Aula Laudis Honor Society for Distinguished Contributions to Chemistry Education
The Aula Laudis Honor Society of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society is, as its name indicates, the Hall of Fame of high school teachers within NESACS, who have made distinguished contributions to chemistry education. Election to membership in Aula Laudis is a recognition of long-term overall excellence in the teaching of chemistry, and is based on criteria that involve the totality of an individual’s participation in, and contribution to, the teaching profession. The evaluation of nominees is based on their students’ performance in chemistry competitions, past recognition that honor their teaching, involvement in their students’ extra-curricular activities in chemistry, and enthusiastic feedback from past students and colleagues. The inductee must be a current or retired instructor of chemistry at a secondary school. Only a limited number of teachers within NESACS are chosen each year for this prestigious award.
Selection Process
The NESACS chooses inductees based on a series of criteria to honor and award success in the chemistry teaching profession. Quantitatively, the NESACS evaluates based on student performance in chemistry competitions, awards given to the teacher to honor his or her teaching, involvement in student chemistry extra-curricular activities, positive feedback from past students and colleagues, and a series of other qualifications.
The inductee must be a current or retired instructor of chemistry and he or she must teach at a secondary school. Up to four teachers in the Northeast Region are chosen each year for the prestigious award.
Election to membership in Aula Laudis is a recognition of excellence in the teaching of chemistry at the secondary school level. This recognition is based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that involve the totality of an individual’s participation in and contribution to the teaching profession. In addition, NESACS also uses success of alumni as a credential for this honor.
Call For Nominations deadline for the 2023 Aula Laudis membership is Saturday, May 1, 2023. Please fill out the nomination form and send to Steve Lantos (steve_lantos@psbma.org) by the May 1st deadline. The selected teacher(s) will be officially honored and will receive a plaque of recognition.
Inductees to the Society
2022
Abigail Gay, Weston High School
2021
Meaghan Cells, Brookline High School
David Fischer, Maimonides School
2020
Andrew Fall, Chelmsford High School
2019
Raksmey Derival, Innovation Academy Charter School
Mary Angione, Brookline High School
2018
Suzie Drurey, Newton South High School
Leah Gordon, Weston High School
Sandra Kelly, Groton High School
Chris Levasseur, Dover Sherborn High School
2017
Lorraine Zanini, Algonquin Regional High School
David Belmarsh, Newton North High School
Rosemary White, Boston University Academy
2016
Esther Hines, Billerica Memorial High School
Brian Faulk, Phillips Andover Academy
David Benedetto, Winchester High School
2015
Sue Klemmer, Camden Hills Regional High School
2014
No awards presented this year
2013
Richard Boucher, King Phillip High School
Alan Crosby, Newton South High School
David Welty, Fairhaven High School
Ann Wolf, Plymouth High School
2012
Jeff Bigler, Lynn English High School
Betty Iannucelli, Andover High School
Parul Kumar, Lexington High School
Ann Lambert, King PhillipHigh School
2011
Shawn Kenner, Sharon High School
Carol Lund, Masconomet High School
Lexi Thompson, Brookline High School
Yuko Hori, Phillips Andover Academy
2010
Margaret O’Connell, Brockton High School
David Baumritter, Acton Boxborough High School
Kristen Cacciatore, East Boston High School
Cricket McCaffrey-Clark, Concord-Carlisle High School
2009
David Hamer, Old Rochester Regional High
James Fabiano, Newmarket NH Jr-Sr. High
Janice Compton, Lexington High School
Laura Rotondo, Concord Carlisle Regional High
2008
George Goodfellow, New Bedford High
Valerie Lechtanski, Hopkinton High School
Paul Cernota, Phillips Andover Academy
Faith Hughes, Barnstable High School
2007
James Miller, Bishop Brady High School
Gina Bergskaug, Hollis-Brookline High School
Kevin Cardozo, Phillips Andover Academy
Judith Kelley, Retired, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Special Recognition)
