Alumni Awards

The Alumni Association Awards to alumni include the Delta Sigma Award, the Anne Lum Distinguished Alumni Award, the Young Alumni Award, the Service to D'Youville Award and the Career Achievement Award. Descriptions and criteria are listed below. Please consider nominating an alum for one of these awards.

The Alumni Association Awards to students include the Lee Conroy Higgins Award and the Sister Mary Charlotte Barton GNSH Kinship Scholarship.

Awards

Anne Lum Distinguished Alumni Award

This prestigious award is presented annually to alumni who have achieved distinction through professional accomplishments, community involvement, and service to D'Youville University. It honors the legacy of Anne Ryan Lum 1924, whose volunteer efforts led to the establishment of the Loyalty Fund, now known as The Fund for D'Youville.

Career Achievement Award

This award recognizes alumni who have made significant advancements and demonstrated excellence in their professional careers, contributing positively to their industry and society.

Young Alumni Award

This award honors recent graduates who have demonstrated exceptional achievement and significant contributions in their chosen fields within a short period after graduation.

Service to D'Youville Award

This award honors recent graduates who have demonstrated exceptional achievement and significant contributions in their chosen fields within a short period after graduation.

Delta Sigma Award

This honor is bestowed annually upon alumni who exemplify the qualities of service evident in the life of Saint Marguerite d'Youville. Recipients are inducted into the Marguerite d'Youville Honor Society.

Distinguished Alumni Awards Past Recipients

Anne Lum Distinguished Alumni Award and Delta Sigma Award

Catherine Anderson Barone '35
Irma Dickman '33
Margaret Dooling 1924
Genevieve Geraty 1925
Dr. Jane Flanigen Griffin '54
Beatrice Stockman Hickey '32
Lorraine Attea Lynn '42
Eileen Callahan Lyons '42

Gertrude McGee 1927
Mary Schwab Murphy '42
Martha Haar Ryan '73
Ellen Hausle Smith '42
Stella Tiffany 1918
Patricia Lyons Van Dyke '52
Florence Welch '34

Anne Lum Distinguished Alumni Award

Dr. Jean M. Alberti '57
Pauline Alt 1928
Nora Anderson '33
Katherine Baier '69
Fern Jackson Beavers '72
Mary Bisantz '66
Gertrude Campbell '30
Mary Moriarity Cottrell '45
Regina Curry 1922
Mary De Laney '72
Marie Dietrich '64
Mary Dillon '72
Dr. Mary Alice Higgins Donius '69
Dr. Denise Mahoney Dunford '94
Sr. Marguerite Dynski SSJ MD '70
Dr. Marcella Farinelli Fierro '62
Elizabeth Martinez Fildes '91
Sr. Mary Finnick GNSH '60
Edith Flanigen '50
Marguerite Edwards Grande '47

Rita Rejent Jenczka '46
Mary Kirwan '60
Cecelia Scuto Kohlmeier '69
Mary McDonald Mascott '66
Jo Ann Mecca '59
Ursula Miller Ostrowski '44
Donna Fisselbrand Owen '70
Dennis Pines '74
Dr. Dolores Gaeta Prezyna '70
Rosetta Rico '70
Madeleine Silber Robillard '35
Sr. Denise Roche, GNSH, Ph.D. '67
Sr. Mary Ann Schimscheiner RSM '73
Marie Cosgrove Shea '65
Beverly Michalak Slichta-Cusick '66
Geralyn Speacht Spiesz '94
Jeannette Van Dyke '43
Camille Quart Welch '37
Ann Wood-Kelly '38

Delta Sigma Award

Nancy Acara '47
Marian Adrian '51
Agnes Africanus '11
Sara Aloisio
Barbara Gregorio Barbarossa '62
Mary Rollie Barthel '36
Margaret Beuerlein Bartolotti '67
Anne Jordan Bisantz '30
Margaret Boone 1929
June Ruhle Box '51
Ann Stephens Brady '65
Catherine Braniecki '73
A. Laurie Koessler Brosnahan '85
Mary McNamara Browne '52
Eugenia Fronczak Bukowska 1923
Catherine Burns Burkert '31
Edith Byers Byers 1929
Mary Ellen Snyder Cahoon '58
Lucia Ragusa Calandra '34
Jean "Patsy" Bisantz Caldiero '69
Lorraine Cammarata '53
Barbara Campagna '63
Virginia Carley
Mary Keiran Carney '48
Carol Shepardson Colvin '82
Jeanette Schreiber Costantino '45
Dorothy Coughlin '49
Agnes Creahan 1925
Margaret Curry '46
Elaine Brown Curtin '46
Mary Frances Danner '55
Rita Saggese Dauria '45
Mary George Davitt '52
Mary Jane McDonald Dean '49

Diane Del Santo '82
Sr. Donna Del Santo SSJ '75
Rosemary Dean Delaney '48
Marjorie McGowan Demerly '39
Frances Desmond 1921
Kayla Deth '14
Janet Kelly Doan '52
Genevieve McNeil Dobmeier '52
Katharine Doyle 1922
Mary Sheila Driscoll '33
Grace Druar '39
Jean Roth Duffy '51
Eleanora Shannon Eigenbrod '34
Mary Ann Repicky Emanuele '67
Betty Warthling Fanning '55
Isabelle Winkler Farewell '52
Marie Christine Fitzgerald '44
Grace Acara Flaherty '60
Elizabeth Gardner Flynn '52
Marie Kelly Foley '40
Ann Kilroy Furey '53
Rita Gleason '37
Leona Reed Gonzales '57
Sylvia Grendisa '59
Mary Conroy Grine '60
Joanne Haefner '90
Ancella Hanley 1928
Elizabeth Hannan '47
Sr. Barbara J. Harrington GNSH '56
Sr. Kathryn Healy GNSH '60
Sr. Sheila A. Stone GNSH '69
Dr. Michelle Swygert-Seay '98
Jacqueline Saab Taylor '59