UFT President Michael Mulgrew presents the Charles Cogen Award, the highest honor the union gives to a member, to former UFT Assistant Treasurer Mona Romain during Teacher Union Day at the New York Hilton on Nov. 2.

Ellen Gallin-Procida, the director of the UFT Grievance Department, shows off her Jules Kolodny Award with Director of Staff Ellie Engler.

UFT Director of Parent and Community Outreach Anthony Harmon, who chaired the event.

The winners of the Albert Lee Smallheiser Awards

Special Representative Lillian Kohler (left) receives the Sidney Harris Award from Staten Island Borough Representative Debra Penny.

Brooklyn Educational Liaison Farheen Malik (center) is given the Backer/Scheintaub Award by Mulgrew and UFT Brooklyn Borough Representative Debra Poulos.

UFT Vice President Anne Goldman is flanked by Lutheran Medical Center nurses Cora O’Regan (left) and Kati Tannous, who shared the Audrey Chasen Award. The pair spent two weeks in the Philippines in January to help with medical care after devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan.

The David Wittes Award was presented to Staten Island Borough Representative Debra Penny by Assistant Secretary, Emil Pietromonaco, her predecessor.

Cogen Award winner Mona Romain (second from right) shares the spotlight with (from left) Assistant Treasurer Tom Brown, UFT Liaison to the Retired Teachers Chapter Sandra March and Treasurer Mel Aaronson, the trustees to the Teachers’ Retirement System.

Jules Kolodny Award winner Ellen Gallin-Procida (seated, center), the director of the UFT Grievance Department, poses for a group shot with members of her staff.

The winners of the UFT School Partnership Awards

George Altomare, one of the founders of the UFT, strums his guitar while he and (from second left) NYSUT Vice Presidents Andy Pallotta and Catalina Fortino, NYSUT President Karen Magee, Mulgrew, and UFT Directors of Staff Ellie Engler and LeRoy Barr sing “Solidarity Forever” at the conclusion of the ceremony.

The Ely Trachtenberg Award winners for elementary school chapter leaders

The Ely Trachtenberg Award winners for middle school chapter leaders

The Ely Trachtenberg Award winners for high school chapter leaders

The Ely Trachtenberg Award winners for functional chapter leaders

The 10-year chapter leaders

20-year chapter leaders, Denis Gault (left) and Michael Friedman (right) with Mulgrew

The Marsh-Raimo award winners

Ely Trachtenberg Award winner Sylvia Dadzie (second left) is joined by colleagues including, (from left) social worker Jacki George, special ed teacher Eva Martinez, pre-K teacher Jean Waugh and school nurse Beverly Ellis. Dadzie is a speech and language therapist.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew delivers opening remarks.