Community Leadership Institute of Cape Cod and the Islands, Inc.

Past Recipients of the Leadership Award

2003 Leadership Award Winner

Kevin Turner

•  Principal, Harwich High School

We apologize to Kevin and to readers, we have misplaced the information from the 2003 graduation program.   

2004 Leadership Award Winner

LINDA CALMES JONES

•  Vice President, Director of Electronic & Telephone Banking,

   Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank

•  CLI Cape Cod & the Islands alumna (1998)

•  Trustee, Cape Cod Five Charitable Foundation Trust

   Member of its Culture and Environment Donation Advisory Committee

•  Vice-Chair, Town of Sandwich Finance Committee

•  Treasurer and Trustee, Waldorf School of Cape Cod Board of Trustees

•  Corporator, Heritage Museums and Gardens

   Member of Development and “Enchanted Evening” Committees

•  Active Supporter, Yale Alumni Assoc. and Saengerfest Concert Chorus

2005 Leadership Award Winner

CAROL SIM

•  President and Chief Executive Officer, Rehabilitation Hospital

of the Cape and Islands

•  CLI Cape Cod & the Islands alumna (1997)

•  CLI Board of Directors (1997-2004) Treasurer, Program Chair

•  Member, Board of Directors, Cape Symphony Orchestra

•  Member, Board of Directors, Consumer Assistance Council

•  Member, Board of Directors, Sandwich Chamber of Commerce

2006 Leadership Award Winner

ANNE WALTHER HAYES

         •  Manager of the Hyannis Branch of the Cape Cod Five Cents

 Savings Bank since 1996

         •  Member of the Board of Directors of Housing Assistance

             Corporation since 1996 and Board Treasurer since 2004

         •  Member of the Board of Directors and Clerk of the

             Consumer Assistance Council since 1992

         •  Chairman of the Town of Barnstable Fourth of July

             Committee since 1998

   •  Past President of the Orleans Rotary Club

   •  Member of the Hyannis Rotary Club since 1994

   •  Facilitator for the Money Smart Program to help women

             learn about banking and related topics

   •  CLI Graduate (’94) and Member of the Board of Directors

             of CLI from 1994 through 2005

   •  Member of the Cape Cod Five Foundation for Arts and Culture

   •  Anne fills her free time with Golf, Painting, Gardening and

             loving her grandson

2007 Leadership Award Winner

ALAN BURT

•  Probation Officer for the Barnstable District Court (Barnstable Action for New Directions program) since 1994

•  Earned a B.A. in Human Services from Lesley College and a Master’s in Social Work from Boston University

•  Member of the Advisory Board to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

•  Member of Barnstable Town Council’s Human Services Committee

•  Creator of and managing volunteer for the Salvation Army’s program “Inn from the Cold”, organizing more than 3,000 beds annually for homeless men and women in 44 churches from Falmouth to Orleans

•  Outspoken advocate, bringing attention, private and government funding, and support for the sheltering/housing of Cape Cod’s homeless

•  Organizer of the Cape Cod National Homeless Persons Memorial Event to remember the homeless men and women who died on Cape Cod

•  2002 and 2003 Recipient of the American Red Cross “Heroes Award”

•  2004 Recipient of the John Hinkley Community Service Award

•  Inducted into the National Register of “Who’s Who: Professionals in Human Service”

2008 Leadership Award Winner

Joseph J. Reardon

•  Born and raised in Medway, Massachusetts.

•  Bachelor’s Degree from the College of the Holy Cross (1958) and Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School (1964).

•  United States Navy (1958-61), separated from active duty with rank of Lt(jg).

•  Active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Barnstable County Bar Association, Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Massachusetts Judges Conference, and the American Judges Association.

•  Worked in private law practice from 1964 through 1992.

•  Town Counsel for Mashpee (1977-92) and Counsel to Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District  (1987-92).

•  Associate Justice (Aug-Oct 1992), Presiding Justice (Oct ’92-Dec 2006) in the Barnstable Division, District Court Department of the Massachusetts Trial Court.

2009 Leadership Award Winner

Rear Admiral Richards G. Gurnon, USMS

·  Bachelors Degree, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1970.  Masters Degree, Bridgewater State College, 1981.

·  Piloted multi-engine P-3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft throughout Atlantic and Mediterranean.  Plane commander, mission commander, instructor pilot, Naval Air Stations Brunswick, Maine and Weymouth, Massachusetts.

·  Joined Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 1978, Company Officer, introducing a wide variety of leadership, discipline, personal development programs, improving Regimental structure of MMA.  Promoted to Assistant Commandant in 1981, and Commandant of Cadets in 1983.  Assumed duties of Dean of Students, 1991.  Promoted to Vice President of Students Services, 1994, and Executive Vice President, 2003.

·  Elected Academy President June 2005 by vote of the MMA Board of Trustees with military rank of Rear Admiral conferred by the U.S. Maritime Administrator.

·  Current and former community service includes: Vice Chairman, Buzzards Bay Village Association; Director, Bourne Financial Development Corporation; Treasurer, National Marine Life Center; Member, Boston Marine Society; Member, American Bureau of Shipping; Member, Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy.

·  Resides in Buzzards Bay with wife Linda; foster parents with Massachusetts Department of Social Services since 1990.  Two grown sons: a professor of chemistry at DePauw University and a research chemist.  A teenage son and middle-school daughter remain at home.