Lifetime achievement is a designation established to honor individuals who, through their service to their community and their local school committee, have exhibited the best characteristics of public service.
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
Year | Name | School Committee |
2023 | Bruce Menin | Newburyport |
2023 | Chester Szetela | Chicopee |
2023 | Laura Often | Grafton |
2022 | Terry Russell | Monomoy Regional |
2022 | Robert Peterson | Michael Pietrowski |
2022 | William Hayner | Arlington |
2022 | Heather Boulger | North Adams |
2022 | John Cotton | Smith Voc-Tech |
2021 | Don Ayer | Nashoba Valley Regional |
2021 | Mary Barclay | Montachusett Regional Voc-Tech |
2021 | Lori Hampsch | Hopedale |
2021 | Ted Hoegler | Tri-County Reg. Voc-Tech |
2021 | Beverly Hugo | Framingham |
2021 | Mark Linde | Southeastern Reg. Voc-Tech |
2021 | John Nunes | Dartmouth |
2021 | Stephen Udden | Southeastern Reg. Voc-Tech |
2020 | Mary Antocci | Dudley-Charlton Regional |
2020 | Robert Decker | Frontier Regional |
2019 | Margaret Albright | Newton |
2019 | Richard Allan | Quabbin Regional |
2019 | Eileen Hsu-Balzer | Watertown |
2019 | Aaron Dean | Northern Berkshire Voc. Tech. |
2019 | Dennis “D.J.†Deeb | Methuen |
2019 | Thomas Romeo | Lenox |
2019 | Joseph Martins | Fall River/Greater Fall River Reg. Voc. |
2019 | Peter Stephens | Fitchburg |
2019 | W. Allen Thomas, Jr. | Chelmsford |
2019 | Melissa Texeira Prince | Gloucester |
2018 | Alfred Buckley | Nashoba Valley Technical |
2018 | Deborah Choate | Triton Regional |
2018 | C. Patrick Dunne | Framingham |
2018 | William Haggerty | Tantasqua Regional |
2018 | Margaret Kane | Wilmington |
2018 | Ann Williams | Cape Cod Technical |
2017 | Leonard Beaton | Ashburnham-Westminster Reg. |
2017 | Robert Fichtenmayer | Upper Cape Cod Reg. Voc-Tech |
2017 | Richard Lacteal | Central Berkshire Reg. |
2017 | Caroline O’Neil | Easton |
2017 | Stephanie Peters | Hull |
2017 | Clifford Sylvia | Wareham |
2017 | Richard Weader | Framingham |
2017 | Cheryl Sweeney | Newburyport |
2016 | Carolyn Greene | Mt. Greylock Regional |
2016 | Judith Fenwick | Falmouth |
2016 | Victor Knust Graichen | Tri-County Reg. Voc-Tech |
2016 | John Kahn | South Middlesex Reg. Voc-Tech |
2016 | Paul Jennings | Greater Fall River Reg. Voc-Tech |
2016 | Barbara Grondine | Greater Lawrence Reg. Voc-Tech |
2016 | Susan McSweeney | Whitman-Hanson Reg. |
2016 | Beverley Lord | Foxborough |
2016 | Rita Ribeiro | Greater New Bedford Reg. Voc-Tech |
2016 | Michael Bower | Framingham |
2016 | David Katseff | Dighton-Rehoboth Regional |
2016 | Anne-marie Martin | King Philip Regional |
2016 | Wayne McAllister | Southeastern Reg. Voc-Tech |
2015 | Brian Moriarty | Holyoke |
2015 | Richard Barnardi | Northern Berkshire Reg. Voc-Tech |
2015 | Steven Chalke | Northampton |
2015 | Frances Zito | Attleboro |
2015 | Michael Trowbridge | Mansfield |
2015 | Raymond Riddick | Nashoba Reg. Voc-Tech |
2014 | Stephen Bannon | Berkshire Hills Regional |
2014 | Marie Christie | Stoneham |
2014 | Keith Wortzman | Randolph |
2014 | Nancy Burdick | Hopkinton |
2014 | Timothy Lepore | Nantucket |
2014 | Joaquim Nobrega | Greater New Bedford Reg. Voc-Tech |
2013 | Rebecca Robak | Hopkinton |
2013 | Margaret “Peggy” Boulais | Holyoke |
2013 | Patricia Shearer | Pioneer Valley |
2013 | Glenn Pavlicek | Milton |
2013 | Robert Closek | Greater Fall River Reg. Tech |
2012 | Pauline Aucoin | Dudley-Charlton |
2012 | Burton Buchman | Tyngsborough |
2012 | Jay Carberry | Lenox |
2012 | Barbara Davis | Holbrook |
2012 | Daniel Elias | Pittsfield |
2012 | Alfred Fantini | Cambridge |
2012 | Karl Hetzler | Greater Fall River Reg.Voc-Tech |
2012 | Catherine Kabala | Dudley-Charlton |
2012 | Suzanne Littlefield | Wellesley |
