Founders' Day Award
The Founders' Day award gives recognition to those persons in the larger community who have been of exceptional assistance to the University.
Recipients of the Founders' Day Award include:
2013
P. Kathryn Hicks
Dr. Lawrence E. Roël
2012
William R. Cobb '74
Dr. Marsha Dowell
2011
Dr. Harris Pastides
Dr. James "Eb" Barnes (posthumous)
2009
Herbert C. Adams
Elizabeth B. “Lib” Fleming
Robert M. “Bobby” Hitt, III
2008
J. Eugene Adams
H. Spencer King
Toney J. Lister
2007
Rosemary Byerly
John D. Gregory
2006
Lee A. Blair
H. Howell Clyborne, Jr. '80
John T. Gramling, II
James O. Harmon, Jr.
Elizabeth S. Mabry
Max K. Metcalf
2005
Robert A. Connelly, Jr.
2004
Ingo Angermeier
Dan L. Terhune, Ed.D.
2003
Harald W. Behrend
William B. Whitney
2002
John C. Stockwell and the establishment of the Stockwell-Vecchio International Scholarship
2001
The leadership of Horace C. Smith for the Carolina Piedmont Foundation
2000
Marion L. McMillan, Jr., and the naming of both the Terry and Janis Cash and JM Smith Corporation Computer Classrooms
1999
Capital Campaign Kick-off Event
1998
Helen Ryan Biehl
University Founding Members & Employees
1997
James S. Barrett
Raymond H. Brandt
1996
Betty J. Montgomery
William J. Whitener
1995
William C. Mayrose
James E. Talley
1994
Ralph Gillespie
Linda G. Miller
1993
Henry D. Jacobs, Jr.
Susan C. Jacobs '80
1991
Katie Adams Hodge
Sallie S. Peake
Frederic W. Schoen
1990
George E. Mitchell
Albert V. Smith '77
1989
Paula B. Baker
Phillip R. Case '89
Annie Y. Gordon
John S. Poole
1988
John L. Cobb
John M. Rampey, Jr.
John R. Russell
Louis C. Sossamon
1987
William Barnet, III
Carl B. Harper, Jr.
Sam P. Manning
Joseph T. Petty
1986
Dolores F. Anderson '81
Robert L. Chapman, Sr.
Frank H. Cunningham
1985
Paul F. Foerster
Daniel S. Henderson
Daniel S. Wilson
Susan S. Wilson '78
1984
David B. Anderson
Robert W. Anderson
T.W. Edwards, Jr.
C. Irvin Pitts
1983
Cleveland S. Harley
R. Thomas Thomason, Jr.
F. Don Watson
Fredericka R. Wilson '79
1982
George E. McDowell, Sr.
Walter S. Montgomery, Sr.
Mary Kate Black Phillips
Horace C. Smith
1981
Ted Conrad, Jr.
John E. Keith, M.D.
John M. Kohler, Jr.
Donna Lipscomb
1980
Johnny Mack Brown '76
Lachlan L. Hyatt
Ernest R. Kluttz
Joseph G. McCracken
1979
Henry T. Gramling
Fred D. Moffitt
Richard E. Tukey
1978
Charles C. Boone
Vera Davis Parsons
Henry Stewart
The Inman-Riverdale Foundation
1977
H. Willard Davis, Ph.D.
Hubert C. Hendrix
Zerno E. Martin
1976
Louis P. Howell
Paul M. Moore
Dianne Smith
The Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation
1975
Philip A. Buchheit
William J. Burroughs
G.B. Hodge, M.D.
James R. Smith '72