Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients
2022 Alumnae Achievement Award
Karyn Meek '95
Karyn Meek '95 Karyn graduated from Stephens in 1995 with a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology - Stage Management. She then received her MFA in Theatrical Design and Technology - Stage Management from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1997. During the shutdown, she returned to school and in 2021 she received her MS in Organizational Leadership - Project Management from the University of Denver.
Following her move to NYC, Karyn began to work as a professional Stage Manager. She has Stage Managed well over 250 productions so far during her career. Her Broadway credits include the 12 time Tony nominated Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 as well as Rent, Elf, Fiddler on the Roof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Karyn has also spent many years touring the US and internationally as well. Recent tours include Disney's The Lion King, Hello Dolly! starring Betty Buckley, 9 to 5, La Cage Aux Folles, and The Drowsy Chaperone. Karyn is currently the Production Stage Manager of Paradise Square, running at the Barrymore theatre on Broadway.
Karyn has been featured in The New York Times and twice on NPR.
Karyn is grateful to Stephens for providing the empowering foundational skills which have allowed her to succeed.
Stephens College awards the Alumnae Achievement Award to Karyn Meek '95 for the leadership she has demonstrated in her profession.
Past Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients
2021
Mattie Carolyn Hall ’67, ’69
2020
Jen Svrcek '90
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