Glen Rock March 14, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 7 Good Egg Award 2012 was posthumous tribute by John Koster The friendly ambush was a great success as the Glen Rock Borough Council lured Diane Herrlett to the Leap Day meeting and presented her with the annual Good Egg Award as a tribute to her late husband, Paul Herrlett. “I don’t even know what to say. This is lovely. Thank you,” Herrlett said as Mayor John van Keuren handed her the custom-painted ostrich egg with symbols from Paul Herrlett’s life. “The words that come to my mind are: richly deserved,” Mayor van Keuren said. “He really was quite a guy.” “He was quite a guy,” said Herrlett, who was visibly moved. The council and about 20 of Herrlett’s friends applauded the selection. At left: Diane Herrlett A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and a 30-year active member of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Paul Herrlett was perhaps best known in Glen Rock as the manager and frequent driver of the community shuttle that takes older residents on scheduled shopping trips and to medical appointments. “The people at Glen Court want to put up a statue to him. He was their hero,” an ambulance corpsman said. The Good Egg Award was devised by Jean Baker Wunder and her friends and co-workers at The Source, Glen Rock’s emergency counseling and referral service, about 20 years ago, to honor Glen Rock people who “stick their necks out” -- hence the ostrich egg -- in volunteer positions that serve those in need. The choice is always made by secret ballot and the winner is always lured to some sort of public gathering without realizing he or she will be the honoree. “The selection process has been difficult only because there are always many overqualified candidates, but in a town like this, that is to be expected,” Wunder said in a note read, which Mayor van Keuren read on her behalf.