District Award of Merit Recipients

Cape Cod & Islands Council’s District Award of Merit Recipients

The District Award of Merit is awarded by a district to volunteer adults for service to youth in the district. Normally, the award is presented for service to youth in excess of five years. Candidates for this award must be nominated. Self-nomination disqualifies the candidate.

1970s

1973

Irvin Daubert

Arthur Thivierge

Frank Walker

1974

Joseph L. Gregory

Walter A. Eldredge

1975

William E. Cash

Gary I. Hackett

1976

Ronald F. Perry

J. Roger Pooler

1977

Edward McNamara

Edwin Shufelt

John Hamer

1978

Ruth M. Kelley

William Roberts

1979

Paul Ryll

Donna Ryll

John J. Kelley, Jr.

1980s

1980

Frank Trotter

James Moriarty

1981

Nancy Perry

Clifford Belcher

1982

Leon Cremonini

Vincent Scrivani

1983

Gregory Smith

Helen Hayes

1984

William Barron

David Thyng

1985

Marcia Patt

Albert Roberti

1986

Louana Lambert

Robert Hopkins

1987

David Diamond

Nancy Church

1988

Edward Mathews

Gail Eldredge

1989

Joseph Eldredge

Joseph Quintiliani

1990s

1990

Thomas Collini

John Eldredge

Michael Omar

Vincent Mann

1991

Bob Fietz

Peter Baldwin

Ed Petravicz

1992

George Thew

Joyce Raistio

George Marceline

1993

Sean Baldwin

Tony J. Confalone

Robert Sylvia

1994

Leon Smith

Alexa Fox

Tom Leckstrom

1995

Ray Hebert

Kevin Radford

1996

Dick Merrill

Peter deGroff

1997

Rick Hillger

Sheldon Costa

Richey Guild

1998

Clifford Irving

1999

Al Beal

Russ Atkinson

Alice Boyle

2000s

2000

Doug Martin

Steve Purcell

Wendie Howland

Bob Phillips

2001

Ellen Klostermann

Jeff Stranger

Mark Joy

2002

Patrick J. McNamara

Terri Pratt-Mason

Jo-Ann Ferris

2003

2004

Scott Christopher

Ron Bacchiacci

Richard Brown

2005

Milan Toombs

Russell Van Norman

Roger Hagen

2006

Robert Bilodeau

Charles Coleman

Gerald Boucher

2007

John Murphy

2008

Michael Santos

Elaine Mason

Sharon Ellis

2009

Roland Hatch

Robert MacGregor

2010s

2010

William Monroe

Homer Ray III

2011

Shawn Trepanier

John Poole

2012

John Schoenfelder

Frank Geishecker

2013

Drawde Geishecker

Bill Laruffa

Jeff Putnam

2014

Betty Eldredge

Dwight Loar

Dr. David Wood

2015

Stephen J Curtis, Sr

Steve Murphy

2016

John Freeman

Jim Saffle

Tom Swift

2017

Michael Morris

Dan West

2018

Tim Lanman

2019

Kenneth Hildebrand

Marshall Lovelette

2020s

2020

2021

Patty Chadwick

Heather Giangregorio

2022

Paul Bober

Stephen Mulligan

Jason Zinsner

2023

Ed Bruce

Pat Flynn

Bonnie Kwiatkowski

2024

Katherine Walden

2025

Tom Wooton

2026

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