Ethel Cockey ’23 Award

In 1988, the Alumni Association established the Ethel Cockey Award in honor of Miss Ethel Cockey, Class of 1923, who for 27 years served as the chief link between all Goucher alumnae/i and the college. This award is given to a member of a reunion class for outstanding leadership and volunteer service to the college and the Alumnae and Alumni of Goucher College (AAGC).

Criteria

Eligibility and selection criteria include:

  • given at annual meeting of the AAGC
  • selected by the Executive Committee
  • member of a reunion class
  • outstanding volunteer service to Goucher
  • outstanding leader of the AAGC
  • not a current board member or an honorary degree recipient

Recipients

The past recipients of the Ethel Cockey ’23 Award are:

  • 2025 – Jane Hammann Taft, Class of 1960
  • 2024 – Jane Benson, Class of 1974
  • 2023 – Kimmy Eurich Wennik, Class of 1993; Ju Yu, Class of 1993;Tom Geyer, Class of 1993
  • 2022 – Melinda Burdette, Class of 1972
  • 2021 – Alex Wood, Class of 2006
  • 2020 – Arlene Fisher Blaker, Class of 1975
  • 2019 – Louise "Reddi" Ford, Class of 1964
  • 2018 – Jinny Muse Fleischman, Class of 1968
  • 2017 – Esther Shapiro Slaff, Class of 1947
  • 2016 – Risa P. Gorelick, Class of 1991
  • 2015 – Beverly Heuschober Winter, Class of 1955
  • 2014 – Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark, Class of 1954
  • 2013 – Grace Cunningham Huber, Class of 1948
  • 2012 – SaraKay Sherman Smullens, Class of 1962
  • 2011 – The Goucher Trips and Tours Committee
  • 2010 – Virginia Miller Weiss, Class of 1940
  • 2009 – Maria Amelia Rodriguez, Class of 1949
  • 2008 – Geraldine Merican Polinger, Class of 1943
  • 2007 – Hilda Cohen Fisher, Class of 1947
  • 2006 – Ethel Weber Berney, Class of 1946
  • 2005 – Harriet Cullison Quandt , Class of 1940
  • 2005 – Margaret Welsh Blount, Class of 1945
  • 2005 – Maxine Bigby Cunningham, Class of 1970
  • 2004 – Mary Katherine Scarborough Scheeler, Class of 1949
  • 2003 – Dorothy Lee Dorman, Class of 1963
  • 2003 – Nancy Layton Tunnessen, Class of 1963
  • 2002 – Betty Chinn Schildwachter, Class of 1942
  • 2001 – Sara Gilger Barnes, Class of 1946
  • 2001 – Michiko Yoshida Mitarai, Class of 1966
  • 2000 – Adele Bauer Armiger, Class of 1935
  • 2000 – Helen Hale Weed, Class of 1935
  • 1999 – Dorothy Lamberton Clapp, Class of 1939
  • 1998 – Marilyn Southard Warshawsky, Class of 1968
  • 1997 – Charlotte Bush Failing, Class of 1927
  • 1997 – Evenden Daley Herman, Class of 1937
  • 1997 – Louise Redfield Levy, Class of 1937
  • 1996 – Emma E. Thomas, Class of 1921
  • 1996 – Eleanor Connor Ricards, Class of 1941
  • 1995 – Jennie Ann Gray, Class of 1945
  • 1995 – Elizabeth Deveney Johnston, Class of 1930
  • 1994 – Wilma Zimmerman, Class of 1964
  • 1993 – Brice Black Bramman, Class of 1948
  • 1993 – Elizabeth White Garthe, Class of 1948
  • 1992 – Hazel Wood Hill, Class of 1947
  • 1992 – Margaret Higinbothom Kraus, Class of 1947
  • 1991 – Dorothy B. Krug, Class of 1941
  • 1990 – Elizabeth Riepe Brigstocke, Class of 1925
  • 1989 – Helen B. Turnball, Class of 1929
  • 1988 – Adelaide Forbush Fowler, Class of 1933