2020 Adult Recognition Ceremony
Event Program Introductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cara Davis Flag Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mackenzie Davis, Troop 60342 Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eileen M. Higgins, Chief Executive Officer
Award Presentations
Good Neighbor Community Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Zakar Years of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claudine Krosnowski Numeral Guards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Baldino Alumnae Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CY Wong Outstanding Achievement Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gina Kubis and Mary Rosenberg President’s Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Teri O’Connor Appreciation Pins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vivian DiLella Shining Light Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelley Madensky Honor Pins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill Wallace Meritorious Service Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Trivisone Waves of Gratitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donna Tornich and Evelyn Strain Thanks Badge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cara Davis Jessie Blair Above and Beyond Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Klose
2020 Good Neighbor Community Awards • Amy’s Omelette House for allowing troop booths for the fall sale and cookies. • Denise Anderson, Dolores Coulter and Deborah Dec for years of participation on the Kiefer-Stevens Scholarship committee. • Nina Anuario & OceanFirst Bank for chairing committees, fundraising, and generously supporting our council. • Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar for donating food for events. • John Begley for donating arrows to the archery club. • Carl’s Fencing, Hand & Stone of Toms River, Lakewood BlueClaws, Seastreak Ferry, Shore Catering, Silverball Museum Arcade, Six Flags Great Adventure, and Tuckerton Seaport for donating gifts to Alumnae fundraisers in support of Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore. • Tammy Colandrea, Walmart manager, for coordinating booth sale space for the troops for many years.
• Andrew DeFelice for assigning public meeting space for troop meetings and large events. • Atlantic City Electric, an Exelon Company sent a team of staff to make improvements at Camp Amity Acres. They constructed shelters and spruced up the camp before summer day camp. • Tyler Flint, music teacher, volunteered to choreograph and conduct rehearsals for the Girls Are Great talent show. • Forked River Diner has supported the Girl Scouts in Lacey Township for the past six years. They allow us to do cookie booths throughout cookie season and they even feed the girls while they’re there! • Fulton Bank & Sean Murray provided a team of commercial bankers to volunteer at the Howell/Farmingdale Cookie Depot and provided breakfast and lunch for all the volunteers that day.
• TJ Hurley For years TJ has been quietly helping out when needed on propertyfrom lending equipment and crews to transporting equipment to Amity in times of need. He sends his tractor and driver for the Spooktacular hayride every year and has staff help put tents up and take them down. He always asks how he can help and is happy to do so. • Jersey Mike’s Subs of Middletown for supporting Girl Scouts through their generous donation of food for the Annual Kick-Off Meeting and Casino Night Fundraiser events. • Knights of Columbus of Lacey has provided a depot location free of charge for several years. • L & L Paving Lance, Sandy, Ed and crew have never hesitated to lend a helping hand. Aside from the astounding $25k they saved us by repairing the road into camp and fixing our drainage problem, they have always been there in a pinch. When our equipment was down they gave attention to the PAC road, brought equipment to camp to load dumpsters, move trees, etc. They even provided parking assistance for two nights during Spooktacular. They’re not just a Good Neighbor, they’re a Great Neighbor! • Lacey Township School District for providing space for troop meetings and large events. • Victoria Magliacane & Investors Bank for chairing committees, fundraising, and generously supporting our council. • Kathleen Moriarty, Robotics Coach from the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey. Together, we have co-hosted FTC Robotics meets and collectively run the Girl Scout Summer Robotics Camp at the PAC.
• New Egypt Marketplace allows us to hold cookie booths, donate to troops holding community service events, provide candy for parades and allow Girl Scouts to leave flyers for customer! • New Jersey Natural Gas for their major support with fundraising events, financial support and for hosting two major cleanup days at Camp Sacajawea. They gave camp a much needed makeover! • Nick’s Place in Millstone supports Millstone’s Girl Scout Troops with the opportunity to conduct booth sales for the past several years. • Chef Jason Ostroski has gone above and beyond to help make the Howell community camping events extraordinary. He makes additions above our food plans and helps develop programs for our leaders and girls to experience outdoor cooking and the culinary arts. • Stop & Shop of Aberdeen & Maureen Catena has provided space for booth sales and happily greets our troops upon check-in and they always make us feel welcomed. • Tinton Falls School District has provided community events in Tinton Falls schools every year. This is in addition to troop meetings. • Jazmine Tooles developed a program called the Magic of Motion which focuses on physical therapy elements and health and wellness, partnering with Centrastate Medical Center. Jazmine, a Gold Award Girl Scout, was also a guest speaker at our 2019 Gold Award Ceremony. • Walnut Street Elementary School strong supporter of the Outreach after school program for many years. • Waretown United Methodist Church provided meeting space for troops and events over the years.
