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VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS
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Grant/Cawley
April 20, 1990
Draft three
A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
((Acknowledgements))
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
I was reading about some of this year's award winners beforehand,
and came across the story of Mrs. Agnes Louise Windsor. She's
been a leader in her community of Slocum, Alabama, working 15
years to establish a public library there -- but she's also taken
a proud interest in her heritage. Over 30 years ago, Mrs.
Windsor inherited a trunk which belonged to her great-
grandparents -- who were former slaves -- full of clothing,
household goods and family portraits. In fact, they were the
first settlers of Slocum, with a land deed signed by President
Benjamin Harrison. Now the trunk is part of a black history
exhibit at the Heritage House, but it took her 30 years to open
the trunk. I was in Florida last weekend, and I still haven't
unpacked my suitcase. But hey, I'd say I'm ahead of the game
...
right, Mrs. Windsor? III
Each year a President presents many awards to deserving
people across this nation, but it is my special honor today to
present the 1990 President's Volunteer Action Awards to a group
of truly special Americans. III
I have often said that from now on, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others. And today's award
2
winners embody that definition. Let me tell you about a few of
them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
17 year-old high school student who watched the neighborhood
where he grew up give way to crime, drug dealing, and condemned
housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire destroyed
his home and killed his mother, cousin and aunt. Well, Clarence
decided it was time for action. He set up a Neighborhood Watch
program, set up citizen teams to paint over graffiti, and
encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to get rid of the
drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example to the young
people of this country, and I wish we had more like you. 11
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities
that provide a home -- really a haven is a better word -- to
women and children in crisis situations. Many facilities serving
women in trouble do not accept their children. Providence House
is unique, opening its doors to children and giving them the
security they need. One of the homes in the Providence House
network is creatively called "My Mother's House." It gives
shelter to the children of incarcerated women, allowing them
truthfully to tell their friends, "I live at My Mother's House
with my mother's friends." Another one of the homes is a
homeless shelter, providing family and job counseling. Over 100
concerned volunteers are involved in the Providence House
program. We appreciate your dedication to making a better life
for these women and children. 11
3
Next, there's the story of Henry Gaskins, a supervisor at
the Library of Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and
his wife Mary Ann, who works at NASA and also holds an education
degree. They began a youth club several years ago, but soon
decided that young people in the inner city needed more than just
a place to go. What began as after-school recreation soon became
after-school workshops on education and jobs -- so these young
people could really go places.
The Gaskins' began tutoring young black children for free
-- six days a week in their own home. The Freedom Youth Academy,
as the kids themselves named it, soon became a reality. Now over
80 percent of the Academy's students -- from kindergarten to
twelfth grade -- have received academic recognition. In fact,
the high school students' SAT scores have improved by anywhere
from 50 to 360 points, with many students going on to the
nation's top schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much
for these young people, and we're grateful to you. 11
And among the many businesses pitching in across America --
as "points of light," as I like to call them -- is the Adolph
Coors Company. Nearly half the total Coors workforce in the
state of Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and retirees,
have joined together to donate approximately 35,000 hours of
service to 116 separate projects in their communities. They've
participated in winter clothing drives, food drives, community
health checkups, low-income housing renovations, recycling
programs, Special Olympics -- you name it, they've done it.
4
((Must be something in that mountain water.)) The enthusiasm
these employees have for community service is remarkable, and
every company in America should follow your example. To all the
Coors employees, thank you for your time and talents. III
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what
really matters: values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President I want to promote those
values, for they are the core of community service. And they are
at the heart of a better country and a better world.
These great Americans hold the light of the world in their
hearts; and, like a candle in the steady hand, they share that
light and inspire commitment in so many others. Theirs is a path
of goodness and love through the dark night of sadness and
despair.
"Great deeds cannot die," wrote the poet Tennyson, "They
with the sun and moon renew their light for ever, blessing those
that look on them. " Thank you for your great deeds and God bless
each of you.
