Nominations, please, for our 2026 MSEA-SEIU Lifetime Achievement Award

MSEA-SEIU Retiree Director and Retirees Steering Committee Co-Chair Ginette Rivard, at right, accepts our 2025 MSEA-SEIU Lifetime Achievement Award from President Mark Brunton and fellow Retirees Steering Committee Co-Chair Penny Whitney-Asdourian on Nov. 7, 2025, during our 2025 Annual Meeting Banquet.

The MSEA-SEIU Retirees Steering Committee will present our 2026 MSEA-SEIU Lifetime Achievement Award to one of our retiree members during our 2026 MSEA-SEIU Annual Meeting on Oct. 9 and 10. Anyone can nominate a retiree member of our union for this award. Using this online nomination form, please nominate a retiree whom you think might be deserving of this award. These factors, in no particular order, will be considered in selecting the award recipient:

The nominee is active in being a leader.
During their work years, the nominee showed leadership in support of working families and retirees.
The nominee advocates for MSEA-SEIU retirees through the political process.
The nominee promotes spirit of retirees.
The nominee supports the MSEA-SEIU retiree agenda.

You also can nominate someone via this two-page paper nomination form by printing it out, completing it and sending to Tom Farkas, MSEA-SEIU communications and training coordinator, at tom.farkas@mseaseiu.org or via U.S. mail at: Tom Farkas, MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, 5 Community Drive, Augusta, ME 04330.

You may self-nominate or nominate someone else. In nominating someone else for this award, we need your help by answering some of the criteria above as we don’t know what all retirees have done to contribute.

Once the deadline has passed, a subcommittee will look over the nominations, score them and select someone. Nominations must be received at MSEA-SEIU headquarters by 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

In Solidarity,The MSEA-SEIU Retirees Steering Committee

PS: MSEA-SEIU Lifetime Achievement Award past recipients:
2025: Ginette Rivard; 2024: Penny Whitney-Asdourian; 2023: Jane L. Gilbert; 2022: Ben Conant; 2021: Steven Keaten; 2020: Billy Noyes; 2019: Lois Baxter; 2018: Bob Ruhlin; 2017: Bob Galloupe; 2016: Bill Deering; 2015: John Hinkley; 2014: Jackie Roach; 2013: Frank Kadi

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