The Founders’ Medal is awarded at commencement to the senior who has the highest grade point average for the entire college course of study at Millsaps College, and who has received a grade of Excellent on the comprehensive examinations. To be eligible for the award, students must have begun their course of study as freshmen at Millsaps College and completed the majority of the work required for the degree at Millsaps College; while credit by examination is permitted, only students with a maximum of eight earned hours (applying toward graduation requirements) of transfer credit from another domestic institution may be eligible. The following is a listing of Founders’ Medal winners, since its establishment in 1919.
2019
Reagan Michael McGuffee
2018
Noah Vincent Barbieri
2017
Brittany Susan Hardy
2016
Katie Lane Wynne Kirkland
2015
Ellen Faulk
2014
Priya Pradipkujmar Patel
2013
Taylor Brittany Scysters
2012
David Anthony Guyott
2011
Marie Louise Thomas
2010
Laura Heather Hitton
2009
Kayla Ann Richard
2008
Beth Ann Baker
2007
April Claire McGilvray Gilmore
2006
Megan Elizabeth Holcomb
2005
Ryan B. Day
2004
Kenneth Townsend and Brian Houston
2003
Hannah Page
2002
Elizabeth Bishara
2001
Peyton Hayes
2000
Melanie Schrader
1999
Suzanna Wahrle
1998
Holly Lynn Crawford
1997
Amanda O’Kelly
1996
Christina Finzel, Jennifer Irons, and Gayle Palfrey
1995
Kimberley Ann Williams
1994
Laurie Johanna Carpenter
1993
Meredith Anne Montgomery
1992
Larry Lee Montgomery
1991
Anne Elizabeth Verret and Eric Dewayne Chisolm
1990
Lisa Ann Loughman
1989
William Manley Wadsworth and Jeffrey Alan Ezell
1988
Anna Siuling Tjeng
1987
James Walton Boswell, Sheila Ann Farnsworth, Robert Joseph Mangialardi, and Timothy Michael Patterson
1986
Charles David Woods
1985
Robert Michael Buxton
1984
Terri Lee Clark
1983
Kimberly Lillian Myers
1982
Debra Ann Basham and Joseph Thomas Hamrick
1981
Judy Diane White
1980
Ann Roscopf
1979
Ellynda Louise Price
1978
William Hollis Leech
1977
Celeste Renee Brou
1976
Peggy Davis Clayton
1975
Ann Hendrick
1974
Frances Lloyd
1973
Rebecca Carol Youngblood and Reba Diamond Hale
1972
George Fleming
1971
Linda Sharon Dorsey
1970
Victoria Lynn Newcomb
1969
Mary Drane Swanson
1968
Sharon Kay Pritchett
1967
Carolyn Anne Powers
1966
Sharron Nan Monk
1965
Vera Evelyn Barron
1964
Mary Dell Fleming
1963
Nell Carleen Smith
1962
Mary Carole Robison
1961
Irene Elizabeth Fridge
1960
Sarah Margaret Yarbrough
1959
William Dwyer Balgord
1958
John H. Stone, III
1957
Samuel L. Jones, Jr.
1956
Clara Parks Booth
1955
Helen Fay Head
1954
Norma Busse
1953
Irby Turner, Jr.
1952
Gaston Hall
1951
Oliver Burford
1950
Shirley Jean Norwood
1949
George Maddox
1948
Charles Cale Lehman
1947
1946
1945
Winnifred Seegers
1944
Clara Porter Cavett
1943
Janice Trimble
1942
Richard Lauderdale
1941
Gwin Kolb
1940
Dolores Dye
1939
Robert A. Ivy
1938
J.D. Smith
1937
Eunice Louise Durham
1936
H.V. Allen
1935
Helen Hargrave Cabell
1934
John T. Kimball
1933
Robert Hough
1932
Mary Wacaster
1931
K.F. Hill
1930
Bessie Cook
1929
Mary Flowers Jackson
1928
V.L. Wharton
1927
Merrill C. Stapp
1926
Margaret Stewart Power
1925
Mary Davenport
1924
H.H. Knoblock
1923
W.S. Phillips
1922
Frederick J. Lotterhos
1921
Willie Spann
1920
L.B. Roberts
1919
Dewey S. Dearman
