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1990
Lester Snowdon Sinness, retired DuPont executive and benefactor
Stephen Charles Gunzenhauser, conductor and music director of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra
1992
Blaine Chase McKusick, retired DuPont executive and active member of the University of Delaware Research Foundation
George Dallas Green, former major league baseball manager
1993
Chaplin Tyler, retired corporate executive
Richard Eugene Emmert, former vice president of the photosystems and electronic products department at DuPont
1994
J. Robert King, professor emeritus of music
1995
Leonard W. Quill, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Wilmington Trust Co.
Bernard C. Watson, president and chief operating officer of the William Penn Foundation
Andrew J. Turner Jr., director of the Delaware Division of Human Relations and vice president of the National Association of Human Rights Workers Community Advisory Committee
1996
Mary Kaye Carpenter, founder of the Pilot School for students with learning disabilities and an active member of the Delaware Foundation for Retarded Children
James C. Kakavas, professor emeritus of biological sciences and founder of the Medical Technology Program
Ada Leigh Soles, Delaware legislator and former UD academic adviser
Endsley P. Fairman, former Wilmington Trust Co. executive and executive secretary of the Longwood Foundation Inc. from 1973-92
Thurman Adams, farmer and Delaware legislator
Alvin B. Stiles, retired DuPont research fellow and UD professor of chemical engineering
William B. Allen, architectural historian for the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1997
Sarah Jastak-Burgess, philanthropist who is active in the arts in Delaware
Katherine Esterly, pediatrician and the state’s first neonatologist, who developed the Division of Neonatology at the Medical Center of Delaware
Donald Puglisi, MBNA America Business Professor of Finance at UD
Helen Farr Sloan, widow of the noted American artist John Sloan and an active advocate of, and generous benefactor to the University Gallery
1998
Karl W. Böer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Solar Energy
Charles S. Joanedis, retired vice president of Getty Refining & Marketing Co., who established an endowed scholarship for chemical engineering students
Lloyd L. Thoms, a retired DuPont benefit analyst who, with his late wife Dorothy, has been a friend of the Department of Art Conservation, a senior benefactor of Delaware Diamonds and who donated a scholarship (the Agnes K. Thoms President's Achievement Award) in memory of his sister, a 1929 UD alumna
Claude A. Bunnell, retired chairman of Bunnell Plastics Inc. and an active volunteer and supporter of the University’s World War II Era Alumni Scholarship Endowment Campaign
Mae Riedy Carter, advocate for women and first chairperson of UD’s Commission on the Status of Women
Carol E. Hoffecker, Richards Professor of History at UD and author of numerous books on Delaware and University history
1999
Yetta Chaiken, an innovative junior high school history teacher, who has been active in the community and who, with her late husband Frank, contributed a special gift for advancing Jewish studies at UD, establishing the Frank and Yetta Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies and helping build the Hillel Student Center
Nancy Bradford du Pont Reynolds, a sculptor whose work has been exhibited nationally and regionally and who also has served as president of the board of directors of the Children’s Bureau, as trustee of Children’s Home Inc., as a member of the University’s Architecture Visiting Committee and on museum and institutional garden committees
Ann Dugdale Wick, an active volunteer who has served on the boards and as an adviser for several local organizations, a volunteer for the University’s 150th Anniversary Capital Campaign and instrumental in establishing the George W. Laird Merit Fellowship, honoring her late husband.
Robert H. Bolling Jr., founder of the R.H. Bolling Jr. Co., a consulting engineering firm, and president of the Welfare Foundation Inc. since 1979
2000
M. Jane Nuckols Garrett, senior editor for Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Co., who has edited six Pulitzer Prize-winning books in history
Helen Gouldner, dean of UD’s College of Arts and Science from 1974-90
Victor Battaglia, attorney and senior partner in the firm of Biggs & Battaglia, a leader in UD fundraising campaigns and an outspoken advocate in the areas of education, malpractice and prison reform
Chuck Stone, former UD professor of English and senior editor and columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News, now the Walter Spearman Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina
2001
Donald F. Crossan, professor emeritus and former dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Helen B. Eliason, co-founder and co-chair of the Friends of Goodstay Gardens on UD’s Wilmington Campus
Catherine B. Flickinger, retired educator, trustee emerita and benefactor of the University,
Margaret Perkins, teacher and widow of former UD President John A. Perkins 
January 2002