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
Grant/Cawley
April 20, 1990
Draft three
A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
((Acknowledgements))
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
I was reading about some of this year's award winners beforehand,
and came across the story of Mrs. Agnes Louise Windsor. She's
been a leader in her community of Slocum, Alabama, working 15
years to establish a public library there -- but she's also taken
a proud interest in her heritage. Over 30 years ago, Mrs.
Windsor inherited a trunk which belonged to her great-
grandparents -- who were former slaves -- full of clothing,
household goods and family portraits. In fact, they were the
first settlers of Slocum, with a land deed signed by President
Benjamin Harrison. Now the trunk is part of a black history
exhibit at the Heritage House, but it took her 30 years to open
the trunk. I was in Florida last weekend, and I still haven't
unpacked my suitcase. But hey, I'd say I'm ahead of the game
...
right, Mrs. Windsor? 111
Each year a President presents many awards to deserving
people across this nation, but it is my special honor today to
present the 1990 President's Volunteer Action Awards to a group
of truly special Americans. 111
I have often said that from now on, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others. And today's award
2
winners embody that definition. Let me tell you about a few of
them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
17 year-old high school student who watched the neighborhood
where he grew up give way to crime, drug dealing, and condemned
housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire destroyed
his home and killed his mother, cousin and aunt. Well, Clarence
decided it was time for action. He set up a Neighborhood Watch
program, set up citizen teams to paint over graffiti, and
encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to get rid of the
drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example to the young
people of this country, and I wish we had more like you. 11
1
1
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities M
that provide a home -- really a haven is a better word -- to
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women and children in crisis situations. Many facilities serving
women in trouble do not accept their children. Providence House
mothers
and
is unique, opening its doors to children, and giving them the
security they need. One of the homes in the Providence House
network is creatively called "My Mother's House." It gives
shelter to the children of incarcerated women, allowing them
truthfully to tell their friends, "I live at My Mother's House
with my mother's friends." Another one of the homes is a
homeless shelter providing family and job counseling. Over 100
concerned volunteers are involved in the Providence House
program. We appreciate your dedication to making a better life
for these women and children.
3
Next, there's the story of Henry Gaskins, a supervisor at
the Library of Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and
his wife Mary Ann, who works at NASA and also holds an education
degree. They began a youth club several years ago, but soon
decided that young people in the inner city needed more than just
a place to go. What began as after-school recreation soon became
after-school workshops on education and jobs -- so these young
people could really go places.
The Gaskins' began tutoring young black children for free
-- six days a week in their own home. The Freedom Youth Academy,
as the kids themselves named it, soon became a reality. Now over
80 percent of the Academy's students -- from kindergarten to
twelfth grade -- have received academic recognition. In fact,
the high school students' SAT scores have improved by anywhere
from 50 to 360 points, with many students going on to the
nation's top schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much
for these young people, and we're grateful to you. 11
And among the many businesses pitching in across America --
as "points of light," as I like to call them -- is the Adolph
Coors Company. Nearly half the total Coors workforce in the
state of Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and retirees,
have joined together to donate approximately 35,000 hours of
service to 116 separate projects in their communities. They've
participated in winter clothing drives, food drives, community
health checkups, low-income housing renovations, recycling
programs, Special Olympics -- you name it, they've done it.
4
( (Must be something in that mountain water.)) The enthusiasm
these employees have for community service is remarkable, and
every company in America should follow your example. To all the
Coors employees, thank you for your time and talents. III
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what
really matters: values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President 9 I want to promote those
which motivate
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values X for they are the core of community service And they are
at the heart of a better country and a better world.
hu humonity
These great Americans hold the light of the world in their
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hearts; and, like a candle in the steady hand, they share that
bright
light and inspire commitment in so many others. Theirs is a path
of goodness and love through the dark night of sadness and
despair.
