DeVane Medalists, 1966-Present

Each year at its annual spring banquet, the Alpha of Connecticut confers the DeVane Medal on members of the faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers of undergraduates in Yale College and as scholars in their fields. Acting on behalf of the graduate membership, the Graduate Officers, Advisers, and members of the Executive Committee select a retired member of the faculty for this honor; seniors in Yale College who have been elected into the chapter after four, five, or six terms of enrollment select a member of the active faculty who has been teaching at Yale for at least five years.

William Clyde DeVane, to whose memory the medal is dedicated, was the Dean of Yale College, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, and national President of the United Chapters.

Year Awarded by graduates to: Awarded by undergraduates to:
1966
Ralph Henry Gabriel

Charles William Hendel

Clarence Whittlesey Mendell

Edmund Ware Sinnot

Richard Benson Sewall
1967
Robert Lowry Calhoun

Wallace Notestein

William von Eggers Doering
1968
Alfred Raymond Bellinger

Brand Blanshard

Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop

Henry Rudolph Rudin

Shizuo Kakutani
1969
Samuel Flagg Bemis

Frederick Albert Pottle

Bruce Simonds

Robert Alan Dahl
1970
Frederick Whiley Hilles

Henry Margenau

Henri Peyre

William Kessen
1971
Lewis Perry Curtis

Richard Foster Flint

Paul Weiss

Edmund Morgan Sears
1972
George Evelyn Hutchinson

Edmund Taite Silk

Alvin Bernard Kernan

Sidney Wilfred Mintz

1973
William Huse Dunham, Jr.

John Collins Pope

Konstantin Reichardt

Robert John Fogelin
1974
George Wilson Pierson
Jeremy Yvon du Quesnay Adams
1975
Thomas Goddard Bergin
Donald Kagan
1976
Edgar John Boell
Heinrich von Staden
1977
Cleanth Brooks
Harry Hershall Wasserman
1978
Julian Munson Sturtevant
Jonathan Dermot Spence
1979
Maynard Mack
Richard Halleck Brodhead
1980
William Armistead Christian
Raymond Park Powell
1981
Basil Duke Henning
Michael Edward Zeller
1982
Leonard William Doob
John Eastburn Boswell

Wolfgang Leonhard

1983
Lloyd George Reynolds
Franklin Le Van Baumer
1984
Eugene Mersereau Waith
Jerome Jordan Pollitt
1985
Louis Martz
Margaret W. Ferguson
1986
Charles A. Walker
John M. Blum
1987
Charles E. Rickart
Bryan J. Wolf
1988
John W. Hall
William J. Cronon
1989
James Tobin
Gaddis Smith
1990
John Rodgers
Susanne Lindgren Wofford
1991
George Kubler

A. Bartlett Giamatti (posthumous)

Georgia Warnke
1992
Georges May
Richard Garner
1993
Vincent Scully, Jr.
Steven Gillon
1994
Arthur W. Galston
J. Michael McBride
1995
Anne Coffin Hanson
Edith N. MacMullen
1996
Marie Borroff
Louis Dupré
1997
E. Robert Beringer
Adrian Hayday
1998
Howard R. Lamar
Joseph T. Chang
1999
Martin Price
Fred C. Robinson
2000
William R. Bennett, Jr.
Peter Salovey
2001
Thomas McL. Greene
Leslie Brisman
2002
Kai T. Erikson
Christopher Timmins
2003 H. Bradford Westerfield
John L. Gaddis
2004 Wayne Meeks
Fred Strebeigh
2005 Jules Prown
Benjamin Polak
2006 Robert Adair Robert Dunne
2007 John Hollander Marvin Chun
2008 Donald M. Cruthers Akhil Reed Amar
2009
Annabel Patterson
Jonathan Holloway