Excellence in Service to Hood College Award
The 2018 recipient of the Excellence in Service Award was Charlotte Sizoo Whitenight '68.
Whitenight graduated from Hood in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in history. She went on to earn a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. For 50 years, Charlotte has served Hood through numerous volunteer roles including leadership positions with the former Alumnae Association. She has served as the leader for the campaign to establish the diversity scholarship in memory of classmate Linda Wyatt Chissell. In addition to her relentless dedication to Hood, Charlotte serves as an associate for the Baltimore Symphony and a docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is retired from the Social Security Administration and is currently an antique dealer in Baltimore and an avid traveler.
| 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 |