• Source: Sylvanus Thayer Award

      • The Sylvanus Thayer Award is an honor given annually by the United States Military Academy at West Point to an individual whose character and accomplishments exemplifies the motto of West Point. The award is named after the "Father of the Military Academy", Colonel Sylvanus Thayer. The awardee is selected by, and the award is endowed by, a committee formed from the West Point Association of Graduates. It has been awarded annually since 1958 and is the closest recognition West Point has to granting an honorary degree.


      Official description of the award


      Since 1958, the West Point Association of Graduates has presented the SYLVANUS THAYER AWARD to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto: DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY.
      The recipient of the Sylvanus Thayer Award receives a medal with a bust in profile of Thayer on one side, with the inscription: "The Sylvanus Thayer Medal Awarded by the Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy, for Outstanding Service to the Nation." The reverse side carries the coat of arms of the Military Academy and the words "West Point" and "Duty, Honor, Country". Around the edge of the medal are inscribed the name of the recipient and the year of presentation. In addition to receiving the medal, the recipient's portrait and name are inscribed on a memorial in the Thayer Award Room in Taylor Hall, the headquarters building of West Point.


      Criteria


      Active-duty and retired American military servicemen or women are eligible for the award, but the majority are civilians who contributed to the US Government, the US Armed Forces, US national security or diplomacy, US civil rights or the enduring support of veterans in a positive way. The recipient must be a US Citizen, must not be a United States Military Academy graduate, and must receive the award in person during a ceremony with the entire Corps of Cadets. Early in its existence, three West Point graduates received the award - Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and Omar Bradley - but graduates are no longer eligible. One United States Naval Academy graduate, Ross Perot, has received the award.


      Recipients


      The following is the list of the award's recipients:

      1958 – Dr. Ernest Lawrence
      1959 – Secretary John Foster Dulles
      1960 – Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
      1961 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
      1962 – General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
      1963 – Secretary John J. McCloy
      1964 – Secretary Robert A. Lovett
      1965 – Ambassador James B. Conant
      1966 – Congressman Carl Vinson
      1967 - Cardinal Francis Spellman
      1968 – Mr. Bob Hope
      1969 – Secretary Dean Rusk
      1970 – Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
      1971 – Mr. Neil Armstrong
      1972 – Pastor Billy Graham
      1973 – General of the Army Omar Bradley
      1974 – Ambassador Robert Daniel Murphy
      1975 – Governor W. Averell Harriman
      1976 – Secretary Gordon Gray
      1977 – Secretary Robert T. Stevens
      1978 – Mr. James R. Killian Jr.
      1979 – Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce
      1980 – Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
      1981 – Administrator James E. Webb
      1982 – Mr. David Packard
      1983 – General James H. Doolittle
      1984 – Secretary Stanley Rogers Resor
      1985 – Secretary Frank Pace Jr.
      1986 – Dr. Edward Teller
      1987 – Senator Barry Goldwater
      1988 – Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
      1989 – President Ronald Reagan
      1990 – Senator Mike Mansfield
      1991 – Secretary Paul H. Nitze
      1992 – Secretary George Shultz
      1993 – Secretary Cyrus R. Vance
      1994 – President George Herbert Walker Bush
      1995 – Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
      1996 – General John W. Vessey
      1997 – Mr. Walter Cronkite
      1998 – General Colin Powell (US Secretary of State)
      1999 – Mr. Norman R. Augustine
      2000 – Secretary Henry Alfred Kissinger
      2001 – Senator Daniel K. Inouye
      2002 – The American Soldier
      2003 – General Gordon R. Sullivan
      2004 – Senator Robert J. Dole
      2005 – Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
      2006 – Mr. Tom Brokaw
      2007 – General Frederick Kroesen
      2008 – Secretary William Perry
      2009 – Mr. H. Ross Perot
      2010 – Secretary James Baker
      2011 – Secretary Robert M. Gates
      2012 – Congressman Ike Skelton
      2013 – Secretary Madeleine Albright
      2014 – Secretary Condoleezza Rice
      2015 – Mr. Gary Sinise
      2016 – Director Robert S. Mueller
      2017 – President George W. Bush
      2018 – Secretary Leon E. Panetta
      2019 – General Ann E. Dunwoody
      2020 – Ambassador Ryan Crocker
      2021 - Doctor Mae C. Jemison
      2022 - Mr. Kenneth Fisher
      2023 - Senator Elizabeth Dole
      2024 – President Barack Obama


      Notes




      References




      External links


      "The Sylvanus Thayer Award". West Point Association of Graduates.
      Audio of speech by 1962 award recipient General Douglas MacArthur

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