Past Chiefs Marshal
|
2017 2016 2015
Mary-dith E. Tuitt U.S. Navy 2014 Brendan Murphy U.S Army 2013 All Past Chief Marshals from 1963 - 2012 2012 Ralph Browne 2011 John Connors 2010 Joseph J. Zinck Dorchester Vietnam Memorial Park 2009 Dick Bennett 2008 Joe Chaisson 2007 Brian Fountaine Terrence "Shane" Burke Christopher Saunders POSTHUMOUSLY Daniel Londono Edgardo Zayas 2006 Craig Crowley 2005 Ed Pimental 2004 Mike Bonanno Shutt. Det. M.C.L. 2003 Stephen J. Allen Sr. William G. Walsh Post 369 A.L. 2002 Jim McCarron John P. McKeon Post 146 AMVETS 2001 Donald Brown Francis G. Kane Post 60 A.L. 2000 Karen L. MacNutt Old Dorchester Post 65 A.L. 1999 Joe Nolan James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1998 George L. Hacunda Neponset Post V.F.W. 5834 1997 John R. Shanks Jr. William E. Carter Post 16 A.L. 1996 Warren Hoppie James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1995 Charles R. Bigelow Neponset Post V.F.W. 5834 1994 Eugene McCarthy Francis G. Kane Post 60 A.L. 1993 John H. Harold AMVETS POST 211 1992 William H. Walsh A.N.U. Garrison 24 1991 Joseph J. Zinck Dorchester Vietnam Memorial Park 1990 Robert T. Reaney Neponset Post V.F.W. 5834 |
1989
Robert F. Sheehan Old Dorchester Post 65 A.L. 1988 Joseph S. Martin James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1987 James Jakes A.N.U. Garrison 24 1986 Charles E. Chubbuck St. Mark's Post 1758 V.F.W. 1985 Warren E. Stewart Sr. William Carter Post 16 A.L. 1984 Walter V. Riley Vietnam Combat Veteran 1983 Shaun D. Beede Dorchester Post 211 AMVETS 1982 William H. Walsh Lower Mills Post 8699 V.F.W. 1981 Sam Sawtelle Old Dorchester Post 65 A.L. John Scannell William Walsh Post 369 A.L. 1980 Paul Travers James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1979 Earnest Wilkins Gen. R.S. MacKenzie Garrison 24 A.N.U. 1978 Charles Tuttle St. Mark's Post 1758 V.F.W. 1977 Samuel Mullin Dorchester Chapter 13 D.A.V. 1976 Arthur Murphy Old Dorchester Post 65 A.L. 1975 Thomas Mulligan James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1974 Edward Handwerk Lower Mills Post 8699 V.F.W. 1973 Joseph Keady Robert F. Ryan Post 7604 V.F.W. 1972 Luigi Milanese Dorchester Chapter 13 D.A.V. 1971 John Zeden Robert F. Ryan Post 7604 V.F.W. 1970 Richard Cicirega Robert F. Ryan Post 7604 V.F.W. 1969 Thomas Kelly James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1968 Eugene McCarthy Francis G. Kane Post 60 A.L. 1967 John Comer Thomas J. Roberts Post 78 A.L. 1966 Lester Magoon Lower Mills Post 8699 V.F.W. 1965 William Green James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS 1964 Daniel Broderick Old Dorchester Post 65 A.L. 1963 John Harold James J. Rice Post 28 AMVETS |
2017 Chief Marshal Charlie Cook
Charlie Cook is a Army veteran serving from 1968 to 1971. During
those years he served two years in Vietnam. He attended St. Ann's
School and graduated from South Boston High School.
Mr. Cook worked for the City of Boston for 25 years in the
Inspection Service Department. He ended his career as Assistant
Commissioner Health Division for the Inspectional Services Department.
At his retirement party on January 3, 2014 Mayor Thomas
Menino proclaimed that it would be Charlie Cook Day in the City of
Boston in recognition for his 25 years of service. Over the years
Charlie has volunteered for youth sports in football and baseball.
those years he served two years in Vietnam. He attended St. Ann's
School and graduated from South Boston High School.
Mr. Cook worked for the City of Boston for 25 years in the
Inspection Service Department. He ended his career as Assistant
Commissioner Health Division for the Inspectional Services Department.
