What:

Annual Postal Service Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony, the traditional opening for a weekend of Memorial Day commemorations around the Capital Region.

Who:

The Honorable Paul Tonko, United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Daniel McCoy, Albany County Executive
The Honorable Paula Mahan, Colonie Town Supervisor
Ken Secor, Veterans Service Bureau
William McCale, Albany Veteran’s Center
Mark Wyzmorski, National Association of Letter Carriers (Branch 39)
Color Guard, LaSalle Institute of Troy

Opening remarks for the Postal Service will be offered by Lawrence Elliott Sr., Albany Postmaster. The program is open to the public.

Additional postal participants include Ronald Mosall, who chairs the Albany Postal Veterans Committee, Matthew Tzkowski, Postmaster of Corinth who will play Taps, and Ron Mahoney, from the Albany Vehicle Maintenance Facility who will sing the National Anthem with his daughters Rachael and Chelsea.

When:

Friday, May 25, 2018 at  10 am

Where:

Patriots Way near the customer entrance of the Albany General Mail Facility
30 Old Karner Road, Colonie

Background:  

This year’s program honors Jean Dubois, a graduate of St Joseph’s Academy High School who enlisted in the US Navy Reserves at the age of 17.  He was active duty from 1964 through 1966 and worked in the ship store on the oil transporter USS Severn during the Vietnam era, managing retail operations and Navy Exchange stores.  Jean was honorably discharged.    

Jean became a Postal employee in 1980, after working with the family business, Dupuis Drywall, for many years.  He worked in the USPS maintenance department as a mail processing equipment mechanic and provided 25 years of service to USPS. 

He combined his love of nature and camping with 31 years of dedicated service to the Boy Scouts of America, starting as an active parent and continuing as his children grew.  Jean served as Assistant District Commissioner of the Fort Orange District of the Boy Scouts of America. Many scouts still recall Jean at the Poestenkill Rotary Scout reservation where he took summer vacations and served as unit leader. 

Jean, who married his high school love Susan, had six children.  It is a postal family as Sue worked as a window clerk and Jean’s son-in-law, Ryan Morrell, works as a supervisor in Glens Falls.

Jean Dupuis passed away in October 2005 at the age of 60.