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Mr. Robert Evanski
Robert Evanski has distinguished himself for his selfless acts of support and contribution to his community and family. As a Belleville High School student, Robert distinguished himself as a member of the Belleville High School marching band and the group Future Farmers of America. He was also active in athletics, including football and track. At the age of seventeen, while he was still attending high school, Robert’s father died. Robert worked many jobs to help support his mother and siblings while completing his education at Belleville High School. He graduated in 1943. Wanting to serve his country during World War II, Robert applied to the United States Air Force. After his physical was approved by the Air Force, Robert was notified that his mother was terminally ill. He was given an emergency release from the Air Force, where he was sent back home to raise his five orphaned siblings once she passed away. Robert married Gertrude Krzeminski in 1945. The two continued to raise three of Robert’s siblings who were still living at home. They began their own family soon after, having ten children over the next eighteen years. What they couldn’t give their children financially, they more than made up for with the unending love that they provided. Robert worked for Ford Motor Company until he retired in 1988. He was also self-employed as a farmer, and he and his family raised and sold vegetables at the Western and Eastern Markets in Detroit. Despite his hectic life, Robert never faltered when it came to dedication to his community. He served as a cub master for the Boy Scouts of America, a 4-H leader, and a school board member for the Sumpter school. Additionally, he was a member of the PLAV, the Parish Council and the Men’s Club at St. Anthony’s, the Tri-County Sportsman Club, and a volunteer firefighter for Ford Motor Company. He has also always been involved with Van Buren Public Schools, supporting his ten children and twenty-one grandchildren while they participated in choir, marching band, football, swim and soccer. |
Ms. Sandra Lee Fulton-Love Sandra Lee Fulton-Love has distinguished herself by professional accomplishment in the field of politics. She is Mayor of Gloucester Township in New Jersey, where she is presently serving her third term in office. As a Belleville High School student, Sandra distinguished herself academically as an outstanding scholar and member of Student Council, chorus, Y-Teens, Future Teachers, and both the French and Spanish Clubs. Sandra moved to Washington D.C. to work in 1967, which is where she met and later married her husband. The two moved to Blackwood, where his family resided. There they opened up a travel agency and had two children, Jason and Jeffrey. While owning and managing the travel agency, Sandra was a part-time Legislative Aide to Assemblywoman, Ann Mullen, during her two-year term in the State Assembly. After Mayor Mullen’s untimely death in 1994, Sandra was appointed Mayor to serve the remaining term. She was elected in 1994, and was re-elected in 1998 and 2002, as well. Sandra has strived to accomplish several objectives since becoming Mayor. She established the Economic Development Advisory Committee to bring businesses into the Township, and formed the Gloucester Township Human Relations Commission to encourage harmony and a sharing of cultures, as the diversity in the Township continues to grow. She also actively supports The Welfare to Work Program, which encourages those who collect welfare checks to work in either the Township Municipal Building or the Public Works Department to offset their monies received through the welfare program. Sandra is a member of the New Jersey Conference of Mayors and the Camden County Mayors’ Association, and she also serves on the Board of Trustees for Camden County Health Services. Through the years, she has received several awards, including the Women Who Make a Difference Award, A Blackwood Rotary Honor, and a Blackwood Lake Advisory Committee Commitment Award.
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Mr. Robert Doane Robert Doane, remembered fondly by everyone in the Belleville Area community as Bob, distinguished himself as the official historian for the City of Belleville and for his untiring devotion to volunteerism. Bob, a lifelong resident of Belleville, was born in October, 1934 on Liberty Street in the Village of Belleville to Roy and Mae (Bunyea) Doane. He graduated from Belleville High School in 1952. During his high school career, he was active in the BHS band, and he also had his own dance band for a time. Following graduation, Bob served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1954 to 1957. He went to work for and later retired from Ford Motor Company. Bob became involved in genealogy and his own family history in 1967. In addition to discovering that his family had come to America on the Mayflower, he also dedicated much of his time to uncovering Belleville history from old records. He wrote historical articles about the community in the local Belleville Enterprise, Independent and The View. He also worked with Park E. Gregory to reprint Samuel H. Robbe’s (1930) book The History of Van Buren Township. While volunteering, he spent days on end mapping out the gravesites at Hillside Cemetery to make the city records more accurate. Bob was the first chairperson of the Belleville Hillside Cemetery Advisory Committee, and he held that position until his death. Bob was a member of numerous organizations, a few of which included: The American Association for State and Local History, the Belleville-Area Historical Society, The Historical Society of Michigan, The Detroit Society of Genealogical Research, Inc., The National Trust for Historical Preservation, the National Historical Society, the Doane Family Association of America, the Society of Mayflower Descendents in Michigan, the General Society of Mayflower Descendents and the Belleville Moose Lodge. He also served as Grand Marshal of the 2001 Strawberry Festival. Bob passed away in his home in August, 2002 after a long, courageous battle with cancer.
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