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The Williamson medal is the college's highest student award presented annually to the outstanding senior of the graduating class. The medal was created through a gift from Owen J. Moon and named in honor of Henry S. Williamson (1853-1917), a Lancaster businessman, philanthropist, and a member of the Franklin & Marshall board of trustees who donated funds for the construction of Williamson Field.
1974 Marc Golden 1975 Brian Flaherty 1976 Deborah E. Cohn 1977 Loretta Ann Angell 1978 Jennifer Whiting 1979 Mark A. Monborne 1980 Charles William Ormsby 1981 Eric S. Holmboe 1982 Sara Adams 1983 Vanessa Christman 1984 Evan S. Siegelman 1985 Joseph Daniel Capristo 1986 Gary S. Fischer 1987 Robert B. Belser, Jr. 1988 Elizabeth A. Eide 1989 Michael J. Lengle 1990 Matthew Hieu Tran Bui 1991 Christopher Morabito 1992 Steven P. Scalet 1993 Melissa Hawkins 1994 Tricia Vos 1995 Donnell Butler 1996 Amil Dasgupta 1997 Aaron M. Griffith 1998 Katherine Hennessey 1999 Nadia Chaudhri 2000 Haley Rintel 2001 Amanda J. Rader 2002 Lara A. Margolis 2003 Nathan McGovern 2004 Ellen Baier 2005 Dunuwille Eranda Ruwan Jayawickreme 2006 Stacey Blanck 2007 Pierre Ankomah 2008 Laura Beth Michaels 2009 Aditi Malik 2010 Erik Kelly 2011 Chelsea Schein 2012 Judith Stapleton 2013 Alexis Rae Teevens 2014 Michael Christopher Haines 2015 Rachel Codkind 2016 Morgan Kincade 2017 Tekla Iashagashvili 2018 Caroline Lawrence 2019 Yousra Chaabane 2020 Anastasiia Grigoreva 2021 Leilani Tomiko Ly 2022 Hailan Yu 2023 Nadezhda Ivanova 2024 Roxana M. Calder 2025 Shayra Nunez
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award
Since 1961, Franklin & Marshall has presented the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award to tenured faculty members who have demonstrated a sustained excellence in teaching. Although teachers with very disparate styles have won this award, they are all fully engaged in their disciplines, eager to share their ideas, and deeply committed to helping students establish their own intellectual lives. The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award has consistently been held in high esteem, as it is the principal and most visible award to recognize outstanding teaching at the College. This award is made possible by a grant from the Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation. According to LDTA guidelines, a faculty member may not receive this award more than once.
1991 Katherine McClelland 1992 Michael Roth 1993 George Rosenstein 1994 David Schuyler 1996 Curtis Bentzel 1998 Kerry Whiteside 1999 Richard Moog 2000 Patricia O’Hara 2001 Conrad Kasperson 2002 Robert Barnett 2003 Judith Mueller 2004 Misty Bastian 2005 Lisa Gasbarrone 2006 Michael Billig 2007 Maria Mitchell 2008 Carol deWet 2009 Rob Jinks 2010 Sean Flaherty 2011 Carol Auster 2012 Greg Adkins 2013 Dean Hammer 2014 Mary Ann Levine 2015 Lynn Brooks 2016 Annalisa Crannell 2017 Jeffrey Nesteruk 2018 David M. Roberts 2019 M. Alison Kibler 2020 Alexis Castor 2021 Jennifer Morford 2022 Jennifer Redmann 2023 Scott C. Smith 2024 Scott Lerner 2025 Meredith Bashaw
Bradley R. Dewey Scholarship Award
Throughout his years in the Dean's Office, Brad Dewey worked to enhance the quality of intellectual life at Franklin & Marshall College. His dedication to faculty development stemmed from the belief that instructors who truly engaged in scholarly endeavor will be in the best position to inform their teaching with fresh insight and renewed enthusiasm. He played a pivotal role in the professional growth of members of the faculty by encouraging them to expand and deepen their scholarly inquiry. To honor his memory, the Dewey family, friends, and the College have established the Bradley R. Dewey Scholarship Award, which will be give annually to the faculty member who best exemplifies this ideal of the scholar whose research efforts reflect and inspire excellence, and enlighten teaching. The award will be given to recognize a research program of consistently high quality, or to encourage a scholar to bring to fruition research in progress.
2007 Lynn Brooks 2008 Michael Murray 2009 Kerry Whiteside 2010 Dorothy Merritts 2011 Tony Chemero 2012 Bennett Helm 2013 David McMahan 2014 Stan Mertzman 2015 Michael Anderson 2016 James Strick 2017 Andrea Lommen 2018 Scott H. Brewer 2019 Nicholas Montemarano 2020 Amelia Rauser 2021 Dan Ardia 2022 Carol de Wet 2023 Susan Dicklitch-Nelson 2024 John Modern 2025 Alison Kibler
* posthumously
Faculty Distinguished Service Award
The Franklin & Marshall Faculty Distinguished Service Award recognizes a faculty member whose leadership in the area of service has had a positive impact on the quality of campus life. Nominations should address a nominee’s record of exceptional service, including - but not limited to - leadership of a department or interdisciplinary program and service on committees and task forces.
2021 Michael S. Billig 2022 Kenneth R. Hess 2023 Kim Armstrong 2024 Lisa M. Garbarrone 2025 Katherine McClelland
Richard Kneedler Distinguished Service Award
The Richard Kneedler Distinguished Service Award is given each year to a member of the professional staff, in recognition of his or her outstanding contributions and demonstrated commitment to the mission of the College.
During his long association with Franklin & Marshall, Richard Kneedler exemplified what it means to be a true citizen of the College. Many others have been inspired by Richard Kneedler's example. Through this award, the College will recognize a professional staff member or two staff members each year for his or her contributions and service to the College.
2005 David Stameshkin, Office of the Dean of the College 2006 Beth Betrone, Philosophy 2007 Steve Spadafore, Physics and Astronomy 2008 Kathy Clark, Sociology and Anthropology 2009 Marty McGrath, Facilities & Operations 2010 Andy Gulati, Shadek Fackenthal Library 2011 Lisa Stillwell, Shadek Fackenthal Library 2012 Dan Lewis, Facilities & Operations 2013 Rus O’Connell, Art and Art History 2014 John Coccia, Information Technology Services 2015 Chris Alexander, Registrar's Office 2016 Dick Denlinger, Facilities & Operations 2017 Tami Lantz, Economics, Religious Studies, the Africana Studies Program and the Judaic Studies Program 2018 Ted Schmid, Facilities & Operations 2019 Lydia Brubaker, Executive Assistant to the Provost 2020 Debbie Joseph, Department of Music Academic Coordinator 2021 Jessica Haile, International Student Services 2022 Teb Locke, Kelly Miller, Instructional & Emerging Technologies 2023 Jenn Buch, Research Services Specialist 2024 Jason Brooks, Director of Research Computing Services
