Tom Kasprzak of East Lyme, Ledyard native Bob Reed and Stonington businessman Jonathan Duncklee will receive major awards when the Connecticut Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America holds its 24th Annual Outstanding Leadership Award Dinner May 7 at The Norwich Inn and Spa.

The reception begins at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30.

Kasprzak, a former executive at Eversource, Chelsea Groton Bank and The Day, will be receiving the Life Time Achievement Award for Community Service; Reed is receiving the Outstanding Leadership Award for Community Service, and Duncklee, president of Duncklee Cooling and Heating, will be getting the Outstanding Leadership Award.

In addition, Leo Butler, director of the diversity program at Norwich Free Academy, has been named as the Fretwell Educator of the Year. DonateLife has won the Nonprofit Organization Award.

Kasprzak currently consults for the offshore wind industry. He retired from Eversource in 2018 serving as a community relations representative for six years.

Kasprzak previously was honored by the OIC of New London County as a 2012 Community Champion. He and wife Joanne also were honored in 2007 with the TRIO Award by the Transplant Recipients International Organization on behalf of their daughter, Mary, whose organ donations saved the lives of five others upon her passing in 2003.

Reed, station manager for Hall Communications in Norwich, is a native of Gales Ferry and Ledyard High School graduate who went to college at Roger Williams in Bristol, R.I., majoring in business management. Over the past 38 years, Reed has held sales and marketing positions at radio stations WICH/WCTY and WNLC/WKNL and has been active in the eastern Connecticut community, serving on many boards and committees.

In 2007, he received the “Citizen of the Year” award from the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut. Bob lives in Norwich with his wife of 33 years, Mary Reed.

Duncklee, president of Duncklee Cooling and Heating, has shown continual commitment to the community at the Hygienic in New London and Coogan Farm in Mystic, among other projects. He has been actively involved with the Mystic Chamber of Commerce, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Habitat for Humanity.

Donate Life Connecticut is dedicated to increasing the number of registered organ and tissue donors through public education and awareness of all Connecticut residents and beyond. DLC has worked harmoniously with New England Donor Services, the American Liver Foundation, National Kidney Foundation, Department of Motor Vehicles and other organizations.

Butler, an adjunct professor at Mitchell College, lives in Providence but works at NFA.

He is a member of the Norwich NACCP, the 100 Men of Color Association, Norwich Adult Education Advisor Board, Sankofa Education and Leaderships and ESSA – Every Student Succeeds Act Focus Group through the Connecticut Department of Education.

Awards committee members were Jeffrey Godley, a partner at Brown Jacobson P.C.; Angela Arnold, recently retired as development director for the Norwich Diocese; Lori Dufficy of Chelsea Groton Bank; Scott Gladstone, Verizon Wireless; Frank Winkler, Groton Public Utilities, and Marj Taggart-Dedrick, Dave Parry and Bill Reynolds of the Connecticut Rivers Council, BSA.

To attend the dinner, register on line at ctrivers.org/olar.