Bernardine Yackman Memorial Award

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About the Award

​The Bernardine Yackman Memorial Award was awarded to an Active or Retired Trustee of an OPSBA Member Board for dedication, commitment and an outstanding contribution to education with special recognition for Northern Ontario service from 1985 to 2025. The late Bernardine Yackman was a trustee on the Sudbury Board of Education and, for many years, an active Director of the Northern Ontario School Trustees’ Association. The award recognized dedication, commitment and an outstanding contribution to education in Ontario by an active or retired school trustee.

Recipients

  • Pauline “Pinky” McRae, Superior-Greenstone District School Board

  • Jay Aspin, Near North District School Board
    Raymond Roy, Rainy River District School Board

  • Wanda McQueen, ​Algoma District School Board

  • Lori Lukinuk, Lakehead District School Board

  • ​Howard Archibald, District School Board Ontario North East

  • Trudy Tuchenhagen, Lakehead District School Board

  • William (Bill) Hall, Algoma District School Board

  • Armand Giguere, Caramat District School Area Board

  • Eunice Saari, Near North District School Board

  • Bill Mokomela, Lakehead District School Board

  • Gord McBride, Rainy River District School Board

  • Alan McLean, Algoma District School Board

  • Bill Dawes, Keewatin-Patricia District School Board

  • Doreen Dewar, Rainbow District School Board

  • Wayne Pickard, Algoma District School Board

  • Lynn Peterson, Lakehead District School Board

  • Frances Sewards, the former Sault Ste. Marie Board of Education

  • Lyn McLeod, Lakehead District School Board

  • Vicki Kett, Sudbury Board of Education
    Juergen Leukert, Timiskaming Board of Education

  • Ernie Checkeris, Sudbury Board of Education

  • Paula Dunning, Central Algoma Board of Education
    Dorothy Wright, Timiskaming Board of Education

  • Allan Jones, Nipigon Red-Rock Board of Education

  • Bert Johnson, Upsala District School Board

  • Basil Merchant, Kapuskasing Board of Education

  • Jack Switzer, Atikokan Board of Education

  • Edna Kidd, Kenora Board of Education
    Marilyn Rowe, Muskoka Board of Education

  • Dora Taylor Logan, West Parry Sound Board of Education

  • Kay Forsyth, Kapuskasing Board of Education

  • Mary Anne Misner, Dryden Board of Education

  • David Doney, Nipissing Board of Education

  • Harold Crowder, Sault Ste. Marie Board of Education