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore 2020 Council Award Honorees Outstanding Achievement Awards Fundraising
Noreen Alt, Alumna Nina Anuario, Board
Elaine Gregory, Alumna Chelsea Masterson, Shore Pines
Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) Christina Barton Thrift, Sunset Shores Rhonda Baumann, Sunset Shores Jessie Blair, Sunset Shores Lisa Costa, Colonial Melissa Creighton, Colonial Michelle Duffy, Colonial Kate Fee, Colonial Mary Anne Gearing, Shore Pines Keshia Guthrie, Sandy Hook Judy Hart, Shore Pines
Rina Kish, Sunset Shores Lisa Pazzani, Sunset Shores Megan Peterman, Colonial Kellie Ritter, Sandy Hook Rosalind Seawright, Shore Pines Stephanie Smida, Sunset Shores Cynthia Streeter, Colonial Tami Vidion, Sunset Shores Kimberly Yue, Sandy Hook
Product Sales Danielle Asbjorn, Shore Pines Lisa Combs, Sunset Shores Karen Damerau, Sunset Shores
Chrissy Fiorenzo , Shore Pines Sarah Moore, Shore Pines Nikki Weeks, Colonial
Recruitment Julie Barchetto, Shore Pines Elisa Bertocci Caneiro, Sandy Hook Elaina Chan, Colonial Tammy Drewes, Shore Pines Ria Gouvouniotis, Colonial Dana Kepler, Shore Pines
Lisa O’Halloran, Shore Pines Sue Pontoriero, Alumnae Caryn Powell, Shore Pines Debi Sanguinetti, Shore Pines Amber Smith, Shore Pines
Volunteer Support Amy Birns, Colonial Christina Bucco, Sandy Hook Judith Czeto, Colonial Cara Davis, Sandy Hook Stacy Frontera, Colonial Nancy Gargan, Sandy Hook Gail Grob, Alumnae Linda Klose, Sandy Hook Ann Millard, Shore Pines Nancy Mueller, Colonial Theresa Nielsen, Shore Pines Ruth Pearson, Sandy Hook
Rebecca Ponder, Colonial Sherrie Prout, Sandy Hook Kathryn Raso, Shore Pines Gwendolyn Specht, Shore Pines Chris Street, Shore Pines Dawn Streeter, Colonial Nancy Suszko, Sunset Shores Mabel Sweetnam, Alumna Theresa Wallace, Shore Pines Natasha Wardell, Shore Pines Ashley Witzgal, Shore Pines
Alumnae Award
President’s Award
Elaine Gregory, Alumna
Barbara Birdsall, Board RJ Bubadias, Staff Susu Garcia, Staff Rosalind Seawright, Board
Appreciation Pin Karen Adam, Shore Pines Paige Baran, Shore Pines Angela Bowie, Shore Pines Stephanie Boyd, Shore Pines Shannon Carisdeo, Sunset Shores Alicia Corbett, Colonial Laura Doyle, Sandy Hook Jennifer Dumaresq, Sandy Hook Elizabeth Ferrise, Shore Pines Michelle Forero, Colonial Trish Formica, Shore Pines Susie Grau, Colonial Elaine Gregory, Shore Pines Candice Guinan, Sunset Shores
Susan Halsey, Alumna Dawn Jacobson, Colonial Rebecca Lacey, Shore Pines Kristin Lee, Sandy Hook Valerie Mahon, Colonial Meredith McGee-D’Alessio, Sandy Hook Kristin Merrell, Colonial Kathleen Pearson, Sunset Shores Ann Petronaci, Shore Pines Lindsey Sellmer, Shore Pines Sheree Severini-Fitten, Sunset Shores Annette Soucy, Shore Pines Lisa Waterman, Colonial
Shining Light Christina Baldino, Colonial Robyn Catalano, Shore Pines June Chernetz, Shore Pines Ken Donofrio, Colonial Susan Emitt, Colonial Diane Friel-Padlo, Colonial Michele Henry, Sunset Shores Maureen Kovach, Sandy Hook Claudine Krosnowski, Colonial
Gina Kubis, Sunset Shores Carla Mangum, Shore Pines Staci Primmer, Shore Pines Mary Rosenberg, Sunset Shores Jill Schmid, Colonial Kyril Suszko, Colonial Kelly Tatarka, Sandy Hook Jill Wallace, Shore Pines
Honor Pin
Meritorious Service Pin
Susan Bielicki, Sunset Shores Christine Brys-Yee, Sandy Hook Kathleen Caines, Sunset Shores Cheryl Cortopassi, Sandy Hook Vivian DiLella, Colonial Allyson Donato-Jernigan, Colonial Kelley Madensky, Shore Pines Donna Manetta, Colonial Claudine Remmey, Colonial Bev Sirianni, Alumna Joette Van Ness, Shore Pines
Joyce Anderson, Sandy Hook Barbara Dunzelman, Shore Pines Diane McQueen, Sunset Shores
Thanks Badge
Jessie Blair Above and Beyond
Nadine Foreman, Shore Pines MaryAnne Linder, Sandy Hook Elizabeth Trapp, Sandy Hook
Waves of Gratitude Pin Maureen Crinigan, Alumna Donna Tornich, Colonial
Special Award Linda Klose, Sandy Hook
Edith Poole, Alumna
Outstanding Achievement (Multiple Areas) for 2020 Board JoAnn McCann
GSLE, Volunteer Support
Colonial Jennifer Brown Catherine Dzubaty Dolores Dzubaty Allison Filosa Chris Filosa Pat Heaney Eileen McDonald Evelyn Strain Shailashree Vadali
