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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, July 17, 2019
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DiLorenzo is Grand Marshal of fire parade
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At the Highland Fire Company’s annual installation dinner in May, Lloyd Police Sgt. Phil Roloson [L] teases Stephen DiLorenzo by presenting
him with a ‘Fireball” cordial that he won but failed to take home after a Red Cross fundraising diner.
By MARK REYNOLDS
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Stephen DiLorenzo was chosen to be
the Grand Marshal of this year’s Ulster
County Volunteer Firemen’s Association
and Parade Convention that is scheduled
for July 27 and is being hosted by the
Highland Hose Company #1.
DiLorenzo joined the department on
October 21, 1969.
“I became a driver - operator shortly
after that and after two years I became a
Line Officer and then became a Captain.
For the next thirteen years I was some
form of an officer until I became Chief in
1987 through 1989.”
DiLorenzo married his wife Susan
(nee Busch) in 1972 and they have two
sons, Philip and Peter. Two grandsons
Benjamin and Jack now round out the
family.
In time DiLorenzo found himself
working on many firematic and social
committees for the fire company, became
a Trustee and joined both the Ulster
County Fire Chiefs Association and
the Ulster County Volunteer Firemen’s
Association.
In 1998 DiLorenzo ran and won his first
five year term as a Fire Commissioner
and today serves as their Chairman.
“I’m still very active and I’m still one
of the Top Responders. I didn’t give up
being a firefighter- driver operator and I
still go to calls,” he said.
DiLorenzo said being involved in
the fire department for all these years
runs in his blood; his father was a Fire
Commissioner in the 1970s and his father-
in-law was a Commissioner in the 1970s
and 1980s.
“It was kind of my path and I always
wanted to stay involved in it,” he said. “I
am going to stay as active as I can for as
long as I can.”
DiLorenzo said being named the
Grand Marshal by the Parade Committee
is truly an honor. He said he stays in
the department out of a desire to serve
his community, “but there’s a certain
amount of rush you get from it and I
think the camaraderie is a big deal.”
DiLorenzo expects that in the parade
he and his wife will ride together in
a special vehicle in the front and
will join the Master of Ceremony to
acknowledge each fire department
as they pass by the reviewing stand.
After the last fire company processes
by, they will then go out onto the town
field for a special ceremony that will
certainly bring attention to Highland’s
125 years of dedicated volunteer service
to the community, starting in 1894 and
unbroken through 2019.