Kathryn Greenwade ’88
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Year Awarded: 2023

College Station, TX

Greenwade dedicated her life to selfless service. As a student, Greenwade served her peers through Muster, Fish Camp and more while earning a degree in journalism. She began work in marketing and training before returning to Aggieland for a role with the Texas A&M Career Center. In 1999, she began a 22-year career with The Association of Former Students.

Greenwade championed Aggies as the vice president of communications and human resources at The Association. She supported and connected current, former and future students by leading with empathy and promoting community. Passionate about beginning a tradition of giving, she sponsored hundreds of students’ first year in the Century Club. She served with the Aggie Women Network, was an Endowed Century Club member, established an Aggie Ring Scholarship and supported programs across Texas A&M.

On campus, she served 13 years as an academic advisor to Company C-2 in the Corps of Cadets, honored twice as academic advisor of the year. She sponsored the Fish Camp attendance of many freshmen and purchased multiple students’ Aggie Rings over the years. In 2000, she was selected as a Fish Camp namesake. Her volunteer service also reached off campus as president of the board of the Bryan-College Station chapter of Habitat for Humanity and a Brazos Valley Figure Skating Club board member.

Greenwade passed away in February 2022. She is survived by her parents, James ’66 and Sharon Greenwade, her sister and brother-in-law, Karen ’92 and Kevin ’91 Schiller, and their children, Sarah ’18, Sam ’22 and Jacob Schiller.

“Kathryn seemed to be everywhere … promoting our university and The Association while endearing herself to everyone she encountered.”

  - Dr. R. Bowen Loftin ’71