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College-Community Appreciation Award Winners

2017
Charles Spaulding, Chair, Bailey Place Insurance
Harwood Spaulding, Former Part Owner, Peck's Furniture

2016
Harry Bellardini ’56, M ’64, Former Account Executive, New York State Fair

2015
Amy Simrell, Former Executive Director, Cortland YWCA

2014
Robert C. Howe, Republican election commissioner, Cortland County; board member Cortland College Foundation

2013
Victor Siegle, owner, Management Software; board member, Cortland College Foundation

2012
James Yaman ’40, founder and broker, Yaman Real Estate

2011
Bernard E. Thoma ’78, M ’80, founder and owner of Thoma Ltd.

2010
Dorothea “Dottie” Kreig Allen Fowler ’52 M ’74, retired teacher and owner and CEO of R.H. Fowler

2009
Martin J. Mack M ’76, New York State Governor’s Appointments Secretary

2008
Barbara Lifton, New York State Assembly, 125th District

2007
Fred A. Amante, Former Principal, Barry Elementary School, and Kevin M. Yard, Principal, Parker Elementary School

2006
Jami Bistocchi, YWCA Child Care Program Director

2005
Linda Dickerson Hartsock, Former Executive Director, Cortland County BDC-IDA

2004
James L. Seward, New York State Senate, 51st District

2003
Charles A. Gibson, Former Cortland College Foundation Board Member

2002
James C. Nichols, Former Police Chief, City of Cortland

2001
Jean Cadwallader, Former President, Cortland College Foundation

2000
Joan Poskanzer, Former College Council Member

1999
Kevin R. Howe, Publisher, Cortland Standard

1998
Rev. Donald Wilcox, Former Protestant Campus Minister, Interfaith Center

1997
Marian Natoli Atkinson ’54, Cortland College Alumni Association Board Member, Former College Council Member

1996
David Farber, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon and Former SUNY Cortland Team Physician

1995
Walter Smigel, Local Industrialist and Philanthropist

1994
Patricia A. Clark, Former Board Member, Cortland College Child Care Center and Nu Sigma Chi

1993
Donald F. Ames, Former Owner, Ames Linen Service, and Donald “Bud” Ames, President, Ames Linen Service

1992
Eduardo J. Marti, Former President, Tompkins Cortland Community College

1991
Estella Eckler Vangeli ’47, Past President, Cortland College Alumni Association

1990
Leland B. Taylor, Attorney, Former Board Member, Cortland College Foundation

1989
Joseph Coleman, Former Director of Secondary Education, Cortland City Schools

1988
Louis J. Wolner, Former Supervising Principal,
Homer Central School District

1987
James H. Sarvay, Former Member, Cortland College Foundation Board and College Council

1986
Francis “Bud” Quinlan, Former Fire Chief and Mayor, City of Cortland

1985
Philip A. Cinquanti, Former Police Chief, City of Cortland, and Esther Twentyman, Former Member, Cortland County Legislature, College Council and Cortland College Foundation