Please read the following table in Markdown format and then answer the question according to the table. Table cells in one row are seperated by '|', and different rows are seperated by '
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Table:
| Year | Laetare Medalist | Position | Year | Laetare Medalist | Position |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1883 | John Gilmary Shea | Historian | 1949 | Irene Dunne Griffin | Actress |
| 1884 | Patrick Charles Keely | Architect | 1950 | General Joseph L. Collins | Soldier |
| 1885 | Eliza Allen Starr | Art Critic | 1951 | John Henry Phelan | Philanthropist |
| 1886 | General John Newton | Engineer | 1952 | Thomas E. Murray | Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
| 1887 | Edward Preuss | Publicist | 1953 | I.A. O'Shaughnessy | Philanthropist |
| 1888 | Patrick V. Hickey | Founder and Editor of The Catholic Review | 1954 | Jefferson Caffery | Diplomat |
| 1889 | Anna Hanson Dorsey | Novelist | 1955 | George Meany | Labor Leader |
| 1890 | William J. Onahan | Organizer of the American Catholic Congress | 1956 | General Alfred M. Gruenther | Soldier |
| 1891 | Daniel Dougherty | Orator | 1957 | Clare Boothe Luce | Diplomat |
| 1892 | Henry F. Brownson | Philosopher and Author | 1958 | Frank M. Folsom | Industrialist |
| 1893 | Patrick Donohue | Founder of the Boston Pilot | 1959 | Robert Daniel Murphy | Diplomat |
| 1894 | Augustin Daly | Theatrical Producer | 1960 | George N. Shuster | Educator |
| 1895 | Mary Anne Sadlier | Novelist | 1961 | John F. Kennedy | President of the United States |
| 1896 | General William Starke Rosencrans | Soldier | 1962 | Francis J. Braceland | Psychiatrist |
| 1897 | Thomas Addis Emmet | Physician | 1963 | Admiral George Whelan Anderson, Jr. | Chief of Naval Operations |
| 1898 | Timothy Edward Howard | Jurist | 1964 | Phyllis McGinley | Poet |
| 1899 | Mary Gwendolin Caldwell | Philanthropist | 1965 | Frederick D. Rossini | Scientist |
| 1900 | John A. Creighton | Philanthropist | 1966 | Patrick F. & Patricia Caron Crowley | Founders of The Christian Movement |
| 1901 | William Bourke Cockran | Orator | 1967 | J. Peter Grace | Industrialist |
| 1902 | John Benjamin Murphy | Surgeon | 1968 | Robert Sargent Shriver | Diplomat |
| 1903 | Charles Jerome Bonaparte | Lawyer | 1969 | William J. Brennan Jr. | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 1904 | Richard C. Kerens | Diplomat | 1970 | Dr. William B. Walsh | Physician |
| 1905 | Thomas B. Fitzpatrick | Philanthropist | 1971 | Walter Kerr & Jean Kerr | Drama Critic and Author |
| 1906 | Francis J. Quinlan | Physician | 1972 | Dorothy Day | Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement |
| 1907 | Katherine Eleanor Conway | Journalist and Author | 1973 | Rev. John A. O'Brien | Author |
| 1908 | James C. Monaghan | Economist | 1974 | James A. Farley | Business Executive and Former Postmaster General |
| 1909 | Frances Tieran (Christian Reid) | Novelist | 1975 | Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, BMV | President of Mundelein College |
| 1910 | Maurice Francis Egan | Author and Diplomat | 1976 | Paul Horgan | Author |
| 1911 | Agnes Repplier | Author | 1977 | Mike Mansfield | Former Senate Majority Leader |
| 1912 | Thomas M. Mulry | Philanthropist | 1978 | Msgr. John Tracy Ellis | Church Historian |
| 1913 | Charles George Herbermann | Editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia | 1979 | Helen Hayes | Actress |
| 1914 | Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice of the United States | 1980 | Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. | Speaker of the House |
| 1915 | Mary V. Merrick | Philanthropist | 1981 | Edmund Sixtus Muskie | Secretary of State |
| 1916 | James Joseph Walsh | Physician and Author | 1982 | John Francis Cardinal Dearden | Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit |
