C Club Awards

C Club Person of Year Award

This award is presented annually to a member (or members) of the Colby family, not necessarily alumni, who have shown dedication and support to Colby athletics by his/her/their service to the College and particularly to athletics at the College.

C Club Person of the Year Recipients

• 1951  Cecil Clark ’05*
• 1952  Howard Ferguson ’31*
• 1953  C. Wallace Lawrence ’17*
• 1954  Clayton Johnson ’25*
• 1955  Joseph Wallace ’43, Gordon Jones ’40*
• 1956  Leonard Grant ’15*, Carl MacPherson ’26*
• 1957  Ludy Levine ’21*
• 1958  Ray Greene ’47*
• 1959  Clair Wood ’28*
• 1960  L. Russell Blanchard ’38*
• 1961  John Davan ’33*
• 1962  Jack Deering ’55
• 1963  Pacy Levine ’27*
• 1964  George Beach ’41
• 1965  Kershaw Powell ’51
• 1966  Clarence Dore ’39
• 1967  Frank Carpenter ’14*
• 1968  Carl Wright ’47
• 1969  John Kennedy ’13*
• 1970  Robert Lee ’51
• 1971  Roy Shorey, Jr. ’54
• 1972  William Bryan ’48
• 1973  Robert Burke ’61
• 1974  David O’Brien ’58
• 1975  Harold Alfond L.H.D. ’80
• 1976  Ted Hodgkins ’25*
• 1977  Bink Smith ’62
• 1978  Robert Sage ’49
• 1979  Thomas O’Donnell ’27*
• 1980  Arthur “Red” O’Halloran ’50
• 1981  Carl Nelson
• 1982  Robert Clifford, Jack Kelley, Lee Williams*, John Winkin
• 1983  Norman “Cy” Perkins ’32*
• 1984  Marjorie Bither
• 1985  John, Pete*, Mary*, Barbara Joseph
• 1986  Evelyn Kellett ’26*
• 1987  Clifford Came ’42*
• 1988  Thomas Lizotte ’74
• 1989  Dennis Dionne ’61
• 1990  Donald J. Short ’64
• 1991  Linda Mitchell Potter ’66, Wayne Fillback ’64, Peter Jaffe ’62
• 1992  Richard McGee
• 1993  Ormonde Brown ’51
• 1994  James Hayes ’76* (posthumously)
• 1995  William Marvin ’65
• 1996  Sid Farr ’55
• 1997  Art Brennan ’68
• 1998  L. Sandy Maisel, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government
• 1999  William R. Cotter, Lawrence R. Pugh ’56
• 2000  Edward Fraktman ’53
• 2001  Tom Austin
• 2002  Patricia Valavanis Smith ’80
• 2003  Alfond-Levine Family (Family of the Century)
• 2004  Jim Wescott
• 2005  Alex Wilson ’73
• 2006  Deborah Aitken
• 2007  Edward J. Burke Jr. ’60, P’86* (posthumously)
• 2008  Louis V. Zambello Jr. ’55
• 2009  Edward M. Woodin ’69
• 2010  Jill Gordon, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy
• 2011  Richard L. Whitmore H’90, P’91
• 2012  James H. Crook ’78, P’11
• 2013  Karl Dornish Jr. ’54, P’81
• 2014 William L. Alfond ’72
• 2015 Carlton “Bud” Reed ’53* and Betty Cummings Reed P’75, ’76, ’78, ’86, GP’01,’02,’07,’08,’09,’11,’14,’17,’19 and family
• 2016 Don Rice ’56
• 2017 Joe Boulos ’68
• 2018 John J. “Jack” O’Neill III ‘ 77
• 2019 Alexander Buck Jr. ’78
• 2020 Anne O’Hanian Szostak ’72 and Michael Szostak ’72
• 2021 Douglas Terp ’84

* deceased