot Warner Coleman Jr. ’57
Prof. Archibald Cox ’30
Mr. Anthony Drexel Duke Sr. ’37
Mr. Alan A. A. Khazei ’79
Ms. Augusta Read Thomas ’82
Mr. J. Randall Williams III ’30