"Great deeds cannot die," wrote the poet Tennyson, "They
with the sun and moon renew their light for ever, blessing those
that look on them. " Thank you for your great deeds and God bless
each of you.
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
Grant/Cawley
April 24, 1990
Draft four
A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
embated the spent
( (Acknowledgements) )
of Respergathers
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
The famous radio broadcaster Paul Harvey tells a story of a man
avery poor man will few passess our. who
named Willem wholed- of community service. After a mining
disaster in Southern Belgium, scores of villagers were injured
and no one fought harder to save them than he did, Day and
night, he nursed the wounded, fed the hungry and clothed the
poor.
He lived in a simple hut, dressed in an old coat and
trousers made of sacking.
Then one afternoon he noticed an old miner, bending beneath
the enormous weight of a full sack of coal. Fumbling through his
pockets, Willem pulled out a tattered envelope and a pencil, and
began to draw the weary figure. The first drawing was a rough
one, but he tried over and over again. Starting at that moment,
Willem was to capture for the world the torment, triumph and
dignity of the people he loved.
today
Years later, Vincent Willem Van Gogh, now one of the world's
beloved masters, painted one of his most famous paintings,
1854
"Starry
Night.
Spread across a broad and peaceful sky, like a
thousand points of light brilliant stars illuminate the sleepy
town below. Today, that phrase -- a "thousand points of light" -
- has become a symbol for the bright path taken by those serving
100 years have passed since V6 peplect hush
to easel and created a nos terprece.
2
others, as Vincent Willem Van Gogh did more than a century ago.
And as each of you here today does when you light the way for
those less fortunate.
I have often said that from now on, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others. I have presented
many awards to deserving people across this nation, and it is my
special honor today to present the 1990 President's Volunteer
Action Awards to a group of truly special Americans who embody
that definition of success. 111
Let me tell you about a few of them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
17 year-old high school student who watched the neighborhood
where he grew up give way to crime, drug dealing, and condemned
housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire destroyed
his home and killed his mother, cousin and aunt. Well, Clarence
decided it was time for action. He set up a Neighborhood Watch
program, set up citizen teams to paint over graffiti, and
encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to get rid of the
drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example to the young
people of this country, and I wish we had more like you. 11
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities
in New Rochelle, New York that provide a home -- really a haven
is a better word -- to women and children in crisis situations.
Unfortunately, too many facilities serving women in trouble do
not accept their children. Providence House is unique, opening
its doors to mothers and children, giving them the security they
3
need. One of the homes in the Providence House network is
creatively called "My Mother's House." It gives shelter to the
children of incarcerated women, allowing them to tell their
friends truthfully, "I live at My Mother's House with my mother's
friends." Another one of the homes is a homeless shelter
providing family and job counseling. Over 100 concerned
volunteers are involved in the Providence House program. We
appreciate your dedication to making a better life for these
women and children.
Next, there's the story of Henry Gaskins, a supervisor at
the Library of Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and
his wife Mary Ann, who works at NASA and also holds an education
degree. They began a youth club several years ago, but soon
decided that young people in the inner city needed more than just
a place to go. What began as after-school recreation soon became
after-school workshops on education and jobs -- so these young
people could really go places.
The Gaskins' began tutoring young black children for free
-- six days a week in their own home. The Freedom Youth Academy,
as the kids themselves named it, soon became a reality. Now over
80 percent of the Academy's students -- from kindergarten to
twelfth grade -- have received academic recognition. In fact,
the high school students' SAT scores have improved by anywhere
from 50 to 360 points, with many students going on to the
nation's top schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much
for these young people, and we're grateful to you. 11
4
And among the many businesses pitching in across America is
the Adolph Coors Company. Nearly half the total Coors workforce
in the state of Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and
retirees, have joined together to donate approximately 35,000
hours of service to 116 separate projects in their communities.
