Port of Call Newsletter & PWRE Website

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Our website won FIRST PLACE in the 2017 NYSUT Communication Awards. Click for results. Scroll down to the second column of the second page. We are Retiree Class R II. VERY exciting! Thanks to Chris Haring, my mentor and technical guru for his help...Barbara Mayer, webmaster

The 2016 NYSUT Communication Awards results are in! Our website won FIRST PLACE as the Best Website in our class, R II. Our newsletter, Port of Call, won an Award of Merit. “IN APPRECIATION FOR JOE COPPOLA” won in the Best Writing 1 category. Congratulations to Mary Anne Cariello for her writing and for Erlyn Madonia as the editor! Your webmaster, Barbara Mayer, is pretty excited, too! You can find the award winners, in all the retiree classes, by clicking here and scrolling down to Class R II: Best Writing 1: page 4 and Best Website: page 6-7. To see the judges' comments, click here and go to page 16 for Mary Anne's article on Joe Coppola, and to page 32 for Best Website for our PWRE website.

Our PWRE website was honored in two categories in the 2015 NYSUT Communication Awards! We received an Award of Distinction in the "Best Overall Graphic Design" category and a second Award of Distinction in the "Most User-Friendly Website" category. Click here and look at pages 8 and 12.

Congratulations to Marilyn Gilbert and Mary Anne Cariello! They were first place winners in their categories in the 2013 NYSUT Journalism Contest. Marilyn's article is from March 2012 - page 6: "1,2...The Latest in Educational Improvement...or the Pitfalls of Reform." Mary Anne's profile of Matt Scott is from the December 2011 - page 3. Click here for the list of awards and scroll to Class R-11 on page 2.

Our newsletter & website won awards in 2012 NYSUT Journalism Competition. Scroll down to Class R-II.

PWRE members pictured at awards ceremony: Jean Sellers, Elaine Berman, and Mary Anne Cariello. Missing from photo: Barbara Mayer

Our newsletter & website won awards in 2011 New York Teacher Journalism Competition: scroll down to CLASS R-II (Local Membership 201-500)

PWRE members pictured at awards ceremony: top row: Barbara Mayer and Marilyn Gilbert, bottom row: Elaine Berman and Jean Sellers

Our newsletter & website won awards in 2010 New York Teacher Journalism Competition. Scroll down to CLASS R-II (Local Membership 201-500).
PWRE members pictured at awards ceremony: Marilyn Gilbert, Jean Sellers, Elaine Berman, Barbara Mayer

Our newsletter & website won awards in the 2009 New York Teacher Journalism Competition. No photo available:(