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The President's Medal is awarded annually during Commencement to the senior who exemplifies the ideal Grinnell student. To be considered for the award, a student must:
- Reach and maintain superior scholarship while a Grinnell student
- Demonstrate leadership in activities that credit the student and add to the College's stature
- Display the moral and human attributes of a compassionate and sensitive human being
- Conduct matters with poise and maturity
- Be fair and willing to accept responsibility
- Think before acting and understand before judging
The President's Medal was redesigned in 1993 by Sheena Brown Thomas '71, a designer/goldsmith with Elements Ltd. in Des Moines, Iowa. The previous medal was designed by the late Louis Glenn Zirkle, professor of art.
Thomas also designed the first Archibald Prize Medal (given for highest GPA in the senior class, and also awarded during Commencement), which is compatible in design with the President's Medal. Both medals are adaptations of the President's Medallion, which is work by the president of the college as an emblem of office at all Grinnell academic ceremonials and when the president officially represents the College at academic occasions elsewhere.
Cast and fabricated from silver, both medals are formed in a soft triangular shape and include the Grinnell College seal.
The seal uses a modified oval design enclosing four laurel leaves and the founding date: 1846. Raised letters surrounding the laurel leaves proclaim, "Collegium Iowense Grinnelli" and "Veritas et Humanitas" -- Latin for "Truth and Humility." The honoree's name is engraved on the back.
2007 Megan K. Straughan
2006 Eli ZIgas
2005 Anik Gevers
2004 Randy Martinson
2003 Lise-marie Monroe
2002 Kendra Young
2001 Nicole Nelson
2000 Ilana Golin
1999 Brandie J. Christie
1998 Erin Childress
1997 Alice Gates
1996 Jeffrey Lake
1995 Scott Newstrom
1994 Guen Gifford
1993 Katrina Knight
1992 Annamma M. Alexander
1991 Marjorie Hrbek
1990 Jon G. "Jake" Kosek
1989 Katherine E. Furnish
1988 Elisabeth Shelley Reid
1987 Meghan E. Hays
1986 Robert R. Rollins
1985 Ian A. McLean
1984 Sandra L. Laursen
1983 Jennifer M. Jones
1982 Eric E. Johnson
1981 Lori A. Llewelyn
1980 Nathan S. Borenstein
1979 Brent C. Williams
1978 Susan E. Duffey
1977 Robert D. Sheeler
1976 John A. Haigh
1975 Frances Cutler
1974 Deborah M. Van Horn
1973 Carolyn Ashbaugh
1972 Gregory L. Vranicar
1971 Richard A. Deyo
1970 Carol L. Martinson
1969 Grant F. Crandall
1968 Ronald M. Cogswell
1967 Anne Sprague
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