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Putnam County Honors PVHS Make a Difference Club, Again
 | | Linda Cefaloni, second from left, looks on as her Make A Difference Club co-advisor, Pamela Adamovich, delivers a thank you address to the attendees of the Putnam Community Service Network's Annual Awards Breakfast. |
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On Friday morning, September 28, 2007, The Putnam Valley High School Make a Difference Club was honored with the Special Youth Award at the Putnam Community Service Network's Annual Awards Breakfast.
Anthony P. Massarelli, Putnam County Coalition Coordinator. POW'R Against Tobacco Coalition, American Lung Association of New York State, Inc. presented the award to PVHS School Nurse, Pamela Adamovich, RN, and PVHS math teacher Linda Cefaloni, who have co-advised the make A Difference Club at PVHS since the high school opened its doors in the fall of 2000. Although both Mrs. Adamovich and Mrs. Cefaloni made it clear that the award was for the entire club, and not just themselves, they have provided the consistently strong leadership and role modeling that have made the club a success.
Both women were previously honored in June of 2007 at the Putnam County Youth Awards dinner. Mrs. Adamovich and Mrs. Cefaloni are longtime community volunteers whose lists of activities in school, charities, churches, scouting, and other endeavors are lengthy and impressive. Under their inspirational leadership, Make A Difference has raised thousands of dollars for children's charities, local community projects, and humanitarian relief efforts in the US and abroad. Together, in just six years, they nurtured the PVHS club from a one-daya year activity to a year-round fundraising and volunteerism powerhouse, averaging more than fifty students at each meeting. Last year PVHS Make a Difference raised over $8000 for Louisiana schools devastated by Hurricane Katrina in a grand series of fundraising events and activities; and in the fall of 2006 the annual Make a Difference Club Stay-Awakea Thon raised over $4000, which was donated to local children's hospitals and community programs.
The entire Make A Difference group was also honored by the Town of Putnam Valley at a Town Board meeting in the Spring of 2007, and they have received numerous Pride in Putnam Valley Awards from the PV Board of Education for their hard work and dedication.
Additionally, retired veteran Putnam Valley teacher and current PV Board of Education Trustee, Frank Reale, received the Lyn and Buzz Burr Communications Award for his many years of work with the Peers Influence Peers Partnership which he co-founded. Peers, which brings together high school students from a number of area districts to work on every aspect of its video projects from talent to direction to camerawork to sound and editing, has amassed an impressive list of student-produced video PSAs and fulllength docudramas highlighting the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse. Peers has its own lengthy list of regional and national awards. For more information, visit www.peerspartnership.org.
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