Maureen Flynn P'09, P'12, P'16
Professor of History
1992-2015

Flynn, who passed away in 2015, is remembered as a passionate and caring educator who opened portals between the past and the present for her students. Teaching at the Colleges for 22 years, the late Flynn specialized in medieval, renaissance and reformation history, European popular culture and the history of medicine. A Fulbright scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa, she earned her bachelor, master’s and doctorate degrees from University of Wisconsin Madison. Author of Sacred Charity and countless papers, she held professorships at the University of Georgia and the University of Maryland, College Park before joining the HWS community. Ashley Yang ’11 recalls Flynn’s profound influence on her life: “In my time of loneliness, she took me in and treated me as her own child… And, in my moments of greatest pride, her face was always there beaming at me.”
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DFA RECIPIENTS
2019
2018
2017
Maureen Flynn P'09, P'12, P'16*
2016
Ann B. Oaks '74, P'84, P'85, P'89
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Joseph N. Abraham, L.H.D. '81*
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
Eugene F. Murphy P'74, L.H.D. '90*
2001
Kenneth Carle P'82, P'84, P'90
2000
Benjamin P. Atkinson, L.H.D. '86*
Lindsay A. J. Lafford P'65, P'71, L.H.D. '87*
1999
1998
Theodore Tellefsen Odell '20, Sc. D.'67*
1997
Charles Delamater Vail '59, L.H.D.'04*
Joseph H. McDaniels, LL.D. '11*
1996
1995
1993
William Pitt Durfee, LL.D. '22*
Walter Hetherington Durfee '08, Sc.D. '59*
1992
Edward E. Griffith, L.H.D. '88*
1991
Milton Haight Turk, LL.D. '38*
Kathryn Dapp Cook, L.H.D. '84*
1990
Hamilton Lanphere Smith, D.Sc. 1900*
* deceased