NJSBA Honors Longtime Board Members

NJSBA Honors Longtime Board Members

NJSBA congratulates an elite group of 28 local school board members who have received NJSBA’s 2008 Milestone Award for 20, 30 and even 40 years of service to public education in New Jersey.

The board members are publicly recognized at their county school board associations’ annual spring meetings or at alternate meetings of their county associations.

40 years of service: Lewis Tomlin, Commercial Township, Cumberland County; Russell Olivadotti, Shore Regional, Monmouth County.

30 years of service: Leonard Albanese Jr., Northern Valley Regional, Bergen County; Andrew Lalli, Gloucester Township, Camden County; Cynthia Zirkle, Cumberland Regional, Cumberland County; Eleanore Reinl, Secaucus, Hudson County; Clement Sommers, Monmouth County Vocational; Moncrieff Fisher and Dr. Alan Braun, Somerset County Vocational; Richard Haskins, Sandyston-Walpack, Sussex County.

20 years of service: Joseph Cota and John Padovan, Cliffside Park, Bergen County; Dr. Neil Eisler, Cresskill, Bergen; Rafael Tolentino, Dumont, Bergen; Robert Schiffer, Midland Park, Bergen; John Mongon, Riverside Township, Camden County; Heidemarie Wood, Woodlynne, Camden County; William Nelson, Lower Cape May Regional; Alexis Seeley, Greenwich Township, Cumberland County; Marie Grochowski, Franklin Township, Gloucester County; Maureen Luzzi, Edward LaTour and Charlotte DiGennaro, North Bergen, Hudson County; Angelo Andriani, Secaucus, Hudson County; Dr. Reginald Luke, Montgomery Township, Somerset County; Joseph Luna Sr., High Point Regional, Sussex County; Richard Heckman, Newton, Sussex County; Gary Meddaugh, White Township, Warren County.