Fred L. Bartlett Memorial Award

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About the Award

​The Fred L. Bartlett Memorial Award was awarded to an Active or Retired Member of the Teaching Profession for outstanding contribution to education in Ontario. Presented annually from 1970 to 2025, this award was given in memory of the late Fred L. Bartlett, an outstanding teacher and trustee in Ontario. In addition to the following academic accomplishments, Mr. Bartlett served for many years as a trustee on the Kingston Board of Education. He was also active at the provincial and national levels, serving as President of the Canadian School Trustees’ Association and the Ontario Urban and Rural School Trustees’ Association. Born in Madoc, Ont., Fred Bartlett was educated in Colborne and Toronto and taught English, History and Physical Education at Toronto’s Jarvis Collegiate. In 1947, after serving as the Director of Physical Education for the City of Toronto’s elementary and secondary schools and as Director of the Physical and Health Education branch of the Ontario Department of Education, Mr. Bartlett was named the first Director of the Queen’s University School of Physical and Health Education.

Recipients

  • Laura Gonzalez, Volunteer Teacher, Thames Valley DSB

  • Shaun Maddock, Special Education Consultant, Grandview School Authority

  • Jon Swaine, Teacher, Limestone DSB

  • Kimiko Shibata, Teacher, Waterloo Region DSB

  • Martha Rogers, Director of Education, Upper Grand DSB

  • Bernie Andrews, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa

  • Stacey Griffen, Sonya White, and Jennifer Jager, Upper Grand DSB

  • Leigh Cassell, Avon Maitland DSB

  • Katie Cole, Thames Valley DSB

  • Barry C. O’Connor, Limestone DSB

  • Rod Peturson, Greater Essex County DSB

  • Laurence Pearson, Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB

  • Marilyn Gouthro, Lakehead DSB

  • Avis Glaze, Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB

  • John Cordukes, Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB

  • W.T. Westhead, Toronto DSB

  • Deborah Wood & Jan McDonald, Halton DSB

  • John Borovilos, Toronto DSB

  • Earl Campbell

  • Lois Burdett

  • Phil Brown

  • Richard Hmiw

  • David Eaton

  • Stuart Auty
    Jeanne P. Milanovic

  • Hank Halliday

  • James L. Whitson

  • Len Yauk

  • Bob Jackson
    Richard Dodds

  • Warren C. Campbell

  • Linda Murray

  • LI Joy Patyk

  • George Gall

  • George A. Simmons

  • J. Douglas Hodgson

  • Ruth P. Thompson

  • Ruth K. Tinkiss

  • Rowena G. Reynolds

  • Dudley A. Bristow

  • Raymond H. Pavolve

  • Jean Hewitt

  • Mary Scott

  • Arthur H. Alexander

    Dr. Lloyd A. Dennis

  • J.W. Singleton

  • Minerva Gram

    Earl Murdock

  • Dr. A.C.E. Ritter

  • Allen Fisher

  • Evelyn Atchison

  • Dr. Harry Pullen