Nancy Gati

The Manchester St. Patrick’s Parade Committee announced the 2010 Thomas J. King Award recipient is Nancy Gati, an educator, humanitarian, fund raiser and advocate for the needy.

Mrs. Gati has been teaching at Hillside Middle School for 30 years, where she consistently tries to empower her students to work at improving their community. She facilitates student participation in the Annual Walk Against Hunger, which effort raised $8,950 last year. She was honored by New Horizons for her students’ financial support of the Soup Kitchen’s 2009 Thanksgiving Breakfast. With Nancy’s advice and counsel, students later collected 4,400 pounds of food for the WJYY Holiday Food Bank, thereby being recognized as second in New Hampshire for most canned goods donated. Each Thanksgiving and Christmas, she organizes and encourages Hillside students and faculty to donate turkeys and canned items for those in need, after which she and her family actually deliver parcels to area families.

Nancy Gati lives in Manchester, is married to Jack Gati, coach of the Salem High School Blue Devil Football Team, and they have three children – Meredith, Elizabeth and Peter.

Past Honorees

Ray Caron
2009

Reverend William Donoghue
2008

Rev. Msgr Thomas J. Hannigan
2007

Bobby Stephen
2006