They've participated in winter clothing drives, food drives,
community health checkups, low-income housing renovations,
recycling programs, Special Olympics -- you name it, they've done
it. ( (Must be something in that mountain water.) The
enthusiasm these employees have for community service is
remarkable, and every company in America should follow your
example. To all the Coors employees, thank you for your time and
talents.
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what
really matters: values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President, I want to promote those
values which motivate community service for a better country and
a better world.
These great Americans hold the light of humanity in their
hearts; and, like a candle in a steady hand, they share that
light and inspire commitment in so many others. Theirs is a
bright path of goodness and love through the dark night of
sadness and despair.
5
"Great deeds cannot die," wrote the poet Tennyson, "They
with the sun and moon renew their light, for ever blessing those
that look on them. " Thank you for your great deeds and God bless
each of you.
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
Grant/Cawley
April 24, 1990
Draft five
A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
( (Acknowledgements) )
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
The famous radio broadcaster Paul Harvey tells a story of a man
named Willem who lived in Southern Belgium. He was a very poor
man who lived in a simple hut, dressed in an old coat and
trousers made of sacking cloth. But Willem embodied the spirit
of helping others, for he knew that although he had very few
possessions, he still had a gift to give.
When a mining disaster struck, many villagers were injured
Willem
and no one fought harder to save them than he did. For days on
injured
end, he cared for the wounded, and helped feed and clothe the
needy
Years later, Vincent Willem Van Gogh, today one of the
world's beloved masters, painted his famous "Starry Night."
a
Though one hundred years have passed since Van Gogh put brush to
canvas and created a masterpiece, the value of serving others has
not changed. Each of you here today like a "thousand points
of light" prove that, when you light the way for those less
rtunate.
I have often said that from now on, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others. I have presented
so
many awards to deserving people across this nation, and it is my
2
special honor today to present the 1990 President's Volunteer
symbolize
Action Awards to a group of truly special Americans who embody
that definition of success. III
Let me tell you about a few of them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
17 year-old high school student who watched the neighborhood
where he grew up give way to crime, drug dealing, and condemned
housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire destroyed
his home and killed his mother, cousin and aunt. Well, Clarence
decided it was time for action. He set up a Neighborhood Watch
program, set up citizen teams to paint over graffiti, and
encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to get rid of the
drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example to the young
people of this country, and I wish we had more like you. 11
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities
in New Rochelle, New York that provide a home -- really a haven
is a better word -- to women and children in crisis situations.
Unfortunately, too many facilities serving women in trouble do
not accept their children. Providence House is unique, opening
its doors to mothers and children, giving them the security they
need. One of the homes in the Providence House network is
creatively called "My Mother's House." It gives shelter to the
children of incarcerated women, allowing them to tell their
friends truthfully, "I live at My Mother's House with my mother's
friends." Another one of the homes is a homeless shelter
providing family and job counseling. Over 100 concerned
3
volunteers are involved in the Providence House program. We
appreciate your dedication to making a better life for these
women and children.
Next, there's the story of Henry Gaskins, a supervisor at
the Library of Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and
his wife Mary Ann, who works at NASA and also holds an education
degree. They began a youth club several years ago, but soon
decided that young people in the inner city needed more than just
a place to go. What began as after-school recreation soon became
after-school workshops on education and jobs -- so these young
people could really go places.
The Gaskins' began tutoring young black children for free
-- six days a week in their own home. The Freedom Youth Academy,
as the kids themselves named it, soon became a reality. Now over
80 percent of the Academy's students -- from kindergarten to
twelfth grade -- have received academic recognition. In fact,
the high school students' SAT scores have improved by anywhere
from 50 to 360 points, with many students going on to the
nation's top schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much
for these young people, and we're grateful to you. 11
And among the many businesses pitching in across America is
the Adolph Coors Company. Nearly half the total Coors workforce
in the state of Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and
retirees, have joined together to donate approximately 35,000
hours of service to 116 separate projects in their communities.
