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The 1889 Society

The 1889 Society honors cumulative lifetime giving of $500,000 or more in cash and includes donors dating back to the founding days of the college. Members are honored for their exceptional generosity in a special induction ceremony. 

*deceased

  • Anonymous
  • Omah Buchanan Albaugh 1916*
  • Lora Deloach Allums 1931* and John F. Allums*
  • Pamela J. Bevier 1961
  • Emy Evans Blair 1952* and H. Duane Blair*
  • Bradley-Turner Foundation
  • Mary Brown Bullock 1966 and George D. Bullock
  • Patricia Collins Butler 1928*
  • The Daniel D. and Elizabeth H. Cameron Foundation
  • Andrew Carnegie*
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Virginia Milner Carter 1940*
  • The Coca-Cola Foundation
  • Helen Catherine Currie 1947*
  • Mary Keesler Dalton 1925*
  • The Charles A. Dana Foundation
  • Alice Davidson
  • The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
  • Mary Frances Davis*
  • JoAnn Sawyer Delafield 1958 and J. Dennis Delafield
  • Catherine Warren Dukehart 1951
  • Jessie Ball duPont Fund
  • Kate Durr Elmore 1949*
  • Lettie Pate Evans Foundation
  • Suzanne C. Feese 1984
  • J.B. Fuqua Foundation, Inc.
  • Mary Lillias Garretson 1933*
  • The General Education Board of New York
  • Georgia Independent College Association
  • Sarah Bynum Gladden 1965 and Joseph R. Gladden, Jr. 
  • Gail Savage Glover 1966 and Marian B. Glover
  • Flavel McMichael Godfrey 1968 and John Munro Godfrey
  • The Goizueta Foundation
  • Frances Bailey Graves 1963* and William M. Graves
  • Virginia Keller Gray 1957*
  • The Halle Foundation
  • Romola Davis Hardy 1920*
  • Mary Lou Cornwall Hawkes 1965 and James B. Hawkes
  • Julia Ingram Hazzard 1919* and Linford B. Hazzard*
  • The Hertwig Family
  • Nancy Thomas Hill 1956
  • Elizabeth Daniel Holder 1982 and Thomas M. Holder
  • The O.C. Hubert Charitable Trust
  • Jane Walker Inman*
  • Samuel Martin Inman*
  • Elizabeth Fuller Jackson*
  • Anne Register Jones 1946* and Boisfeuillet Jones*
  • Elizabeth Rhett Jones 1973 and Gary T. Jones
  • Jeanne Elizabeth Kaufmann 1972
  • The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust
  • Harriet M. King 1964 and Michael G. Wasserman 
  • Mary Wallace Kirk 1911*
  • The Kresge Foundation
  • Laura Frances Lee 1938*
  • Isabella Wilson Lewis 1934*
  • Mary Jane Auld Linker 1943* and J. Burton Linker, Jr.*
  • Louise Franklin Livingston 1941* and Harry W. Livingston Jr.*
  • Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. 
  • The Jane K. Lowe Charitable Foundation
  • Amelia Davis Luchsinger 1948* and John W. Luchsinger
  • James Manning
  • Elizabeth Warden Marshall 1938*
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Lucy Johnson Ozmer 1910*
  • Mildred and Robert Petty
  • Donna Philips and Jim Philips*
  • The Presser Foundation
  • Harriet Pade Prouse 1925* and George A. Prouse*
  • Louise Hill Reaves 1954
  • Col. George Washington Scott*
  • Margaretta Lumpkin Shaw 1952 and J.C. Shaw*
  • Frances Marx Shillinglaw*
  • The Hal and John Smith Family Foundation
  • Julia Thompson Smith 1931* and Hal L. Smith*
  • Mary Frances Sweet*
  • Linda Grant Teasley 1961* and Harry E. Teasley, Jr.
  • Samuel E. and Mary W. Thatcher Foundation
  • Judith Earl Thompson 1975*
  • The Clyde C. Tuggle Family
  • The Tull Charitable Foundation
  • Frances Winship Walters*
  • Mary Ripley Warren 1953* and William C. Warren III*
  • Annie Louise Harrison Waterman 1896*
  • Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation
  • Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund, Inc.
  • Irene King Woodruff* and George W. Woodruff*
  • Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
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