Summer 2019 Advisor

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SUMMER 2019 CEA ADVISOR 5

Teachers Score for Students Teachers and supporters competed for overall scores as well as prizes in several categories, including a 50-50 raffle; closest to the pin and a putting contest, sponsored by California Casualty Auto and Home Insurance; long drive, sponsored by Wood-n-Tap; and a poker run, sponsored by Mohegan Sun. • First-place gross winners , with a score of 57, were the Bridgeport Education Association team of Andrew Grasso, Gary Diaz, Brian Sullivan, and John Dailey. • Second place (60 MC) went to CBRE’s team of Gary Schless, Steve Zajac, Dan Donohue, and Todd Rudner. • Fairfield Education Association’s team of Dave and Mike Abraham, Pete Shanazu, and Justin Henry took third place (60). • First-place net winners , with a score of 50, were Westbrook Education Association teachers Brian Dailey, Ryan Percival, Tim Marshall, and Bill Gombos. • In second place (53 MC) were Hebron Education Association’s Tony Pitrone, Michael Corona, Steve Hurley, and Chris Lapsis. • Third-place net (53) went to the AFSCME Local 1565 foursome of Eric August, Mike Tuthill, Joe Stone, and Luke Leone. • Winners of the long drive were Fairfield teacher Justin Henry (men) and Hebron teacher Kathy Jurgelas, with AFSCME Local 1565 (women). • Closest to the pin went to Salisbury teacher Zim McAuliffe, with 2’6” on the 3rd hole, Stonington teacher Dane Lewis, with 2’1” on the 6th hole, Glastonbury’s Adam Lefkowitz, with 1’3” on the 11th hole; and Jason Krug, playing for CEA legal counsel Melanie Kolek’s team, with 5’3” on the 18th hole.

The Bridgeport Education Association foursome of (L-R) Andrew Grasso, John Dailey, Brian Sullivan, and Gary Diaz were this year’s first-place gross winners.

Region 16 teachers Steve Ruhl (far left) and Stephen Jerram (far right) welcome colleagues Dustin Waldron and Brett Gagliardi to their first Hands Across the Green tournament. Says Jerram, who has reached out to the Connecticut Education Foundation to help students in his district, “Our local Association is happy to support the foundation.”

2019 marks the inaugural Hands Across the Green tournament for Nonnewaug teacher Diana Halas, who says she’ll be back next year.

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

HOLE SPONSORS ACES Education Association Aqua Turf Bloomfield Education Association CEAPSO CES Education Association CT Education Association–New Milford Education Association of Norwich Free Academy East Granby Education Association East Hampton Education Association Education Association of Preston Farmington Education Association Friends of Feeney Greenwich Education Association Hamden Education Association Kent Education Association Killingly Education Association Ledyard Education Association Lisbon Education Association Monroe Education Association Motion Inc. NEA Ridgefield Newington Teachers’ Association Orange Teachers’ League Plainfield Education Association Pomperaug Education Association Redding Education Association

For more photos from the tournament, visit CEA’s Flickr page. Torrington Education Association Gould Killian LLP Shepaug Valley Education Association West Hartford Education Association

Regional Education Association District 10 Rocky Hill Teachers’ Association Simsbury Education Association South Windsor Education Association Sprague Teachers’ League Stamford Education Association

PLATINUM Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield GOLD Janney Capital Wealth Advisors SILVER SPONSORS AFSCME Local 1565 All Waste, Inc. Avon Education Association California Casualty CBRE ConnectiCare Education Association of Cheshire Frontier Employees Fund Glastonbury Education Association Hebron Education Association Manchester Education Association Putnam Education Association RM Bradley Stonington Education Association USI Insurance/Plymouth Rock Assurance Westbrook Education Association BRONZE SPONSORS Hartford Restaurant Group Hooker & Holcombe Ryan Business Systems WFSB Channel 3 Eyewitness News SPECIAL ASSOCIATION PATRONS Ashford Education Association Bridgeport Education Association CEA Region 4 Education Association CESEA Fairfield Education Association LEARN Education Association Ledyard Education Association Marlborough Education Association Nonnewaug Teachers Association Region 16 Education Association Salisbury Education Association Southington Education Association Suffield Education Association West Hartford Education Association

Marking Anthem’s 20th year as the tournament’s platinum sponsor are John Bryson, Billy Porto, Kate Klarman, Jeff Haggerty, Marty Kilcourse, James Ranney, Elizabeth Bossidy-Tobin, and Scott Millea.

Representing Janney Capital Wealth Advisors, the tournament’s gold sponsor, are (left) Bob Macca, Ed Blumenthal, Jamie Marinan, and Taylor Henderson, and (right) Ned Manuel and John Lange.