The University’s Heritage Committee has taken the lead in identifying major participants in the University’s history and honoring them with Heritage Medallions.

The following significant contributors to Suffolk University have been honored with Heritage Medallions since they were introduced in the 1980s, with length of service and quality of contribution considered when choosing honorees:

(Bold and Italics represents 2006 recipients)

Gleason L. Archer, Suffolk University Founder
Hiram J. Archer, First full-time faculty member, Trustee, Gleason Archer’s brother
Thomas J. Boynton*, Chair, Board of Trustees 1911 to 1945
Rexford A. Bristol, Trustee, Honorary Doctor of Commercial Science
Carrolla A. Bryant, University Executive Secretary, Registrar for Colleges
Alexander J. Cella, Law School faculty
H. Edward Clark, English faculty, Founded Collection of African American Literature
John M. Corcoran, Trustee
Benson Diamond, Sawyer Business School faculty
Frank J. Donahue, Treasurer, Trustees Chair
Malcolm M. Donahue, Law School Dean, faculty
Ilse M. Fang, Humanities and Modern Language faculty
Catherine Fehrer, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
John E. Fenton, Jr., Dean, Law School 1994 to 1998
John E. Fenton, Sr., University President, Trustees Chair
Catharine Caraher Finnegan, Gleason Archer’s Secretary
Franics X. Flannery, University Treasurer 1970 to present/University Vice Presdient 1972 to present
Robert S. Friedman, Biology Department Chair, Founder/Donor of Robert S. Friedman Field Station, Cobscook Bay, Maine
Thomas A. Fulham, President
Donald W. Goodrich, Vice President, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
John Griffin, Life Trustee, Registrar for Colleges
Donald Grunewald, Vice President, First Dean, College of Business Administration
Edward G. Hartmann, History faculty, Director of Libraries
Mary A. Hefron, Registrar for Colleges
Jeanne M. Hession, Member Board of Trustee 1973 to present
P. Richard Jones, Alumnus, Archives, Mailroom
Catherine T. Judge, Law School faculty, Law School Registrar
Charles Law, Director of Athletics
John F. Lombard, Law School adjunct faculty
Alfred I. Maleson, Law School Professor Emeritus
Richard L. McDowell, Sawyer Business School Dean, Director of the Center for State Government Management
Dorothy M. McNamara, Bursar, Alumni Secretary
Ella M. Murphy, English, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
John F.X. O’Brien, Law School faculty
Florence R. Petherick, Humanities and Modern Languages faculty
Michael R. Ronayne, Jr., College of Arts and Sciences Dean, faculty
David J. Sargent, Dean, Law School 1973 to 1989/Suffolk University President 1989 to present
Donald R. Simpson, Law School Dean
Frank L. Simpson, Law School Dean 
Harold M. Stone, Sawyer Business School faculty
Joseph H. Strain, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean
Richard J. Sullivan, University Librarian
Stanley M. Vogel, English Department faculty
Margaret Collins Weitz, College of Arts and Sciences Professor Emerita
Arthur J. West, II, Biology Chair, Professor Emeritus

* posthumous award