S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. 1925 Award

Presented for the first time in 1987 by the Alumni Council Princeton Schools committee (formerly the National Committee on Schools), this award recognizes the regional Alumni Schools Committee (ASC) whose activities, enthusiasm and imagination have most effectively realized the primary goals of Schools Committee work: to recruit outstanding candidates for Princeton, to report skillfully on these candidates to the Admission office and to represent Princeton to its local community.

2024 Award Recipients:

Princeton Club of Michigan
Thomas Klein ’09, Simona Shaitelman ’99 & Aminda Smith *06

Princeton Alumni Association of New Orleans 
Laura Blackman ’83 & Ayako Goto ’89

Princeton Alumni Association of Turkey 
Esen Caglar ’03 & Gözde Küçük ’06

Previous Award Recipients

  • 2023 - Arati Johnston ’84, Kristen Quinn ’03 and Genevieve McCormack ’98 - Princeton Club of Philadelphia 
    Betsy Bernstein ’04 - Princeton Alumni Association of Nashville
    Carolyn Hawkins Poelman ’92 and Barbara Meyler ’88 - Princeton Alumni Association of Austria and Princeton Alumni Association of Continental Europe - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia
  • 2022 - Scott Layne ’09, Elizabeth Lippincott ’82 - Princeton Club of Southern California — South Bay
    Michael Morley ’00, Juliette Reynolds ’86, Michael Reynolds ’85 - Princeton Alumni Association of Northern Florida 
    Quinton Beck ’14 - Princeton Alumni Association of Continental Europe — Kazakhstan
  • 2021 - Tiffany Pui Lam Tang ’10, Wanli Li *07 - Princeton Club of Hong Kong
    Lucile E. White ’96, D. Mark Poag ’93 - Princeton Alumni Association of Houston 
    Archana Pradhan ’92, Ashlyn P. Lackey ’18 - Princeton Area Alumni Association – Princeton South
  • 2020 - David Lumsden *79 - New Zealand Alumni Schools Committee
    Lloyd A. B. Lawrence, Jr. ’76, Edward R. Tittel ’73, Michael Torre III ’17 - Princeton Club of Austin
    Donald A. Smalley ’72 - Princeton Club of Minnesota
  • 2019 - John Yi ‘03, Richard Estes ’86, Sara Mosle ’86 - Princeton Alumni Association of Essex and Hudson Counties
    Chris Long ’97, Angie Long ’97 - Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City
    Nasser Bin Nasser *03, Shadin Nassief ’17 - Princeton Alumni Association of the Near East – Saudi Arabia
    Timothy Lyons ’90, Lillian Oshva ’88 - Princeton Club of Mexico
  • 2018 - Mary Helen deGolian ’17, Collen Leng ’14, Kara Ong ’93, Aixa Pascual ’88, Tiffania Willetts ’12 - Princeton Club of Georgia
    Gretchen Philippi ’91, Vanessa Rios-De Jesus ’94 - Princeton Club of Puerto Rico 
    Heather Carmichael ’00, Nivedita Singh ’13 - Princeton Alumni Association of Singapore 
    Christina Goeltz Clarke ’97 - Princeton Club of St. Louis
  • 2017 - Saroj Bhattarai *10 - Princeton Club of Kathmandu
    Mokyou Hyun ’97 - Princeton Club of San Diego
    Huaiyu Dai *02, Chris Larsen ’95 - Princeton Club of the Carolina Triangle
  • 2016 - Lily Chung Partridge ’82 - Princeton Club of Northwestern New Jersey
    Roberto A. Cordon-Engel ’88 - Princeton Club of Switzerland
    Walter R. Barry, III ’89, Annelise Bauer ’94, Bay-Wei W. Chang ’87, Rachel DuPre Brodie ’93, Shelley Chu ’91, William Doyle, Jr. ’81, Lydia K. Fox ’81, Debra L. Hale *90, Lisa M. Herrington ’89, Bonnie Lau ’02, Anthony P. Lee ’92, Gabriel C. Paulson ’86, Polly Robbins White ’91, Yu-Wen E. Chang ’92 - Princeton Club of Northern California
  • 2015 - Mike Royster ’64, Roberto H.N. Pons ’86 - Princeton Club of Brazil
    Candace Jackson ’00, Christine O'Neill ’06, Scott Strausser ’83, Charlene Huang Olson ’88, Rudi Moreno ’90 and Rick Woldenberg ’81, ASC Chair - Princeton Club of Chicago
    Rachel Wagner Furst ’03 - Princeton Club of South Florida
  • 2014 - Vivian A. Rejebian ’84 - Princeton Alumni Association of Broome County (Binghamton)
    Steven J. Margolis ’81, Steven J. Mintz ’85, Anne Lederman Flamm ’89 - Princeton Association of Northern Ohio (Cleveland)
    Jack L. Goodman ’89, Kara A. Jenner ’01 - Princeton Club of Australia
  • 2013 - Edward Elkin ’84, Ilana Lucas ’07 - Princeton Alumni Association of Canada, Toronto Chapter
    Vincent Silverio ’75 - Princeton Alumni Association of Monmouth and Northeast Ocean Counties
