The Actorsingers

The Penny Award

The Nashua Actorsingers was proud to establish the "Penny" award in 1978. This award was created to honor members of the Actorsingers who have served above and beyond the call of duty. It is with deep pride that the Actorsingers announced, at that time, the first recipient of the "Penny Award" was Mrs. Margaret (Penny) Tamulonis.

The Actorsingers was extremely proud to have Penny Tamulonis as an active and dedicated member of their group, and we hope that she inspired others to aspire to achieve the "Penny Award".

The plaques include a Lincoln penny for the year of the award, the name of the recipient, the phrase "recipient of the Actorsingers," then the date, then "Penny Award" and the phrase "for constant personal commitment to the organization"

Historically The Penny Award was selected by a committee which was always chaired by Penny Tamulonis herself and included (depending upon availability) the last one or two award recipients.

Since the passing of Penny Tamulonis in 2009 the Penny Award is selected by a committee of the most recent 5 Penny Award winners.

1978 Penny Tamulonis 1979 Linnea McAllister 1980 Dan Pelletier 1981 — 1982 Elaine Duhamel 1983 John Liljeberg 1984 Kathy Lovering (nee Raby) 1985 John McAllister 1986 — 1987 Don Jeffrey 1988 Betty Badeau 1989 Shirley Coutu 1990 — 1991 Ted Rusomanis 1992 Catherine Andruskevich 1993 — 1994 Bernadette Boardman 1994 Valerie Levesque 1995 — 1996 Dennis & Kerry Schneider 1997 Betty Thomson

1998 Alene & Barry Bonner 1999 Raelene Liljeberg 2000 — 2001 David Miller 2001 Stan Polan 2002 — 2003 Lou Duhamel 2004 Barbara Webb 2005 — 2006 Glen Grimard 2007 Mike Ryder 2008 Tom Ritrovato 2009 — 2010 — 2011 Bill Wenrich 2012 Evelynn Decker 2013 Craig Brennan 2014 Michael O'Keefe 2015 Jennifer Morton 2016 Cheryl Stocks 2017 Jed Holland 2018 Chris Wenrich

Note: Certain years are blank; this is not an error. The Penny Award is not intended to be given automatically every year.