Charles Holmes Pettee Medal

The Charles Holmes Pettee Medal was established in 1940 to recognize individuals who exhibit the rare devotion to service expressed by the life of the late Dean Pettee, who served the college unselfishly for 62 years as professor and dean until his death in 1938. The medal is awarded to a resident or former resident of the state in recognition of outstanding accomplishment or distinguished service in any form to the state, the nation, or the world. 

2024 The Honorable Carol Shea-Porter '75, '79G
2023 Margaret (Peggy) Ann Shea '58, '61G
2022*
2021 General (Ret.) Lori J. Robinson '81, '17H, USAF
2020
2019 Donald Shumway '04PhD
2018*
2017 John Lynch '74
2016*
2015 David Finkelhor '78G
2014 Lewis M. Feldstein
2013 The Honorable Judd Gregg '90H and Kathy Gregg
2012 James W. Squires, M.D., dedicated public servant
2011 Eugene A. Savage '58, distinguished educator
2010 J. Bonnie Newman '07H, educator and public servant
2009 Stephen H. Taylor '62, dedicated public servant
2008 Peter T. Paul '67, philanthropist
2007 Jan Nisbet, advocate for people with disabilities
2005/2006 Jack B. Middleton, attorney and public servant
2004 Dean Kamen, inventor and physicist
2003 Ken Burns '90H, award-winning documentary filmmaker
2002 Clark Terry '78H, world-renowned jazz trumpeter
2001 Joan Leitzel, esteemed UNH president, 1996-2002
2000 Murray A. Straus, internationally renowned sociologist
1999 Marcy Peterson Carsey '66, '88H, award-winning television producer
1998 Robert Chase, M.D., '45, '94H, medical pioneer
1997 The Hon. Walter '69H and Dorothy Peterson, distinguished statesman, exemplary citizens
1996 Fred Hall, Jr., '41, esteemed professional and dedicated community member
1995 John W. McConnell '71H, president UNH 1963-71; Hugh Bownes, senior circuit judge
1994 Paul Sweet, legendary track coach; Elizabeth Yates, prolific New Hampshire author
1993 Dr. C. Everett Koop, surgeon and teacher; Warren B. Rudman '81H, distinguished statesman
1992 Jere A. Chase '36, '46G, former college president and UNH administrator
1991 Edwin '66H and Mary Scheier, internationally known artists
1990 Robert F. Chandler Jr. '72H, international agriculturist; John H. Sununu '83H, White House chief of staff
1989 William L. Dunfey '50, '54G, '81H, businessman and philanthropist
1988 Rear Adm. Grace M. Hopper, U.S. Navy, retired
1987 The Hon. James C. Cleveland, former U.S. state senator, U.S. representative
1986 The Hon. John W. King '63H, dedicated public servant
1985 Leslie S. Hubbard '27, '77H, distinguished leader, agricultural industry
1984 Hugh C. Tuttle, agriculturist and civic leader
1983 Col. Amos R. Townsend '52, international rescue physician
1982 T. Holmes Moore, educator
1981 Frederick M. Jervis '44, '49H, educational consultant
1980 A. Cooper Ballentine, artist, craftsman
1979 Frank W. Lane, Jr., radiologist
1978 William H. Gifford '36, doctor of medicine; Marjorie A. Parsons '33, '34G, doctor of medicine
1977 John S. Elliott '15, '49H, former trustee
1976 J. Duane Squires, New Hampshire historian
1975 Oliver J. Hubbard '21, '82H, distinguished leader in agricultural industry
1974 Norman S. Weeks '28, youth leader
1973 Harold E. Hyde, college president
1972 Nicholas F. Colovos '27H, faculty member, animal sciences authority
1971 The Hon. Louis C. Wyman '38, state attorney general and U.S. congressman
1970 The Hon. Sinclair Weeks '60H, business, political and educational leader
1969 Mildred MacAfee Horton, distinguished educator
1968 Robert B. Kerr, M.D., '32H, pioneer in medicine
1967 The Hon. Norris Cotton '36H, U.S. senator
1966 Adm. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., first American in space
1965 Eva Clough Speare, civic worker and historian
1964 Helen Goodwin Crathern, teacher of children
1963 Douglas Sloane, humanitarian, Cathedral of the Pines
1962 Mary E. Peckett, humanitarian
1961 Margaret Long Arnold, club woman
1960 The Hon. Styles Bridges, '35H, U.S. senator
1959 James M. Langley '56H, newspaper publisher
1958 Robert W. Upton, public benefactor
1957 Frank W. Randall 1907, business executive
1956 Avery R. Schiller, public utility executive
1955 The Hon. Sherman Adams '49H, former N.H. governor, U.S. president assistant
1954 Laurence F. Whittemore '50H, industrialist
1953 Viola S. Smith, American Cancer Society
1952 Edgar H. Hunter, public spirited citizen
1951 Abbie Chase Sargent '48H, public spirited citizen
1950 George Clarence Wilkins M.D., surgeon
1949 Lafell Dickinson, club woman
1948 Harvey Dow Gibson '33H, banker, philanthropist
1947 J. Brodie Smith, engineer (posthumously)
1946 Mary Hill Coolidge, New Hampshire Arts and Crafts
1945 Mary Carpenter Manning, public spirited citizen
1944 The Hon. Huntley Nowell Spaulding '28H, former N.H. governor, philanthropist
1943 George Martin Putnam, prominent farmer
1942 Marian Nevins MacDowell, Musician, founder of MacDowell Memorial
1941 Harlan Fiske Stone, associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court

*Awards not presented