Awards Presented at Swing into Spring

Lifetime Achievement Award

Exemplary Mentor and Coordinator Awards  

Seasons of Respect Champions

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Robert A. Kasey, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Connecting Generations honors an individual(s) who has distinguished himself or herself through personal growth and contributions to individual and community development.  

This year's honoree is Maurice Pritchett, a Wilmington native who has been a lifelong Mentor and Educator.  Read Mr. Pritchett's biography

Read an article about Mr. Pritchett that appeared in the News Journal in November 2009

Past winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include:

• 1999 - Russell W. Peterson
• 2000 - Faith Wohl
• 2001 - Marie M. Dugan
• 2002 - Lloyd S. Casson
• 2003 - Mr. & Mrs. Harry G. Haskell, Jr.
• 2005 - Dr. Donald Byrd
• 2006 - Former Governor Dale Wolf and Clarice Wolf
• 2007 - Carolyn Smithson Burger

• 2008 - Senator Tom Carper

• 2009 - Jane Maroney, James Patton, Sr., and Edward F. "Mike" Eaton

• 2010 - Maurice Pritchett

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Exemplary Mentor and Coordinator Awards

For the past two years, Connecting Generations has presented Exemplary Mentor and Exemplary Coordinator Awards to mentors and school and business mentoring program coordinators who were nominated by school, business, and community partners.  Read about all of the past winners.

This year's Exemplary Awards will honor mentors and school and business mentoring program coordinators who have been exemplary mentoring champions.  Winners will be honored during the awards ceremony at Swing Into Spring on March 13th. 

• The Exemplary Mentor Award will be presented to:

Amanda Kimball of Wilmington is the volunteer mentor coordinator and mentors herself at Lancashire Elementary

 

Marc Ward of Nottingham mentors 3 students at Shue-Medill Middle school during his lunch from Bank of America

 

Delores Sebastian of Middletown mentors at Townsend Elementary School

This award is given on the basis of the following criteria: a mentor who has mentored 7 or more years; a mentor who mentored 10 or more children; or a mentor who has gone above and beyond the call of duty by consistently demonstrating a measure of support and guidance that far exceeds the basic requirements of a mentor.  

• The Exemplary School Coordinator Award will be presented to:

Ivan Neal is the district-wide mentor program coordinator for the Indian River School District and is currently mentoring 5 students in grades 1 - 9

 

Nathan Palkovitz is the guidance counselor and mentor school coordinator from Linden Hill Elementary School in Wilmington

This award is given on the basis of the following criteria: a coordinator who manages an outstanding mentoring program in terms of the number of mentors who have been involved over many years or a coordinator who has gone above and beyond the call of duty by consistently demonstrating outstanding support and guidance to the mentors in his/her program. 

• The Exemplary Business Coordinator Award will be presented to:

Allan Colleta from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics is a mentor at Brader Elementary School

 

This award is given on the basis of the following criteria: a coordinator who has initiated a successful recruitment effort over the years or a coordinator who is a strong advocate for mentoring in the workplace. 

 

 

Seasons of Respect Champions

For the first time, we will present awards to School Counselors who have given extraordinary support and assistance to the Seasons of Respect program.  This year's honorees are:

Jennifer Wissman - W. B. Simpson Elementary School in Wyoming - Caesar Rodney School District

Teryl Price - Maple Lane Elementary School in Claymont - Brandywine School District