Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

2006 Peabody women who are builders of community and dreams are the
Peabody Chamber of Commerce's
Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

Builders of Community and Dreams Project

Mary Upton Ferrin
1810-1881

Peabody Chamber of Commerce

Peabody, Massachusetts

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2004
CAMILLE BARTLETT
by K. Manozzi

Camille Bartlett has lived in Peabody for most of her life and attended Miss Fay's Country Day School for kindergarten, the Kiley Brothers Memorial Elementary School, Bishop Fenwick High School and Salem State College.

She was born in Boston on January 25, 1961. She is a mother, daughter, sister and volunteer. Curious, intelligent, forgiving and involved, Bartlett said that an important female role model in her life was her mother who was a teacher at the Center School.

Bartlett won the Mary Upton Ferrin Award for her involvement in many programs benefiting the City of Peabody. She was the chairperson of the Peabody Rent Control Board, executive member of the Peabody Education Council, Secretary for the Peabody Chamber of Commerce, and the Supervisor of community programming for Comcast Cable television. She has also worked with the Peabody YMCA and the International Festival committee.

Camille Bartlett

She said her greatest achievement, she hopes, has not come yet because she wants to keep giving to the city. Bartlett hopes to motivate others by example.

Being a Comcast supervisor is hard work, she said, although working in television is fun because nothing is the same every day. She has worked in the television industry for 20 years.

Bartlett identified her role model as former Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian. She said that he is not her only role model. Many people she has met have been her role models just for helping out the community, she explained. She has also been admiring of her mother for all that she has done for the schools. Bartlett looks up to all of these people in many ways and is who she is today because of it.

Bartlett said winning the Mary Upton Ferrin Award was an honor and a surprise. She said it was like following in the footsteps of past winners.

"Award to us our proper station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us; withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings, children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands and son, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to your heart, and future generations will revere your memory. All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1, 1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives" by Mary Upton Ferrin.