Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards

THOMAS S. GREEN AWARDS NOMINATION ANNOUNCEMENT

 Do you know an exceptional public employee deserving of special recognition for working with the public, improving the delivery of a service or improving the operations of a department?  This is your opportunity to nominate that employee for special recognition. The Worcester Regional Research Bureau is accepting nominations for its prestigious Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards, which honor public employees for their exceptional service and commitment to the citizens of Worcester. The criteria for the Thomas S. Green Awards, which are open to all of City of Worcester employees except department and division heads, are as follows: 

1. Exceptional competence and efficient handling of all assigned responsibilities.

2. Willing performance of tasks above and beyond the call of duty. 

3. Friendly, helpful, and cooperative attitude toward the public and fellow employees.

4. Distinguishing himself/herself from other employees.

5. Volunteer community service outside the scope of job-related responsibilities. (Important but not required.)

 Award winners will be publicly recognized at a ceremony on September 24, 2008 at Assumption College. The ceremony will be followed by a free reception at the college for the winners and their families, friends, and fellow employees.

 The Research Bureau encourages municipal employees, Research Bureau directors, former Award recipients, and the public at-large to submit nominations to the Bureau by June 6, 2008. You may re-nominate candidates who were nominated in previous years and did not receive the award.

 The Thomas Green Awards not only give recognition to exceptional City employees and bring credit to particular supervisors and departments, but also remind the public of the dedication that many City employees bring to their work.

 The list of distinguished past recipients can be found here along with nomination forms, and citizen nomination form is also available. For more information contact Roberta Schaefer, President & CEO of  The Research Bureau at 508-799-7169.

 The Worcester Regional Research Bureau is a private, non-profit organization established in 1985 and dedicated to conducting independent, non-partisan research on public policy issues in Worcester and the surrounding region.

Thomas S. Green

The Research Bureau's annual awards to outstanding City employees are appropriately named in memory of Thomas S. Green who for many years until his death in 1987 personified integrity, exceptional leadership, and remarkable commitment to voluntary public service on behalf of the City of Worcester.

Before joining Norton Company (now Saint-Gobain) in 1947 where he became Vice President, he earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration and worked for the Federal government as a regional coordinator of its housing program.

Although he held many important executive positions in Norton Company, both in this country and abroad, Tom Green had an abiding interest in Worcester's City government, During the course of his distinguished career, he served as a member of the City Civic Center Commission, as a Director of the Worcester Public Library, and as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Worcester Selective Service Board. The list of the City's civic and charitable organizations in which he actively participated is too long to enumerate, but it includes service as President of the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce, the Citizens ' Plan E Association, the Social Service Planning Corporation, and the Worcester Historical Museum. Most appropriately, Tom Green was a founder and a very supportive Director of The Research Bureau.

Just as the recipients of the Thomas S. Green Awards serve as role mode is for City employees, Tom Green served as a role model of good citizenship for all of us.

The 20^th annual Thomas S. Green Public Service awards, held on October 4, 2007 at Assumption College honored four outstanding municipal employees.

Pictured l-r

Nancy Lucier, Town of West Boylston

Dr. James Caradonio, Superintendent of the Worcester Public Schools

Peter Crafts, Worcester Public Schools

Dr. Roberta Schaefer, President of The Research Bureau

Michael V. O'Brien, Worcester City Manager

Kimberly Holstrom, Worcester Police Department

Patricia Johnson, City of Worcester Assessor's Office