Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

The Alumni Achievement Award, given annually by Stephens College, recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves in their field and their community and have a steadfast commitment to the Ten Ideals of Stephens. This award is the highest honor bestowed on our alumni and is presented during Alumni Weekend.

2025 Alumni Achievement Award

John Perrin Flynn ‘73

Stephens College is proud to honor John Perrin Flynn ’73, a visionary in American theatre whose bold leadership and artistic innovation have shaped the cultural landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.

John is Rogue Machine’s founding Artistic Director. Rogue Machine was founded in 2008 to present new work in Los Angeles. During his tenure, John produced more than 30 world premieres, primarily by local playwrights. Twelve of these have been licensed and published by Concord Theatricals, Dramatists Play Service or Broadway Play Publishing and/or received significant subsequent productions, including Off-Broadway, larger regional theatres, and the Donmar Warehouse in London. RMT has won the LA Drama Critics Polly Warfield Award three times and is the only theatre to do so. Three of the plays he produced won Ovation Awards for Production and four won LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for Production. Three plays later became feature films including John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair and Razorback (Riff Raff) and Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami…

For Rogue Machine, Flynn directed the world premieres of John Pollono’s Lost Girls, Henry Murray’s Treefall, and David Rambo’s A Good Guy, and the U.S. premieres of Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London and Tom Morton Smith’s Oppenheimer. Other productions directed at RMT include Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom and Penelope; Samuel D. Hunter’s PocatelloA Permanent Image, and A Bright New Boise; Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited; and the company’s inaugural production, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Complete Female Stage Beauty.

John was an Executive Producer of Lifetime’s long-running series Strong Medicine and produced two other series and 14 television movies or miniseries including the Emmy-nominated Burden of Proof. In 2012, he received the Career Achievement Award for Theatre from the LA Weekly. In 2025 he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Gordon Davidson Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Los Angeles Theatrical Community and The Playwrights Arena Lee Melville Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Los Angeles Theatre Community. He is married to writer, director, and actress Ann Bronston. They have two children, Caitlin and Walker. John is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.

Past Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

2025

John Perrin Flynn ’73

2024

Kristin Atwell Ford ’91

2023

Lynda Clugston Webster ’78 

2022

Karen Meek ’95

2021

Mattie Carolyn Hall ’67, ’69 

2020

Jen Svrcek ’90 (awarded in 2021)

