The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Town of Cheektowaga in Erie County to receive the 2006 Cheryl Steinbach Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management.
The award will be presented to Town Clerk Mary Holtz and Lisa-Marie Bolognese at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Building in Albany on October 23, 2006. The award is named for the late Cheryl Steinbach, Chautauqua Town Clerk, who was a strong advocate for strengthening local government archival and records management programs.
The award recognizes Cheektowaga for its exceptional commitment to an active and robust records management program as demonstrated in the establishment of a full-time records management position and its plans for a new records and archives research center. The award also commends the town for developing a records management procedure manual and for keeping the town’s legislative body fully informed of the importance of sound records management.
Previous recipients of this annual award include Rockland County (2000), the City of Troy (2001), Corning Community College (2002), Niagara County (2003), Village of Dexter (2004), and the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County (2005).
The annual Archives Awards program recognizes outstanding efforts in archives and records management work in New York State by a broad range of individuals and organizations. A complete list of this year's award recipients follows:
William Hoyt Advocacy Award
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York
Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s
History
The Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Latino Alliance
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival
Program Development
Saratoga County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Town of Cheektowaga
Excellence in State Agency Records Management
New York State Emergency Management Office
Bruce W. Dearstyne Educator Award for Excellence in the Educational
Use of Local Government Records
Susan Stessin-Cohn, Ulster County
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 4-5 and The Regents Award of Distinction for Student
Research
The Walden History Group, Walden Elementary School, Walden. Educator: Nancy
Phelps
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 6-8
Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, Windward School, White Plains. Educators:
Marjorie R. Gleit and John Manganiello
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 9-12
Lauren Koenig, tenth grader at Solomon Schechter High School, Glen Cove. Educator:
Dr. Linda Rubino