Stepinac's Dobeck Receives 2023 Eisenhower Leadership Award

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A Stepinac High School junior was honored by the Parents Club of West Point.

Tyler Dobeck was recently named the recipient of the prestigious Eisenhower Leadership Award, which is presented yearly by the Parents Club of West Point.

The citation recognizes the nation’s outstanding high school juniors who have demonstrated exceptional performance in academics, athletics, community service, leadership and moral character and who promote the values of national service as exemplified by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dobeck appreciated the honor of the award.

“I am humbled and honored to have been chosen by the West Point Parents Club to be the recipient of this prestigious award,” he told Patch.

“I recognize and value the hard work, dedication and sacrifice of all those who serve in our armed forces and hope to be among them myself in the future,” Dobeck said.

Among his achievements as a student at the all-boys Catholic high school, Dobeck was a member of Stepinac’s groundbreaking Susan and Daniel P. Mahoney Honors Academy and, earlier this year, was inducted into the National Honor Society.

Eisenhower, who was president of the United States for two terms from 1953 to 1961, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II and led the successful Allied invasion of Normandy to defeat the Third Reich.