medallion

The Columbia College Medallion was commissioned in 1979 by the Board of Trustees in conjunction with the observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the College. The institution’s highest honor, the Medallion is presented annually to those individuals whom the College wishes to recognize for exceptional accomplishments, leadership, and service.

Recipients of the Medallion are inducted into the James Milton Ariail Society, named for the distinguished professor of English who taught at Columbia College from 1912 until 1972 and who served as professor emeritus until his death in 1976.

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1980 T.J. Harrelson William J. Colvin, Jr. Clelia Derrick Hendrix ’41 Belva Haynsworth Ariail ’25* Lucille Ellerbe Godbold ’28*	1990 Shelby Davis Sansbury ’64 Charles G. Pfeiffer Sybil Shaffer Blackstone ’28 W. Wallace Fridy Sara L. Mott	2000 Jack S. Hupp J. Rhett Jackson, Jr. Hannah Campbell Meadors ’56 Nell Williams Overton ’43
1981 Fred Howard Parker Alawee Gibson Tucker ’39 Anne Frierson Griffin ’24 Bernard S. Drennan	1991 Marjorie Faucett Patterson ’49 Madeline Yongue Allen Charles A. Bundy Aracelis G. Shaw Susie Thomas	2001 Louise Springs Crews ’42 Sidney J. Palmer Rebecca G. Swanson ’57 Virginia Uldrick
1982 Arthur L. Humphries J. Drake Edens, Jr. Leon S. Goodall Eben Taylor Grace Killingsworth Turner ’15*	1992 Carl Millon Tucker, Jr. Mary Adams Brown Anne Beebe ’50 William Charles Reid David Joseph Haigler	2002 Betty Livingston Bruner Anne Turner Harrell ’57 Martha Smith Kneece ’55 Jennifer Brewer Mungo Edmund Perry Palmer
1983 Janet Alexander Cotter ’56 Wil Lou Gray ’03 Ruth Henry Lightsey ’28 Marshall A. Shearouse Thomas G. Shuler	1993 Gilbert Guthrie Darr Sarah Margaret Dawsey Annie Laurie Kennerly George ’33 Janie Farmer Myers ’37 Harold Boyd Risher	2003 Paula Harper Bethea Virginia Leaman Crocker ’73 Edith Collins Hause ’56 J. Joseph Mitchell Peter T. Mitchell
1984 Niven McGill Cantwell ’18 R. Wright Spears A. McKay Brabham, Jr. Cornelia Rickenbacker Freeman ’33	1994 David Baker Robert Timothy Barham Rachel Spivey Knox Mae Blackwell Thomson ’59 Janice Suber McNair ’59	2004 Dr. R. Wright Spears
1985 Zach C. Daniel Sara Brabham Eastman ’42 Jennie Cottingham Henry ’28 Mary Lou Kramer J.E. Reeves, Jr.	1995 Thomas Whitfield Dunaway, Jr. George Cochran Fant, Jr. Sibyl Causey Leggett ’50 Guy F. Lipscomb, Jr. Ann Buckwalter Salter ’55	2005 Robert J. Moore Elizabeth Johnston Patterson ’61 Helen Nelson Grant ’81 M. Edward Sellers
1986 Mary Chandler Roper ’30 Blanche Allen Mirse ‘SPC MaryAnn Smith Crews ’59 Leon Joe Pinner, Jr. Thomas P. Knox, Jr.	1996 Elizabeth DuRant ’50 Jane Castles Brooks ’59 Samuel T. Middleton William E. Sellars Patricia Cave Whitaker ’55	2006 Belinda Friedman Gergel ’72 Johnnie Cordell Breed Dorothy M. Pickett
1987 Margarette Richards Elizabeth Wilson R.H. Smith Josephine B. Abney Marion A. Knox, Sr.	1997 Ralph Thomas Mirse Jerold James Savory Selden Kennedy Smith Helen Addison Wingard ’35 Claire Wilson Yarborough ’67	2007 Gene and Catherine Eaker Marshall L. Meadors Jr.
1988 William H. Orders Mabel Shull Gantt ’38 Mary Blue Spears Virginia Thompson Paysinger ’39 William C. Stackhouse	1998 William Warren Butler Cynthia Byrd Gilliam John Thomas Mundy Mary Ann Reeves Phillips ’56 Harris Hartwell Parker, Jr.	2008 Senator Linda Huffstetler Short Judge Karen Johnson Williams’72
1989 Ruth Crary Miller ’18 Marcus R. Durlach, Jr. W. Jackson Greer Eva Davis York ’34 Robert J. Maxwell, Jr.	1999 Roy and Marnie Pearce Miriam Freeman Rawl Scott Shanklin-Peterson ’66	2009 Dr. Vivia Lawton Fowler ’76 Dr. Jan Love Betty Ulmer McGregor ’51