Excellence in Service to Hood College Award
The 2022 recipients of the Excellence in Service Award are Lucia Grabenstein Kline '72 and Chrisse Butler Hassett '72.
Both Chrisse and Lucia have served as 1972 reunion class chairs for over twenty-five years. In a class news article from 1977, Lucia mentions planning both her wedding and the 1972 Five-Year reunion simultaneously. They have remained steadfast in their dedication to promoting and serving Hood, giving generously of their Time, Talent and Treasure year after year. Both have balanced careers, raised families, been involved in their communities, while keeping Hood and their classmates at the forefront of their efforts and endeavors.
Lucia and Chrisse have served as Class Agents, Reunion Chairs, Phone-A-Thon Volunteers, and 1972 representatives at President Chapdelaine’s inauguration. They have been constant in their giving, both claiming membership in the President’s Club, Wisteria Circle, and Century Society. Through the years, both have hosted Hood Alumni gatherings at their homes.
To speak of Lucia and Chrisse as “them” does seem to be simplistic, but as life-long friends, and exemplary Hood advocates and ambassadors, it would be a disservice to both to nominate one and not the other for this award. Their service to Hood is truly excellent.
2022 | Lucia Grabenstein Kline '72 and Chrisse Butler Hassett '72 |
2021 | Virginia Turnbull Hecklinger '56, P'81, G'08 |
2020 | Maryann Whitehead Scherzo, 1960 and Karin Ninesling Infuso, 1970 |
2019 | Magaly Mauras Green ’74, M.A.’79 and The Class of 1969 Board of Trustee Members: Cheryl Brown Dreiling ’69, H’13, Joan Esselen Foot ’69, Gail L. Gamble ’69, H’93, M.D., Carol Crofoot Hayes ’69, Esq., Deborah Jones Lash ’69, Esq. |
2018 | Charlotte Sizoo Whitenight '68 |
2017 | Virginia Price Bracken ’67 |
2016 | Kurt Holter ’76 and Judith E. Messina ’66 |
2015 | Eva Sayegh Teig Hardy '65 and Audrey Heyman Rooney '60 |
2013 | Gretchen Howe Russo '63 and Philip W. Bowers '83 |
2012 | Barbara Cummings Stacks '67 and Barbara Thomas Yinger '57 |
2011 | Janet Spaulding Nunn '61 |
2010 | Jean Righter Bolle '50 and Margaret "Peg" Lewis Christensen '52 |
2008 | Louise Renninger Rittenhouse '48 |
2007 | Erma Stull Grove '44 |
2006 | Susan Peters Wirths '56 |
2005 | Lavenia Hargett Marsh '36 |
2004 | Tibetha Owen '90 |
2003 | Beulah Munshower Sommer '44 |
2002 | Joanne Kates Roos '52 |
2001 | Helene Schmauch Schaeffer '37 |
2000 | Mildred K. Binder '40 |
1999 | Rosel Hoffberger Schewel '49 |
1998 | Frances A. Delaplaine Randall '45 |
1997 | Alice Elizabeth McCain McAlpine '51 |
1996 | Elisabeth Farber Neubauer '45 |
1995 | Ruth Brenneman Frantz '30 |
1994 | Mary Rockwell Hovet '38 |
1993 | A. Louise Funk Beachley '28 |
1992 | Natalie Colbert Bowers '52 |
1991 | Audrey Eyler Bauman '43 |
1990 | Penny Probert Boorman '55 |
1989 | Ann Weisburger Lebherz '47 |
1988 | Christine Plankenhorn Tischer '65 |
1987 | Julia Etchison Hanna '19 and Elizabeth Lewis Peters '19 |
1986 | Dorothy Ann Moore Stamm '31 |
1985 | Claire Reese Egolf '28 |
1984 | Edith Howard Hogan '59 |
1983 | Barbara Campbell Rickman '63, M.A. '75 |
1982 | Hildegarde Pilgram '31 |
1981 | Eleanor Wilson Maurer '30 |
1980 | Ruth Carty Delaplaine '13 |
1979 | Frances Good Bowers '27 |
1978 | Lois Smith Harrison '45 |
1977 | Fannie Magee Miller '27 |
1976 | Antoinette Tatem Driscoll '26 |
1975 | M. Eleanor MacMillan Nelson '32 |
1974 | Emily Apple Payne '24 |
1973 | Sarah Leiter Remsberg '37 |
1972 | Elizabeth A. Geiser '47 |
1971 | Ruth Yost Snyder '36 |
1970 | Catherine Baldwin Hoffman '37 |
1969 | Sonya Solosko Baum '59 |
1968 | Mary Grace Helfenstein '22 |
1967 | Elizabeth Helper Taylor '32 |
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