2012 | Roberta Newman | Athol-Royalston |
2012 | Robert Vogler | Methuen |
2011 | William Brady | Medford |
2011 | Patricia Chisholm | Woburn |
2011 | Beverley Ann Griffin Dunne | Peabody |
2011 | Linda Fobes | South Middlesex Reg. Voc-Tech |
2011 | Ellen Furtado | Swansea |
2011 | James Gazzaniga, Sr. | Northern Berkshire Reg. Voc-Tech |
2011 | Nelson Goldin | South Middlesex Reg. Voc-Tech |
2011 | Robert Halla | Whately/Frontier Reg. |
2011 | Edward Hill | Greater Fall River Reg. Voc-Tech |
2011 | Sherry Marshall | Sandwich |
2011 | Paul McDonald | Old Colony Reg. Voc-Tech |
2011 | Robert Skerry, Jr. | Medford |
2011 | Angelo Taranto | Chelmsford |
2010 | Frederick Underhill | Old Colony Reg. Voc-Tech |
2010 | Maureen Springer | Silver Lake Reg. |
2010 | Kathleen Murphy | Winchendon |
2009 | Vincent Ryan | Old Colony Reg. Voc-Tech |
Distinguished Service Award | ||
2009 | Chrisanne Gregoire | Hingham |
2010 | Kathleen Bodie | Winchester |
2010 | Robert Carter | Wachusett |
2010 | Jean Cotter Fox | Freetown-Lakeville Reg. |
2010 | Tassos Filledes | South Middlesex Reg. Voc-Tech |
2009 | John Gillis | Norfolk Agricultural |
2009 | Jacqueline Kaminski | Montachusett Reg. Voc-Tech |
2009 | Michael Caffi | Rockport |
2009 | Mark Capuano | Deerfield |
2009 | Argentina Arias | South Middlesex Reg. Voc-Tech |
Larry Cooper | ||
William Gaine, Jr. | ||
Yvonne Giargiari | ||
Stephen Kane | ||
2009 | Phillip Morris | Dennis-Yarmouth Reg. |
2008 | Jane Larkin | Attleborough |
2008 | Charlene McEntee | Plainville |
2008 | William Buckley | Blue Hills Reg. Voc-Tech |
2008 | James Clarkin | Greater Fall River Voc-Tech |
2008 | David McGeney | Peabody |
2008 | Denis Russell | Woburn |
2008 | Marcia Sweeney | North Shore Reg.Voc-Tech |
2008 | Joan O’Brien | Nashoba Valley Voc-Tech |
2008 | Marie Paquette | Dracut |
2008 | Kenneth Henrick | Methuen |
2007 | Albert Olmstead | Deerfield |
2007 | Samuel Poulten | Nashoba Valley Tech. |
2007 | Mary Ramon | Frontier Reg. |
2007 | Randall Webster | Carver |
2007 | Helen Whipple | Pioneer Valley Reg. |
2007 | Robert Brown | Erving |
2007 | Harold Cohen | Norfolk County Agricultural |
2007 | John Nunnari | Wachusett Reg. |
2007 | Rose Merritt | Upper Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2007 | Elizabeth McBride | Chelsea |
2007 | Stephen Marcoulier | Narragansett Reg. |
2007 | Lester McLaughlin | Everett |
2007 | Jane Freedman | Plymouth |
2006 | Theresa Cardoso | Somerville |
2006 | Joseph Crowley | Woburn |
2006 | Marjorie Wojcik | Chicopee |
2006 | Joseph Valarioti | Assabet Valley Voc. |
2006 | Thomas Leddy | Keefe Tech. |
2006 | Philip Dinsky | Framingham |
2006 | Paul Denver | Needham |
2006 | Kenneth Cuddeback | Deerfield |
2005 | Alfred Pompeo | Medford |
2005 | Vincent Ryan | Old Colony Regional |
2005 | William Smith | Frontier Regional |
2005 | Mary Contalonis | Woburn |
2005 | Gabe Andrade | Greater Fall River Voc. |
2005 | Blanche Perry | Old Colony Regional |
2005 | Helga “Sunnie†Epstein | Montachusett Regional Vocational |
2005 | Mayor Edward Lambert | Fall River |
2005 | Thomas Green | Hudson |
2005 | Michael Gallagher | Weymouth |
2005 | Shirley Lundberg | Northborough-Southborough Regional |
2004 | Peter Muise | Whitman-Hanson |
2004 | Charles Valera | Montachusett Reg. Voc. |
2004 | Kenneth Pereira | Upper Cape Cod Reg. Voc. |
2004 | Joani LaMachia | Arlington |
2004 | Francis Harrington | Greater Fall River Reg. Voc. |
2004 | Charles Myers | Medway |
2004 | Kenneth Haar | Southwick-Tolland Reg. |
2004 | Eleanor Gaffney | Sandwich |
2004 | Gary Cornell | Swansea |
2004 | Walter Easttey | South Shore Reg. Voc. |
2004 | Patricia Doherty | Silver Lake Regional |
2003 | Ruth Knowles | South Middlesex Reg. Voc. |
2003 | Susan Augusta | Falmouth |
