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Connecticut Association of Boards of Education

Philip S. Fenster Distinguished Service Award

The CABE Board of Directors established the following criteria for the Philip S. Fenster Distinguished Service Award:

  • The recipient shall be a present or past member of a local or regional board of education.
  • He/She has had leadership responsibilities both locally and statewide, as a local board chairperson or a chairperson of the local negotiating committee, member of a statewide study committee or commission, a panelist at a statewide or national convention, etc.
  • He/She shall be an effective advocate for public education through local control.

The 2023 Philip S. Fenster Distinguished Service Award will be presented at the CABE/CAPSS Convention, November 17, 2023. The deadline for nominations is no later than October 1, 2023. Please return the completed nomination form to Leonard Lockhart at llockhart@windsorct.org In the subject of the email, please write: Distinguished Service Award Nomination. 

Philip S. Fenster Distinguished Service Award Nomination Form

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The Philip S. Fenster Distinguished Service Award has been presented to:

1977
Ruth O.Truex
   
1978
Dr. Catherine V.A. Smith
   
1979
Barbara D. Reimers
   
1980
Margaret K. Silberstein
   
1981
Rita Cantor
Alice Crosby
   
1982
William W. Westervelt, III
Leonard Rovins
   
1983
Margaret  W. Becker
   
1984
Dr. Raymond J. Dry
   
1985
June K. Goodman
   
1986
M. Adela Eads
   
1987
A. R. Canzonetti
   
1988
Patricia B. Luke
   
1989
Alyce Hild
   

1990
Raymond Lenoue

   
     
1991-92
Philip S. Fenster
2015
Lydia Tedone
Richard Murray
1994
Muriel W. Scoler
2016
Gary Brochu
1997
Robert S. Daves
2017
Bonnie Carney
1998
Phyllis DeChello
2018
Ann Gruenberg
1999
Timothy J. Moynihan
2022
Donald Harris
2000
Fidelia Lane
 
2003
Beverly R. Bobroske
 
2005
Mary Broderick
 
2006
J. Callender Heminway
 
2008
Robert Hale
 
2010
Shirley Thompson
 
2013
Gavin B. Forrester, III