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Plymouth State University event raises more than $30,000 for student scholarships

Alumnus Wally Stevens honored with Raymond S. Burton Public Service Award

By Staff | Jun 29, 2022

Plymouth State University and the Raymond Burton Legacy Fund recently recognized Wally Stevens with the Raymond S. Burton Public Service Award. Pictured (from left) are Stevens, Grappone Automotive Group CEO Larry Haynes, PSU President Donald Birx and realtor Ken Moulton.

PLYMOUTH – Plymouth State University and the Raymond Burton Legacy Fund recently recognized alumnus Wally Stevens with the 2022 Raymond S. Burton Public Service Award during an annual Students, Scholarships, and Service event at The Barn on the Pemi.

This year’s Students, Scholarships, and Service event (formerly the Burton-Frost event) raised $30,000 for Plymouth State University Alumni Association (PSUAA) student scholarships and the Ray’s Angels fund, which support PSU students who experience tuition shortfalls and demonstrate financial need in closing the gap.

Stevens was a friend and contemporary of Burton, both graduating in the same Plymouth State cohort in 1962. Stevens stayed involved with PSU as one of the four founding members of its President’s Council, past Chair of the President’s Council and a Trustee to the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees.

During the event, which was held on June 2, Grappone Automotive Group President and CEO Larry Haynes and realtor Ken Moulton, both PSU alumni, past USNH Trustees and PSU President’s Council members, presented the award.

“In addition to being a classmate of Ray’s, I cannot think of anyone who more exemplifies Ray’s wonderful qualities than Wally Stevens,” Haynes said. “Wally has served Plymouth State University with compassion, intellect and an enthusiasm that continues to set the bar oh so high.”

The event also featured a guest appearance by Boston Bruins anthem singer Todd Angilly, who is a PSU alumnus, and PSU junior Lena Warner shared her experience as a past PSUAA scholarship recipient.

During his professional career, Stevens spent 50 years in the seafood industry, served as the chair of the National Fisheries Institute in 2001 and recently retired as the Chief Executive of the nonprofit Global Seafood Alliance. He was formerly President of Slade Gorton & Co., Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest seafood marketing and distribution companies in the United States. Previously, he was President of Ocean Products Inc., a salmon aquaculture business in Maine, preceded by 17 years at Booth Fisheries serving in many capacities and at many locations around the country.

Stevens and his wife Meredith Bristow Stevens live in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Ray Burton was a long-serving member of the New Hampshire Executive Council and a North Country institution. The Raymond S. Burton Public Service Award honors individuals who, like Burton, loved and respected the role of education, cared deeply about the state and its citizenry, and devoted their service to the public good.

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