The James W. Dodge Foreign Language Advocate Award
The Foreign Language Advocate Award is presented to honor an individual outside the profession for recognition of work on behalf of languages. Since 1990, this award has been presented in memory of James W. Dodge, who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Northeast Conference for nearly twenty years.
The 2014 Dodge Award Winner: Clay Pell, former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Clay Pell with 2014 NECTFL Chair, Janel Lafond-Paquin
Past Winners
- 1978: Hon. Paul Simon, Congressional Representative from Illinois
- 1979: President Jimmy Carter
- 1980: Fred M. Hechinger, The New York Times Foundation
- 1983: Hon. Leon E. Panetta, Congressional Representative from California
- 1985: Sylvia Porter, nationally syndicated columnist
- 1986: Hon. Christopher J. Dodd, Senator from Connecticut
- 1987: Hon. J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas
- 1988: Hon. Claiborne Pell, Senator from Rhode Island
- 1989: The Southern Governors Conference
- 1990: Leonard A. Lauder, President and CEO, Estée Lauder, Inc.
- 1991: Scott McVay, Executive Director, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
- 1992: Hon. Lois G. Pines, State Senator for Middlesex and Norfolk District, Massachusetts
- 1993: James Herbert, National Endowment for the Humanities
- 1994: James Crawford, author and editor
- 1995: Hon. Madeleine May Kunin,former Governor of Vermont, Deputy Secretary of Education
- 1996: Hon. David L. Boren, former Senator from Oklahoma; President, University of Oklahoma
- 1997: Robert Orrill, The College Board
- 1998: Ken O'Keefe, Allegheny College
- 1999: Sesame Street, Children's Television Workshop
- 2000: Hon. Richard Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, Secretary of Education, U. S. Dept. of Ed.
- 2001: L. Jay Oliva,President, New York University
- 2002: Barbara Turlington, American Council on Education
- 2003: Ann M. Copland, Senior Executive and Legislative Assistant, Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)
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2004: Brenda Lilienthal Welburn, Executive Director, National Association of State Boards of Education
- 2005: Hon. Rush Holt, Congressional Representative from New Jersey
- 2006: Taj Mahal and Carole Fredericks, (posthumous award)
- 2007: Hon. Paul S. Sarbanes, Senator from Maryland
- 2009: Luma Mufleh,Fugees Family
- 2010: J.W. "Bill" Marriott, Marriott International
- 2012: J. David Edwards, JNCL/NCLIS
- 2013: Hon. Jack Markell, Governor of Delaware