Lincoln Gries Distinguished Alumni Award
The Lincoln Gries Distinguished Alumni Award is presented to an Old Trail alumnus who has made an important contribution or given extraordinary service to others in some field, as a professional or as a volunteer.
It is named after Lincoln Gries, a former parent, board member and board chair who provided exemplary service to Old Trail School. Nominees must have attended OTS, contributed to their community and/or to the betterment of others, earned the respect of both Old Trail alumni and future Old Trail students and shown a continued loyalty to Old Trail School.
Nomination Form
Required
Past Recipients
1980 - Betty Looker Jaycox '30
1981 - Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg '39
1982 - Dorothy Hoyt Mollin '32
1983 - Christine Dietrich Freitag '52
1984 - Bonnie Stewart Mikkelsen '50
1985 - Suzanne McCormick Rickards '50
1987 - Judy Bear Isroff '54
1988 - Betsy Frost '34
1989 - Mary Laub Babcox '45
1990 - Barbara Brooks Smoyer '33
1991 - Peggy Jett Pittenger '40
1992 - Susan Akers George '52
1993 - Sarah Mabry Born '58
1994 - Frances Seiberling Buchholzer '52
1995 - Susan Bruggemeier Kruder '49 & Jeanne Schulman Leventhal '38
1996 - Rachel Ober Burrell '46
1997 - Cheryl Gates McFadden '66
1998 – Ethel Seiberling Fox ‘53
1999 - Mary Catherine "Kitty" Guinther Brown '42 & Rebecca Knight '79
2000 - Virginia Brown Sperry '43 & Anne Alexander Sperry '45
2001 - Lucretia Leonard Romey '51
2002 - Jane Johnston '52
2003 - Karin Lewald Clumpner '53 & James Figetakis '79
2004 - Marilyn Buckey '64 & Marjory Wheeler '3
2005 - Deborah Wince Smith '68 & Sonya Haddad '54*
2006 - Esther Sans Takeuchi ’71
2007 - Suzanne Rogers '49
2008 - Leland P. Smith ‘77
2009 - Kim Paradis Coryat ‘75
2011 - John Frank ‘54
2012 - Coralie Munroe ‘68
2013 - Katherine Merseth ‘63
2014 - Amy Freitag ‘81
2015 - Elisa Drumm Van Aucken ‘80
2016 - Sandy Auburn ‘63
2017 - Lucinda Weiss '67
2018 - Melissa Merryweather ‘79
2019 - Nancy Schoonover Rhinehart ‘53
2022 - Alexandra Wilson ‘90
2023 - Molly Vollman Makris ‘95
2024 - Meg Harris Stanton '71
* - posthumously