The Elizabeth Herendeen Odell Award was established in 1970 in honor of Elizabeth Herendeen Odell ’22 who served as Alumnae Secretary from 1952 to 1970. This award is the Alumnae Association’s highest honor for outstanding service to William Smith College by an alumna.

2023                Dorothy Chastney Emer '53
                        Patricia Johnson Ross '53
                        Margaret Adema Noeltner '58
                        Barbara Smith Block '58

2022                Maureen Collins Zupan ’72, P’09, L.H.D. ’16

2021                Margaret “Peggy” Bokan Greenawalt ’66, L.H.D. ’20
                        Carol Brown Laufer ’71+

2020                Lynne Friedlander ’80, P’10

2019                Sally A. Webster ’74

2018                Adele F. Schlotzhauer ’83

2017                Susan Lloyd Yolen ’72

2016                Katherine D. Elliot ’66, L.H.D.’08

2014                Classes of 1964

2013                Barbara Pedersen Shapiro ’63

2012                Elizabeth “Taffy” Smith Sibbett ’50+

2010                Chari Herendeen Briggs-Krenis ’60
                        Barbara Tornow ’65

2007                Worth Douglas ’67

2006                Nancy Nowak Rutherford ’71

2005                Stephanie Shires Hooper ’65, P’92

2004                Barbara Maynard Chilson ’69+

2001                Katharyn Schofield Martens ’46, P’72+

1997                Barbara Lynch Springstead ’57, L.H.D. ’90

1996                Heather Moden Jones ’56, P’90

1993                Judith Haslam Cross ’52, P’85, L.H.D. ’00

1988                Marian Costello Witmer ’32, P’67, L.H.D. ’79+

1983                Judith Lowe Hyatt ’57+

1977                Helen Moore Quigley ’17, P’45, L.H.D. ’67+

1975                Nancy Stone Wilson ’50, P’74

1974                Ethel Cermak Tompkins ’34, P’68, Sc.D. ’51+

1973                Helen P. Maney ’37, L.H.D. ’70+

1970                Elizabeth H. Odell ’22, P’44, P’45, P’56, L.H.D. ’81+