| 2023 | Guy H. "Chip" Smith III '88 |
| 2022 | Dr. Fay Simpson Sprouse '84 |
| 2021 | Dr. Mabel L. Purkerson '51 |
| 2020 | Dr. James Wylie Gettys, Jr. '62 |
| 2019 | Joseph H. "Chip" Sherer Jr. '89 |
| 2017 | Rev. Howard Max Bolin '77 (Sem.) |
| 2017 | Cynthia Coulter Bolin '76 |
| 2016 | Dr. Clifton Earl Linderman '59, '62 (Sem.), '92 (Sem.) |
| 2016 | Harriet Elizabeth Smith Linderman '60 |
| 2015 | Dr. Richard G. Taylor, Jr. '69 |
| 2014 | Dr. Joab Mauldin “Joe” Lesesne, Jr. '59 |
| 2013 | Dr. Randall T. Ruble '58, '61 (Sem.) and Martha Grant Ruble '60 |
| 2012 | Eleanor Chesnut Richardson '59 |
| 2011 | Dr. Lowry Ware '49 |
| 2010 | Dr. John Miller Grier, Sr. '42 |
| 2009 | Cliff N. Wallace '68 |
| 2008 | Joseph T. Black '69 and Kathy Beeks Black '70 |
| 2007 | Thomas W. Myers '56 |
| 2006 | John Charles McGill '43 |
| 2005 | D. Parker Young '55 |
| 2004 | William J. Ranson '61 |
| 2003 | P. Cleburne McClary III '64 |
| 2002 | Dot Simpson Wise '39 |
| 2001 | John T. Moore '71 |
| 2000 | John M. Galloway '43 |
| 1998-99 | Henry L. Sneed, Jr. '36 |
| 1998-99 | William L. Pressly '30 |
| 1997 | Gordon G. Parkinson '30 |
| 1996 | L. M. “Dill” and Rachel Allison '49 |
| 1995 | William B. Patrick, Jr. '66 |
| 1994 | Frank and Margaret Hunt '50 |
| 1993 | Winnie Morrison Phillips '41 |
| 1992 | John M. Hunter '42 and Mary Anderson Hunter '44 |
| 1991 | Mary E. McDill '36 |
| 1990 | James H. Young '42 and Betty Henry Young '45 |
| 1989 | D. Patterson Craig '48 |
| 1988 | Lloyd H. Wilkerson '41 |
| 1987 | John M. Alexander '42 and Dr. Anne Whitesides Alexander '42 |
| 1986 | Martha Abernethy Long '35 |
| 1985 | Ralph W. Drake '33 |
| 1984 | J. M. Plaxco '18 |
| 1983 | “Tum” and “Totsy” Lesesne |
| 1982 | Jane Blakely Jennings '57 |
| 1981 | Elisabeth Chisolm Huffman '38 |
| 1980 | Mae Todd Moore '43 |
| 1979 | Moffatt Grier Long '40 |
| 1978 | William Chamber “Red” Myers '50 |
| 1977 | Robert Witherspoon Miller '39 |
| 1976 | Joseph Howard Patrick, Sr. '34 |
| 1975 | Thomas Selden Watt '33 |
| 1974 | James Dixon Lesslie, Jr. '32 |
| 1973 | Sarah Hopkins Sullivan '38 |
| 1972 | Hugh Chisolm Dale '32 |
| 1971 | Jean Wood Todd '40 |
| 1970 | James Patterson Pressly '03 |
| 1967 | Everette Sloan '15 and Ann Pressly Sloan '16 |
| 1962 | D.G. "Dode" Phillips '21 |
| 1962 | Robert Calvin Grier '10 |
| 1959 | Francis Ebenezer Grier '20 |
| 1958 | William Hood Stuart '24 |
