2024
Coach Roy Williams
2023
125th Anniversary Celebration
2022
Paul Fulton
2021
Thomas W. Ross
2019
Camilla M. Herlevich
Jane B. Preyer
2018
Margaret Vardell Sandresky
2017
William E. Leuchtenburg
2016
William T. Buice, III
James W. Harbison, Jr.
Edwin B. Howard, Jr.
2015
Oliver Smithies
2014
J. Myrick Howard
2013
John J. Mack
2012
Governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr.
2011
William B. Harrison, Jr.
2010
Bonnie McElveen Hunter
2009
Dr. James H. Goodnight and Mrs. Ann B. Goodnight
2008
John Hope Franklin
2007
William Ivey Long
Lawrence Wheeler, Ph.D.
2006
Paul J. Rizzo
2005
Hugh M. Morton
2004
General H. Hugh Shelton
2003
Julian and Josie Robertson
2002
Thomas K. Hearn
2001
Loonis McGlohon
2000
Frank & Julia Daniels
1999
John Wells Kuykendall
1998
C.D. Spangler, Jr.
1997
100th Anniversary Celebration
1996
Mary Ryan Cecil & William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil
1995
Rosemary Harris
Richard Adler
Terrence Mann
1994
Richard Hampton Jenrette
1993
Barbara Babcock Millhouse
1992
William G. Anylan, M.D.
1991
William States Lee, III
1990
Roberts Edgar Timberlake
1989
John Marsden Ehle, Jr.
1988
Edward E. Crutchfield, Jr.
John G. Medlin, Jr.
Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
1987
Charles Kuralt
Tom Wicker
1986
Frank H. Kenan
1985
Governor James G. Martin
1984
Thomas H. Davis
1983
William C. Friday
1982
Dean E. Smith
1981
John Sadler Hayes
1980
Carl Horn, Jr.
Sherwood H. Smith, Jr.
1979
R. Philip Hanes, Jr.
Dr. James H. Semans
1978
Gordon Gray
1977
Warner L. Hall
Halbert M. Jones
1976
Marshall I. Pickens
1975
Samuel R. Spencer, Jr.
1974
Joseph H. McConnell
1973
James Ralph Scales
1972
John M. Belk
1969
Luther H. Hodges
James J. Harris
1968
Charles F. Meyers, Jr.
Howard N. Holderness
Edward H. Little
1967
Archie K. Davis
J. Carlyle Sitterson
1966
David Grier Martin
1965
Dr. Connie Guion
1963
Dr. Douglas M. Knight
1962
H. Smith Richardson
1961
Governor Terry Sanford
1959
Edward H. Little
1958
John Motley Morehead III
William C. Friday
1954
Governor Luther H. Hodges
1947
Honorable Herschel Johnson
John Motley Morehead III