Great Swamp Watershed Association Honors Schering-Plough and Wyeth

Harding —The Great Swamp Watershed Association honored Schering-Plough Corporation and Wyeth with this year’s Marcellus Hartley Dodge Memorial Award. GSWA is delighted to recognize both Schering-Plough Corporation and Wyeth for their commitment to environmental health, leadership in the Great Swamp Watershed Association’s Corporate Council and their long-time support of GSWA.

This distinguished award was presented at the organization’s 2009 Green Acres Gala held on October 15 at the Basking Ridge Country Club. The award was accepted by Diana Blankman, Director, Corporate Contributions and Community Outreach for Wyeth, and Nancy Miller-Rich, Group Vice President, Global New Ventures and Strategic Commercial Development for Schering-Plough Corporation.

This year’s gala, attended by more than 170 friends and supporters, raised over $50,000 for the non-profit organization’s work protecting water and land in the Great Swamp watershed region. The festivities included bidding on over 50 silent auction items, a seated dinner and presentation of the Dodge award by David Budd, GSWA’s board chairman to Ms. Blankman and Ms. Miller-Rich.

The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Memorial Award is given to a person or company whose contributions toward the preservation and protection of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, its watershed, and the watershed’s natural, historic and public resources have been extraordinary. Marcellus Hartley Dodge was instrumental in helping to save the Great Swamp from development as an airport, by providing funds for the initial purchases of core properties in 1959 and through his tireless efforts to ensure the additional donations that formed the nucleus of what is now the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

Schering-Plough Corporation and Wyeth have generously supported Great Swamp Watershed Association since 1997. Their support of the Adopt-a-Stream Project since 2003 has allowed the Great Swamp Watershed to conduct chemical analyses and water quality monitoring and to identify strategies for ecological restoration. Based on this data, DEP has proposed new regulations that will improve our drinking water.

Schering-Plough is an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription, animal health and consumer health care products. Schering-Plough's vision is to “Earn Trust, Every Day” with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its colleagues around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J.

Since the gala, Wyeth, a leader in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biotechnology products and non-prescription medicines that improve the quality of life for people worldwide merged with Pfizer, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company. Pfizer plans to retain offices in the watershed region.

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Founded in 1981, the Great Swamp Watershed Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the water and land of the 36,000-acre watershed region in Morris and Somerset counties. The organization works to maintain the beauty and health of open space, and to monitor and protect five streams: Loantaka Brook, Great Brook, Primrose Brook, Black Brook, and the Upper Passaic — which feed into the Passaic River and providing drinking water to more than a million people.
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