(Note: When possible, names are linked to stories giving readers a fuller appreciation of recipients' achievements at the time when they won the award. The stories come from archival issues of the University Gazette, Carolina's faculty/staff newspaper.)
1980
Sarah Virginia Dunlap
Doris Moore Lindsey
Anne Ellen Queen
James A. Weaver
1981
Anna Brooke Allan
Lewis Atwater, Sr.
Vivian Cole
Elizabeth Majette Parker
1982
Wilma Cooke Coates
Claiborne Stribling Jones
Willie Clay Lloyd, Jr.
James Winstead
1983
Victor Pratt Bowles
Louise McGwigan Hall
Lillian Youngs Lehman
Herbert L. Paylor
1984
Lucia White Hudson
David Mills Johnson
David Lee McCauley
Raymond Eugene Strong
1985
Ophelia Hooks Andrew
Carrie Davis Bynum
Ned Andrew Comar
Roy Walter Holsten
1986
Virginia Cole Coyle
Erwin Martin Danziger
William James Hubbard
Thomas Anzin Shetley
1987
William Ray Andrews
Susan H. Ehringhaus
Charles Edward Mauer
Kitty McCaskill McCollum
1988
Faye Harris Gray
Marjorie Harrell Riddle
Carl William Smith
James Walter Womble
1989
Cleo McCauley Boykins
Margaret Rook Folger
Frances Angas Weaver
Harold Edward Wilson
1990
Clyde Brooks
Margaret O'Bid Gulley
Wayne Richard Jones
Grace Williams Wagoner
1991
James Olin Cansler
Peggy Rimmer Goldstein
Nancy Hamilton Nye
Alexzine Atwater Whitted
1992
Joseph Leo DeWalt
Esphur Eudean Foster
James Fauntleroy Govan
Eleanor Saunders Morris
1993
Charles Knox Massey
Suphronia Jones Cheek
Billie Phillips Nagelschmidt
John Lassiter Sanders
Helen O'Dell Wilson
1994
Douglass Hunt
Ann O'Neil Kennedy
Frederic W. Schroeder, Jr.
Diane Jackson Taylor
Larry LeRoy Trammel