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MAHRA recognizes, supports and appreciates the men and women of the Manchester Police Department for protecting us every day by making a donation to the Manchester Police Patrolman's Association.

 From left to right:  Greg Martakos, Ken Chamberlain – President of the Manchester Police Patrolman’s Association, Trygve Halverson, Peter Richard, Officer John McInerney, Officer Dan Wood

MAHRA is recognizing our Volunteer of the Year for 2017.  Andrea Chatfield has been a member of MAHRA for 20 years.  Our volunteer has been responsible for securing sponsors/advertisers for MAHRA events/website/newsletter which enables us to have better programming and to contain costs for members.  She is certainly one of the unsung heroines of our Board.  Andrea also serves on the Government Relations and Legislative Chair for the NH HR State Council and also shares responsibility to prepare the legal updates for our newsletter. 

Andrea serves on the Personnel Advisory Committee for the Manchester Community Health Center; she is married, lives in Bedford, and has a teenage son; she went to Syracuse University College of Law; she is counsel at Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson in Manchester NH and is licensed in NH and MA and has been practicing law for over 25 years.  She has lots of experience providing workplace trainings and public speaking.

From left to right:      Andrea Chatfield and Robyn Chadwick

2017 SHRM CERTIFICATION SCHOLARSHIPS

Peter is a Board member and member of the Professional Development Committee of MAHRA.  He truly demonstrates what it means to be a volunteer through many of his efforts within MAHRA and promote MAHRA’s initiative to be the premier HR Chapter in NH.  He gives back not only to our HR community, but also dedicates a tremendous amount of time to other non-profit organizations within NH. 

He has been a host parent and local coordinator for the Council on International Education Exchange; serves on the board of advisors at Stay Work Play New Hampshire; is involved as a judge for the Miss New Hampshire organization and volunteered for this year’s SHRM student case competition.