Daniel J. Gallivan Award
The Daniel J. Gallivan Award recipient shall be a long-standing member of this Association who, while not a resident of the City of Holyoke, has made significant contributions to the overall success of the Parade and/or our Association. (Daniel Gallivan was from South Hadley and was a longtime member of the St Patrick’s Committee.)
2025 Daniel J. Gallivan Award Recipient:
James Meenaghan
Jim has been retired since 2014 and has been employed for most of his life in health care related work: pharma sales, sales management, medical diagnostics and medical education development and programming.
Jim was born in Holyoke in the old Providence Hospital at the corner of Elm and Dwight Streets in Holyoke on October 9, 1950. He has been married to Susan Ratchford since August of 1975. They have two adult children and four grandchildren- Nora Meenaghan of Catonsville MD, spouse of Josh Garner and mother of Toby and Ruth and Brian Meenaghan of Vienna VA, spouse of Lacey (Kahner) Meenaghan and father of Annie and Stella.
Susan and Jim grew up in the Highlands and their elementary education was from the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Jim graduated Holyoke Catholic High School 1968, Holyoke Community College (AA), American International College 1973 (BA), with additional course work at Springfield College and UMass Amherst. They moved to Chelmsford MA, in 1992, for a corporate relocation. Jim has continued working on the line of march in every parade day since moving to Chelmsford.
Prior to relocation Jim served for 9 years on the Geriatric Authority of Holyoke Board of Directors, the last seven of which as chairman.
Retired in 2014 from a site director position with New England AIDS Education and Training Center, a program that is funded from DHHS through a grant to UMass Medical School.
Past Daniel J. Gallivan Award Recipients
1972 Patrick H. Dowd
1973 Thomas J. Shea*
1974 William J. Conway*
1975 Thomas M. Kennedy, Jr.*
1976 Phillip L. Sullivan
1977 Francis J. Rice*
1978 Henry B. Carey*
1979 Delfo Barabani*
1980 Alan F. Cathro
1981 Peter H. Lappin
1982 Mark F. O’Brien*
1983 James M. Curran*
1984 John F. Johnson*
1985 William J. Egan
1986 Gerald D. Healy
1987 Brian Q. Corridan
1988 Paul G. Caron*
1989 William J. Sullivan
1990 Donald R. Delano
1991 Jack O’Neill*
1992 Rev. Francis X. Sullivan*
1993 Michael P. Flynn
1994 William F. Brutnell*
1995 Daniel C. Gallagher*
1996 Kenneth A. Collins
1997 Michael M. Gordon*
1998 James A. McVey
1999 Jack O’Brien*
2000 Senator Michael R. Knapik
2001 James L. O’Connor
2002 Kathryn M. Dulchinos
2003 Michael O. Larkin
2004 Kathleen M. Krisak
2005 Brian F. Moriarty
2006 Peter J. Stewart*
2007 Maurice J. Granfield, Jr.*
2008 Joyce Chretien*
2009 Michael T. Ahearn*
2010 Jacqueline L. Reardon
2011 Rita G. Moore*
2012 Suzanne Poulin
2013 Mary Jane Mathers*
2014 Karen Casey
2015 Peter T. Krisak
2016 Susan Doran
2017 Timothy Patrick Burns
2018 David Griffin, Sr.
2019 Joe Morrison
2020 - 2022 John Beaulieu
2023 Jennifer Voyik-Morrison
* Denotes Deceased