President's Service Award Clinton Awards 18 Finalists at the White House WASHINGTON, D.C. Ruppert employees worked to improve the landscape at 24 schools in D.C. during a 1997 Field Day event--a total donation of $125,000 worth of time and materials. Photo provided by Don Naylor. A total of 18 nationwide volunteers and organizations received the President's Service Award, which is co-sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National Service. President Clinton presented the honorees with sterling silver medallions for their volunteer contributions in the categories of: human service, education, environmental improvements and public safety. Ruppert Landscape Company from Ashton, Maryland was one of the recipients of this award. Ruppert involves its employees, many of whom are foreign-born, as volunteers in rehabilitating D.C. parks and school grounds. Since 1992, the company and its employees have rehabilitated four soccer and baseball fields. In 1997, they improved the grounds of 24 D.C. schools with more than 4, 000 perennial, shrubs and trees, cleared 22 acres of parking lots. The value of that single day 's work was $125,000 including materials and labor.