Haddonfeld Today 090_2021Feb05

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#090 • FEBRUARY 5 TO MARCH 5, 2021
Citizen of the Year 2021
JOE SERICO
HADDONFIELD
AREA LIONS CLUB
HaddonfieldAreaLions.org
We are pleased to announce
that Joseph G. Serico has
been named Haddonfield
Citizen of the Year for 2021.
The announcement – normally
made during the Mayor’s
Breakfast in late January – was
made via Zoom on January 26.
Thank you to all who attended.
Subsequently, Mayor Neal Rochford presented Joe with his plaque at the
Borough Hall. It reads, in part, “In recognition of outstanding community
involvement.”
The principal at Haddonfield Memorial High School from 1987 to 2006,
Joseph G. Serico was beloved by students and teachers alike. He served
subsequently as the school district’s assistant superintendent responsible
for curriculum and instruction. He is a trustee of the Haddonfield Educational
Trust, which works to enhance educational excellence of the public schools,
and is president of the Haddonfield Alumni Society.
One of the letters submitted in support of Joe Serico’s nomination
detailed his many contributions to the community, including a campaign to
think of our high school facilities as a campus. He engaged thousands of
people to give time and money to build “an aesthetically pleasing campus
environment for students, faculty and community that encourages reflection,
inspires creativity, promotes community and respects the environment.”
“In Haddonfield, there are quiet and humble people who volunteer
countless hours because they believe in this community, and they want to
create an environment where people can be connected ... Haddonfield
needs people like Dr. Serico: people who have ideas for how
to make our community stronger AND who do the work
to see those ideas through ... Dr. Serico has been
quietly working on multiple projects that will leave a
lasting legacy in our community for years to come.”
Joe Serico is the most recent of 51 residents
who have been honored during the past 49
years – initially by the Jaycees and in recent
times by the Lions Club – for their “outstanding
community involvement.” Among them were
three legends who passed since last year’s Mayor’s
Breakfast: Bill Hansen 1987, Joe Haro 1996, and
Bill Reynolds 1996. We salute them all.