The Annual
George E. Hamilton
Alumni Debate
Each year during Homecoming weekend, alumni join current undergraduates at the Annual George E. Hamilton Alumni Debate. This unique debate allows for alumni of all ages to engage with current students in the Philodemic Society. The President of Alumni Philodemica presides over this special debate in which there is no seniority.
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After the debate, the Hamilton Medal is awarded to the undergraduate speaker who best represented the Society by pursuing “eloquence in the defense of liberty” in their speech that day.
(Above) Attendees of the 2022 Hamilton Debate
Hamilton Medalists
2022 – Pannez Oliai
2021 – Bora Balçay
2020 – Nile Blass
2019 – Zach Thompson
2018 – Mackenzie Webb
2017 – Richard Mullaney
2016 – Peter Hamilton
2015 – Symone Wilson
2014 – Emily Coccia
2013 – Amanda Wynter
2012 – Samuel Dulik
2011 – Patrick Spagnuolo
2010 – Jordan Daniels
2009 – Alex Henderson0
2008 – Edward Cadagin
2007 – Reza Nasim Jan
2006 – Jonathan Feng
2005 – Ed Duffy
2004 – J.B. Horgan
2003 – Marc A. Gersen
2002 – Monte Frenkel
2001 – Louis Caravella
2000 – Emma Salustro
1999 – Matthew Axelrod
1998 – Alexander Henlin
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1965 – Gerard E. Mitchell
1963 – Richard Hayes
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1936 – Thomas B. Finan
1935 – Leo F. Curley
1934 – George H. Guilfoyle
1933 – Henry Herrick, Jr.
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1931 – William G. McEvitt
1930 – J. Fred Schlafly
1929 – Charles P. Maloney
1928 – Al. Philip Kane
1927 – Leo N. McGuire
1926 – John J. O'Connor
1925 – Thomas Callaghan
1924 – Donovan J. McCune
1923 – J. Gibbons Burke
1922 – Sylan J. Pauly
1921 – Robert E. Ward
1920 – Robert J. Riley
1919 – J. Eugene Gallery
1918 – Louis A. Langie
1917 – John J. Darby
1915 – James D. Hishen
1914 – Rufus Lusk
1913 – Paul W. McQuillen
1912 – Stephen W. Carroll
1911 – Edward V. Carter
1910 – John F. Crosby
We are still working to update our records. If you are, or know, someone who won the Hamilton Medal that is not listed above, please let us know who via email or chat!