| 1917 | Admiral William Shepherd Benson | Chief of Naval Operations | 1983 | Edmund & Evelyn Stephan | Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees and his wife |
| 1918 | Joseph Scott | Lawyer | 1984 | John T. Noonan, Jr. | Lawyer |
| 1919 | George L. Duval | Philanthropist | 1985 | Guido Calabresi | Dean of the Yale Law School |
| 1920 | Lawrence Francis Flick | Physician | 1986 | Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Carney | Chairman of the Board of Trustees and his wife |
| 1921 | Elizabeth Nourse | Artist | 1987 | Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC | President of the University of Notre Dame |
| 1922 | Charles Patrick Neill | Economist | 1988 | Eunice Kennedy Shriver | Founder & Chairwoman of the Special Olympics |
| 1923 | Walter George Smith | Lawyer | 1989 | Walker Percy | Novelist |
| 1924 | Charles Donagh Maginnis | Architect | 1990 | Sister Thea Bowman (posthumously) | Educator |
| 1925 | Albert Francis Zahm | Scientist | 1991 | Corinne Lindy Boggs | Former Louisiana Congresswoman |
| 1926 | Edward Nash Hurley | Businessman | 1992 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | U.S. Senator from New York |
| 1927 | Margaret Anglin | Actress | 1993 | Donald R. Keough | Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees |
| 1928 | John Johnson Spaulding | Lawyer | 1994 | Sidney Callahan | Educator and Journalist |
| 1929 | Alfred Emmanuel Smith | Statesman | 1995 | Joseph Cardinal Bernardin | Archbishop of Chicago |
| 1930 | Frederick Philip Kenkel | Publicist | 1996 | Sister Helen Prejean | Death Penalty Abolitionist |
| 1931 | James J. Phelan | Businessman | 1997 | Rev. Virgilio Elizondo | Theologian and Activist |
| 1932 | Stephen J. Maher | Physician | 1998 | Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino | Medical Ethicist and Educator |
| 1933 | John McCormack | Artist | 1999 | Philip Gleason | Professor Emeritus of History, Notre Dame |
| 1934 | Genevieve Garvan Brady | Philanthropist | 2000 | Andrew McKenna | Chairman of the Board of Trustees |
| 1935 | Francis Hamilton Spearman | Novelist | 2001 | Msgr. George G. Higgins | Priest and Labor Activist |
| 1936 | Richard Reid | Journalist and Lawyer | 2002 | Father John Smyth | Executive Director of Maryville Academy |
| 1937 | Jeremiah D. M. Ford | Scholar | 2003 | Peter and Margaret O'Brien Steinfels | Editors of Commonweal |
| 1938 | Irvin William Abell | Surgeon | 2004 | Father J. Bryan Hehir | President of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston |
| 1939 | Josephine Van Dyke Brownson | Catechist | 2005 | Dr. Joseph E. Murray | Surgeon & Nobel Prize Winner |
| 1940 | General Hugh Aloysius Drum | Soldier | 2006 | Dave Brubeck | Jazz Pianist |
| 1941 | William Thomas Walsh | Journalist and Author | 2007 | Patrick McCartan | Chairman of the Board of Trustees |
| 1942 | Helen Constance White | Author and Teacher | 2008 | Martin Sheen | Actor |
| 1943 | Thomas Francis Woodlock | Editor | 2009 | NOT AWARDED (SEE BELOW) |  |
| 1944 | Anne O'Hare McCormick | Journalist | 2010 | Dana Gioia | Former Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1945 | Gardiner Howland Shaw | Diplomat | 2011 | Sister Mary Scullion, R.S.M., & Joan McConnon | Social Advocates |
| 1946 | Carlton J. H. Hayes | Historian and Diplomat | 2012 | Ken Hackett | Former President of Catholic Relief Services |
| 1947 | William G. Bruce | Publisher and Civic Leader | 2013 | Sister Susanne Gallagher, S.P.\nSister Mary Therese Harrington, S.H.\nRev. James H. McCarthy | Founders of S.P.R.E.D. (Special Religious Education Development Network) |
| 1948 | Frank C. Walker | Postmaster General and Civic Leader | 2014 | Kenneth R. Miller | Professor of Biology at Brown University |
Question:
who was the previous winner before john henry phelan in 1951?
Answer:
General Joseph L. Collins