    Heather Stefanski ’95 - Princeton Alumni Association of Santa Barbara
  • 2012 - Ahmed M. Ozalp ’95 - Princeton Club of Africa, Egypt Region
    Donna M. Sotolongo ’77, David A. DeFreese ’91, Ray Wong ’76 - Princeton Club of Northwestern New Jersey
    Ashley Cordell Cook ’95, Amit K. Lal ’88 - Orange County Princeton Club
  • 2011 - Mary Ryan Agostinelli ’85, Michelle M. Buckley ’01, Olivia Bruce Hurlock ’86, Jessica Lynn Jones ’01, Mary Sweeney Koger ’86, Rebecca E. Kotkin ’85, Suzanne M. Morrison ’89, David Ventola ’85, Alden D. Zecha ’87 *87 - Princeton Association of New England
    Elizabeth Pearsall Lippincott ’87, Angela Winegar ’99 - Princeton Club of Austin 
    Alice V. Easton ’09, Rahul R. Mehra ’07, Rina Singh Sachdev ’92 - Princeton Club of India
  • 2010 - Beth Moss Heller ’78, Mika Provata-Carlone *02, Victoria Wu Rosini ’90 - Princeton Association of the United Kingdom
    John W. Teeter ’97 - Princeton Club of Michigan
    Martin J. Gruenberg ’75, Rosalie Wedmid Norair ’76 - Martin J. Gruenberg ’75, Rosalie Wedmid Norair ’76
  • 2009 - Anne L. Martinez ’84 & Lawrence T. Martinez ’84 - Princeton Club of Idaho and Montana, Montana Region
    George W. Schnetzer, III ’60 - Princeton Club of Tulsa
    Patricia Noriko Gallagher ’92 - Princeton Association of New York City, Brooklyn Region
  • 2008 - Nancy E. Ortega ’84 - Princeton Club of WICHITA
    Steven T. Johnston ’73 - Princeton Alumni Association of Northern New York
    Tracey L. Leacock *97 - Princeton Alumni Association of Canada, British Columbia Chapter
  • 2007 - Charles B. Mikell ’63 - Princeton Club of Savannah
    Theodore D. Taubeneck ’48 & Lindianne Sarno ’76 - Princeton Club of Southern Arizona 
    George Corser ’85, YoungSuk Chi ’83 & Michael D. Richardson ’02 - Princeton Club of Korea 
  • 2006 - William R. Denny ’83 (Current ASC Chair) and 
    Donald C. Brown ’73 (Immediate Past ASC Chair) – Princeton Association of Delaware
    Theagenis P. Iliadis ’87 – Princeton Club of Greece
    Robert H. Martinez ’75 and Kathleen D. McCleery ’75 – Princeton Club of Washington
  • 2005 - Mark Swanson, M.D. ’71 – PAA of Arkansas 
    Silas Kopf ’72 – PAA of Western Massachusetts
    Dolores Chavez de Daigle ’76 – PC of New Mexico
  • 2004 - Beth Rose ’77 – New Zealand 
    Richard Woodward ’68 - San Diego
    Andrew Baxter ’78 - Central NY
    Mary Hurley Begley ’75 - Central NY 
  • 2003 - Gregory Shibley ’77 - Palm Beach, FL
    William Chambers ’67 - NYC (Bronx)
  • 2002 - Agustin Rodriguez ’90 - Virginia (Richmond area)
    Glenn Berkey ’89 - Hong Kong
  • 2001 - David Lee ’62 - Ohio Valley 
    Robert Cooper ’79 - Nashville and Middle TN (former chair)
    YoungSuk Chi ’83 - Nashville and Middle TN 
    Susan Alper ’73 - Hampton Roads, VA
    Winthrop Short ’68 - Hampton Roads, VA
    Nancy Schoenberger ’88 - Memphis, TN
    Margaret Grinder ’95 - Memphis, TN
    Geoffrey Young ’72 - Chattanooga, TN
  • 2000 - Robert Rodgers ’56 - Princeton area
    Michael Faigen ’73 - Princeton area
    David Woffindin ’75 - Princeton area
    Linda Bell Blackburn 71 - Princeton are
    a Roderick McNealy ’72 - Princeton area
    Brill Aldridge Garrett ’88 - Princeton area
  • 1999 - Henry Von Kohorn ’66 - Princeton area
  • 1998 - Donald Smalley ’72 - Minnesota
    Linda Haitani ’83 - Southern CA
    Marshall Long ’65 - Southern CA
    Don Allison ’62 - Southern CA
  • 1997 - PC of Georgia – Katherine Brokaw ’82
    PAA of Northern Arizona – Brian Campbell ’87
    PC of Northwestern NJ – Paul Flowerman ’71
  • 1996 - PC of Philadelphia – Duncan Van Dusen ’58
  • 1995 - Jude Ruff ’84 - England
    Jocelyn Phelps ’82 - France
  • 1994 - Mike Phelps ’71 - Northern CA
    Jamie Pitney ’71 - Maine
    Ernani Falcone ’50 - San Antonio (deceased)
  • 1993 - Paul Atkinson ’74 - Westchester County, NY
    Mike Otten ’63 - Westchester County, NY
    Steward Pinkerton ’64 - Manhattan and Staten Island, NY
    Peter Carry ’64 - New York, NY
  • 1992 - Wayne Lau ’79 - Singapore
    Kim MacColl ’72 - Oregon
  • 1991 - James Parham ’52 - Greenville, SC 
    Thomas Houghton ’65 - Houston, TX
  • 1990 - Stanley Bynum ’68 - Birmingham, AL
  • 1989 - William Ayers ’72 - (information unavailable)
  • 1988 - Doug Weil ’58 - Boston, MA
  • 1987 - Nick Allard ’74 - Washington, D.C.