They've participated in winter clothing drives, food drives,
4
community health checkups, low-income housing renovations,
recycling programs, Special Olympics --- you name it, they've done
it. ((Must be something in that mountain water.) The
enthusiasm these employees have for community service is
remarkable, and every company in America should follow your
example. To all the Coors employees, thank you, for your time and
talents.
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what
really matters: values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President, I want to promote those
values which motivate community service for a better country and
a better world.
of
here
These great Americans hold the light of humanity in their
hearts; and, like a candle in a steady hand, they share that
light and inspire commitment in so many others. Theirs is a
bright path of goodness and love through the dark night of
sadness and despair.
"Great deeds cannot die," wrote the poet Tennyson, "They
with the sun and moon renew their light, for ever blessing those
that look on them." Thank you for your great deeds and God bless
each of you.
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
Henry Jesse and Mary Ann Gaskins
Washington, D.C.
Henry and Mary Ann Gaskins founded the Freedom Youth Academy to
provide supplementary educational assistance to inner city
students from elementary school through college. They began
their involvement as a neighborhood youth club but soon realized
that the young people needed advice about college, jobs and
family situations.
Mr. Gaskins had worked for some time as a tutor in a suburban
program where children paid $35 an hour for assistance which
would propel them into some of the nation's best schools.
Feeling that the black community does not place a high value on
education, the Gaskins decided to develop their own program and
bring the services to black children at no cost. Mr. Gaskins
holds a doctor's degree in education and is a supervisor at the
Library of Congress; Mrs. Gaskins, who holds a bachelor's degree
in education, works at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration headquarters.
The program runs in their home Monday through Friday from 4:00 pm
to 8:00 pm and on Saturdays from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The objec-
tives are to teach the young people to utilize their skills
fully; to improve study habits and math and verbal skills; to
stimulate and develop creative abilities; to develop leadership
and social responsibility; to improve school and scholastic test
performance; and to motivate the students to excel in academic
pursuits.
They involve teacher volunteers and peer tutors on a volunteer
basis. The Academy offers a variety of individualized, small
group, computerized and video programs designed to develop and
enhance the verbal, math and reasoning abilities of the student.
Because standardized exams are the doorway to higher education
and career advancement, the program also emphasizes test-taking
techniques and strategies that are vital in preparing students
for scholastic aptitude tests.
Students attending the Academy have consistently improved their
performance: their SAT scores have improved from 50 to 360
points; over 80 percent of the Academy's total enrollment have
achieved academic recognition at their schools; students are
attending some of the nation's most prestigious schools. Among
individual successes are the average student who attended for
three years and graduated as class valedictorian; the high school
athlete who raised his SAT score by 360 point after six months
and won an athletic scholarship to college; and the student who
graduated from college summa cum laude.
Classes are free but the Gaskins recently began asking students
to pay $5 a session to cover the costs of school supplies such as
computer software, photocopying, books and videos; however, those
unable to afford the tuition are still accepted into the program.
Agnes Louise Windsor
Slocomb, AL
Agnes Louise Windsor has been the leading force behind the
development of a public library in the town of Slocomb and has
used her own family's heritage to develop a program of black
history for the community.
An elementary social studies teacher, Mrs. Windsor worked for 15
years to establish the library. She worked closely with the city
government on the project and the result is a facility with over
80,000 volumes. She now serves as the chairwoman of the library
board.
Over 30 years ago, Mrs. Windsor inherited a trunk of clothing,
household goods, family portraits and other items, some of which
had belonged to her great grandparents, who were former slaves.
The first settlers in the Slocomb area, her great grandparents
moved there in the 1880s and the land deeds to their property
were signed by President Benjamin Harrison. Several of the
family portraits in the collection date to 1835.
