In 1988, the Alumni Association established the Ethel Cockey Award in honor of Miss Ethel Cockey, Class of 1923, who for 27 years served as the chief link between all Goucher alumnae/i and the College. The award is given annually to a member of a reunion class for outstanding leadership and volunteer service to the college and the Alumnae and Alumni of Goucher College (AAGC).

Criteria

• Given at annual meeting of the Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College
• Selected by the Executive Committee
• Member of a reunion class
• Outstanding volunteer service to Goucher
• Outstanding leader of the Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College
• Not a current Board member or an honorary degree recipient

Recipients

2024 – Jane Benson, Class of 1974
2023 – Kimmy Eurich Wennik, Class of 1993
             Ju Yu, Class of 1993
             Tom Geyer, Class of 1993
2022 – Melinda Burdette, Class of 1972
2021 – Alex Wood, Class of 2006
2020 – Arlene Fisher Blaker, Class of 1975
2019 – Louise "Reddi" Ford, Class of 1964
2018 – Jinny Muse Fleischman, Class of 1968
2017 – Esther Shapiro Slaff, Class of 1947
2016 – Risa P. Gorelick, Class of 1991
2015 – Beverly Heuschober Winter, Class of 1955
2014 – Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark, Class of 1954
2013 – Grace Cunningham Huber, Class of 1948
2012 – SaraKay Sherman Smullens, Class of 1962
2011 – The Goucher Trips and Tours Committee
2010 – Virginia Miller Weiss, Class of 1940
2009 – Maria Amelia Rodriguez, Class of 1949
2008 – Geraldine Merican Polinger, Class of 1943
2007 – Hilda Cohen Fisher, Class of 1947
2006 – Ethel Weber Berney, Class of 1946
2005 – Harriet Cullison Quandt , Class of 1940
2005 – Margaret Welsh Blount, Class of 1945
2005 – Maxine Bigby Cunningham, Class of 1970
2004 – Mary Katherine Scarborough Scheeler, Class of 1949
2003 – Dorothy Lee Dorman, Class of 1963
2003 – Nancy Layton Tunnessen, Class of 1963
2002 – Betty Chinn Schildwachter, Class of 1942
2001 – Sara Gilger Barnes, Class of 1946
2001 – Michiko Yoshida Mitarai, Class of 1966
2000 – Adele Bauer Armiger, Class of 1935
2000 – Helen Hale Weed, Class of 1935
1999 – Dorothy Lamberton Clapp, Class of 1939
1998 – Marilyn Southard Warshawsky, Class of 1968
1997 – Charlotte Bush Failing, Class of 1927
1997 – Evenden Daley Herman, Class of 1937
1997 – Louise Redfield Levy, Class of 1937
1996 – Emma E. Thomas, Class of 1921
1996 – Eleanor Connor Ricards, Class of 1941
1995 – Jennie Ann Gray, Class of 1945
1995 – Elizabeth Deveney Johnston, Class of 1930
1994 – Wilma Zimmerman, Class of 1964
1993 – Brice Black Bramman, Class of 1948
1993 – Elizabeth White Garthe, Class of 1948
1992 – Hazel Wood Hill, Class of 1947
1992 – Margaret Higinbothom Kraus, Class of 1947
1991 – Dorothy B. Krug, Class of 1941
1990 – Elizabeth Riepe Brigstocke, Class of 1925
1989 – Helen B. Turnball, Class of 1929
1988 – Adelaide Forbush Fowler, Class of 1933