The Edgemont Community Council Silver Bowl Award for distinguished community service has been awarded almost every year since 1950. Serving on this year’s Silver Bowl Award Committee were Peter Blier, Jon Lewis, Helene Orce, and Paul Wooten, with Monica Sganga serving as Chair. After reviewing numerous nominations, the committee recommended that we present this year’s Silver Bowl to Cotswold resident Pamela Borgeson Montgomery for her seventeen years of dedicated service to the Edgemont community.
An Edgemont graduate herself (EHS ’77), Pamela has been a tireless volunteer in our schools and neighborhood for nearly two decades. She served three years on the Board of Education, contributing to key committees and serving as liaison to the Edgemont Community Council, BOCES, and E Club. Her PTA and PTSA involvement spans nearly every role — PTSA Co-President, PTA Treasurer, Grade Parent, and Committee Co-Chair for numerous committees, including the PTSA STEM, Audit, and EHS Faculty Appreciation Luncheon Committees. She also helped organize beloved events such as the Seely Place Used Book Fair, Colonial Fair, and CKCC.
Beyond the schools, Pamela served the ECC as Secretary for two years and First Vice President for three years. She has also served on the ECC Nominating Committee, the School Board Nominating Committee, and the Silver Bowl Committee. Pamela chaired the 2024 ECC Bylaw Review Committee and played an active role in the ECC relaunch of the Edgemont Newcomers Club. She has contributed as an editor of the ECC Annual Newsletter for several years and is known for her sharp eye — always catching a correction in the ECC’s monthly meeting minutes. In addition, she supported the Girl Scouts as Cookie Chair for five years and has served as Democratic District Leader for District #35.
Professionally, Pamela is a retired partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP. She holds degrees from Columbia Law School, NYU Stern School of Business, and Princeton University. She and her husband Malcolm have raised their family in Edgemont, daughters Sasha (11 years in Edgemont schools) and Kyra (13 years in Edgemont schools, graduating from EHS in June 2024), and she continues to give back to the community that helped shape her.
Pamela is the sixth Edgemont alum to be honored with the Silver Bowl Award, joining John Moyle (Edgemont School ’54) honored in 1993, her Edgemont classmate Sarah Stern (EHS ’77) honored in 2008, David Chao (EHS ’80) honored in 2014, David M.C. Stern (EHS ’82) honored in 2019, and Walter Groden (EHS ’68) honored in 2020.
Please join the ECC in celebrating Pamela’s service at our Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 30 at 8:00PM in the Seely Place APR. Light coffee and dessert will be served at 7:30PM.