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Friday, January 6, 2012

Lisbon Resident Wins Award In Brunswick

Nicholson wins Chamberlain Award; to accept honor Thursday in Brunswick

2012-01-06

BY BETH BROGAN, Times Record Staff

BRUNSWICK — Dan Nicholson of Lisbon, the former command master chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station who lowered the flag at the base decommissioning ceremony in May, will receive the 2011 Joshua L. Chamberlain Award on Thursday evening at the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber’s annual dinner at Bowdoin College.

Nicholson, 48, served in the highest enlisted leadership position at the base until it closed on May 31, 2011. He previously served as command master chief for his wing and then for the VP-10 Squadron.

Capt. William Fitzgerald, the last commanding officer at BNAS — who won the Chamberlain Award in 2010 — nominated Nicholson for his impact on military-community relations and his “invaluable” contribution to the base and the community.

The Chamberlain Award has been given yearly since 1976 to an individual “who, through his or her outstanding dedication and service toward promoting the best possible military-community relationship within the Mid-coast area, deserved to be singled out,” according to the chamber. “The individual nominated should be one whose activities have served to build upon the close relationship and understanding existing between the military and civilian components of the greater Bath-Brunswick-Topsham region.”

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