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R.W. Woodruff Presented KAO Distinguished Achievement Award Kappa Alpha Journal, Fall 1972, Page 1 Robert Winship Woodruff, Epsilon ‘09, [Epsilon– Emory 1909] was presented the Distinguished Achievement Award for Kappa Alpha Order on March 4, 1975. He is the fifth KA to be so honored since the establishment of the Award twenty-eight years ago. The citation accompanying the Award reads: “For outstanding achievements as an Industrialist, Financier. and Philanthropist and for his service to mankind as a benefactor of education. As a gentleman, he reflects High Honor on his country and his Fraternity.” The presentation was made by Knight Commander Reynolds S. Cheney assisted by Former Knight Commander Giles J. Patterson in the office of Mr. Woodruff at The Coca Cola Company in Atlanta. Those participating were Brother William C. Morrow. Beta Nu, ‘22; J. Paul Auston, Chairman of the Board of Directors and J. Lucian Smith, President, The Coca Cola Company; Dr. E. Garland Herndon, Jr . Director of the Woodruff Medical Center at Emory University; Boisfeiullet Jones, Director of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund, Inc.; R. W. Bowling. Former Treasurer of The Coca-Cola Company; J. W. Jones, vice president, The Coca Cola Company; Kappa Alpha Executive Director William E. Forester and Director of Chapter Services Richard A. Barnes.
In awarding the Distinguished Achievement Award last summer to General J. H. Binford Peay III, then Knight Commander Simmons added on name to a short roll of honor of men who had received KA’s highest honor. In March 1975, the fifth such award was bestowed upon the man who, among other highlights, was the leader of the group that bought The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler in 1919. Robert Woodruff died on March 7, 1985, just ten years after receiving this honor.
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In recognition of his devotion to philanthropic endeavors which have fostered education for countless numbers of young people and his outstanding contributions of time, personal participation and financial support to many educational and character building organizations including Emory University, the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, the Joseph Whitehead Foundation, Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, the Berry Schools in Georgia, Tuskegee Institute and the Boys’ Clubs of America, the Executive Council of Kappa Alpha Order selected Robert W. Woodruff to receive the Distinguished Achievement Award, which was established in 1947 for the purpose of
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