Product Sales, Volunter Support Volunteer Support, Product Sales GSLE, Volunteer Support Volunteer Support, GSLE Fundraising, GSLE, Volunteer Support Volunteer Support, GSLE Product Sales, Volunteer Support Fundraising, Product Sales, Recruitment, Volunteer Support GSLE, Recruitment, Volunteer Support
Sandy Hook Jennifer Burden Betty Trivisone
GSLE, Recruitment, Volunteer Support GSLE, Volunteer Support
Shore Pines Cathy Grant Rebecca Palamara Cassandra Shank Pat Zakar
Product Sales, Recruitment GSLE, MarCom, Recruitment GSLE, Recruitment Fundraising, GSLE, Volunteer Support
Sunset Shores Michelle Coffey MaryEllen Gibbon Nancy Peterson Samantha Willmot
Recruitment, Volunteer Support GSLE, Recruitment, Volunteer Support GSLE, Volunteer Support GSLE, Volunteer Support
Membership Numeral Guard 15 Years
45 Years
Eileen Higgins, Staff Ivonne Varela, Staff
Maureen Crinigan, Shore Pines Jennifer Graves-Herring, Sandy Hook
20 Years
50 Years
Michele Bomba, Colonial Jennifer Brown, Colonial Aileen Christiansen, Staff Marianne Colamarino, Colonial Kelly McAllister, Staff Theresa Pugliese, Colonial Katarina Tornich, Colonials
Linda Babler, Sandy Hook Barbara Dunzelman, Shore Pines Ann Ferguson, Sandy Hook Kathleen Mathison, Alumna Mary Porter, Alumnae Barbara Sweetnam, Alumna
25 Years
Cathy Grant, Shore Pines Lois Kurz, Sandy Hook Edith Poole, Alumna
Maria Teresa Maisano, Colonial Theresa Nielsen, Shore Pines Nancy Peterson, Sunset Shores
30 Years
55 Years
60 Years
Tracy Ely, Shore Pines Lynda McLean, Sandy Hook
Elaine Gregory, Shore Pines Janet Nielsen, Shore Pines Ruth Pearson, Sandy Hook
35 Years
65 Years
Nancy Gargan, Sandy Hook Flo Gormley, Sandy Hook Linda Rieche, Alumna
70 Years
40 Years Bernadine Liebrich, Alumna Mildred Ruth Strauss, Alumna Ruth Wright, Sandy Hook
Nancy Drake, Alumna Gail Grob, Sunset Shores Ann Scott, Sunset Shores
75 Years Jean Bourne, Alumna
Years of Service (15 + years) 15 Years
25 Years
Jen Burden, Sandy Hook Kathleen Caines, Sunset Shores Carol Dolan, Sandy Hook Debra Farmer, Sandy Hook Jennifer Sporer, Sandy Hook
Allison Havemann, Sunset Shores Maria Teresa Maisano, Colonial Theresa Nielsen, Shore Pines Nancy Peterson, Sunset Shores Regina Vassilatos, Sunset Shores
20 Years
30 Years
Susan Halsey, Alumna Maryann Pietruska, Shore Pines Donna Tornich, Colonial
Dolores Dzubaty, Colonial
45 Years Kathleen Mathison, Alumna
55 Years Jessie Blair, Sunset Shores
Intern Program and Outreach Troop Support Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore would like to recognize the supervisors, college interns and school helpers who have provided great support by delivering program to Girl Scouts who otherwise would never have access to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Denise Wegeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intern Supervisor Elizabeth Wisniewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Intern from Boston University Sarah Brown . . . . . . . . . Field Placement Supervisor from Monmouth University GraceAnn Fontana . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Intern from Monmouth University Dana Karlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supervisor from Rutgers University Elisa Buono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Intern from Rutgers University Heta Delal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Intern from Rutgers University Victoria Warwick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Intern from Rutgers University Janet Fischer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sisters Academy of New Jersey Outreach Alyssa Golembeski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toms River First Aid Squad Megan Groblewsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach School Helper Ebone Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregory Elementary School Outreach Christopher Raichle . . . . . . . . . . . . Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary School Outreach Francisco Rodriguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amerigo A. Anastasia School Outreach Dena Russo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Bank Primary School Outreach Jeremy R. Susser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elberon First Aid Squad Shatarra Turpin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach School Helper
Thank you, Volunteers