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Friend of MASBO Award

The Friend of MASBO Award recognizes individuals who:

  • Have made a significant contribution, such as supporting the legislative process, creating a model program, or setting an exemplary standard that helps school business administrators support student education; and/or
  • Have consistently provided long-term support to MASBO in fulfilling its mission; and/or
  • Have gone above and beyond in assisting MASBO.

U.S. Omni & TSACG
MASBO is grateful to U.S. Omni & TSACG for their partnership in making this award possible. Nominations may be submitted by anyone who can confirm the nominee's achievements and self-nominations are also invited. A maximum of three awards may be given each year, depending on the quality of nominations.

Recipients receive a tangible memento, recognition in a press release, a letter to the recipient's leadership, and recognition in the MASBO Notebook. Awards are conferred at a mutually agreeable time, preferably at the Annual Institute, and recipients may each bring one guest at no charge. Board members must wait at least one year after their term ends to be considered, and the Selection Committee Members are not eligible.

Nominations accepted up to April 1.

Application

 

2024

  • Glenn Koocher, MASC
  • Sheri-Lynne Matthews, Acton-Boxborough Regional School District

2023

  • Howard G. Barber, Old Rochester Regional School District
  • William Bell, DESE
  • John Ferris, Retired
  • Stephanie Fisk, Gateway Regional School District
  • Representative Denise Garlick
  • Miriam Goodman, Franklin Public Schools

2022

  • Matthew Deninger, DESE

2021

  • Susan Bottan, Wayland Public Schools
  • Neil Cohen, Office of the Inspector General
  • Daniel F. Deedy, Wachusett Regional School District
  • Robert M. Leshin, DESE
  • Felicia Moschella, Abington Public Schools

2020

  • Greg Zammuto, SEEM Collaborative

2019

  • Ken Wertz, Massachusetts Facilities Administrators Association
  • Paul Schaefer, MASBO Past President (Retired)
  • David DeGennaro, Hull Public Schools
  • Colin Jones, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center

2018

  • Thomas F. Campbell, Ed.D., Needham Public Schools
  • Susan J. McLaughlin, MASBO
  • Robert O'Donnell, DESE
  • Melissa King, DESE

2017

  • Roger Hatch, DESE (Retired)
  • Sharon Bruce, Connecticut ASBO
  • Sara Consalvo, Worcester Public Schools
  • Tracy O'Connell Novick, Mass. Association of School Committees
  • Gail Zeman, MASBO Past President (Retired)

2016

  • Kristen Behnke, Pittsfield Public Schools
  • Sharon Harrison, Berkshire Hills Regional School District
  • Robert Sanborn, Cape Cod Regional Voc. Tech. High School
  • Luc Schuster, Deputy Director, Mass Budget & Policy Center
  • David Tobin, M.A.S.S. (Retired)

2015

  • Matthew Gillis, Hull Public Schools
  • Stephen Hemman, MARS
  • Robert Johnson, DESE
  • Christine Lynch, DESE
  • Representative Alice Hanlon Peisch
  • Patrick Roach, Springfield Public Schools

2014

  • Clare Johnson Abbott, DESE
  • Jane Crafton, Former MASBO First Lady
  • Susan K. Givens, Masconomet Regional School District
  • Susan T. Hitchcock, Millbury Public Schools
  • Louise Lasna, Retired MASBO
  • Chris McGrath, M.A.S.S.
  • Thomas J. Moreau, DESE
  • Joseph F. Scanlon, Wachusett Regional School District
  • Michael J. Widmer, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

2013

  • Dr. John Doherty, Reading Public Schools
  • Joshua Peach, School Dude

2012

  • Joanne Blier, Mohawk Trail & Hawlemont Reg./Rowe School Dist.
  • Robert Hamel, Custom Computer Specialists
  • Allen Himmelberger, Oxford Public Schools
  • Tamara Indianer, Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc.
  • Senator Jason Lewis
  • Gerald McCue, Chelsea Public Schools
  • Patrick Meagher, Carver Public Schools
  • TJ Plante, Springfield Public Schools

2011

  • Marilyn D. Gordon, Easton Public Schools
  • Lorraine A Leonard, Town of Harvard

2010

  • Jenny Caldwell Curtin, Massachusetts DESE
  • Michelle Loglisci, Mass. Association of Pupil Transportation
  • Colleen Cavanaugh, Mass. Association of Pupil Transportation
  • Susan Sacks, School Nutrition Association
  • Barbara Hansberry, Mass. Office of the Inspector General
  • Liz Powers, Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General
  • Joyce McEntee Emmett, Mass. Office of the Inspector General
  • John A. Lafleche, Southern Worcester Cty. Reg. Voc. School Dist.
  • Joanne McDonough, Hanover Public Schools

2009

  • Attorney Joseph Bartulis, Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, P.C.
  • Anne L. Gulati, Needham Public Schools
  • Ronald Skinner, ASBO International
  • Terry Wiggin, Georgetown Public Schools
  • Jeffrey Wulfson, DESE

2008

  • Paul Carlson, Amherst-Pelham Regional School District (Retired)
  • Tamara Indianer, Lincoln Financial Investments
  • John Polumbo, Polumbo & Kulas
  • Tom Scott, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents
  • William Trifone, Dudley-Charlton Regional School District
  • David Verdolino, Medway Public Schools
  • Candice M. Walczak, South Hadley Public Schools

2007

  • Joseph Delude, Taunton Public Schools
  • David P. Driscoll, Massachusetts Department of Education
  • Mary Ellen Normen (Dunn), Lexington Public Schools
  • A. Francis “Skip” Finnell, Dennis-Yarmouth Reg. School District
  • Susan K. Givens, Masconomet Regional School District
  • Judith Mulligan, Manchester-Essex Regional School District
  • Jay Sullivan, Massachusetts Department of Education