His history of East Hanover, Gateway to Morris (1993), demonstrated his devotion to Morris County and New Jersey history, which is continued today by his frequent lectures on history to local groups.
MORRISTOWN, NJ, May 10, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Peter James Tamburro, Jr. has been included in the Marquis Who's Who roster of Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement inductees.
An award-winning educator during his forty years in public and private school teaching, Mr. Tamburro was recognized as New Jersey's Outstanding Teacher of History in 1990 and selected to represent New Jersey in the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's fellowship program at Princeton University in 1991. He also achieved recognition in athletic coaching as Morris County Coach of the Year in cross country in 2000. Winning over twenty journalism awards in his chess writing career from the Chess Journalists of America, Tamburro was voted Chess Journalist of the Year in 2006.
His chess writing includes having served as a feature writer for Chess Life magazine from 1973-2015 and Chess Life for Kids from 2006 to 2017. His column in British Chess Magazine has appeared since 2014. He was the Newark Star-Ledger chess columnist from 1997 until 2015 and the nationally syndicated columnist for the U.S. Chess Federation from 1994-2001. In 2016, he was named managing editor of the new American Chess Magazine.
Tamburro authored Learn Chess from the Greats (2000) and Openings for Amateurs (2014), the latter being translated and published in Italy. He also was editor of Teaching Chess Step by Step for the Kasparov Chess Foundation.
His history of East Hanover, Gateway to Morris (1993), demonstrated his devotion to Morris County and New Jersey history, which is continued today by his frequent lectures on history to local groups in Morris County and his work with the Morris County Historical Society. In 2016, he was appointed to the MCHS Board of Trustees. He also taught an adult school class in Montclair on New Jersey History and served five years as a legislative aide in the New Jersey State Legislature.
He received his B.A. from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA in 1969, served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971 and earned his M.A.T. from The College of New Jersey in 1973. His first three years of teaching were in the Morris School District and were followed by 29 years at Hanover Park High School, where he also served for six years as the president of the teachers' association. Tamburro ended his teaching career with eight years at the Frisch School in Paramus, NJ.
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