The Vanguard Service Award is presented to an NJC or Douglass alumna who graduated from NJC or Douglass College at least 50 years ago and has given outstanding, dedicated and sustained service to her class or to the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College over time. This listing includes the description of the award and the recipients listed from the first year awarded through the most recent.

Vanguard Service Award Recipients

2001
Fromah Shapiro Davidson ’28
2002
Dorothy Stephens McFarlan ’26
2003
Julia Feller Feist ’35
2004
Lois Olson Collet ’34
2005
May Gimbert Magee ’39
2006
Mary Alma Parker Bushong ’34
2007
Barbara Smith ’46
2008
Irene Dale Goldfarb ’50
2009
Evelyn Sermons Field ’49
2010
Claire Krucher ’55
2011
Jean Wilson Sidar ’43
2012
Adelaide Marcus Zagoren ’40
2013
Flora Buchbinder Cowen ’59
2014
Jean Forest Hyde ’50
2015
Anita Hahn Wolfson ’43
2016
Lillian Zeisel Cohen ’59
2017
Victoria Dabrowski Schmidt ’42
2018
Gail Phillips Houlihan ’58
2019
Carol Hansmann Hamlin ‘61
2020
Isabel Goll Drzewiecki ’61
2021
Sheila Kelly Hampton ‘70
2022
Carol McClure Sanzalone ’69
2023
Tina B. Gordon