Daniel Webster Distinguished Public Service Award

The Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C. annually bestows the Daniel Webster Distinguished Public Service Award on members of the Dartmouth family who honor Dartmouth through distinguished public service.

2009 Webster Dinner. See photo album for additional pictures.

Webster Award Selection Criteria:

• The awardee must be a Dartmouth graduate (including graduate/professional grads),
• With a record of significant public service and/or public policy accomplishments,
• Such accomplishments having ocurred at least in part during employment by a government or nonprofit organization in the Washington, D.C. area.
• The awardee must have demonstrated exemplary personal values and leadership qualities.

2010 Webster Award Nomination and Selection Process:

We expect the 2010 Webster Dinner to be held in May or June, depending on the availability of the awardee.

David Martin, Alan Dessoff, Lisa Kaiser and others on the Dartmouth Club of Washington’s board came up with the idea of holding this event to raise money for the Scholarship Fund. Over the last 22 years, the club's scholarship fund has grown to $446,000 due to contributions raised at this event, as well as through ski trips, the annual golf tournament, and individual donations.

The club named the award after a well-known alumnus, Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, who distinguished himself in government service as Representative from New Hampshire, Representative and Senator from Massachusetts, Secretary of State under three presidents, and who also defended our College before the U.S. Supreme Court with words we all know.

Below is the list of previous awardees: