Patricia A. Donovan has been named Member of the Year by the Harford County Chamber of Commerce. During the annual Chamber awards and scholarship ceremony June 19 at the Bayou restaurant in Havre de Grace, Chamber President/CEO Bill Seccurro noted Donovan has held about every post on the chamber board, chaired many of its committees and been nominated to its Hall of Fame, but was never Member of the Year.

Donovan, who recently retired from the Comcast Corp., has received the local Athena Award as an outstanding businesswoman and also has been honored with the Good Scout award.

A ubiquitous volunteer, some of the organizations she has worked for include the Harford County and Aberdeen chambers of commerce, the Aberdeen Rotary, Harford Community College Foundation, the Salvation Army, Harford Cable Network, the Red Cross, Ripken Museum and Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford County.

Shirley Dunsen received the Chamber Community Service Award for thousands of hours she has volunteered to help children, the hungry and the homeless. A few of her accomplishments have been teaching at no charge in a pre-school program by Zion Temple Church in Havre de Grace, planning and teaching vacation Bible school at Union United Methodist Church, providing cards and Scripture to residents of local nursing homes, and organizing church sponsored meal programs.

The Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award went to two Harford County deputy sheriffs, Corporals Tim Rumbaugh and Rob Burgess, for pulling an elderly man from a burning house in Abingdon.

Claudia Holman, with Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union, was named to the Chamber’s Hall of Fame.

Recognized for their service on the chamber’s board of directors were Jane Booth (JBooth Associates LLC), Bill Bates (Harford New Media, Inc.), Bob Jirsa (RSM McGladrey, Inc.), Bob Titleman (Skylight Creative Ideas), Donavan, and Bill Vanden Eynden (RKS Realty), Laura Lang (John Carroll School) and, Phil Logan (Slavie Federal Bank), Claudia Holman (APGFCU) and Dick Molinaro (WSMT Insurance.)

The Harford County Chamber of Commerce Officers for the coming year are: Chairman, Phil Logan; Chairman elect, Bill Vanden Eynden; Vice Chair Finance Steven Wiseman, (Wiseman & Associates); Vice Chair Administration, Kim Schmidt (Ramada Conference Center), Past Chair, Dick Molinaro (WSMT Insurance); Members at Large, Laura Lang, Eric McLauchlin (Gessner, Snee, Mahoney & Lutche), ExOffiicio Member, Claudia Holman.

Serving on the Board of Directors are: Lauri Altman (Harford Mall), Paul Balsamo (Balsamo, Stewart, Ruth & Lutters), Joe Bittner (Melvin Benhoff and Sons), Brenda Blackburn (Harford Community College), Milton Branson (Constellation Energy), Betsy Campion (Campion Insurance), Courtney Hart (Boyle Buick Pontiac), Kevin Kirby (THUD), Keith Marchiano, Tim Peifley (Rite Aid) and Robin Sommer (Images of Sommer.)