Alumna Achievement Award
The Alumna Achievement Award is the William Smith College Alumnae Association's highest honor. It is awarded to an alumna who, by reason of outstanding accomplishments in her particular business, profession or community service, has brought honor and distinction to her alma mater.
2021 Honoree
2018 Honoree
2017 Honorees
Chrysa Chin '84
Executive Vice President for Strategic Engagement and Development for the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA)
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Nancy Kelley Hammond '59
Former Director of the Office of Budget and Finance, Michigan Department of Public Health
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2016 Honorees
Kay Payne '73
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Howard University's School of Communications
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2015 Honoree
2013 Honorees
Wendy Ettinger '78
Co-Founder and New York Program Director, Chicken and Egg Pictures; Co-Founder, Gamechanger Films
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Dr. Roberta Barnes Carey '71
Director, Laboratory Quality Management Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2008 Honoree
Dr. Katherine T. Platoni '74, Col. (Ret.)
Expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Army veteran; Author; Scholar
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2005 Honorees
2004 Honoree
2003 Honorees
Emily Kuempel Dalgarno '52
British literature teacher and Virginia Woolf scholar at Boston University
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Celeste V. Lopes '80
Deputy Bureau Chief of the Rackets Division and an Assistant District Attorney in the King's County District Attorney's Office
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2001 Honoree
Elizabeth Perry '69, D.H.L. '04
Professor of Government at Harvard University; Author; Scholar
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2000 Honorees
1999 Honorees
Barbara Maynard Chilson '69
Senior Vice President of Reveo; Former CEO of Globalspec.com; First female president of Grainger Parts
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Dr. Priscilla A. Schaffer '64, Sc.D. '94
Expert on the pathogenesis of DNA viruses; Harvard Medical School professor
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