The Distinguished Service Award is an ambiguous term used often to describe an organization's highest award for services and contributions. Examples include:
- Distinguished Service Medal (disambiguation) (multiple countries)
- U.S. Department of State Secretary's Distinguished Service Award
- Distinguished Service Award (OA) - Distinguished Service Award of the Order of the Arrow
- Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology (formerly called the Distinguished Service Award)
- ACM Distinguished Service Award
Famous quotes containing the words service and/or award:
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
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—Robert Graves (1895–1985)