Nominate for Glover Award

Bowdoin College. For many years, it has been flanked on one side by the home of the college President and the home of a Professor on the other; and has always been closely associated with the life of the college. Nelson Cram, the elder son of Hon. Marshall Cram, graduating from college during the Civil War entered the Union Army but died soon after. To his memory, his parents established the Cram scholarship at Bowdoin ‘to assist students — preferably from Bridgton.’

President Sills in his tribute to Prof. Cram at the Memorial Exercises held at the College Chapel on the Sunday following his death said — ‘Some of the best blood in New England flowed in his veins. His grandfather was a prominent citizen of Brunswick, and an Overseer of the College.’ Surely Bridgton too, has a prior claim on this grandfather.”

Speaking from our modern vantage, I can well attest to the good deeds of Marshall Cram and his family hereabouts, as his 1852 history of Bridgton remains our best account of the early settlement of the village. I have recently had the privilege of examining the bundle of old letters and early Bridgton papers, which Cram used as his sources, which were brought to light last year following a research dive involving

The Bridgton Lions Club is seeking nominations for the third Al Glover Nonprofit Leadership Award from all nonprofit organizations in Bridgton and surrounding communities of a candidate — either a staff member or volunteer — whom the organization believes deserves recognition of their exceptional leadership efforts to the organization.

Nomination for the annual award shall be made by a letter outlining the reasons for nominating the individual, approved by the organization’s board of directors or governing agency, and mailed on or before Feb. 28, 2023 to: Bridgton Lions Club, Glover Award Committee, PO Box 103, Bridgton, ME 04009 or e-mail to: brentuchon3@gmail.com

Please include the name of a contact person, with a phone number and e-mail should the selection committee need additional information.

Past nominees will be considered, so please feel free to resubmit a candidate.

The Glover Award will be presented to the winning candidate at a special dinner in his/her honor on May 9, 2023, at which time the honoree will be presented with a plaque stating the honoree’s accomplishments and the organization will receive a $1,000 check to be used at the discretion of the agency.

Notification of the winner and details for the award presentation will be sent upon the selection of the honoree on or before April 10, 2023.