Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the State Archives have selected Town of Ithaca to receive the 2007 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records. This award is presented annually to a local government that has demonstrated outstanding initiative, leadership, and creativity in encouraging and promoting the use of local government historical records for elementary and secondary education.
The award will be presented to Ithaca Town Clerk Tee-Ann Hunter at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Building in Albany on October 22, 2007.
The award recognizes the Town of Ithaca for the exceptional quality of its educational programs and commends the town for supporting an outstanding program of outreach to teachers that has resulted in increasing citizens’ (and especially young people’s) understanding of municipal processes such as budgeting, zoning, elections, and freedom of information.
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:
Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives
Laura Wittern-Keller, University at Albany
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s
History
Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Schenectady County Historical Society
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival
Program Development
Suffolk County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Town of Lewisboro
Excellence in State Agency Records Management
New York State Thruway Authority and Canal Corporation
Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records by a
Local Government
Town of Ithaca
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 4–5
Fourth and Fifth Grade Students from the Stewart School, Garden City School
District
Dolores Volpe, Educator
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 6–8
Emma Gugerty, Locust Valley Middle School, Locust Valley Central School District
Barbara LaBella, Educator
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 9–12
Alexandra Rheinhardt, Cooperstown Central High School, Cooperstown Central School
District
Mary Beth Murdock, Educator