Gary Weber Presented With
Nichols Community Service Award
The
William E. Nichols Community Service Award was
awarded to Gary Weber at the 2020 LLA Annual
Banquet to recognize his outstanding community
service and for exemplifying the positive role
that attorneys play in our community beyond the
practice of law. The award was established in
2012, with its first recipient being Bill
Nichols, in recognition of the breadth of
Nichols’ sustained commitment to volunteer
community service.
Gary was introduced by his former
partner, and friend, Sean Roman, with the
following comments:
It is with great pleasure
that I stand before you to introduce this
year’s recipient of the William E. Nichols
Award for Public Service.
This award was created to
honor a member of our bar for their
community service and who foster the
positive roles of attorneys in the community
beyond the practice of law.
I am in some respects
uniquely qualified to present this year’s
award. As many of you know, I started my
legal career at McCormick Law Firm where I
had the great pleasure of being a partner of
Bill Nichols. There I observed the hours of
work Bill selflessly put into the Community.
This award is very appropriately named after
Bill and his efforts.
But I also had the
fortune of being a partner of another
individual whose name this award could also
be named after. Certainly, this individual
is more than a worthy recipient of this
award. The individual I speak of is Gary
Weber.
I am going to name some
of Gary’s contributions, but this is by no
means a complete list. We would not have
enough time tonight to do so. Gary was a
Williamsport Area School Board Director
1991-1999. He served as Local Tax Commission
Chair in 1999 and 2006. He is very active in
the Boy Scouts of America, Troop 38, and was
a Committee Member – 2008 through 2018 .
Also created and maintains the Troop 38
website.
Gary sits on the Lycoming
County Historical Society Board of Governors
2014- present, current President of the
Board of Governors.
He is an active member of
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and is a Past
President of the Church Council and
currently serves on the personnel, finance
and archive committees and is a lector and
Communion Assistant. He also created the St.
Mark’s website in 2004 and has continuously
maintained the site since then. On July 4 he
gives away Hot Dogs and Popcorn and
participated in the Family Promise
fundraising Iron Chef Competition.
I would be remiss if I
didn’t mention Gary’s contribution to the
Law Association: Gary served on the LLA
executive committee from 1996 through 2004
and was President in 2003. Instead of moving
off the executive committee, Gary has stayed
on the Committee as a non-voting member to
this day. He has been the chairman of the
LLA customs and rules committee since 1992.
He was instrumental in rewriting the
Association’s bylaws in 2000 and developed
the Association’s website in 2000 and has
maintained it since then.
He is the editor of the
Lycoming Reporter and spends many hours
creating and editing its contents. Gary has
created a pictorial history of the Law
Association and many of you know the
familiar sight of Gary and his camera at
Association functions of which he attends
almost every one.
As Michele Frey commented
to me, “there has not been, and there
probably never will be, any one member that
has volunteered so much time and effort to
the organization.”
Even from the limited
snapshot I have provided, it is clear Gary’s
commitment and contributions to the success
of the Lycoming Law Association and the
Community of Lycoming County evidence his
worthiness of this award and should serve as
an inspiration to us all.
Please join me in
congratulating Gary Weber as this year’s
recipient of the William E Nichols Public
Service Award.
Gary expressed his
surprise for the honor and noted that public
service was a way of life for his family. He
hoped his service could inspire others to do
the same.
The award came with $1000,00
to be donated by the Association to a
charity. Gary chose the Lycoming County
Historical Society to receive the funds. The presentation was delayed by the Covid-19 closure of the museum, but finally, on June 26, 2020, the presentation was formally made at the Taber Museum. The donation was accepted with thanks by Museum Executive Director Gary Parks. Presenting the check (both live and virtually) were Michele Frey, Gary Weber and President Angela Lovecchio.
The Historical Society is 113 years old and continues to serve the community by preserving the history of Lycoming County and by making that history available to everyone at its Taber Museum.