The Snead State Alumni Association presents special awards during Alumni Homecoming each year. The Alumni of the Year award is given each year to recognize the contribution made by a former Snead student to the College, the community or the country. The Distinguished Service Award is given to a recipient who may or may not be a former Snead student, but who has had a significant impact on the College. Both awards are chosen by the Alumni Association Board of Directors based on nominations submitted.
Past Alumni of the Year Award Recipients
In earlier years, Alumni of the Year awards were given to a recipient from each year of the school’s history (Snead Seminary, Snead College, Snead Junior College, State Community College). Earlier awards given also included Patron of the Year and Supporter of the Year.
- 2019 – Mrs. Rhonda Springfield
- 2018 – Mr. Lynn Comer
- 2017 – Mr. Craig Wilks, Coach Gerry Ledbetter (Distinguished Service)
- 2016 – Mr. Bobby Weathers
- 2015 – Ms. Jaime Smitherman; Ms. Mary Wells Malone (Distinguished Service)
- 2014 – Mr. Pat Courington Jr.
- 2013 – Mr. Charles White
- 2012 – Dr. Bobbie Glassco
- 2011 – Dr. Robert Braswell
- 2010 – Gid Riddle; Larry Smith (Distinguished Service)
- 2009 – Joan Noel; Sue Kelley (Distinguished Service)
- 2008 – Neeysa Biddle; Robbie Townson (Distinguished Service)
- 2007 – John Kitchens
- 2006 – Lendell Bates; Phillip Smith
- 2005 – Dr. Jack Avery
- 2004 – Bill and Zadie Amberson; Truman Glassco (posthumously)
- 2003 – Rebecca Lancaster; Timothy F. Riley
- 2002 – Bob Grace; Paul Wilbanks
- 2001 – Jack Waite
- 2000 – Mayor James Townson
- 1999 – Pat Courington Jr.
- 1998 – Kathryn Hearn; Tom Kennamer; Joan Fields Osborn; James Pruett
- 1997 – Dr. Bobbie Glassco; Ralph Charles Hammond; Joseph Martin; Dr. William H. Osborn (Dedication & Leadership)
- 1996 – Dr. Jack Keith Clemons; Richard L. Sharpton; Kimberly Hallmark Skipper; Arlie McLeod Trammell
- 1995 – Louise Chasteen Brown; Charles Miller; Ella Ruth W. Lamberth; Nathan P. Thompson
- 1994 – Mary Will Creel Burton; James Bynum Waid; Sue Boyles Kelley; Harold O. Chitwood
- 1993 – Edgar E. Davis; Jessie Mauldin Dean; Dr. Autry L. Bailey; Sarah Murphree Corson; Benny Campbell; Janet McLaughlin
- 1992 – Stanley A. Fields; Oswald T. Geiger; Eloise Yancey McClendon
- 1991 – Iva Verhine Knox; John S. Bishop; Dr. Julia Law Willard; Dr. Marvin R. Batchelor; Chalmus L. Weathers (Patron of the Year)
- 1990 – Baxter Hill; Mary Rhoden; Lowell Barron; Cindy Bobo Dupree
- 1989 – Gladys Hale Downs; Clarence Garry; Carol Brown; Mayor Bruce Sanford
- 1988 – Mrs. Alf I. Thompson; Margaret Daniel; Hoyt Parker; Dr. Luther F. “Trey” Corley III; Honorable Hinton Mitchem (Patron of the
- Year)
- 1987 – Flossie Wells Moore; Preston Watts; Jane Graham Finlay (Distinguished Alumna Award/Alumna of 1956); Nerine Elrod
- (Distinguished Patron of the Year)
- 1986 – Honorable Albert Rains; Dr. Pamela Abney
- 1985 – Bill Jones; Dr. Alta Millican
- 1984 – Hazel McCleskey McGraw; T. Euclid Rains
- 1983 – Jill Mitchem; Dr. Charles Mann; Mr. T.B. McLeod (Snead Supporter)
- 1982 – George Cox; Robert Lee (Outstanding Snead Supporter); Mrs. Emma Mathis Lee
- 1981 – Mrs. Lola Tidwell Dees; Mrs. Tiny Tidwell Strauss; Claude M. Elrod (Snead Supporter)
- 1980 – Dr. Ray Mathis
- 1979 – Herman Stephens; Marjorie Stephens
- 1978 – Mrs. Conola Elrod Smith (Snead Supporter/Alumna of 1924); Sid McDonald
- 1977 – Mrs. Cecile Stamps; Emmett Plunkett (Snead Supporter); Alvin Townley (Snead Supporter/Alumnus of 1925)
- 1976 – Guy B. Jackson
- 1975 – No award was given.
- 1974 – Bobby K. Masters
- 1973 – Mrs. D.E. Richards; the Rev. Robert Murphree
- 1972 – Emmett B. Shotts, Jr.
- 1971 – J. Edwin Rush, Jr.
- 1970 – No award was given.
- 1969 – Sid McDonald
- 1968 – Dr. Robert Braswell
- 1967 – T.B. McLeod
- 1966 – Dr. Robert Garrad
- 1965 – Roosevelt Humphrey
- 1964 – Jack Giles
- 1963 – Alvin Townley
- 1962 – Ethel Harpsot
- 1961 – Fletcher Farrington
- 1960 – Honorable Albert Rains