However, it was only in 1983 that she opened the trunk and
investigated its contents. Mrs. Windsor uses these items and
others in her collection to mount the black history display which
is featured every February at the Heritage House. She inherited
the home, unchanged since it was built in 1906. She draws on the
stories passed down through her family as well as her research in
making oral presentations on the history of one family from
slavery to the present.
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life must include serving others. And today's award winners
embody that definition. Let me tell you about a few of them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
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condemned housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire
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Neighborhood Watch program, set up citizen teams to paint over
graffiti, and encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to
get rid of the drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example
to the young people of this country, and I wish we had more like
you. Thank you.
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April 20, 1990
Draft two
A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
((Acknowledgements))
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
Seeing so many volunteer leaders here today reminds me of a story
about the Red Cross, one of the largest and best-recognized
volunteer organizations in the world. It's a story that begins
with a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin
all but covered by snow drifts.
they
A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to within
a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and shoveled a
path through the now. Finally, arriving at the door, the lead
rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.
"We're from the Red Cross," the rescuer explained. The
mountaineer stood and scratched his head. "Well, it's been a
right tough winter," he said at last. "I don't see how we can
give anything this year. " in
like
each of you is a profile are construct.
I thought of that story because everyone here is part of a
Some of
rescue operation. not just those of you who bravely went out in
the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake --
Others are
to lend a hand
but the ones who ^ reaching out every day to those free-falling
through GOE society, to give them a hand, give them a start on a
new beginning, And because of every one these unselfish
to help SO money face terrible
trapedy and loss.
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should follow your example. To all the Coors employees, thank
you for your time and talents. III
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without A purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what really
matters: simple values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President I want to promote those
community service
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lent
the core of a better country and a better world.
These great Americans hold the light of the world in their
maskady hand, they share that
hearts, and, like a candle they pass the flame to others without
Theirs is
extinguishing it in themselves. And in the process they Light
a path of
might =
the way-for goodness and love through the darkness of sadness and
despair.
"Great deeds cannot die, " wrote the poet Tennyson,
"They with the sun and moon renew their light for ever, blessing
Neverse
those that look on them." God bless each of you, and thank you
for your great deeds and
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
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They needed
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appreciate your dedication to making a better life for these
women and children.
Here in Washington, Henry and Mary Ann Gaskins began a youth
club, the eedom Youth Academy, but soon decided that young
people in the inner city needed advice about college, jobs, and
to go, education and 50 they
Could go places
their future.
So Mr. Gaskins, a supervisor at the Library of
Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and Mrs. Gaskins,
who works at NASA and also holds an education degree, began
tutoring young black children for free -- six days a week in
The Freedom youth academy become a reality.
their own home. A Soon enough, their students' SAT scores jumped
by anywhere from 50 to 360 points; over 80 percent of the
statents
Academy's enrollment have received academic recognition at their
for the schedule regular
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schools, with thier= students going to the nation's top schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much for these young people,
and we're grateful to you.
And among the many businesses pitching in across America --
as "points of light," as I like to call them -- is the Adolph
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Coors Company. Nearly half the total Coors workforce in
Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and retirees, have joined
together to donate approximately 35,000 hours of service to 116
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separate projects in the community. They've participated in
winter clothing drives, food drives, community health checkups,
low-income housing renovations, recycling programs, Special
Olympics -- you name it, they've done it. ((Must be something in
that mountain water.)) The enthusiasm these employees have for
community service is remarkable, and every company in America
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(Neque est ullum certius amicitiæ vinculum
Friendships renewed demand more care than
quam consensus et societas consiliorum et
those which have never been broken. (Les
voluntatum.)
amitiés renouées demandent plus de soins
CICERO, Pro Cnæo Plancio. Ch. ii, sec. 5.
que celles qui n'ont jamais été rompues.)
11
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maximes Posthumes, 560.
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy
2
friendships; it softens the heart, and even
The friendship between me and you I will
affects the nervous system of those who have
not compare to a chain; for that the rains
no heart.
might rust, or the falling tree might break.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Endymion. Ch. 52.
