Helen Taft Manning Award

About the Award

The Helen Taft Manning Award recognizes outstanding service to Bryn Mawr College and honors Helen Taft Manning, former professor, dean, and acting president of Bryn Mawr College.

The award is given to individuals or groups of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the College. Thus, it could be given to alumnae, trustees, faculty, staff, students, or friends of the College, singly or collectively. It should recognize unusual service and dedication to the institution, whether performed as volunteers or paid employees. It could reward service performed over an extended period of time or unusual and outstanding service performed once or during a specified time.

Recipients of the Helen Taft Manning Award

2024

Ann Logan '76

2021

Denise Lee Hurley '82

2014

Barbara Bauman Morrison '62

2012

Willie Mae Taylor

2008

Lois Collier '50

2006

Karen Tidmarsh '71

2006

Maria Luisa Crawford '60

2000

Barbara Janney Trimble '60

1999

Susan Savage Speers '51

1997

Margaret M. Healy, PhD '69

1997

Betsy Havens Watkins '61

1995

Martha Stokes Price '47

1995

Clarissa Wardwell Pell '30

1995

Carol Biba

1992

Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton '30

1992

Library Staff

1990

Fleta Blocker, Housekeeping Rep.

1990

Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr.

1988

Ellen Fernon Reisner, MA '33

1988

Mabel Lang, PhD '43 and Machteld Mellink

1986

Sarah N. Markley

1985

Mary Hale Chase '25 and Sally Shoemaker Robinson '53

1983

Ellenor Morris '27

1982

Phyllis Goodhart Gordan '35

1981

The nine BMC Bookshops

1980

Helen Taft Manning '15