2006
Kathy Liu, Walnut Hill School
Leo Lafond, Andover High School
Ralph Sherwood, Chelmsford High School
Cathleen Little, Pinkerton Academy
2005
Gary Liptak, Laconia High School
Marianne Levinstein, Cambridge Rindge & Latin
Jerusha Vogel, Lexington High School
J. Daryl Campbell, Brookline High School
2004
Cary Kilner, Somerset High School
John Mauch, Braintree High School
Marianne McChesney, Newton North High School
Coretta Tam, Newton Country Day School
2003
Jean Avery, Chatham High School
Jay Chandler, Wayland High School
Mary Curtis, Retired, Belmont High School
Anne Woodward, Lowell High School
2002
Linda Schleicher, Oliver Ames High School
Temba Maqubela, Phillips Andover Academy
Douglas Grant, Lexington High School
Steven Walker, Greater New Bedford Tech High
2001
Laurel Nunes, Taunton High School
Robert Bradley, II, Derryfield School, NH
David Whalley, Shawsheen Valley Voc-Tech
Thomas McCarthy, Cambridge Rindge & Latin High
2000
Timothy Reed, Weston High School
John Swistak, Retired, Amesbury High School
Dorothy Tufo, Waltham High School
Linda Weber, Belmont High School
1999
Jordan Goldberg, Middlesex School
Ronee Krashes, Framingham High School
Raymond Martin, Retired, Lincoln Sudbury High
Peter Nassiff, Burlington High School
1998
David Harwood, Dighton Rehoboth High School
Barbara Hopkins, Oyster River High School
Dalia Ivaska, Boston Latin High School
Kenneth Brody, Retired, Boston Public Schools
1997
Michael Kelly, Westford Academy
Athena Letsou, Lowell High School
Margaret O’Brien, Duxbury High School
Edmund Nevirauskas, Retired, Needham High School
1996
Carol Murphree, Acton-BoxboroRegional
Albert Powers, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School
Anne-Marie Arnold, North Middlesex Regional High School
Richard Raczkowski, Retired, Lexington High School
1995
Catherine Capone, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Leslie Ballard, Phillips Andover Academy
Renee Zimmerman, St. John’s Prep School
Edward McGillicuddy, Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
David Parfitt Retired, Brookline High School
1994
Vinson Bronson, Newton South High School
Helen O’Keefe, Natick High School
Hazel Schroder, Shrewsbury High School
Peter Tuttle, St. Paul’s School
1993
James Amara, Minuteman Vocational High School
Dorothy Bagley, Shrewsbury High School
Judith Waldron, Conron Needham High School
Joyce Gleason, Norwood High School
Harold Simpson, Hamilton-Wenham High School
1992
Margaret Corbett, Belmont Hill School
Mary Crosson, Wellesley High School
Harvey Gendreau, Framingham High School
Shirley Klepadlo, Maynard High School
Anne O’Meara, Winsor School
1991
Fred Richardson, Belmont Hill School
Kathleen Skelly, Dana Hall School
Ann Marie Ladetto, Dartmouth High School
Stephen Lantos, Brookline High School
Catherine Krueger, Bedford High School
1990
Jacqueline Arendt, Wayland High School
Mark Ryan, Medford High School
Marco Scheer, Keene, NH Schools
Harry Stubbs, Milton Academy
Carleton Warren, Brookline High School
1989
Wallace J. Gleekman, Brookline High School
Judith S. Masselam, Lexington High School
Joseph MacQuade, Marblehead High School
Margret B. Andersen, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School
Everett F. Learnard, Norwood High School
1988
Bette Bridges, Silver Lake Regional High School
Richard Y. Coombs, Brookline High School
Frances Gray, Manchester (NH) West High School
James Johnson, Falmouth High School
Neil Soule, Lexington High School
Peter Stackpole, Lynnfield High School
Lisa Torres, Lebanon High School
1987
Reen D. Gibb, Brookline High School
Laura W. Hallowell, Wellesley High School
George Martins, Newton North High School
Ethel Schultz, Marblehead High School
1986
Mary Elizabeth Dowse, Medfield Jr-Sr High School
Horace Fader, Norwood High School
William J.R. Marks, Winchester High School
David J. Olney, Lexington High School
Ivan B. Van de Workeen, Westwood High School
1985
Warren F. Averill, Boston Latin High School
Stanley Boynton, Lexington High School
J. Walter Brough, Newton South High School
Helen Crawley, Winchester High School
Burton Goldman, Newton South High School
Ronn Minne, Phillips Academy
Phillip B. Weld, Phillips Academy
D. Montgomery Wells, Newton North High School
Katherine Wickenden, Tabor Academy
Earl E. Winand, Watertown High School
