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Letter-In-Life Award

The most prestigious Alumni Award given by the Pingry Alumni Association to an alumni/ae who has a distinguished career in either professional or civic life. Secondly, the committee looks at an individual's service and support to Pingry.

Read Bruce Jacobsen's speech from the Class of 2008 commencement on June 8, 2008.
Letter-In-Life Recipients
Listed by year awarded
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
Bruce Jacobsen ’78
Kenneth W. Wachter ’64
Douglas B. Macrae ’77
David E. Gernert ’74
Michael Chertoff ’71
William V. Engel ’67
Stephan F. Newhouse ’65
Park B. Smith ’50
Dr. Richard L. Cruess ’47
John H. Scully ’62
Amos B. Hostetter Jr. ’54
Dr. H. Franklin Bunn ’53
Peter T. Buchanan ’52
Miller A. Bugliari ’52
John W. Holman, Jr. ’55
Norbert Weldon ’35
Robert B. Gibby ’31
Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. ’44
Atherton Bristol ’41
F. Helmut Weymar ’54
Edward G. Engel ’33
Henry H. Hoyt Jr. ’45
David M. Baldwin ’47
Edward W. Cissel ’39
William M. Bristol III ’39
Warren S. Kimber Jr. ’52
Nelson L. Carr ’24
Dr. William P. Burks ’51
Joseph G. Engel ’35
Woodruff J. English ’27
Professor G. Gaddis Smith ’50
William V. Robinson ’35
Mark N. Donohue Jr. ’55
E. Murray Todd ’16
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1962
1961
1960
1958
1957
1956
1955
1953
1952
1951
1950
1949
1948
1947
1946
1945
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
H. Russell Morss Jr. ’27
James C. Kellogg III ’33
N. Conover English ’29
Robert S. Corbin ’34
Percy H. Buchanan ’12
William S. Beinecke ’31
R. Manning Brown Jr. ’32
Edward J. Dimock ’46
Charles B. Atwater ’31
Matthew Dean Hall ’25
Thomas R. White Jr. ’10
Robert Clarke Crane ’50
William J. Corbet ’21
G. Bartram Woodruff 1900
Norman F. Charlock 1902
Arthur N. Pierson 1883
Piermont V. Davis 1901
Alan F. Myers 1898
Edward W. Brown ’19
John Farr Simmons ’09
Ralph Heyward Isham ’08
George C. Thomas Jr. ’07
James Lawrence Meyers ’07
Edward A. Weeks Jr. ’15
Dr. James Alexander Miller 1889
Richard W. Tregaskis ’34
Chester F. Smith ’08
Newcomb Carlton 1885
William F. Halsey Jr. 1900
Conover English 1894
Horace K. Corbin 1904
J. Mortimer Townley 1880
Thomas N. McCarter 1883
Dr. Dean Mathey ’08