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Watchung Hills honors student award winners and retiring board members
Summary
The Watchung Hills Regional High School Board recognized student achievements — including Shiva Bhushan’s Joy Prescott Humanitarian Award — and read proclamations honoring retiring administrators and board members Patricia Tobin, Lisa DiMaggio, William Mayarchak and Robert Morrison.
The Watchung Hills Regional High School Board of Education opened its Dec. 9 meeting by recognizing student accomplishments and reading proclamations for departing staff and board members.
Shiva Bhushan received the Joy Prescott Humanitarian Award from the Holocaust Education and Resource Center, the board said. The award, established by the Holocaust Education and Resource Center and the Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship, honors Joy Prescott of Kean University for decades of work in diversity and Holocaust education.
"This certificate is awarded to Pierce Bornstein in recognition of valuable contributions to the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War," Speaker 1 said as the board presented a congressional certificate to WHRHS junior Pierce Bornstein for winning the school’s Rev and 250 logo contest. Erin Diario, identified in the meeting as Congressman Tom Kane Jr.'s district director, presented the recognition on behalf of the congressman.
The board also read resolutions honoring outgoing administrators and trustees. A proclamation for Patricia Tobin chronicled her service to the Watchung Hills Regional High School District since September 2003 and cited her roles as a culinary educator, vice principal since 2009 and organizer of graduation logistics. The board thanked Lisa DiMaggio for three years of service and committee work that included education and policy contributions and noted William Mayarchak’s committee leadership in operations and strategic planning.
Robert Morrison was recognized for 12 years on the board, including terms as vice president and president and work on referendums that funded facilities improvements — projects the proclamation said included a learning commons, a design lab, athletic training suite and arts facilities. The district credited Morrison with helping secure funding through district reserves and state debt service aid and with participation in the state-level regionalization conversation.
The recognitions concluded with a brief recess for refreshments before the board moved on to its financial and operational business.
Next steps: these proclamations are ceremonial recognitions of service and student achievement; no personnel actions were recorded during the recognitions segment.