WILLIAM PENN, Treaty With the Indians.
12
(BANCROFT, History of the United States.)
To friendship every burden's light.
3
When did friendship take
JOHN GAY, The Hare with Many Friends.
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
13
SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice. Act i,
A gen'rous friendship no cold medium knows,
SC. 3, 1. 134.
Burns with one love, with one resentment
If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
glows;
To the last article.
One should our int'rests and our passions be:
SHAKESPEARE, Othello. Act iii, SC. 1, 1. 21.
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
4
HOMER, Iliad. Bk. ix, 1. 725. (Pope, tr.)
No friendship can survive the gift of gold.
14
The generous can indeed forget that they
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heav'n,
have given, but the grateful can never forget
The noble mind's delight and pride,
that they have received.
To men and angels only giv'n,
WILLIAM SMITH, Thorndale. Bk. ii, ch. 6.
To all the lower world denied.
5
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Friendship: An Ode.
Either friendship or death.
15
Babylonian Talmud: Taanith, p. 23a.
Pure friendship is something which men of an
The virtue is no less to conserve friendship gotten,
inferior inteilect can never taste.
than the wisdom was great to get and win the
LA BRUYÈRE, Les Caractères. Ch. 5.
same.
16
WILLIAM PAINTER, The Palace of Pleasure, ii,
Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
177. (1567)
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happi-
6
ness of existence.
Friendship is to be purchased only by friend-
SYDNEY SMITH. (LADY HOLLAND, Memoir: Of
ship.
Friendship. Vol. i, ch. 6, p. 122.)
THOMAS WILSON, Maxims of Piety, p. 52.
III-Friendship: Its Virtues
IV-Friendship: Its Faults
17
7
The worst solitude is to have no true friend-
The friendships of the world are oft
ships.
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.
FRANCIS BACON, De Augmentis Scientiarum:
ADDISON, Cato. Act iii, SC. 1.
18
Pt. i, bk. 6, Amicitia.
8
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual
Friendship can smooth the front of rude
decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes
despair.
too slender for complaint, and too numerous
RICHARD CAMBRIDGE, The Scribleraid. Bk i, 1.
for removal.
196.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler. No. 23.
9
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet
Friendship adds a brighter radiance to pros-
by the first act of uncommon kindness it is en-
perity and lightens the burden of adversity
dangered, like plants that bear their fruit and die.
by dividing and sharing it. (Nam et secundas
SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler. No. 64.
res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas,
19
partiens communicansque leviores.)
Safe and frequented is the path of deceit un-
CICERO, De Amicitia. Ch. 6, sec. 22.
der the name of friendship. (Tuta frequensque
They seem to take the sun from the heavens who
via est per amici fallere nomen.)
take friendship from life, for we receive from the
OVID, Ars Amatoria. Bk. i, 1. 585.
immortal gods no better or more delightful boon.
20
(Solem enim e mundo tollere videntur ei, qui
Friendship is but a name. (Nomen amicitia
amicitiam e vita tollunt, qua nihil a dis immor-
est.)
talibus melius habemus nihil jucundius.)
OVID, Ars Amatoria. Bk. i, 1. 740.
CICERO, De Amicitia. Ch. 13, sec. 47.
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
10
Unless to one you stint the flame.
Complete unity of aim is the traditional con-
The child, whom many fathers share,
dition of genuine and sincere friendship.
Hath seldom known a father's care.
FRIEND
FRIEND
729
1
9
I would not enter on my list of friends.
No receipt openeth the heart but a true
(Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine
friend.
sense
FRANCIS BACON, Essays: Of Friendship.
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
From quiet homes and first beginning,
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Out to the undiscovered ends,
COWPER, The Task. Bk. vi, 1. 560.
There's nothing worth the wear of winning
2
But laughter and the love of friends.
