Heritage Awards
Then-President Thomas A. Fulham appointed the committee of longtime University employees and editors in anticipation of Suffolk's 75th Anniversary Jubilee in 1981.
The committee set to work retrieving the University’s history from primary sources, which entailed archival research, questionnaires, and the collection of oral histories.
The Heritage Committee’s ultimate product appeared in 1982: the bound volume Opportunity’s Open Door.
The committee also selected noteworthy members of the University community to be honored with Heritage Medallions commemorating their service to the University.
The Heritage Committee took on renewed significance leading up to the University’s Centennial in 2006, and its Heritage Medallion Awards Ceremony has become a recurring event.
Heritage Medallion Recipients
The 1980s
September 19, 1981
Gleason L. Archer, Suffolk University Founder and President
Carrolla A. Bryant, University Executive Secretary, Registrar for Colleges
Frank J. Donahue, Treasurer, Board of Trustees Chair
John E. Fenton, Sr., University President, Board of Trustees Chair
Catharine Caraher Finnegan, Gleason Archer’s secretary
John Griffin, Life Trustee, Registrar for Colleges
Dorothy M. McNamara, Bursar, Alumni Secretary
November 18, 1982
Ilse M. Fang, Humanities and Modern Language faculty
Catherine Fehrer, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
Donald W. Goodrich, Vice President, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ella M. Murphy, English, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
John F.X. O'Brien, Law School faculty
Florence R. Petherick, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
Donald R. Simpson, Law School Dean
Frank L. Simpson, Law School Dean
April 22, 1983
Robert S. Friedman, Chair of Biology, Founder/Donor of Robert S. Friedman Field Station, Cobscook Bay, Maine
September 19, 1983
Charles Law, Director of Athletics
Richard J. Sullivan, University Librarian
October 17, 1984
Hiram J. Archer, first full-time faculty member, Trustee, Gleason Archer’s brother
Thomas A. Fulham, University President
December 7, 1987
Rexford A. Bristol, Trustee
Donald Grunewald, Vice President, first Dean of the College of Business Administration
Harold M. Stone, Sawyer Business School faculty
April 19, 1988
Edward G. Hartmann, History faculty, Director of Libraries
P. Richard Jones, Alumnus, Director of Archives, Mail Room Supervisor
Stanley M. Vogel, English Department faculty
The 1990s
April 24, 1990
John F. Lombard, Law School adjunct faculty
Alfred I. Maleson, Law School Professor Emeritus
Joseph H. Strain, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arthur J. West, Jr., Biology Chair, Professor Emeritus
The 2000s
September 21, 2004
H. Edward Clark, English faculty, founded Collection of African American Literature
Benson Diamond, Sawyer Business School faculty
Malcolm M. Donahue, Law School Dean, faculty
Mary A. Hefron, Registrar for Colleges
September 19, 2005
Alexander J. Cella, Law School faculty
John M. Corcoran, Trustee
Catherine T. Judge, Law School faculty, Law School Registrar
Richard L. McDowell, Dean, Sawyer Business School, Director of the Center for State Government Management
Michael R. Ronayne, Jr., Dean and faculty member, College of Arts & Sciences
Margaret Collins Weitz, Professor Emerita, College of Arts & Sciences
September 19, 2006
Thomas J. Boynton*, Chair, Board of Trustees
John E. Fenton, Jr., Law School Dean
Francis X. Flannery, University Treasurer and Vice President
Jeanne M. Hession, Trustee
David J. Sargent, University President, Law School Dean
September 19, 2007
Clarence Cooper, Executive-in-Residence, Sawyer Business School faculty
George A. Frost*, benefactor to University founder Gleason Archer, Trustee
Frederick A. McDermott*, Law School Dean
Maria Miliora, Chemistry faculty
Daniel Perlman*, University President
Daniel Sankowsky, Sawyer Business School faculty
September 17, 2008
William Coughlin, Director of Admissions
Herbert Lemelman, Law Associate Dean, faculty
Robert Munce*, University President
Alexandra Dundas Todd, Sociology faculty
September 16, 2009
Nancy Clemens Croll*, Director of Academic Computing, Sawyer Business School faculty
Beatrice L. Snow, Biology Chair, faculty
Lorraine DiPietro Cove, Assistant Dean and Registrar, Law School
September 21, 2010
Kenneth F. Garni, Director of the Counseling Center, Chair of Psychological Services
Marjorie C. Kelleher*, Director, Adult and Evening Studies, Enrollment Management
Charles P. Kindregan, Associate Law Dean, Director of the Center for Professional Development, faculty
James F. Linnehan*, Chair, Board of Trustees, Life Trustee
September 20, 2011
Warren G. Briggs, Information Systems and Operations Management faculty
Lawrence L. Cameron, Life Trustee
Louis B. Connelly*, Director of Public Relations and Sports Information
Glen A. Eskedal, Education and Human Services faculty
Joseph P. McEttrick, Law faculty
September 19, 2012
Patricia I. Brown*, Associate Law School Librarian Emerita
John P. Chase*, Life Trustee
Michael F. Dwyer, Assistant Treasurer
Laurie W. Pant, Professor and Chair, Accounting
September 19, 2013
Wilma J. Busse, Director, Counseling Center
John C. Cavanagh, Professor Emeritus, History
Pierre E. Du Jardin*, Associate Professor, Management
Valerie C. Epps, Professor of Law
Donald M. Unger, Professor and Chair, Education and Human Services
September 18, 2014
Peter Caputo*, Professor of English
Morris McInnes, Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting
Congressman John Joseph Moakley,* Law alumnus, University Trustee
Carol Sawyer Parks, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, Life Trustee
September 20, 2016
John Deliso, Associate Vice President for Advancement, Associate Law Dean
Paula Fleck, Bursar
Myra Lerman, Assistant Dean, Sawyer Business School
James Nelson, Director of Athletics
September 17, 2018
Richard Beinecke*, Professor, Institute for Public Service
Karen Blum, Professor Emerita of Law, Research Professor of Law
Anthony Eonas, Associate Professor, Business Law and Ethics
Frederick J. Marchant, Professor Emeritus of English
Nancy Stoll, Dean of Students
* Posthumous award