2019

VADM Nancy Brown USN (RET) ’73 

2018

Donna Ensign Marshall ’58

2017

Melanie May ’77

2016

M. Anne Murphy ’78

2015

Toni Leach Reinis ’67

2014

Ginny Hawley McSwain ’73

2013

Alanna Nash ’72

2012

Jill Griffith ’72

2011

Becca Ayers ’96

2010

Deborah Hamilton ’63

2009

Leslie Foster ’79

2008

Doris Painter Littrell ’58

2007

Mary Josie Cain Blanchard ’67

2006

Ying Li-Oshrin ’89

2005

Katherine Henry

2004

Corky Hale Stoller

2003

Teresa Rouse-Maledy ’78 

2002

Bonneau (Bonnie) McElveen Hunter ’72

2001

Jean McFaddin ’62

2000

Toni Grant Verstandig ’74

1999

Alana Smith Shepherd ’49

1998

Mary Mel French ’58

1997

Tomima Edmark Polley ’79

1996

Wendy Manasse Wiese ’81

1995

Annie Potts

1994

Laura Steele Evans ’71

1993

Paula Zahn

1992

Catherine Barton Para ’77

Anne Louise Wallace ’82

1991

Judith Doyen Taylor ’73

1990

Sonja Dabkovich Caproni ’62

Sally Bullard Thornton ’53

1989

Sally Morgan Fitzgerald ’35

1988

Ann Wrobleski ’73

Joyce A. Mitchell ’72

1987

Jill Butler ’64

Margaret Elizabeth McIntosh ’77

1986

Janet Fowler Shaw ’57

1985

Peggy S. Gott Ph.D. ’64

Jean Muir (hon. ’73) ’79 

1984

Joyce McClure ’69

Ardys Hogle Thayer ’45

1983

Nell Plopper Euruch Lazarus ’39

Dawn Wells

1982

Jeannette Korab Kalogridis ’71

Lorraine Chambers-McCarty ’40

1981

Leila Bromberg Andrews ’58

Bettye Maxwell Krolick ’46

1980

Laurelle Sheedy Mathis ’70

Sylvia Stone ’55

1979

Kathryn Myer Budzak ’59

Anna Siegelbaum Moldafsky ’50

1978

Madolyn Youse Babcock ’44

M. Susan Hays-Stern ’66-’68

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick ’46

1977

Patricia Craddock ’57

Lucille Garber Ford ’42

Margaret A. Kilgore ’55

Anita Marie Martini ’58

Martha Naset ’68

Martha Fuller Owens ’51

1976

Diane Lain Murray ’53

Phyllis Walden ’68

Gerridee Stenehjem Wheeler ’47

1975

Sabra Eagan

1974

Bernice Linderman Williamson ’32

1973

Sara Mumma Harral ’32

Jackie Fleisher-Wood ’69

1972

Barbara Rippel Gordon ’63

Marion Cox Lichty ’35

Mary Louise Green Madigan ’42

Peggy Hitchcock Ransom ’47

1970

Doralys Arias ’50

Selma Jeanne Cohen ’39

Geneva Drinkwater ’15

Dorian Hunter ’52

1968

Eleanor Cleveland Anderson ’35

Mary Ellen Stribling Bouldin ’50

Genevieve Miller Esgar ’48

Beatrice Burton Middleton ’18 

1967

Ann Case Drummond ’28

Virginia Ralles Parker ’51

Betty Goetz Lall ’45

Eualine Uhl Wright ’31

1966

Mary Ann Calcott D.D.S. ’58

Helen Gregory ’25

Kathryn Wilson Jordan ’28 

Patricia Spaulding ’42

1965

Ruth Bundy Armsby ’23

Anita Farlow Blakeslee ’42

Irene Meinershagen Bleckschmidt ’26

Jeannene Thompson Booher ’56

Mary Adelaide Gardner ’40

Janet Garlough ’41

Wilda Tinsley Moening ’34

Wanda Yvonne White ’45 

1964

Adrienne Adams Anderson ’25

Wally Funk ’58

Virginia Neville Robertson ’33

Mary (Mimi) Allen Smitten ’43

1963

Patricia White Barry

Dorothy Harcourt Hickerson ’39

Frances Lea McCurdy ’25

Gerda Mehwald Picco ’50

1962

Mary B. Anderson ’29

Nell Plopper Eurich Lazarus ’39

Beulah Winstel Dechert ’37

Margaret Sandzen Greenough ’28

Janet R. Kern ’43

Vivian Saunders Kleinkopf ’54

Jean Clinton Roeschlaub ’44

1961

Phyllis Joan Burline ’48

Madeline Darling Harp ’31

Mildred Benjegerdes Hays ’45

Irmgard Grossman Johnson ’35

Esther Replogle ’23

Helen Ross Staley ’41

Kay Johnson Williams ’24

1960

Margaret Barbee ’18

(Mary) Jane Smisor Bastien ’55

Martha Brian ’50

Shirley A. Field ’42 

Gloria Kenney Jones ’44

Carla Shriner Williams ’40 

1959

Susanna Laun Alexander ’36

Virginia Carpernter Christ-Janer ’33

Helen Froelich Holt ’32

Marilyn Ellis Keene ’38

Jeanne Butcher Shaffer ’44

1958

Margaret Wolf Dagen ’38

Esther Winifred Daley Kaasa ’30

1957

Betsy Snyder Dew ’37

Olivia Noel Robertson ’22

1956

Frances Jenkins Holter ’44

Jean Cravens Leyda ’20

1955

Evalyn King Joachim ’29

Eudora Vance Scott ’37

Glad Robinson Youse ’20

1954

Eugenia Moore Anderson ’28

Ethlyn Wisegarver Bott ’18 

Cordelia Trimble Robinson ’22

1953

Ardenia Chapman ’13

Ina Estes Hubbard ’13

Ruth Lovelace Courteol ’19

1952

Marie Kuhns Hardy ’20

Pauline Brannock Moore ’23 

1951

Alice Jones Ewing ’27

Dorothy Currigan Sevedge ’25