Valedictorians 1915 to present
The undergraduate senior(s) with the highest academic average at graduation. No other specific class ranks are available.
2024: Sara Kate Durkee, Oskar Freiherr von Mandelsloh, Duncan John Hart, Georgia Anne McSwain, Zachary Thomas Moore, Shauna Rose Muckle, Pham Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Aislinn Hanako Niimi, Peyton Marshall Pack, Kathryn Marie Yurechko
2023: Walter Henry Barden, Anna Elizabeth Blackburn, Mary Elain Graham, Jason Gu
2022: Truman Thomas Chancy, Spencer Martich Kriss, Trang Thuy Vu
2021: Chi Shing Adrian Lam
2020: Matthew O'Neal Withers
2019: Kathryn Virginia (Kalady) Osowski, Lauren Elizabeth Pupa
2018: Mallory Ellen Stephenson
2017: Brooke Rose Donnelly, Stephen Carrington Mitchell, Zoe Helen Ottaviani, Zach Joseph Taylor, Pasquale Stelianos Toscano
2016: Michael Watkins Holt
2015: Christopher Hu, Eric Michael Schwen, Scott Anthony Sugden
2014: Jordan Taylor Kearns
2013: Maggie Lynn Holland
2012: Brooke Latta Sutherland
2011: Michael Todd Kuntz
2010: Darinka Trübutschek
2009: Elizabeth Gates Webb
2008: Philip Jameson Graber
2007: Sergey Sergeyevich Kvasnyuk
2006: Angela Jean Oh Park
2005: Marissa Eileen Meyer
2004: Harry William Schroeder III
2003: Jeffrey Giorgio Meriggi
2002: Emily Barrington Dixon
2001: Angela Christine Roman
2000: Ellen Sue Klenk
1999: Sara Anne McCrone
1998: Lauren Lee Willson
1997: Elizabeth Ann Fritze
1996: Graig Alan Fantuzzi
1995: William P. Shepherd
1994: Herman I. Safin
1993: Mary Jo Geyer
1992: Thomas Daniel Knight
1991: Bernadette M. Kempton
1990: Teresa L. Southard
1989: John D. Boller
1988: Gregory Drew Russell
1987: Jeffrey Scott Mandak
1986: John-Paul Bouffard
1985: David L. Harrar
1984: Jeffrey S. Gee
1983: Scott William Hall, Michael B. Streiff, John C. Vlahoplus
1982: Edmund P. Perry
1981: Brett A. Wohler
1980: William H. Matthai
1979: Robert E. Atkinson
1978: James G. Sheridan
1977: Richard O. Bolden
1976: Carey D. Chisholm, Keith J. Crocker
1975: Robert H. Crawford
1974: George W. Austin III
1973: Richard H. Graham
1972: Lloyd M. Goodman
1971: Richard S. Kampf
1970: Gary H. Dobbs III
1969: Samuel D. Hinkle IV
1968: Michael R. Dunn
1967: Alan G. Cohen
1966: Stephan J. Sweitzer
1965: Jon A. Supak
1964: Jere D. Cravens
1963: Robert M. Christian
1962: Joseph Leonard Goldstein
1961: Brian Howard Vitsky
1960: Thomas Warren Wieting
1959: Charles Royce Hough III
1958: John Monk Larson
1957: Charles Monroe Drum
1956: Philip De Muth Monger
1955: Charles Henry Nowlin
1954: Robert Owen Paxton
1953: Bentz Buell Howard Jr.
1952: Henry Winkelman Jones Jr.
1951: David Duckworth Bien
1950: Thomas Clayborne Frost Jr.
1949: Matthew White Paxton Jr.
1948: Robert Glasgow Patterson
1947: Rodney Mims Cook
1946: David Vance Guthrie Jr.
1945: none
1944: William Bell Guthrie
1943: Robert Francis Johnson
1942: Paul Baker Jr.
1941: Alvin Theodore Fleishman
1940: William LeRoy Burner Jr.
1939: Neil Turpin Houston
1938: William Saxby Tavel
1937: Morton Allen Brown
1936: Edward Lee Markham Jr.
1935: William Rogers Sphar Jr.
1934: Amos Alonzo Bolen
1933: John Francis Watlington Jr.
1932: Malcolm Duncan Campbell Jr.
1931: John Madison Dean
1930: Herbert Grant Jahncke
1929: Irwin Taylor Sanders
1928: Herbert Harriss Butler
1927: Samuel Adams McCain
1926: Emmett Wallace MacCorkle Jr.
1925: William Louis Woolfolk
1924: James Wyatt French
1923: Thomas Jean Ellis
1922: Floyd J. Daughtrey
1921: Noble Bascom Hendrix
1920: John W. Kern
1919: Charles Holt Taylor
1918: Edmund Douglas Campbell
1917: William Junkin Cox
1916: Charles Edmund Worth
1915: Rupert Nelson Latture
1914: Arthur Williamson McCain
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