The highest award granted by the PCEA is the Loretta Quinlan Award. With the Loretta Quinlan Award comes a $1,000 scholarship that the winner has the honor of presenting to a graduating student from his or her local.
Resources:
- 2024 PCEA Awards nomination form (nominations now closed)
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- Edward-Educator-Example2015 (1)
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LORETTA QUINLAN AWARD WINNERS |
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2024 no award bestowed 2023 Kristen Pishkin – Kingston 2022 no award bestowed 2021 no award bestowed 2020 awards cancelled 2019 Carrie Beth Sorokoff – Hingham 2018 Brette Blette – Kingston 2017 Kimberly Orcutt – Silver Lake 2016 Lisa Whitney – Halifax 2015 Michelle Montrond – Wareham 2014 Lisa Desharnais – Kingston 2013 Carol Wall – Scituate 2012 Lauren Kelly – Whitman-Hanson 2011 Dr. Carl Swanson – Duxbury 2010 Nancy Barry – Wareham 2009 Beth Clark – Wareham 2008 Donna Resmini – Plympton 2007 Ann Ladouceur – Whitman-Hanson 2006 Dan O’Sullivan – Wareham 2005 Robert Gustafson – Wareham 2004 Deborah Gustafson – Wareham 2003 Margaret Boutiette – Wareham 2002 Larry Shultz – Cohasset 2001 Robert Marshall – Freetown-Lakeville 2000 Janice Beyer – Brockton 1999 Anne Wass – Hanover 1998 Elaine S. Gordon – Scituate 1997 Jane Burns – Scituate 1996 Elvoid B. Mayers – Rockland 1995 Robert L. Brousseau – Wareham 1994 Donna M. MacDonald – Middleboro 1993 Alice Carey – Middleboro 1992 Donna Richardson – Hanover 1991 Tom Evans – Whitman-Hanson 1990 Gail Brookings – Freetown-Lakeville 1989 Helen Cox – East Bridgewater 1988 Mary Barry – Marshfield 1987 Guido J. Risi – Scituate 1986 Carol Pelletier – Middleboro 1985 Eileen B. Malloy – Whitman-Hanson 1984 Jean Murphy – Marshfield 1983 M. Virginia Kirby – Whitman-Hanson 1982 Sharon L. Hartley – Rochester 1981 Isabelle Bartosiak – Plymouth 1980 George Shaughnessy – Rockland 1979 Mary Alden – East Bridgewater 1978 Clara Morgan – Mattapoisett – renamed Loretta Quinlan Award in Dec. 77 1977 John F. Carnes ¬– Hingham PCEA Annual Award 1976 John T. McGarigal – Rockland 1975 Stanley Goldman – East Bridgewater 1974 Mary Giberti – Wareham 1973 Mary F. Knapp – Norwell 1972 no annual award given 1971 Dr. Stanley L. Clement – Bridgewater State College 1970 Richard Menice – Bridgewater 1969 John Kelley – Abington 1968 Winifred Mahoney – Hingham 1967 (unknown) 1966 (unknown) 1965 (unknown) 1964 Joseph Plouffe – Brockton 1963 Dr. Clement C. Maxwell – Bridgewater State College 1962 Dr. Everett L. Handy – Duxbury 1961 Henry Burkland – Middleboro 1960 Loretta Quinlan – Whitman |
| Loretta Quinlan |
Loretta W. Quinlan was born in 1894 and graduated from Whitman High School in 1912. She attended a three-year program at Bridgewater College and graduated in 1915. She started teaching in the Whitman Schools that fall, teaching grade five for many years. She then taught grade seven and finished her career as an English teacher.
She retired from Whitman Schools in 1964. The school committee voted to keep her on staff for the remainder of the 1964 school year although she reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 on May 15, 1964.
The Loretta Quinlan Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Association to a member of the Association who best exemplifies the objectives of the Plymouth County Education Association. The recipient of this award is chosen from the nominees for Citation Awards. The Loretta Quinlan Award is given each spring to a member of the PCEA who exhibits outstanding service in all three of these areas: profession, association, and community.
Ms. Quinlan was a life member of the NEA, MTA, and PCEA as well as the past President of PCEA, MTA, and the Massachusetts Retired Teachers’ Association. She received an honorary doctorate from Stonehill College.
The NEA Bicentennial Award was presented to Ms. Quinlan at the NEA Convention in Miami in 1976 as one of five women selected for having played an important part in elevation the standards of the united Teaching Profession. She also received an award from the MTA for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Education.
She was honored further for serving as chairperson of the MTA Committee that effected the building of the first permanent MTA Headquarters at 20 Ashburton Place in Boston.
In 1960, Ms. Quinlan was the first recipient of the PCEA Annual Award. The award was renamed in her honor in 1978. Mary Alden, PCEA President in 1978, stated, “Loretta Quinlan has been an inspiration to her educational colleagues throughout her years as a classroom teacher, an association leader, and a retired teachers’ advocate since her retirement. It is most fitting that the PCEA Board honor Miss Quinlan in this manner.”
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