Student Awards: The Charles H. Coffin Scholarship Medal

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