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Dover Chamber announces award winners, including Citizen and Educator of the year
posted on 4/13/2022
The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Erica Cooke, a math teacher at Oyster River High School (ORHS), has been named as the Chamber’s 2022 Educator of the Year. Chamber staff and Awards Committee members attended a recent ORHS staff meeting to surprise Ms. Cooke in person.
Heather Stanley, a special education teacher at ORHS who nominated Cooke for the award, said, “Erica works with students to develop different ways of learning and helps them understand who they are as learners. She shows students that she is human and engages them in embracing mistakes as learning tools, not shameful things.”
During the staff meeting, the Chamber’s 2022 Student Scholarship recipient attended via Zoom and learned that she will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the Chamber. Eva Guerrette, an ORHS alumni, is currently a freshman at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. As Educator of the Year, Ms. Cooke will also receive a $1,000 stipend.
The Chamber’s 2022 Annual Awards Gala will be held on Thursday, April 28 at the Regatta Banquet & Conference Center in Eliot, Maine, at 5:30 p.m. The event will feature a cocktail reception and buffet dinner. Tickets for the Annual Awards Gala are $90 per person. For tickets or more information, visit www.dovernh.org/awards or call the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 603-742-2218.
In addition to the Educator of the Year and the Student Scholarship, the Chamber will present the following awards at the Annual Awards Gala: Noreen Biehl, Citizen of the Year; Hope on Haven Hill, Nonprofit of the Year; Martineau Electric, Business of the Year; Rebecca Proctor Community Arts Champion; and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Community Impact Award.
The Gala is sponsored this year by Rotary Club of Dover, D.F. Richard Energy, First Seacoast Bank, Cambridge Trust, Newburyport Bank, The Closet Connection, Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., Eastern Bank, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Holy Rosary Credit Union, Leone, McDonnell & Roberts, P.A., Dover400, and Budget Blinds of the Seacoast. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information contact the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 603-742-2218.
The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit association of businesses, professionals, individuals, and organizations working together to advance the economic well being of its members and the community. Visit www.dovernh.org to learn more
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