Wilson, Woodrow, Award

Wilson, Woodrow, Award founded in 1956, the centennial year of Wilson's birth, is presented annually to an alumnus in recognition of distinguished achievement ``in the Nation's Service.'' Recipients, selected from a broad spectrum of service to the nation and to the world, have included: Allen O. Whipple '04, surgeon and teacher; Bayard Dodge '09, president, American University of Beirut; Henry D. Smyth '18, U.S. Representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency; Adlai E. Stevenson '22, Ambassador to the U.N.; Eugene C. Blake '28, secretary-general, World Council of Churches; John D. Rockefeller 3rd '29, philanthropist; Claiborne Pell '40, U.S. senator from Rhode Island; John M. Doar '44, chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee at the 1974 impeachment hearings; and Ralph Nader '55, consumer advocate.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).