Honorary Alumni Award

The Honorary Alumni Award (previously named the Honorary Alumni Distinction) was created in spring 2010 to address both the perceived need for, and the strong desire of the Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council to honor those members of the MKA family who have made a significant, easily recognizable and direct impact upon MKA students and the community of learners. The recipient of this award can be any employee of the school who has served MKA for 10 years, in any capacity. Award recipients can be teachers, administrators, custodians - anyone who has made the kind of mark on MKA that unquestionably deserves merit and recognition. As an Honorary Alumna/us, award recipients are considered graduates of MKA. As such, they will receive all invitations, recognitions and notices of events just like those who’ve received diplomas from the Academy. The charter members of this new Honorary Alumni group were clear and obvious choices for what will become, going forward, an annual Alumni Council recognition and distinction.

Former Recipients of the Honorary Alumni Award

2010: Judy Nesbit and Denise Brown-Allen

2011: Al Rehus and Robert C. Hemmeter (posthumously)

2012: Nate Fuller (posthumous) and Dr. David Flocco

2013: Elvoid Christmas

2014: Donna Carrara and Nixon Bicknell

2015: no award was presented