Awards: Regional Line Officer - Northeast

Charles L. Chute Award

Charles Lionel Chute (1882-1953) was a founder and executive director of the National Probation Association. In that capacity, he led the ten-year effort to secure passage of the Federal Probation Act of 1925.  Chute received his BA degree from Oberlin College, and graduate degrees in social work from the New York School of Social Work and sociology from Columbia University. He was responsible for writing the legislation for the establishment of numerous juvenile courts and local probation systems. During his career, he was a field agent for the National Child Labor Committee in New York, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Association and executive secretary of the New York State Probation Commission. Leaving the latter commission in 1921, he worked solely for the National Probation Association (whose name changed in 1947 to the National Probation and Parole Association following the merger with the American Parole Association).
    

                                                1979        Joseph Hurley, NY/S

                                                1980        Donald T. Inamorato, NJ

                                                1981        Michael J. Gillen, NY/E

                                                1983        Charles L. Fisher, NJ

                                                1985        Ronald F. Ketcham, NY/E

                                                1986        Joel Weber, NY/S

                                                1987        William F. Cosgrove, NY/N

                                                1988        Elaine Terenzi, NY/E

                                                1989        Peter B. Hume, NY/S

                                                1990        Armin U. Ali, NY/E

                                                1991        Victoria Castagna, NY/S

                                                1992        Alan J. Cunningham, NY/N

                                                1993        Kevin Danaher, NY/E

                                                1994        Charles Scott, NY/N

                                                1996        Lori Albright, NY/N

                                                1998        Richard Gray, NY/E

                                                1999        Rebecca Doyle, NY/N

                                                2001        Melony Chan Bedford, NY/E

                                                2008        Maribel Torres-Barega, PR