Conant Receives Academy Honor

James Bryant Conant, '14, President Emeritus of the University, will receive the 1965 Sylvanus Thayer Award presented by the U.S. Military Academy's Association of Graduates.

The prize is given annually to the U.S. citizen "whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify outstanding devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto: 'Duty, Honor, Country.'"

Past recipients of the Thayer Award, which commemorates the service of the Military Academy's first superintendent, have included General Dwight D. Elsenhower, John Foster Dulles, John McCloy and Henry Cabot Lodge '24. The presentation ceremonies will take place on May 1, following a brigade review by the Corps of Cadets in Conant's honor.