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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Ryan Mann