With appreciation and admiration for the many exceptional individuals who enhance and enrich our Wayland community, The Public Ceremonies Committee (PCC) each year makes the Lydia Maria Child Award for Outstanding Public Service. The award is given to the person, or persons or group who the PCC determines best represents the concern and care that Lydia Maria Child demonstrated for making her community a better place. The selectees of the 2013 award are Lea Anderson and the members of the High School Building Committee. “This team overcame the disappointment of having their first proposed design not getting the needed support of the Town Meeting and persevered over an extended period to produce a superb complex as the Wayland High School for the next half century. A job well done and much appreciated.” The presentation will take place at a future meeting of the Public Ceremonies Committee, date to be determined.

[To correct an oversight in 2009 due to incomplete information given to the Public Ceremonies Committee, an LMC Award will be given to Ms. Margo Melnicove, a founder of the Wayland Voters Network. Presentation will be made in a separate ceremony at a future date.]