Call for Awards Nominations

The awards committee of the Exeter trustees meets each winter to select the recipients of the Academy’s two highest alumni/ae honors, the Founder’s Day Award and the John Phillips Award. The committee seeks nominations on a rolling basis for these awards.

The Founder’s Day Award is given to an alumnus, alumna, faculty emeritus or emerita, retired staff member, parent or friend who has demonstrated exceptional service to the Academy. The service must be extraordinary—beyond what is regularly contributed by others doing similar service—and the nominee must still be living at the time of nomination. Duration of service may be of any length, but should probably be of five years or more. The recipient may receive the award only once and should not have previously received the John Phillips Award.

The John Phillips Award is given to an alumnus or alumna of the Academy, still living at the time of nomination, whose life demonstrates John Phillips’ ideal of goodness and knowledge united in noble character and usefulness to mankind. The nominee should have contributed significantly to the welfare of community, country or humanity, beyond any volunteer service to the Academy.

Nomination letters detailing how the nominee meets each award criterion and, in the case of the John Phillips Award, any supporting documents, news articles, or other material should be sent to Harold Brown Jr. ’74, director of alumni/ae affairs, Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH, 03833; email: hbrown@exeter.edu.

For a list of past recipients, click here or contact Harold Brown Jr. ’74, director of alumni/ae affairs, at 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833; tel: (603) 777-3264; email: hbrown@exeter.edu.

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