Nominations for Warner and Taylor Awards Warner and Taylor Awards for Outstanding Seniors Emalea Pusey Warner and Alexander J. Taylor Sr.
Awards annually honor an outstanding woman and man, respectively, of the senior class.
The nominee must have demonstrated the outstanding qualities of leadership, citizenship, and character exemplified by Mrs. Warner and Mr. Taylor. Additionally, their names will be inscribed on plaques near the Alumni Room in the Perkins Student Center. In 1911, she became chairperson of the State Federation of Women's Clubs' Committee on Education and worked diligently toward the specific goal of establishing a state-supported women's college. When the Women's College Bill was passed by the General Assembly of Delaware, Mrs. Warner served as a member of the Commission. In 1914, she was appointed chairperson of the Advisory Council of the Women's College and later became the first woman member of the Delaware College Board of Trustees.