Founder's Medalists

For Oratory

2001	Adam David Rosen	Chesterfield, Mo.
2000	James Arthur Porter IV	Clayton, Calif.
1999	Kale Alan Ness	Springfield, Mo.
1998	Gabrielle Prisco	Staten Island, N.Y.
1997	Jamie Elizabeth Ryan	Atlanta, Ga.
1996	Karly Alyce Randolph	Valparaiso, Ind.
1995	Rebecca Michael Goforth	Paducah, Ky.
1994	John Deery Crocetti	Stevens Point, Wis.
1993	Gary Craig Lemel	Charleston, S.C.
1992	James Gregory Waller	Jackson, Tenn.
1991	Kimberly Michelle Held	Jacksonville, Fla.
1990	Jennifer Kate Rubin	New York, N.Y.
1989	Denise Lynn Urzendowski	Atlanta, Ga.
1988	Evy Michale Jarrett	Murray, Ky.
1987	Thomas Edward Parmer	Roopville, Ga.
1986	Laura Marie Hardy	Dayton, Ohio
1985	Not Awarded
1984	Lee Tarte	Charlotte, N.C.
1983	James Alan Scharf	Shaker Heights, Ohio
1982	Lewis Gerard Adler	Glendale, Ariz.
1981	William Shane Walton	Nashville, Tenn.
1980	William Breece Brannan	Dunwoody, Ga.
1979	Paul Steven Kratsch	Decatur, Ga.
1978	William Edwin Young	Clarksville, Tenn.
1977	John Warren Titus	Nashville, Tenn.
1976	Kathryn Margaret Zickert	Shrewsbury, Mass.
1975	James Kimble Sebenius	San Marino, Calif.
1974	Kenneth Dennis Sisk	Madisonville, Ky.
1973	Douglas Staley Sandage	Bellaire, Texas
1972	Sandra Kay Wagoner	Nashville, Tenn.
1971	James Talmage Walker, Jr.	Clearwater, Fla.
1970	Richard Stephen Knapp	Madison, Tenn.
1969	Elizabeth Anne Urban	Houston, Texas
1968	Walter Floyd Pratt, Jr.	Jackson, Miss.
1967	Charles Clay Ivie	Murfreesboro, Tenn.
1966	Thomas Henry Graves	Louisville, Ky.
1965	Not Awarded
1964	William Walter Richardson	Houston, Texas
1963	John Wesley Brinsfield, Jr.	Atlanta, Ga.
1962	Not Awarded
1961	Richard Neal Batson	Nashville, Tenn.
1960	William Harvey Dobelle	Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.
1959	Chester Burns	Nashville, Tenn.
1958	Not Awarded
1957	L. Vastine Stabler	Birmingham, Ala.
1956	John Marshall	Cordele, Ga.
1955	Robert L. Goldman	Nashville, Tenn.
1954	Franklin Cole Ferguson	Nashville, Tenn.
1953	Carol Ann McQueen	Nashville, Tenn.
1952	William Robert Baker	Nashville, Tenn.
1951	Carl Jelenko	Baltimore, Md.
1950	Morele Kay	Meridian, Miss.
1949	Thomas Ross Ballew	Nashville, Tenn.
1948	Douglas Murrey Fisher	Nashville, Tenn.
1947	James Cordell Kirby, Jr.	Old Hickory, Tenn.
1946
1945	Not Awarded
1944
1943	Not Awarded
1942	James C. Burns, Jr.	Nashville, Tenn.
1941	Phyllis Pear	Nashville, Tenn.
1940	James A. Weems	Dickson, Tenn.
1939	Robert L. Landis	Nashville, Tenn.
1938	Wallace C. Eblen	Henderson, Ky.
1937
1936	Richard C. Dunn	Madison, Tenn.
1935	Henry C. Hart	Nashville, Tenn.
1934
1933	Parker Holt	Tullahoma, Tenn.
1932	Samuel Lewis Meyer	Fayette, Mo.
1931	Julia Frances Gibson	Nashville, Tenn.
1930	Joe V. Williams
1929	Claude Wilson Callicott
1928	Marion Monroe Tillman
1927	Herschel Collins Finger
1926	David G. Caldwell
1925	John E. Norman
1924	Jen Lin Huang
1923	Robert Dwight Ware
1922	Leo Bearman
1921	Richard D. Gleaves
1920	James David Rhea, Jr.
1919	Robert Elmo Thompson
1918	Thomas W. Schlater, Jr.
1917	Sylvan H. Gottschall
1916	Hugh D. White
1915	Louis F. Sperry
1914	Charles D. McGehee
1913	Carl Casper Gregory
1912	Henry Hart Jones
1911	Gilbert R. Combs
1910	Fred Taylor Wilson
1909	Charles Cason
1908	John William Frazer
1907	Hugh Allen Locke
1906	Edward Marvin Steel
1905	Gates Phillips Thruston, Jr.
1904	Louis Clausiel Perry
1903	Glenn Flinn
1902	Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs
1901	Charles Yun Marshall
1900	Charles Crawford Jarrell
1899	Charles Gideon Hounshell
1898	William Peter King
1897	Griffin M. Lovelace
1896	Granville M. Pritchett
1895	F. M. Oliver
1894	William K. Matthews
1893	S. J. Rucker
1892	J. A. Robins
1891	F. S. Brockman
1890	G. C. G. Murchison
1889	E. H. Rawlings
1888	Charles N. Burch
1887	E. E. Barthell
1886	J. H. Watkins
1885
1884	W. H. Cotton
1883	J. M. Price
1882
1881
1880	William Reed Richardson (found in 1879 catalogue)
1879	Julien Clement Brown (found in 1879 catalogue)
1878	John James Tigert, Jr.
1877	Robert James Craig

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