2003 | David Gravel | Peabody |
2003 | Margie Fulcher | Orleans |
2003 | Robert Gass | Randolph |
2003 | Paul Farley (posthumous) | South Middlesex Reg. Voc. |
2003 | Peter Desy | West Boylston |
2003 | James Wuelfing | North Brookfield |
2003 | Raymond Mitchell | Greater Fall River Voc. |
2003 | Loretta Cuffe O’Donnell | Lynn |
2003 | Margaret Wolejko | Sunderland/Pathfinder Reg. |
2003 | Dennis Eaniri | Brockton |
2003 | William Mauro, Jr. | Marlborough |
2003 | John “Jack†McGlynn | Medford |
2002 | Kathleen Niejadlik | Tyngsborough |
2002 | Patrick Shaughnessy | Holyoke |
2003 | Richard Lanoue | South Middlesex Reg. Voc. |
2002 | Terry Kwan | Brookline |
2002 | Andrew Tessier | Erving |
2002 | Henry Mason | Narraganset Reg. |
2002 | Thomas McGarr | Greater Fall River Voc-Tech |
2002 | William Mini | Malden |
2002 | Charles Fahey | Spencer-East Brookfield |
2002 | Catherine Williams | Bristol-Raynham |
2002 | Teresa Axten | Amesbury |
2002 | Jo-Ann Bragg | Quincy |
2002 | James Carvalho | Swansea |
2002 | Patrick Francomano | Plainville |
2002 | Harold Henchy | Ashland |
2002 | Daniel Hogan | Adams-Cheshire Reg. |
2001 | Lynn Ryan | Assabet Valley Voc. |
2001 | Anthony Ponti | Northern Berkshire Voc.-Tech. |
2001 | Norman Plourde | Wachusett Reg. |
2001 | Mollie Plant | Holyoke |
2001 | Bernice McGrail | Clinton |
2001 | Joseph Meaney | Southeastern Voc-Tech |
2001 | Bryan Ward | Narragansett Reg. |
2001 | Joan Bentinck-Smith | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2001 | Kenneth I.H. Williams | Montachusett Reg. Voc. |
2001 | Antonio Gracia | Greater Fall River Voc.-Tech. |
2001 | Russel Harmon | Greater Fall River Voc.-Tech. |
2001 | Stephen Jones | Brewster |
2001 | Charles Latham | Greater Fall River Voc.-Tech. |
2001 | Ralph Armstead | Southeastern Voc-Tech |
2001 | Robert Berube | Greater Fall River Voc-Tech |
2001 | Magdalin Bish | Quaboag Reg. |
2001 | William Carey | Arlington |
2001 | Lena DiGiantomasso | Medford |
2001 | Duncan Leith | Wachusett Reg. |
2001 | Eugene Kostecki | Southeastern Voc-Tech |
2000 | Donna Bliss | Attleboro |
2000 | Ann Williams | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | Leo Bernier | Greater Fall River |
2000 | Paul Sullivan | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | Marylin Rodman | Canton |
2000 | Peter Nyberg | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | Adele Manfredi | Plymouth |
2000 | Eileen McLaughlin | Georgetown |
2000 | Carol Karlberg | Weymouth |
2000 | Edward Lahey | Lee |
2000 | Richard Butterfield | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | Andrew Cederberg | Grafton |
2000 | Mary Ann Cleland | Westfield |
2000 | Owen Coughlin | Westfield |
2000 | Carolyn Crowell | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | Oscar Doane | Cape Cod Voc-Tech |
2000 | David Doe | Westfield |
2000 | Gary Enright | Holyoke |
2000 | Clifford Fountain | Quaboag |
2000 | Robert Girardin | Southeastern Voc-Tech |
2000 | Carol Grazio | Pentucket |
2000 | Kevin Harvey | Blackstone Valley Voc-Tech |
2000 | Marilyn Whitelaw | Orleans |
1999 | Charles Erwin | Old Colony |
Carver | ||
1999 | Vincent Igo | Foxborough |
1999 | Carol LePrevost | Lee |
1999 | Judith Murdoch | Hanson |
1999 | Marcia Nickerson | Nauset |
Eastham | ||
1999 | Keith Parent | Palmer |
1999 | Margot Sherwood | Ipswich |
1999 | Ronald Superneau | North Adams |
1999 | Ernest Wheeler | Greater Fall River and Swansea |
1999 | Don Burlingame | Bellingham |
1999 | Aldrich Cousins | Leominster |
1999 | Robert Dupuis | Palmer |
1998 | Matthew Krajewski | Blackstone Valley Reg. Voc-Tech |
1998 | Roberta Doering | Agawam |
1998 | John Vanella | Burlington |
1998 | Edward Postma | Blackstone Valley Reg. Voc-Tech |
1998 | Thomas Romeo | Lenox |
1998 | Margaret Myers | Norton |