At his retirement party on January 3, 2014 Mayor Thomas
Menino proclaimed that it would be Charlie Cook Day in the City of
Boston in recognition for his 25 years of service. Over the years
Charlie has volunteered for youth sports in football and baseball.
2016 Chief Marshal Jack Cunningham
Retired Marine Major Jack Cunningham was born in Roxbury in January 1934 and remembers living during World War II. He stood in food lines, blackened the windows, saw massive piles of broken bicycles, old appliances, dented file cabinets and chain link fencing stockpiled for the metal needed for the war effort. And at the end he sold newspapers that announced our victory on VDay.
He often comments that every school he went to is no more. He started at St. Joseph’s in Roxbury and went on to Mission High in Mission Hill ending up at Boston State in the USMC Platoon Leaders Class. Each and every school no longer exists. By the time he graduated from Boston State he was already an officer in the Marines and was accepted for the Navy Flight School in Pensacola, Florida. He completed his training in both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters and then like all soldiers was sent all over the world.
After a stint in California, he spent time in Japan and on Okinawa Island flying helicopters in and around the rugged terrain of the Asian country. Japan was still recuperating from WW II and there were still many signs of the destruction. When that tour ended, he was sent back to Pensacola, Florida as an instructor teaching survival swimming and helicopter flying.
The next mission was in Quantico Virginia on the Marine Presidential Unit as one of the pilots of Marine I. Everyone knows that Airforce I is the President’s 747 but not everyone knows that the helicopter that ferries the president everywhere is named Marine I. As one of those elite pilots he flew Lyndon Johnson to and from Camp David, to and from the ranch in Texas, and anywhere else he wanted to go.
Retiring from the Marines in 1967, he joined the Army reserve at Otis Airbase on the Cape and completed his 20 years service in the US Military. He speaks of his military service with pride and respect and often advices youngsters that it is a privilege to belong to the Marines and the experience will give them discipline, character, integrity and confidence.
His second career began on retirement and resulted in a 26 year commitment to American Airlines where he flew as a Captain. His military and AA service have taken him all over the globe but his heart is here in Boston. He has lived here in Dorchester with his wife, Ann Walsh, and is a charter member and founding father at both Ashmont Adams Neighborhood Association, and St . Mark's Main Streets. He is an active member of Cedar Grove Civic and at 82 is an active runner in the new Dorchester Running Club. As soon as his new knee heals he promises to back on the roads.
He often comments that every school he went to is no more. He started at St. Joseph’s in Roxbury and went on to Mission High in Mission Hill ending up at Boston State in the USMC Platoon Leaders Class. Each and every school no longer exists. By the time he graduated from Boston State he was already an officer in the Marines and was accepted for the Navy Flight School in Pensacola, Florida. He completed his training in both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters and then like all soldiers was sent all over the world.
After a stint in California, he spent time in Japan and on Okinawa Island flying helicopters in and around the rugged terrain of the Asian country. Japan was still recuperating from WW II and there were still many signs of the destruction. When that tour ended, he was sent back to Pensacola, Florida as an instructor teaching survival swimming and helicopter flying.
The next mission was in Quantico Virginia on the Marine Presidential Unit as one of the pilots of Marine I. Everyone knows that Airforce I is the President’s 747 but not everyone knows that the helicopter that ferries the president everywhere is named Marine I. As one of those elite pilots he flew Lyndon Johnson to and from Camp David, to and from the ranch in Texas, and anywhere else he wanted to go.
Retiring from the Marines in 1967, he joined the Army reserve at Otis Airbase on the Cape and completed his 20 years service in the US Military. He speaks of his military service with pride and respect and often advices youngsters that it is a privilege to belong to the Marines and the experience will give them discipline, character, integrity and confidence.
His second career began on retirement and resulted in a 26 year commitment to American Airlines where he flew as a Captain. His military and AA service have taken him all over the globe but his heart is here in Boston. He has lived here in Dorchester with his wife, Ann Walsh, and is a charter member and founding father at both Ashmont Adams Neighborhood Association, and St . Mark's Main Streets. He is an active member of Cedar Grove Civic and at 82 is an active runner in the new Dorchester Running Club. As soon as his new knee heals he promises to back on the roads.