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
2026
2024
Ann Logan '76
2023
2021
Denise Lee Hurley '82
2018
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