| 1997 Recipient
 Victoria
E. Murden '81
Victoria "Tori" E. Murden is truly
a scholar, advocate, and adventurer. Her educational and professional
accomplishments include a Juris Doctor from the University
of Louisville Law School, a Master of Divinity degree from
Harvard University, and an undergraduate degree from Smith
College.
Always striving for adventure and the ultimate
physical and mental challenge, Tori has earned several notable
"firsts". She is the first woman in the world to
ski to the geographic South Pole,
the first American (man or woman) to ski to the geographic
South Pole,
the first woman to climb Lewis Nunatuk, the Antarctic,
world record holder for the most miles rowed solo by any American,
man or woman the first American and first woman to row solo
across the Atlantic Ocean (achieved after she received this
award)
"Collegiate schooled me to welcome the
unknown and to savor the unfamiliar. So, it should come as
no surprise that I turned out to be something of an explorer."
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