Awards, Honors, and Activities
Nutley/Belleville Thanksgiving Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nutley Football November 2005
Nutley Unico Man of the Year Award – May 2005
Nutley Soccer Hall of Fame – 1999
Tandy Technology Outstanding Mathematics Award
Outstanding Teacher Awards 1993–1994
Who’s Who in American Education
N.H.S. Football Record Holder for the Longest Punt 82 yards in 1957
Earned three Varsity letters in football and two in Track at N.H.S.
Captain of Seton Hall University Soccer team in 1962 (Nationally Ranked Team)
Earned three Varsity Letters in Soccer at Seton Hall 1960-1962
Nutley Unico 3rd Vice President, Program Chairman, Scholarship Committee
Nutley Elks
Nutley Hall of Fame Committee
Nutley Third Half Club
Nutley/Belleville Thanksgiving Football Committee
Nutley Midget Football Coach 1960–1964
Nutley Traveling Soccer Coach 1979–1989
1979 New Jersey Track Coach of the Year (with George Jenkins)
Coached Cedar Grove H.S. Track Team to Four State Sectional Championships
Co–founder of the Nutley Alumni Association responsible for college Scholarships for NHS students
1964 Nutley Board of Education candidate Youngest in township history to that point (age 24)
He was instrumental for many years in helping Nutley and Cedar Grove students gain admission to Seton Hall, Bloomfield College and Montclair State
Participated in and has supported numerous local charitable causes.
- Second Annual Dinner & Fundraiser to be held May 2, 2007
- Mike Geltrude Foundation to Headline historic Melanoma event
- Filming to begin for Documentary/Educational Video
- Mike Geltrude Foundation gives Keynote Speech at Penn State University Fundraiser
- Foundation to receive prestigious award from North Essex Chamber of Commerce
- Mike Geltrude Foundation honored by Nutley Unico
- Foundation Member wins award for Melanoma Presentation
- Governor Corzine to sign Mike Geltrude Bill in Nutley Town Hall
- NJ Senate and Assembly pass Mike Geltrude Bill
