The Alumni Award of Merit was presented between 1942 and 1966 to alumni and friends of the college in recognition and appreciation of distinguished service and enthusiastic support of the Alumni Association and its mission.
1966 Francis H. Diers
1965 Harry A. King
1964 Robert S. Thompson
1962 Mabel Parris
1961 Harry W. Porter
1960 Vivan Robe
1958 Crystal McCollister Potter
1957 Herbert C. Mackie
1956 Carlyle C. Ring
1955 Dr. Edgar F. Bunce (1908)
1954 Marian Rykert Smith (1920)
1953 Laura DeVinney Emma Schneider
1952 Dr. Leslie R. Gregory
1951 Thomas E. Dewey
1950 Mary H. Cranston (1903) Dr. Phrania Chesbro (1892) Albert W. Atwood (1899) Harold W. Ranney (1911)1949
1949 Walter W. Pettit (1901)
1948 Emma H. Gunther
1946 George R. Raynor (1896) Harry E. Weelock (1910)
1945 Louis E Woods (1911) Horace Lograsso (1900)
1944 James H. McGraw (1884) Edgar E. Markham (1895)
1943 Walter S. Rathbun Judson S. Wright (1892) Jane A. Peterson Clara M. Dailey (1900)
1942 Arthur R. Maytum Joseph A. McGinnies Katherine Inez Davis (1904)