Awards
Goddard College Awards
- The Goddard College Presidential Award for Activism recognizes alumni who have made significant contributions in the field of social justice and who embody the mission and values of Goddard College.
- The Goddard Award for Excellence is given to individuals who exemplify the values of the Goddard College Mission Statement: To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.
- An Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters is given to individuals who have distinguished themselves in areas related to the humanities and have a strong connection to Goddard College.
Award Winners
Goddard Award for Excellence - 2013
Archie Shepp
Saxophone player, composer, pianist, singer, politically committed poet, playwright, Archie Shepp is a legend. Archie Shepp’s connection with Goddard began in 1955 when he enrolled as a pre-law major on a full scholarship. Soon after, Archie began t... Read More
The Presidential Award for Social Activism - 2012
Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, now Poland, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963, he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, an... Read More
Honorary Doctorate - 2012
Evalyn Bates
Evalyn Cora Bates was one of the first two graduates of Goddard College’s four-year undergraduate program in 1943. Her 1957 graduate thesis from the University of Chicago -- "Development of the Goddard College Adult Education Program" -- was the firs... Read More
The Presidential Award for Social Activism - 2011
Stephan Ross
Stephan Ross (RUP ’59), born Szmulek Rozental in Lodz, Poland in 1931, is a survivor of the World War II Holocaust, having endured ten concentration camps in five years. He arrived in the United States in 1948 through the U.S. Government Committee fo... Read More
Goddard Award for Excellence
Forest K. Davis
Forest K. Davis (1918-2008) graduated from Harvard College before joining the Army Air Force in 1943. Following the war, he finished his studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Forest began working at Goddard College in 1950 as Director of Admissions and... Read More
Goddard Award for Excellence
Richard Sontag
Richard Sontag (1934-2009) was a long time trustee and friend of Goddard College. Richard graduated from North Carolina State and served for eight years as an elected official in Stamford, Connecticut. He was the founder, chairman and CEO of Liberty... Read More