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October 17, 2007 • Vol. XXXI • No. 11
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Page| Dahme to Receive NJSBA Lifetime Achievement Award |
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“I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the award than Maud Dahme, who has dedicated more than three decades to public school governance,” said NJSBA President Kevin E. Ciak. A member of the state board from 1983 to 2007 and the board’s president for many of those years, Dahme is a nationally respected leader in education. In 1995, she became the first New Jerseyan to serve as president of the National Association of State Boards of Education. She also served on the North Hunterdon Regional Board of Education from 1976 to 1983. A survivor of the Holocaust, Dahme has been a member of the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education since 1982. Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, she spent the entire German occupation of her native country in hiding with her sister. Together with her parents and sister, she immigrated to the United States in 1950. Dahme’s story has been the subject of a widely acclaimed public television documentary, the “Hidden Child,” which has been used in Holocaust education curriculum nationwide. Only two other people have received NJSBA’s Lifetime Achievement Award: the late Sen. Matthew Feldman in 1991, and Sen. John H. Ewing in 1996. |
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Longtime State Board of Education member Maud Dahme will receive NJSBA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Public Education on Friday, Oct. 26 during the closing session of