The Charles H. Coffin Scholarship Medal is awarded each year to an honor graduate of Lyon College who has taken at least his or her last three years of work here as a regular student. The award, in the form of a gold medal, represents the highest award conferred upon a Lyon College student. It was founded around the turn of the century by Charles H. Coffin of New York City, Class of 1884, as the Alumni Medal. After his death in 1916, the award was endowed by a gift from a classmate of the original donor and renamed the “Charles H. Coffin Scholarship Medal.” After the mold for the medal was lost, Eugene Sloan, ’12, loaned his personal Coffin Medal to the College so that another die could be cast. His lifelong respect for the medal caused Mr. Sloan’s family to create the Eugene Sloan Endowment for the Coffin Medal to underwrite the cost of the medal. Records are still being searched in order to compile a complete list of recipients. The following list is incomplete:
| 1906 Eula Maxfield Garrott | 1907 George T. McKee |
| 1908 Horace Sloan | 1909 Stuart R. Oglesby |
| 1910 E. B. Paisley | 1912 Eugene Sloan, Christine Murphy |
| 1914 Malcolm E. Evans | 1915 M. S. Smith, Jr. |
| 1916 Fred Maxfield | 1918 Jan McMurray |
| 1921 Ira Nelson Barnett III | 1922 John Quincy Wolf |
| 1925 William A. Sensabaugh | 1926 Etta Brewer |
| 1927 Miriam Alice Anderson, Lillian Jimerson, Avon Shannon | 1928 Marguerite Glant Shannon, Stuart H. Salmon |
| 1929 Marjorie Norton | 1930 Bess Millen Wolf |
| 1931 Marjorie Witherspoon | 1932 Mary Ross Wood |
| 1933 Ella Myrl Dobson, Wilma Stanley | 1934 Allie Beth Dent, Doris Wray, Lois Thomas |
| 1935 Leila Heasley | 1936 Martha Cantley, Dorothy Ross |
| 1939 Lillie Mae Martin, Frances Ross | 1940 Frances Chaney |
| 1942 Betty Wasson, M. E. Wasson | 1944 Mary Engels |
| 1946 Charline Bryant | 1947 Kathleen Sharp |
| 1948 Lowell Southerland | 1949 James Vernon Balch |
| 1950 Gary Jones | 1951 Pearl Ottinger |
| 1952 Joan Creason | 1953 Joyce Virginia Shillcutt |
| 1954 Evelyn Willard | 1955 Von Dean Gray |
| 1956 Marjorie Stuart | 1957 Jim Gillaspy |
| 1958 Ernestine Teeter | 1959 Barbara Buford |
| 1960 Jacob C. Turner | 1961 Mike Collins |
| 1962 James Logan Morgan, Jr. | 1963 Moorene Goff Newton |
| 1964 Roberta Mae Bustin | 1965 Mary King |
| 1966 Lamar Middleton | 1967 Mayola Satterfield |
| 1968 Clifford Jackson | 1969 Lance Jones |
| 1970 Ronnie Gerald Brogdon | 1971 Ray Hamlett |
| 1972 Billy Wayne Bristow | 1973 Peggy Reynolds |
| 1974 Mary Ann Gray | 1975 Mark Wood |
| 1976 Mara Marlin | 1977 Joan Rodella Chisam |
| 1978 Jeannie Dacus Whitener | 1979 Keith Stillwell |
| 1980 Karen Sue Calaway | 1981 William L. Garner |
| 1982 John Collins | 1983 Doug Punke |
| 1984 Marsha Allen | 1985 Cynthia Britton Barber |
| 1986 Patty L. Keeton Burks | 1987 David Wesley Duke |
| 1988 Benjamin Carl Blount | 1989 Jennifer Smith |
| 1990 Leroy Roberts II | 1991 Roger Weitkamp |
| 1992 Benjamin Weston | 1993 Shane Robert Smith |
| 1994 Heather James | 1995 Rebecca Osborne |
| 1996 Robert Gregory Tebbetts | 1997 Elizabeth Susan Neelly |
| 1998 Leslie Lynn Chambliss | 1999 Brandon Colby Flygare |
| 2000 Kimberly Dickerson | 2001 David McCullars |
| 2002 Jonathan Thompson | 2003 M. Danielle Temple |
| 2004 Edlira Bashari | 2005 Justin Holt |
| 2006 Adam Long | 2007 Robert Bailey |
| 2008 Robert Frank | 2009 Leah Byers |
| 2010 April Burns | 2011 Elena Rodriguez |
| 2012 Andrew Todd | 2013 Jon-Michael Poff |
| 2014 Jonathan Dannatt | 2015 Ralynn Brann |
| 2016 Robbi Riggs | 2017 Hope Woods |
| 2018 Hannah Templin | 2019 Jordan Trant |
| 2020 Robert Luke Shackelford | 2021 Zachary Ward |
| 2022 Hannah Wu | 2023 Nikkolette Perkins |
| 2024 Thien-Kim T. Ho | 2025 Chase Orf |