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Meet Janet Maulbeck: Keeper of the Dream Award Winner

Maulbeck has served as president of the Jefferson School Parent Teacher Organization.

A Puerto Rican raised in the Bronx, Janet Maulbeck has spent the last 30 years as an active volunteer in Summit.

Monday she was honored with one of five Keeper of the Dream awards during the

She and her husband Carl have been Summit residents since 1980. Over the last 30 years, Maulbeck has served as president of the Jefferson School Parent Teacher Organization, president of the Summit Board of Education, and co-chair of  Summit 2005, now Shaping Summit Together.

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"I think for me (community service is) kind of connected to who you are and what you see as the purpose of life," Maulbeck said. "You get back more than you give."

Maulbeck said that especially in these economic times, volunteerism needs to be preserved.

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"Volunteers are the glue that hold these things together," she said.

Currently she serves on the Mayor's Forum on Diversity and a member and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of Interweave.


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