Renowned authors and publishers. Dedicated physicians, researchers and educators.  Attorneys and advocates for the wronged and vulnerable. Crusaders for justice, truth, equality and reason.

The Executive Council established the Alumni Association Award in 1997 to recognize and honor those members of the association who have been a credit to the School and its teachings. The Alumni Association 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. Join us as we recognize these two extraordinary members of the St. Paul’s School community during the association’s annual meeting on Saturday, May 3, at 1 p.m. during Anniversary Weekend.

2025 Alumni Association Award Recipient

Eliza Griswold ’91

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.

2025 Alumni Association Award Recipient

Lars Egede-Nissen ’58

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.

Previous Award Recipients

2024 Recipient

2022 Recipients

Mr. Peter Wright ‘60
Mr. Ted Landsmark ‘64
Ms. Judy Jordan ‘79, P’12

2021 Recipients

Mr. Coleman “Coley” Burke ‘59
Mr. Robert “Bob” Hall ‘65
Ms. Caroline Randall Williams ‘06

2020 Recipient

Mr. E. Q. Sylvester ‘57

2019 Recipients

Dr. Etienne Poirot ’79
Mr. Victor Young ’74

2018 Recipients

The Form of 1970 (SPS Sparks)
Ms. Lee C. Rhodes ’81

2017 Recipient

Mr. John H. Shattuck ’61

2016 Recipient

Mr. William Taft ’62

2015 Recipients

Mr. Theodore Achilles ’54
Mr. Peter Mack McBride ’89

2014 Recipients

Mr. Albert Gurney ’48
Dr. Katharine McK. Esselen ’98
Mr. Randa Wilkinson-Bouvier ’75

2013 Recipients

Mr. Christopher Gallagher ’87
Mr. Andrew Gauldin ’89
Mr. David P. Hunt ’57

2012 Recipients

Mr. Sam Beard ’57
The Hon. John F. Kerry ’62
Ms. Katherine A. Tarbox ’00

2011 Recipient

Mr. William R. Matthews Jr. ’61

2010 Recipients

Mr. David Nelson ’80
The Hon. Nicholas Platt ’53
Ambassador Tatsuo Arima ’53

2009 Recipients

Mr. Richard Barth Jr. ’85
Dr. Bayard D. Clarkson ’44

2008 Recipient

Mr. Kevin Gover ’73

2007 Recipients

Mr. Jonathan T. M. Reckford ’80
Ms. Meg Vaillancourt ˆ74
Dr. Richard E. Schade ’62

2006 Recipient

Mrs. Michel McQueen Martin ’76

2005 Recipients

The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold III ’55
Mr. Trevor A. Patzer ’92

2004 Recipients

Mr. Charles D. Best ’94
Mr. Robert S. Mueller III ’62

2003 Recipient

Mr. James Wesley Kinnear III ’46

2002 Recipient

The Rt. Rev. G. P. Mellick Belshaw ’47

2001 Recipients

Mr. James Forney Bodine ’40
Mr. T. Edward Hambleton ’30
Ms. Karen Louise Sawyer ’74

2000 Recipients

Mr. Amory Houghton Jr. ’45
Mr. Minoru Bernard Makihara ’50
Dr. Jennifer Walser Wilson ’86

1999 Recipients

Ms. Lorene E. Cary ’74
Mr. Marshall J. Dodge Jr. ’29
The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr. ’37

1998 Recipients

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