The Distinguished Service Award is the most prestigious of the awards presented by the Alumni Association and recognizes service to one’s church, community, profession, and Erskine over the span of one’s lifetime.
2022 | Dr. Fay Sprouse '84 |
2021 | Dr. Mabel L. Purkerson ’51 |
2020 | Dr. James Wylie Gettys, Jr. '62 |
2019 | Joseph H. "Chip" Sherer Jr. |
2017 | Rev. Howard Max Bolin |
2017 | Cynthia Coulter Bolin |
2016 | Dr. Clifton Earl Linderman |
2016 | Harriet Elizabeth Smith Linderman |
2015 | Dr. Richard G. Taylor, Jr. |
2014 | Dr. Joab Mauldin “Joe” Lesesne, Jr. |
2013 | Randall T. Ruble and Martha Grant Ruble |
2012 | Eleanor Chesnut Richardson |
2011 | Lowry Ware |
2010 | Dr. John Miller Grier |
2009 | Cliff N. Wallace |
2008 | Joe and Kathy Black |
2007 | Thomas W. Myers |
2006 | John Charles McGill |
2005 | D. Parker Young |
2004 | William J. Ranson |
2003 | P. Cleburne McClary III |
2002 | Dot Simpson Wise |
2001 | John T. Moore |
2000 | John M. Galloway |
1998-99 | Henry L. Sneed, Jr. |
1997 | Gordon G. Parkinson |
1996 | L. M. “Dill” and Rachel Allison |
1995 | William B. Patrick, Jr. |
1994 | Frank and Margaret Hunt |
1993 | Winnie Morrison Phillips |
1992 | John and Mary Hunter |
1991 | Mary E. McDill |
1990 | James H. and Betty Henry Young |
1989 | D. Patterson Craig |
1988 | Lloyd H. Wilkerson |
1987 | Jack and Anne Whitesides Alexander |
1986 | Martha Abernethy Long |
1985 | Ralph W. Drake |
1984 | J. M. Plaxco |
1983 | “Tum” and “Totsy” Lesesne |
1982 | Jane Blakely Jennings |
1981 | Elisabeth Chisolm Huffman |
1980 | Mae Todd Moore |
1979 | Moffatt Grier Long |
1978 | William Chamber “Red” Myers |
1977 | Robert Witherspoon Miller |
1976 | Joseph Howard Patrick, Sr. |
1975 | Thomas Selden Watt |
1974 | James Dixon Lesslie, Jr. |
1973 | Sarah Hopkins Sullivan |
1972 | Hugh Chisolm Dale |
1971 | Jean Wood Todd |
1970 | James Patterson Pressly |
1967 | Everette Sloan and Ann Pressly Sloan |
1962 | Robert Calvin Grier |
1959 | Francis Ebenezer Grier |
1958 | William Hood Stuart |
D. G. “Dode” Phillips | |
William L. Pressly |