Recipients of the New England Council’s “New Englander of the Year” Awards

1964 – Dr. Edwin H. Land, Polaroid Corporation

1965 – Robert Chapman Sprague, Sprague Electric Company

1966 – Frazar B. Wilde, CT General Life Insurance

1967 – Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor

1968 – Carl J. Gilbert, The Gillette Company

1969 – Dr. James K. Killian, Jr., M.I.T.

1970 – Charles J. Zimmerman, CT Mutual Life Insurance Company

1971 – Albert A. Cree, VT Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation

1972 – Dr. Charles F. Phillips, Bates College

1973 – Governor Deane C. Davis, Vermont

1974 – Bradford Washburn, Museum of Science

1976 – General Electric Company

1977 – Kenneth H. Olsen, Digital Equipment Corporation

1978 – Governor James B. Longley, Maine

1979 – G. William Miller, United States Secretary of the Treasury

1980 – Dr. An Wang, Wang Laboratories

1981 – Bernard J. O’Keefe, EG&G, Inc.

1982 – Richard D. Hill, First National Bank of Boston

1983 – Guy W. Nichols, New England Electric System

1984 – Red Auerbach, Boston Celtics

1985 – Joseph R. Carter, Wyman-Gordon Company

1986 – Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives

1987 – Edward C. Johnson, III, Fidelity

1988 – Thomas L. Phillips, Raytheon

1989 – John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff

1990 – Senator George Mitchell, Maine; Terrence Murray, Fleet/Norstar

1991 – Paul O’Brien, New England Telephone; U.S. Rep. Silvio O. Conte

1992 – Senator Warren Rudman, New Hampshire; Jack Welch, General Electric Company

1993 – Wayne Budd, former Associate Attorney General; Ira Stepanian, Bank of Boston

1994 – William Ellis, Northeast Utilities; U.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts

1995 – John LaWare, Federal Reserve Bank; George Hatsopoulos, Thermo Electron

1996 – Al Zeien, Gillette; Sheila Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force, M.I.T.

1997 – Dennis Picard, Raytheon; Governor William Weld, Massachusetts; Orit Gadiesh, Bain & Co.

1998 – Senator Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts; Gary Countryman, Liberty Mutual; Evan Dobelle, Trinity College

1999 – William Bulger, University of Massachusetts; Marshall Carter, State Street Corporation; Senator John Chafee, Rhode Island

2000 – William Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense; William Van Faasen, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts

2001 – Senator Judd Gregg, New Hampshire; Marian Heard, United Way of Massachusetts Bay; Thomas May, NSTAR

2002 – Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff; Cathy E. Minehan, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Michael G. Morris, Northeast Utilities

2003 – Senator Christopher Dodd, Connecticut; Edmund Kelly, The Liberty Mutual Group; The New Hampshire Political Library

2004 – U.S. Representative Edward Markey, Massachusetts; Lawrence Fish, Citizens Bank; Robert Kraft and The New England Patriots

2005 – U.S. Senator Jack Reed; Larry Lucchino, The Boston Red Sox; Joseph Tucci, EMC Corporation

2006 – U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman; Anne Finucane, Chief Marketing Officer and President, Northeast, Bank of America; and Ken Burns, Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker

2007 - U.S. Congressman Barney Frank; Peter Meade of Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts; and James Wright of Dartmouth College