Tilton Award Dinner

The Tilton Award and dinner is named for Dr. James Tilton (1745-1822) - a physician, revolutionary war hero, and the first Surgeon General of the United States Army. In 1802 he built the nucleus of the stone house we call the University and Whist Club. Dr. Tilton named the property Federal Hill and nominated it as a possible location for the capitol of the United States. After his death, the property changed hands several times until 1958 when the University and Whist Club moved into this beautiful, historic mansion.

The Tilton Award is meant to honor an individual who stands out for contributing to the greater good of the Wilmington Community. The recipient of the award is honored at a special dinner and receives a commemorative plaque, 1-year membership to the Club and an honorarium. Past recipients of the Tilton Award have included Colm Connolly, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, Katherine Esterly, MD, Chairperson of Christiana Care Health Services Department of Pediatrics, Peter C. Morrow, Executive Director of the Longwood Foundation, Dr. David Roselle, President of the University of Delaware, Honorable E. Norman Veasey, Immediate Past Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, Honorable Jane Roth, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and Michele Rollins, Chairman of Rollins Jamaica, Leslie W. Whitney, MD, FACS, C. Phillip Wikoff, Harold R. "Tubby" Raymond and Alan B. Levin. The 2008 recipients were Audrey Kohl Doberstein, President Emeritus Wilmington University and Charles Cropper Parks, American Realist Sculptor.