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Award Recipients

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Person of the Year

2009 Dan Golubek* Westfield Gas & Electric
2008 Sharon A. Staz  Kennebunk Light and Power District

2007    Joseph Blain                           Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
2006    William J. Gallagher                VPPSA
2005    Joseph Dudek                         Jewett City Department of Utilities
2001    Larry Rossi                             South Norwalk Electric & Water
1998    Roger Cotte                            RW Beck
1996    Maurice Scully                         CMEEC
1995    Robert McDiarmid                   Spiegel & McDiarmid
1992    Maurice Ferriter                       Ferriter & Ferriter
1991    Julio Leandri                            CMEEC
1990    Curt Lanciani                           Littleton Electric Light & Water Departments
1989    Rep. Sam Gejdenson             Connecticut
1988    Orman Croft                            Swanton Village Electric Department
1987    Chapman Stockford                NEPP
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Distingiushed Service Award
2009 Jonathan Fitch Princeton Municipal Light
  Henry Lynch New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
2007 Bruce W. McKinnon MMWEC
  Alan H. Richardson APPA
2006 Jane Parenteau Reading Municipal Light Department
  William Seldon Reading Municipal Light Department
2005 David Folce Fox Island Electric Coop., Inc.
2003 William J. Guertin Pascoag Utility District
2002 Louis Balboni (Posthumous) Ipswich Municipal Light
  Alfred J. Jones (Posthumous) Middleton Municipal Electric Department
  David Lindberg West Boylston Municipal Lighting Plant
  William Murphy Boylston Municipal Light Department
2001 Stephen Socoby Houlton Water Department
2000 Brian Forshaw CMEEC
  Roger Bacon MMWEC
  Bruce McKinnon MMWEC
  Brian Evans-Mongeon VPPSA
  Steve Kaminski NHEC
1999 George Leary Holyoke Gas & Electric Department
  Alan Roth Spiegel & McDiarmid
1998 Harold Smith Paxton Municipal Light Department
  Rep. Richard Neal Massachusetts
  John Larch Mansfield Municipal Electric Department
1997 Sandy Cataldo Middleboro Gas & Electric Department
  Robert O’Neil Miller, Balis & O’Neil
  William Kelly Middleton Municipal Light Department
1996 Bruce McKinnon MMWEC
  Roger Bacon MMWEC
  Brian Forshaw CMEEC
1995 Patrick Berdan Welleseley Municipal Light Department
  Larry Hobart APPA
1994 Roger Beeltje Groton Electric Light Department
1993 Alan Heath  
  Marjorie Knowlton  
  Robert Naylor CMEEC
1992 Jon Bellgowan NHEC
  Dean Shattuck NHEC
  Bud Sawyer  
  Wilbur Wallace  
  Richard Kennedy  
  Charles Russell  
1991 Dr. Frederick Barrett Norwich Public Utilities
  Guy Luke Braintree Electric Light Department
1989 Thomas McHugh  
  William Churchill Braintree Electric Light Department
  Charles Collins  
1988 Bill Clinton Groton Utilities
  Bruce Patten Peabody Municipal Light Department
  Ed Burke  
1987 George Leary Holyoke Gas & Electric Department
  Lisa Schelkly CMEEC
NEPPA Service Awards
2009 Dr. Hamid Jaffari    Danvers Electric Division

2008    Barbara L. Grimes             Burlington Electric Department
            John Boudreau                        MMWEC
            Sandra Magyar                        MMWEC
            Maurice R. Scully                    CMEEC
            Theodore G. Garille                 Pascoag Utility District
            Lori J. Pickford                        Morgan & Meguire
            John Tzimorangas                  Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant
            Vincent Cameron, Jr.              Reading Municipal Light Department
2007    James L. Dean, III                   Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative, Inc.
2006    Pascoag Utility District
            Raymond Shockey                 Ipswich Municipal Light Department
            John Morley, III                        Village of Orleans
            Nadine Maggi                          Chicopee Electric Light
            Fred Anderson                        New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.
2005    Bernard Machia                      Stowe Electric Department
            Timothy McCarthy                   Belmont Municipal Light Department
            Anthony Monteiro                    Hudson Light and Power Department
            David Sweetland                     North Attleborough Electric Department
2004    Coleen O’Brien-Pitts               Danvers Electric Division
            Laurie Cavagnaro                   Reading Municipal Light Department
2003    William Gallagher                    VPPSA
            Ruth Slater                              Braintree Electric Light Department
2002    Roger Beeltje                          Groton Electric Light Department
            David Sweetland                     North Attleborough Electric Department
            Joseph Blain                           Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
            Walter McGrath                       Braintree Electric Light Department
2001    John J. Collins, Jr.                   Village of Ludlow Electric Light Department
2000    Bruce Patten                           Peabody Municipal Light Plant
1999    Edla Bloom                             Holden Municipal Light Department
1998    Bob Henriksen                        Braintree Electric Light Department
            Raymond Smith                      Town of Wallingford Electric Division
            William Piper                           Primmer & Piper
            Larry Rossi                             South Norwalk Electric
            Sharon Staz                            Princeton Municipal Light Department
            William Wallace                      Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
1997    Barry Soden                            Chicopee Electric Light
            Frank Winkler                          Groton Utilities
1996    John Clark                               Houlton Water Company
1994    Alan Yandow                           Burlington Electric Department
1993    Bob Henriksen                        Braintree Electric Light Department
            John LaFramboise                  Town of Wallingford Electric Department
            Lisa Gilmore                            CMEEC
1992    Walter McGrath                       Braintree Electric Light Department
            Charles Collins                       Peabody Municipal Light Plant
1991    Lawrence Carver                    Middleborough Gas & Electric Department
            James Dean                           Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative, Inc.
            Robert Young                          Burlington Electric Department
1990    Bruce Patten                           Peabody Municipal Light Plant
            Neil Murray                              Holden Municipal Light Department
            Eric Erickson                          Wolfeboro Municipal Light Plant
            Howard Peters                        Pascoag Utility District
1989    Julio Leandri                            CMEEC
            Andrew Natsios                       Northeast Public Power Association

