The Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Awards provide financial support to enable a small number of Princeton University sophomores to pursue worthy projects that provide important opportunities for personal growth, foster independence, creativity, and leadership skills, and broaden or deepen some area of special interest. 

The Martin A. Dale '53 Fellowship enables an outstanding Princeton senior to devote the year following graduation to an independent project of extraordinary merit that will widen the recipient's experience of the world and significantly enhance the student's personal growth and intellectual development.

Martin A. Dale ’53 was born in Newark, NJ of immigrant parents – he was a first-generation American – and attended Princeton on a William Cane Scholarship for graduates of New Jersey public schools. He graduated with honors in public and international affairs and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He studied at the University of Strasbourg on…