Dean Mattson, Wooden Globe Educator of the Year award winner, with Harry Moser (left) president, Reshoring Inititiave. TEMPE, AZ – Woodshop teacher Dean Matteson, a former businessman who has sparked excitement – and waiting lists to sign up – for woodworking classes at North Salem High School in Oregon, told a riveting story about his students during WIC 2013, the Wood Industry Conference here in Tempe.
Matteson received a standing ovation and triggered laughs and some tears, as he recounted how his woodworking classes have opened new career vistas for hundreds of students, many from disadvantaged homes. Matteson received the Wooden Globe Educator of the Year Award in an awards luncheon yesterday. Also honored were executives from Stanley Furniture, with a Wooden Globe for Commitment to the Industry, and from Koetter Woodworking, with a Wooden Globe for Innovation in Technology.
Currently 450 students attend woodshop classes at Salem High, with plans to double next year. In accepting the award, Matteson recounted his personal life journey that brought him in touch with a retiring WoodLINKS USA woodshop teacher – Dave Anderson – who chose Mattson as his replacement four years ago.
Also during the luncheon awards ceremony, The Woodworking Machinery Industry Association named Scm Group North America its 2012 Partner of the Year.
Since 1994, the Partner of the Year Award has been conferred by WMIA’s distributor members on a manufacturer or importer that best exemplifying the spirit of partnership in its dealings with woodworking machinery distributors.
Noting that Italy-based Scm Group exports 92 percent of its production, “The U.S. market is critical strategically,” Gangone said. “Our commitment will remain in distribution. We have a great network of excellent distributorships and we’re counting on them.” Read more
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