Commissioner Service

2009

Thomas G. Zellen
Norman Denault
Lloyd P. Mahler

Peabody Municipal Light Plant
Merrimac Municipal Lilght Department
Kennebunk Light & Power District

2008    Louis Amoruso                        Mansfield Municipal Electric Department
            David McCarter                       Mansfield Municipal Electric Department
            Rodney R. Hersh                    Groton Electric Light Department
            Kevin J. Lindemer                   Groton Electric Light Department
            Galen Hogan                           Houlton Water Company
            James McPartland                  Houlton Water Company
            Gary Severson                        Houlton Water Company
2007    Alan M. Remondi                     Norwich Public Utilities
            Gordon Smith                          Village of Johnson
            Joseph Cataldo                       Littleton Electric & Water Departments
            Roland L. Plant                       Hudson Light & Power Department
            Thomas P. Collins                  Chicopee Municipal Lighting Plant
            Chester T. Gazda                   Chicopee Municipal Lighting Plant
            Chip Kimball                            New Hampshire Electric Coop
            Robert V. Johnson II                New Hampshire Electric Coop
            Jerry Hopkins                          New Hampshire Electric Coop
            John J. Palczynski                  Westfield Gas & Electric Light Department
            William E. Buzzee                  Westfield Gas & Electric Light Department
            Francis L. Liptak                     Westfield Gas & Electric Light Department
2006    Guy F. Luke                             Braintree Electric Light Department
            George E. Hissong                 Kennebunk Light & Power District
            Christopher Leach                  Swanton Village Electric Department
            Brian Savage                          Swanton Village Electric Department
            Neal Speer                              Swanton Village Electric Department
            Andrew J. Kozinetz                 South Hadley Electric Light Department
            Charlies Phillips, Jr.                Marblehead Municipal Light Department
            Arthur Rauseo                         Georgetown Municipal Light Department
2005    Dennis O. Whitman                Pascoag Utility District
            C. Allen Gable                         New Hampshire Electric Coop.
            George L. Ainsleigh                 Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant
            Stanley Israelite                       Norwich Public Utilities
            Walter A. Foskett                    Hingham Municipal Light Department
            Julio Leandri                            Groton Utilities & CMEEC (For lifetime achievement)
2004    Robert Lutz                             Shrewsbury Electric and Cable Operations
            Brian Savage                          Swanton Village Electric Department
            William Hughes                       (Posthumous) Reading Municipal Light Department
            James Engel                           Ipswich Municipal Light Department
            Patrick McNally                       Ipswich Municipal Light Department
            Robert Wadds, Sr.                  Stowe Electric Department
            Dana F. Blais                          Templeton Municipal Light and Water Plant
2003    Allan E. Ames                         Reading Municipal Light Department
            Stephen J. White                    Rowley Municipal Lighting Plant
            Albert Palmisciano                  Pascoag Utility District
            Galen Hogan                           Houlton Water Company
            A. David Lenzie                       Middleton Municipal Light Department
            Richard Janusko                     Jewett City Department of Utilities
            Richard Kassiotis                   Middleton Municipal Light Department
            Charles Clinch, III                    Middleton Municipal Light Department
            James McPartland                  Houlton Water Company
2002    Arthur Pimenta                        (Posthumous) Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
            Richard Hill                              Morrisville Water & Light Department
            Howard Morse                         Morrisville Water & Light Department
            Robert Health                          New Hampshire Electric Coop.
2001    Ed Wixson                              New Hampshire Electric Coop.
            Gail Paine                                New Hampshire Electric Coop.
            Michael Hercher                      Marblehead Municipal Light Department
            Edwin C. Rhode                      Marblehead Municipal Light Department
            Dr. Frederick Barrett               Norwich Public Utilities
            Arthur Gordon                         (Posthumous) Rowley Municipal Lighting Plant
2000    Stanley Dymek *                     Templeton Municipal Light Plant
            Michael Kwansey *                 Templeton Municipal Light Plant
            Peter Colon *                          Ashburnham Municipal Lighting Plant
 
1999    Ralph Kimball, Jr.                    Paxton Municipal Light Department
            Donald Ellison                         Village of Ludlow Electric Light
            William Desmond                   Peabody Municipal Lighting Plant
1998    Rose Riley-Rodriguez            South Norwalk Electric Works
1996    Dominic Demicco                   Jewett City Electric Light Office
            John Martyniak                        Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
1995    Peter Haslam             
1994    Walter Flewelling       
            Bill Brown
1993    Daniel Rourke
            Alexander Kovacs
1991    Dr. Donald Ellis                       Houlton Water Company
1989    Francis Atchue                        West Boylston Municipal Lighting Plant
1988    Curtis Clark                
1987    John Sawicki                           Jewett City Department of Utilities
            Herb Trussell                          Sterling Municipal Electric Department

Special Recognitions

2007    Rep. Edwin Pacheco              Rhode Island State Legislature
2005    Steve Kaminski                       New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.
2001    Sen. Paul Fogarty                   Rhode Island
2000    Rep. Alex Knopp                     Connecticut
            Rep. Ronald Gauch                Massachusetts
            Sen. Michael Morrissey           Massachusetts
1999    Rep. Scott Rabideau              Rhode Island
1994    James Fuller              
            John Wesolowski       
            Brian Forshaw                        CMEEC
            Gabriel Stern                           CMEEC
1992    Virginia Rutledge                     MMWEC
            Steve Kaminski                       New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.
            Sandra Magyar                        MMWEC

Outstanding Affiliate Member

2009 Century Bank
2008    ABB, Inc., C/O Primary Lines
2007    Hendrix Wire & Cable
2006    AVCOM, Inc.
2005    Hydron, Inc.
2004    Spiegel & McDiarmid
2003    Stockwell Testing Laboratory, Inc.
2002    The Okonite Company
2001    Starkweather & Shepley, Inc.
1999    B.H. Leymaster, Inc.
1998    Central Vermont Public Service
1997    Nelson, Adam & Dickson, P.C.
1996    Enron Corporation
1995    Duncan & Allen
1994    RMI, Inc.
1993    Rubin & Rudman
1992    R.W. Beck

Skip Willey Award

2003    Robert Gauvin                         North Attleborough Electric
2001    Phil Curtis                               Madison Electric Works
1998    Sharon Staz                            Kennebunk Light & Power District
1997    Ed Betz                                   Littleton Light & Water Department

Century Award

2009 Groton(MA) Electric Department
2008    Shrewsbury Electric & Cable Operations
2007    Groveland Municipal Light Department
2006    Templeton Municipal Light Department
2005    Burlington Electric Department
2004    Ipswich Light Department
            Merrimac Municipal Light Department
            Norwich Public Utilities
2003    Mansfield Municipal Electric Department
            Littleton Water & Light Department (NH)
2000    Village of Ludlow Electric Light Department
1999    Westfield Gas & Electric

Carol Tracey Award for Customer Service
 
2010

Janis Ford
E. Martha Parks

Hull Municipal Light Plant
Wellesley Municipal Light Plant
2009

Sheila Boone         
Harle Round               

  NEPPA
Pascoag Utility District.
2008 Brigit Lambert            
Information Tech        
Templeton Municipal Light & Water Plant
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
2007 David Melanson    
Hamid Jaffari             
Vicky Ramsey     
Gil Finch                     
Joan Warpula           

Taunton Municipal Light Plant
Danvers Electric Division
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
Littleton Electric Light & Water Department
Holyoke Gas & Electric Department

2006 Judy Meserve         
 Carole Lyford      
Mary Illingsworth
Concetta Chapman
Don Morano             

Peabody Municipal Light Plant
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
MMWEC
 Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant
Danvers Electric Division

2005 Judy Allaire              
Anna Ciarlone         
Melinda Davis         
Michelle Duncan     
Kathleen Horton    
Suzanne Newark    
Kathy Webster        
Susan Wentworth   
Pascoag Utility District
Reading Municipal Light Department
 Norwich Public Utilities
 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
North Attleborough Electric
Wellesley Municipal Light Plant
Templeton Municipal Light & Water Plant
Braintree Electric Light Department

      *(Died - Awards presented to family members)