Past Winners of the Everett R. Dyer Award for Distinguished School Board Service

The Everett R. Dyer Award is given annually to a present or former school board member who has shown exceptional service to the public school children of New York State. The award is a means of showing appreciation to all school board members and encouraging them to aspire to the highest ideals of school boardsmanship. Selection of the award recipient is made by the Distinguished Service Award Committee.


1950: Judge William H. Golding* - Cobleskill
1951: Dr. Charles E. Davis* - Floral Park
1952: Charles A Upson* - Lockport
1953: J. Edgar Davidson* - Suffern
1954: Dr. Clyde B. Moore* - Ithaca
1954: Georgine D. Ryder* - Cobleskill
1955: Jessie T. Zoller* - Schenectady
1956: Jacob Gunther North* - Bellmore
1957: George D. Taylor* - Stamford
1958: Cyrus M. Higley* - Norwich 1958
1959: Russell M.L. Carson* - Glens Falls
1960: Frederick H. Popans* - Chatham
1961: Dr. George B. Atwater* - Auburn
1962: Maxwell A. Parmenter* - Corinth
1963: Mrs. John H. Boeckmann* - Floral Park
1964: George W. Hewlett Hewlett* - Woodmere
1965: Kenneth Buhrmaster* - Scotia-Glenville
1966: Benjamin Cosor* - Fallsburgh
1967: Dr. Charles W. Hunt* - Oneonta
1968: Margauerite H. Lapp* - Williamsville
1969: Elisabeth T. Babcock* - Syosset
1970: Bianca A. Ulshafer* - Onondaga-Madison BOCES
1971: Elizabeth Davenport - Binghamton
1972: Everett R. Dyer* - NYSSBA
1972: Theodore L. Masterson* - Amherst
1973: Raymond S. Baron - Lawrence
1974: Gerald J. Gilleran* - Hancock
1975: Norman W. Allen* - Washington-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES
1976: Janet W. Richardson* - Steuben-Allegany BOCES
1977: Georgine J. Hyde* - East Ramapo
1978: Arthur Withall- Ulster BOCES
1979: Joseph Chille* - Niagara Falls
1980: Paul R. Fromer* - Valley Stream 13
1981: George M. Mueller* - Erie I BOCES
1982: John L. Ostrander* - Saratoga-Warren BOCES
1983: George Hillman* - Suffolk II BOCES
1984: Edward H. Knauf* - Schodack
1985: A. Terry Weathers* - Farmingdale
1986: Peter A. Hyler* - Walton
1987: Florence E. Baugh - Buffalo
1988: Elinor McAuliffe* - Valley Stream 30
1989: Eugene Polinsky* - Rockland County BOCES
1990: Harris Dinkoff * - Valley Stream 13
1991: Matthew Buchalski* - Niagara Falls
1992: Gay Molnar - Niagara-Wheatfield
1993: Anne Lawrence Bondy* - Rye Neck
1994: Joseph Barry* - Nassau BOCES
1995: Anne M. Byrne - Nanuet
1996: James Earl - Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES
1997: Anne Z. Paulin* - Northville/Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES
1998: Anita Feldman - Mahopac
1999: J. Harold McConnell - Steuben-Allegany BOCES
2000: Stanley J. Figiel* - Frontier
2001: Ronald Dougherty* - Broome-Delaware-Tioga BOCES
2002: Len Cane* - Ulster BOCES
2003: Rebecca Albright - Orleans-Niagara BOCES
2004: Norma Barton - Canandaigua
2005: Evelyn Stock - Southern Westchester BOCES
2006: Kathleen McGrath* - Brunswick
2007: Don King - Niagara Falls
2008: William J. Brennan* - Ticonderoga
2009: Stephen B. Witt - Hewlett-Woodmere
2010: Paul Puccio* - Questar III BOCES, Schodack
2011: William Boss - Orange-Ulster BOCES
2012: Harry B. Reeder - Herkimer
2013: Anthony Iadevaio - Valley Stream 24
2014: Robert Gibson* - Brittonkill/Questar III BOCES/Tech Valley HS
2015: Joan Reeves - Baldwinsville
2016: Deborah Coates - Nassau BOCES
2016: Joseph DiMaio - Jamestown
2017: Richard Engelbrecht - Madison Oneida BOCES
2018: John Rieger Washington-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES
2019: Mary Jo O'Hagan - Baldwin Union Free School District
2020: Judith H. Katz - Williamsville and Erie 1 BOCES
2021: Edward L. McCormick - Arlington
2022: Jeannette Santos - Western Suffolk BOCES
2023: Guy Leggio – Bay Shore School District
2023: Bob Vecchio – William Floyd School District
2024: Nellie A. Bush - Greater Amsterdam School District
2025: John Perrino - Middletown City School District

* = Deceased