{"id":109058,"date":"2019-09-14T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109058"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:46:48","slug":"douglas-gustin-to-be-added-to-canastota-alumni-wall-of-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109058","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Gustin to be added to Canastota Alumni Wall of Distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Douglas Gustin, a 1975\ngraduate of Canastota High School studied at SUNY Morrisville and received an associate\nof applied science degree in 1977.  He\nentered the work force first working with Chicago Markets then moving on to the\nBruno Novelty Company, where he worked for the next five years.  Gustin then took a position with the U.S.\nPostal Service, where he has been employed for more than 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He served as a union steward\nfrom 2007 to present and received the U.S. Postal Service Million Mile Award in\n2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gustin is a 30-year member of\nthe Knights of Columbus, has been a member of the Canastota Civic Club for 15 years\nand served on Canastota Village Planning Board for three years.  He became a member of the Canastota Alumni\nAssociation in 1999, serving on the board of directors and is vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Involved in community\naffairs, Doug served with the Hook and Ladder Company of the Canastota Fire\nDepartment from 1977 to 1992 and held the office of treasurer.  He was a member of the Fire Council and a\nmember of the Old-Time Firemen\u2019s Club. \nHis volunteer work also includes working the Boxing Hall of Fame weekend\nand has volunteered and co-chaired the postal induction for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug also uses his energy in\nworking with the school community.  He\nhas twice served on the Canastota Central School\u2019s Board of Education for a\ntotal of 20 years (1999-2019).  While on\nthe board, he served twice as vice president and president in 2004-05.  As a board member, he participated on the\nPolicy, Facilities and Safety Audit committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing his interest on\nthe school community, Doug represented CCS on the Madison Oneida BOCES Board of\nEducation, serving two terms as president and two terms as vice president, as\nwell as attending the NYS School Board Convention as a delegate for a total of 10\ntimes.  Other participation included chairperson\nfor the Audit & Facilities Committee, acting as a liaison to the Safety\nCommittee and serving as a member of the Executive and Legislative\nCommittee.  He was also the Central New\nYork representative for the Federal Relations Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug is an avid bowler and\nwon the NYS Doubles Championship in 2007. \nHis participation in ABC National Tournaments resulted in 15 years of\ntravel to numerous cities.  He also\nserved on the Syracuse Bowling Association Board of Directors from\n1992-2009.  He served as vice president\nfrom 1997-99 and president in 1999-2000. \nAlong with bowling, golf is a favorite pastime of Doug\u2019s, and he said he\u2019s\nhad the pleasure of getting a hole-in-one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual Canastota Wall of\nDistinction Banquet will be held at Theodore\u2019s, Route 5 (Seneca Turnpike)\nSaturday, Oct. 19. Social hour begins at 6 p.m., with dinner following at 7\np.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are $30 per person,\nwith reservations available from Deb Ford at 315.403.0742 no later than Monday,\nOct. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglas Gustin, a 1975 graduate of Canastota High School studied at SUNY Morrisville and received an associate of applied science degree in 1977.  He entered the work force first working with Chicago Markets then moving on to the Bruno Novelty Company, where he worked for the next five years.  Gustin then took a position with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-sn0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-of-d-Gustin-photo.jpg?fit=648%2C966&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}