Distinguished Alumni Award
The Morristown Beard School Distinguished Alumni Award is the School’s premier alumni award. The Alumni Association Board established this award in 1988 to recognize the numerous and diverse accomplishments of our alumni.
The purpose of the MBS Distinguished Alumni Award is to recognize alumni who, through their commitment and/or service, have achieved significant success in their professional career and/or have made outstanding contributions to their communities and/or MBS. Because of the significance of this award and the caliber of the alumnae and alumni it honors, it is not necessarily an annual award, but rather one that is presented only when there is a qualified candidate to receive it.
Recipients
- 1988 – David Van Houten Hedley ’64
- 1995 – Dr. Martha M. MacGuffie ’42 (deceased)
- 1996 – Dr. Joseph S. Nye ’54 (deceased)
- 1998 – Dr. Judith G. Tobin ’44 (deceased)
- 1999 – Nancy Tasman Brower ’47 (deceased)
- 1999 – Finn Wentworth ’76
- 2000 – Walter C. Pitman III ’49
- 2004 – Virginia Hopper Matthews ’42 (deceased)
- 2005 – Aubrey Adam Barr ’85
- 2007 – David V. Hedley III ’87
- 2008 – Ileana Saros ’68
- 2008 – Luis A. Ferre, Class of 1920 (deceased)
- 2009 – Julie Beckman ’91
- 2010 – George Hammond Tilghman, Class of 1915 (deceased)
- 2012 – Siobhan A. Teare ’77
- 2015 – Joseph B. Baker ’65
- 2016 – Naneen Hunter Neubohn ’57
- 2018 – Allan P. Kirby, Jr. ’49 (deceased)
- 2021 – Peggy Harding Nelson '59 (deceased)
