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The Blue Hills Regional Technical School

Adopt-a-Shop

Adopt-a-Shop Fundraising Goals for 2011-2012

Since 1994 Adopt-a-Shop has been raising money for tools and equipment for the vocational programs at The Blue Hills Regional School. This years fundraising target is for supplies. Our goal is to supplement the 5% shortfall that will not be included in the school's normal budget.   

Thank You NESCO!

NESCO-Needham Electric Supply  40 Hudson Road  Canton, MA 02021

Needham Electrical Supply - NESCO made their 2nd yearly stock donation to the Electrical Program at Blue Hills through Adopt-a-Shop. This years donation will be used to buy ½ & ¾” galvanized conduit. Click on their logo to visit their website.

Sheet Metal Workers Donate $5000.00 to Adopt-a-Shop

Please accept a BIG Thank You from the Future Sheet Metal and HVAC&R Workers at Blue Hills.

We invite your trade organization, or company to match this very generous donation to Adopt-a-Shop

TERADYNE INC. DONATES $2,000
TO BLUE HILLS REGIONAL

Manny Cerqueira, Joanne D’Agostino, and John Boughner in 1983, formerly lived in Holbrook, and is now an engineering lab manager at Teradyne.

The donation was made through the school’s Adopt-a-Shop program, which was begun in 2004 to attract tax-deductible donations of money, equipment and materials to the vocational programs at Blue Hills.  To date, Adopt-a-Shop has collected thousands of dollars in cash and new equipment. Adopt-a-Shop founder Gary Titus of Canton, a Class of 1975 Blue Hills graduate, was instrumental in making the donation possible.

Teradyne is a leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment used to test complex electronics used in the consumer electronics, automotive, computing, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense industries. In 2005, Teradyne had sales of $1.08 billion, and currently employs about 4,000 people worldwide.  The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TER.

Several connections exist between Teradyne and Blue Hills.  Some of the school’s alumni have been or currently are employees there; a new teacher in the Blue Hills Electronics department, Joanne D’Agostino, worked at Teradyne; and of course, Boughner himself is a successful part of the Teradyne workforce.  In fact, retired Blue Hills Electronics department head George Driscoll helped Boughner get his job at Teradyne back in 1982.

Blue Hills Superintendent-Director Joseph A. Ciccolo said, “Graduate John Boughner never forgot the institution that gave him a start with his career.  His first co-op job brought him to Teradyne, where he has been for 23 years.  He came back as a coach when that was all he had to offer and give back to future BHR grads.  Today he came with money to help the program of electronics that trained him so well.  I know it is not the last time we will benefit from the efforts of this outstanding graduate.”

Blue Hills Electronics Lead Teacher Manuel Cerqueira said the Teradyne donation will likely be used for three purposes – the school’s electronic race car; robotics; and test equipment.  Cerqueira expressed his gratitude to Boughner and Teradyne for the generous donation, saying, “Thank you greatly for supporting our program and our school.  It’s sponsors like you that really help us make our program come alive.”

Boughner hopes that other companies will follow Teradyne’s example and support Blue Hills and vocational education.  “These students will be out in the workforce and be major contributors to the success of the corporate world,” he explained.  “We’re happy to support vocational technical education, and we encourage other companies to follow suit.”

L to R: Michelle Roach BHR Vocational Coordinator, Gary Titus, John Boughner, Manny Cerqueira - BHR Electronics Lead, Joanne D’Agostino - BHR Electronics, and Jim Quaglia BHR Assistant Superintendent
 

We invite your company to match Teradyne's very generous donation to Adopt-a-Shop

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"Our Family hopes that there will be many years of training practiced on this bed. My father is 83 years old and set in his ways, there was no way he was going to sleep in “that” bed, even though it was for the better.

We are happy it is being put to good use. I will show him this photo. I know he will be happier that it is at Blue Hills and not at his house any longer.

Thanks for helping me make him pleased because you know that makes me happy!"

Marybeth Nearen And Sigmund (Ziggy) Ostrowski

“The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 and the National Electrical Contractors Association are proud to sponsor the Adopt-A-Shop program.

It is with great hope that our donation will help to further the education of tomorrow’s electricians with materials today.  It is with this hope and your dedication to learn that we can assure a brighter future for our industry and trade.  And always remember to never stop reaching for excellence.”

Thank you to the IBEW Local 103, NECA, and Yale Electric for their recent donation to the Electrical department of $5,000 in tools and supplies.

Newman Associates of Canton Donates $12,000 in tools to Blue Hills through Adopt-a-Shop

BHR Department Heads gather to receive a very generous donation from Newman Associates of Canton

L to R Butch Tamulionis - Executive Director of Adopt-a-Shop Jack Hayes BHR Class of 1978 of Newman Associates , Rich Tamulionis of Newman Associates, Hank Newman of Newman Associates, Mike Harkin BHR Construction Tech, Brian Gearty BHR Metal Fab, Jim Aldoupolis BHR Auto Repair, Joe Nardone BHR Electrical, John Dorney BHR HVAC&R, Ken Rocke BHR Superintendent Director, and Richard Brennen BHR Vocational Coordinator (Photo by Judy Bass)

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