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REGINALD T. TOWNSEND AWARD

For outstanding achievements representing the finest attributes of the New England character, the Society's Reginald T. Townsend Award has been presented in recognition to the following:

Wilmont Brookings Mitchell........................1952
Lloyd D. Brace..........................................1953
Clare Leighton...........................................1954
Samuel Chamberlain...................................1955
Joseph N. Welch.......................................1956
James G. Blaine.........................................1957
Herbert Ross Brown..................................1958
Robert Cutler............................................1959
John Davis Lodge......................................1960
Robb Sagendorph......................................1961
Francis T. P. Plimpton...............................1962
Rosemary Park..........................................1963
Walter Muir Whitehill.................................1964
Douglas Horton.........................................1965
Harold Jefferson Coolidge..........................1966
Paul Dudley White, MD.............................1967
Frank L. Boyden.......................................1968
Leverett Saltonstall....................................1969
Samuel Eliot Morison................................1970
John Sloan Dickey....................................1971
Edward M. Fuller II..................................1972
Dr. Mary I Bunting...................................1973
Calvin Hastings Plimpton, MD....................1974
John N. Cole............................................1975
Eric Sloane...............................................1976
Edward A. Weeks.....................................1977
Hon. William S. Cohen..............................1978
Brendan Grill............................................1979
Walter Hoving..........................................1980
Louis Auchincloss....................................1981
Hon. Kingman Brewster............................1982
Dr. Nathan Marsh Pusey...........................1983
Moorhead C. Kennedy..............................1984
Arlene Francis.........................................1985
George Plimpton......................................1986
Richard Wilbur........................................1987
William F. Buckley, Jr..............................1988
Dominick Dunne......................................1989
Harrison E. Salsbury................................1990
Cleveland Armory....................................1991
Ruth Warrick..........................................1992
Francis T. Vincent, Jr..............................1993
Joseph Verner Reed.................................1994
Walter Cronkite.......................................1995
Amb. Everett Ellis Briggs..........................1996
William C. Beutel.....................................1997
Charles E. Pierce, Jr................................1998
Samuel Sachs II......................................1999
Anne Hawley...........................................2000
David McCullough...................................2001
Charles Scribner III.................................2002
Charles Osgood.......................................2003
James M. Fowler....................................2004
Samuel A. Waterston...............................2005
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers...........................2006
William F. Weld.......................................2007
George E. Pataki......................................2008

J.P. MORGAN MEDAL

For devotion to the New England Society over many years, preserving the New England herigate in the eminent tradition of pas President J. P. Morgan, the following have been awarded the Society's J. P. Morgan Medal:

Edward Allen Pierce....................................1962
Charles F. Noyes........................................1962
Windsor C. Batchelder.................................1963
Henry Sweall Woodbridge............................1969
Reginald T. Townsend.................................1970
John A. Morris............................................1973
John R. Burton............................................1974
Peter R. Compton........................................1979
Fred M. Filoon............................................1981
Robert L. Sterling, Jr...................................1983
John A.H. Carver........................................1984
Walter W. Frese.........................................1985
Thomas P. Peardon, Jr...............................1986
Roland F. Pease.........................................1987
Eben W. Keyes II.......................................1988
Alan D. R. Frese........................................1989
John L. Adams..........................................1909
Adelaide Perry Farah..................................1990
Doran A. Mullen........................................1991
Jean Valentine Winant................................1992
Kenneth A. Meneken..................................1993
John F. Flaherty........................................1994
Clarence Harvey Kelley..............................1995
Mary Anna Ajemian...................................1996
James G. Black.........................................1997
Thomas C. Hills........................................1998
Jeremy D. Poth.........................................1999
Cornelia H. Greenspan...............................2000
Frederick A. Parker, Jr..............................2001
S. Scott Nicholls, Jr..................................2002
Judith Anne Bliss.......................................2003
Allison Bailey MacEachron.........................2004
Robert E. Morris, Jr..................................2005
George A. Doyle, Jr.................................2006
Arnold Hayward Neis...............................2008

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