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Charles
E. Rogerson Award for Community Service
History
The Charles E. Rogerson Award was established in
2000 in honor of Rogerson Community's namesake, board president
from 1904-1919 and founder of what is now known as The
Boston Foundation.
Award
Winners
The annual award, given to those who demonstrate
outstanding efforts to build strong, healthy communities,
is presented at Rogerson's Welcome
Home! event, traditionally scheduled in November.
Learn
more about past winners of the award below.
2005
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2005
Mary J. Kakas, President Emeritus and CEO of Edward
F. Kakas & Sons and Rogerson Communities Board Member
Mary
J. Kakas
Mary
Kakas is President Emeritus and CEO of Edward F. Kakas &
Sons, a family-owned business founded in 1858 in Boston.
She is a dedicated community service volunteer and mentor
who encourages others to pursue their dreams.
As a member of the Rogerson Board of Directors, Mary spearheaded
one of the organization’s most successful fundraising
efforts. She also devotes much of her time to serving as
Vice President of the Massachusetts
9/11 Fund.
She
works hand-in-hand with numerous organizations dedicated
to health care including the Crohn’s
& Colitis Foundation, the Friends
of the Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary and the Boston
Medical Center Foundation. Mary also strives to provide
opportunities for women and children through her involvement
with the Epiphany
School in Dorchester, which provides free private education
to inner-city children; the Kids Clothes Club; the Police
Activities League; Rosie’s Place; Tenacity, which
provides tennis lessons to inner-city children; and the
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union.
She
encourages community and economic growth by actively working
with the Friends of Copley Square; New England Women’s
Business Owners Organization; Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries,
Inc; Volunteers of America; and the Asian American Foundation.
2004
Rev. Drs. Ray & Gloria Hammond, community leaders and
founders of the Bethel
African Methodist Episcopal Church
REV.
DR. RAY HAMMOND, M.D., M.A.
Pastor
Ray Hammond is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard
Medical School. He  completed
his surgical residency at the New England Deaconess Hospital
(Boston, MA) and joined the Emergency Medicine staff at
the Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, MA).
Pastor
Hammond accepted the call to the preaching ministry in 1976
and completed his Master of Arts degree in the Study of
Religion (Christian and Medical Ethics) at Harvard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences in 1982. In 1988 he was called
to be the founder and pastor of Bethel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Boston.
Pastor
Hammond is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Ten
Point Coalition—an ecumenical group of Christian
clergy and lay leaders working to mobilize the greater Boston
community around issues affecting black youth; Executive
Director, Bethel's Generation Excel program; Chairman, The
Boston Foundation; Vice President for Membership, Boy
Scouts Minuteman Council (Boston, MA); Executive Committee
Member, Black
Ministerial Alliance; trustee of Catholic
Charities of Boston, the United
Way of Massachusetts Bay, the Yawkey
Foundation, and other religious, community, academic
and policy organizations. He is also a Director for the
Boston
Globe and Citizens
Bank of MA. He continues to work in local and district
youth activities in the AME Church.
REV.
DR. GLORIA ELAINE WHITE-HAMMOND, M.D.
Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is Co-Pastor of Bethel
AME Church in Boston and a pediatrician at the South
End Community Health Center. She was awarded a Bachelor
of Arts degree in biology from Boston University, a Doctorate
of Medicine from Tufts Medical School and a Master of Divinity
from Harvard Divinity School.
Rev.
Gloria is the founder of and consultant to the church-based
creative writing/mentoring ministry called “Do The
Write Thing” for high-risk black adolescent females.
The project, which began in 1994 with four girls, now serves
over 550 young women through small groups in two Boston
public schools, two juvenile detention facilities in Boston
and on site at Bethel AME Church. Gloria is past co-chair
of the Faith in Action Committee of the United
Way of Massachusetts Bay. She currently serves on the
Women’s Health Leadership Forum of Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, the Board of Visitors for
the Women’s
Educational and Industrial Union, as well as the boards
of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, Christian
Solidarity International and the Winsor
School.
Dr.
White-Hammond has worked as a medical missionary in several
African countries including South Africa, Cote D’Ivoire
and Botswana. In 2001 she traveled to southern Sudan where
she was involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women
and children who were enslaved during the two decades long
civil war. In 2002 she founded My Sister’s Keeper,
a human rights group organized to support women of southern
Sudan in their efforts toward the reconciliation and reconstruction
of their communities.
2003
Nader Darehshori, Chairman and CEO of Cambium
Learning and retired President & CEO of Houghton Mifflin
Company
Nader
F. Darehshori
Nader F. Darehshori is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
of Cambium Learning, an education company delivering research
and evidence-based outcomes for students at risk for academic
failure.
Mr.
Darehshori is a former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
for the leading educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Company,
where he began his career in 1966, as a sales representative.
In April of 1990, Mr. Darehshori was elected Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of the company, and became President
in 1991. Prior to his experience at Houghton Mifflin, he
was an elementary school teacher in Iran.
