In the 2008-09 school year, donations to the Brookline Education Foundation were made in honor of the following Runkle School educators:

Emily  Almeida
Geri  Belle
Marcy  Bienen
Alaina  Birden
Colleen  Boyle
Frank  Cabezas
Judy  Cooper
Sheila  Cusack
Sarah  DiMeo
Deanne   Dixon
Kara  Egasti
Angela  Galanopoulos
Teresa  Gallo-Toth
Liz  Gaston
Joanne  Guzzi
Sarah  Halter
Danielle  Halwick
Susan  Harmon
Maxine  Hunter
Claude  Kaitare
Gerard Kelly (retired)
Rebecca  Kemp
Shirley  Lazu
Emily  Leonard
Fred Lown
John  McTaggart
Tanya   Paris
Kate  Parker
Chad  Pelton
Alyssa Rubenstein  Schneider
Jennifer  Schultz
Rebecca  Sneider
Brea  Snyder
Allison  Sokoloff
Julie  Spector
James  Stoddard
John  Strecker
Jay  Sugarman
Laura  Vish
Marian  Voros
Roberta  Whalen