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GIL BUTHLAY, left, chief executive officer of BEK Inc., and Capt. Robert Crowe, right, commanding officer of Supervisor of Shipbuilding in Bath, presented Dan Nicholson, former master command chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station, with the 2011 Joshua L. Chamberlain Award on Thursday night at the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber’s annual dinner at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.
GIL BUTHLAY, left, chief executive officer of BEK Inc., and Capt. Robert Crowe, right, commanding officer of Supervisor of Shipbuilding in Bath, presented Dan Nicholson, former master command chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station, with the 2011 Joshua L. Chamberlain Award on Thursday night at the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber’s annual dinner at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.

BRUNSWICK — On Thursday,  former master commander chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station, Dan Nicholson, was presented with the Joshua L. Chamberlain Award by the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce.

The award has been given yearly since 1976 to a person who has promoted “the best possible military community relationship within the Mid-coast area,” according to the chamber.

At the chamber’s annual dinner, Buthlay was re-elected to a second term on the chamber’s board, and Crowe was named an ex-officio member of the board.

Liz Wyman of J. Edward Knight Insurance in Bath was named to a first term on the board, and Jason Buchanan of Colonial Danforth Consulting in West Bath was named chairman of the chamber’s 21-member board. Matt Barbour of McLeod / Ascanio in Portland was also named to the board to a three year term.


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