An active
member of the community, Mr. Darehshori serves as a director
and member of the Executive Compensation Committee for the
State Street Bank and Trust Company and State
Street Corporation. He is also Director and member of
the Audit Committee for Aviva
USA Corporation. Mr. Darehshori is a trustee of Wellesley
College, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute, and is a member of the Board of the
Boston
Public Library Foundation and the Boston
Business Roundtable. He is also Director of the Tanenbaum
Center for Interreligious Understanding. Mr. Darehshori
received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Wisconsin in 1966 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial
Science from Suffolk University in 1992.
2002
Thomas J. Hollister, currently Vice Chairman, Midwest Banking
for Citizens Bank and former President and CEO of Citizens
Bank of Massachusetts
Thomas
J. Hollister
Thomas J. Hollister joined Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
in October 1998, bringing 20 years of banking experience
and a commitment to customer service to the state’s
second largest commercial bank. Hollister began his banking
career at Bank of Boston in 1979. Throughout his tenure
there, he held significant roles in commercial banking,
retail banking, and real estate. At the time of his move
to Citizens, Mr. Hollister was Executive Vice President
of Consumer and Small Business Banking.
Mr.
Hollister holds a BA degree from Amherst College and an
MBA from Boston University. He is Chairman of the Greater
Boston Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the boards
of directors of Savings
Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts
Housing Investment Corporation. He is a member of the
Governor’s Economic Development Council, a member
of the Massachusetts
Historical Society and a trustee of The
Church Home Society, Wheaton
College, where he serves on the Executive Committee.
Mr.
Hollister has received awards on behalf of his work from
the Massachusetts
Association of Community Development Corporations, Habitat
for Humanity, the New
England Center for Children, and the Small
Business Administration. Mr. Hollister has also been
very active chairing numerous fund-raising efforts for not-for-profit
organizations in the state.
2001
David A. Spina, former Chairman and CEO of State
Street Corporation
David
A. Spina
David A. Spina is former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of State Street Corporation. He originally joined the corporation
in 1969 and held a variety of positions, including Chief
Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer,
Executive Vice President, and Vice Chairman. He was elected
to President in 1995, CEO in May 2000, and Chairman in January
2001.
Mr.
Spina is active in state and community organizations, including
the Massachusetts
Taxpayers Foundation, the United
Way of Massachusetts Bay, Jobs for Massachusetts, and
the Pioneer
Institute for Public Policy Research. He also is involved
in the Financial
Services Forum, The
Private Industry Council and the private sector component
of the Boston Mayor's Summer Jobs Campaign. Additionally,
he has been active in the New
England College of Finance, the Advisory Board for the
Corporate Board Resource Committee of The
Boston Club, a Corporator of the Dana
Hall School, and Chairman Emeritus of the Massachusetts
Housing Investment Corporation. Mr. Spina is a former
Director of the Metropolitan
Boston Housing Partnership and is a member of The Commercial
Club of Boston.
Mr.
Spina holds a B.S. degree from the College of the Holy Cross
and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. He was an
officer in the United States Navy from 1964 to 1969, serving
a tour of duty in Vietnam.
2000
William O. Taylor, former publisher of The
Boston Globe
William
O. Taylor
William O. Taylor is Chairman Emeritus of the Globe Newspaper
Company, which publishes The Boston Globe.
A
1954 graduate of Harvard University with a B.A., Mr. Taylor
was also educated at The Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts
and St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He
has received honorary degrees from Northeastern University
(Doctor of Journalism); University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
(Doctor of Humane Letters); and Bentley College (Doctor
of Humane Letters), and University of Massachusetts (Boston).
In community
activities, Mr. Taylor is a Trustee of the Boston
Public Library; Trustee of the Boston
Public Library Foundation; Director of Harvard
Magazine; Director of International
Center for Journalists; Vice Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston; Trustee of the International
Crisis Group and Chairman Emeritus of The
Freedom Trail Foundation.
1999
Thomas M. Menino, mayor of the City
of Boston
Thomas
M. Menino
Thomas M. Menino is serving his third term as Mayor of the
City of Boston. The first Italian-American Mayor of Boston,
he was elected to his first term on November 2, 1993, winning
64 percent of the vote and 18 of the city’s 22 wards.
Mayor Menino was re-elected to a second term without opposition
in 1997 and won a third term in a landslide victory in November
2001. Prior to his election in 1993, he previously served
four months as Acting Mayor and nine years as a District City
Councilor from Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood.
A lifelong
resident of Hyde Park, Mayor Menino is a graduate of St. Thomas
Aquinas High School. In 1963, Mayor Menino earned an associate's
degree in business management and advertising and sales from
Chamberlayne Junior College. In 1988, he earned a degree in
community planning from the University of Massachusetts. Mayor
Menino and his wife, the former Angela Faletra, have two children,
Susan and Thomas, Jr., and six grandchildren.
As President
of the United States Conference of Mayors from 2002-2003,
Mayor Menino championed homeland security and housing availability.
He was an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation
from 1988 to 1997.
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