Fate makes relatives, but choice makes
HILAIRE BELLOC, Sonnets and Verse: Dedica-
friends. (Le sort fait les parents, le choix
tory Ode.
10
fait les amis.)
I wish my deadly foe no worse
DELILE, Pitié.
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Friends—those relatives that one makes for one's
NICHOLAS BRETON, A Farewell to Town.
self. (Les amis-ces parents que l'on se fait
11
soi-même.)
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good
DESCHAMPS, L'Ami.
friendship, and great hearts expand
3
And grow one in the sense of this world's
"Tis thus that on the choice of friends
life.
Our good or evil name depends.
ROBERT BROWNING, Saul. St. 7.
JOHN GAY, Fabies: Old Woman and Her Cats.
12
4
Elysium is as far as to
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but
The very nearest room,
choice.
If in that room a friend await
JAMES HOWELL, Proverbs. (1659)
5
Felicity or doom.
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
EMILY DICKINSON, Poems. Pt. iii, No. 4.
13
To find one good, you must a hundred try.
Who is more indefatigable in toil, when there
CLAUDE MERMET, Epigram.
6
is occasion for toil, than a friend? Who is
Do not be rash to make friends and, when
readier to rejoice in one's good fortune?
once they are made, do not drop them.
Whose praise is sweeter? From whose lips
SOLON. (DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Solon. Sec. 16.)
does one learn the truth with less pain? What
7
fortress. what bulwarks, what arms are more
Choose for your friend him that is wise and
steadfast than loyal hearts?
good, secret and just, ingenious and honest,
DIO CHRYSOSTOM, First Discourse on King-
and in those things which have a latitude, use
ship. Sec. 31.
your own liberty.
14
JEREMY TAYLOR, Discourse of the Nature,
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT, Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iii, 1. 486.
Friend more divine than all divinities.
When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I
have received a kindness; but I will choose such
GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iv, 1. 8.
15
a one that can do me many if I need them; but
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser,
But for a friend is life too short.
and which make me better.
JEREMY TAYLOR, Discourse of the Nature,
EMERSON, Conduct of Life: Considerations by
Measurcs, and Offices of Friendship.
the Way.
We take care of our health; we lay up money;
A good man is the best friend, and therefore
we make our roof tight, and our clothing suffi-
soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and
cient; but who provides wisely that he shall not
indeed, never to be parted with.
be wanting in the best property of all,-friends?
JEREMY TAYLOR, A Discourse of the Nature,
EMERSON, Conduct of Life: Considerations by
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
the Way.
16
0 friend, my bosom said,
V-Friends: Their Value
Through thee alone the sky is arched,
8
Without friends no one would choose to live,
Through thee the rose is red.
even if he had all other goods. ("Aveu rap філши
RALPH WAI.DO EMERSON. Friendship.
17
oúõeis ёлост' av snv EXWV Tà Логтà àyaðà πávra.)
Of all the means to insure happiness through-
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics. Bk. viii. sec. 1.
out the whole of life, by far the most impor-
Frier ds are an aid to the young, to guard them
tant is the acquisition of friends.
from error; to the elderly, to attend to their
EPICURUS, Souran Maxims. No. 27.
wants; and to supplement their failing power of
18
action; to those in the prime of life, to assist
A friend in the market is better than money
them to noble deeds.
in the chest.
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics. Bk. viii, sec. 1.
THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia. No. 119.
426
DEEDS
DEEDS
DEEDS
1
Holds in itself the seed
What's done can't be undone. (Ce qui
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. (Di
pia facta vident.)
Of retribution and undying pain.
ne se peult desfaire.)
LONGFELLOW, The Masque of Pandora. Pt.
MONTAIGNE, Essays. Bk. iii, ch. 2.
OVID, Fasti. Bk. ii, 1. 117.
viii. See also under RETRIBUTION.
liee also under PROVIDENCE.
2
13
1
Your deeds are known,
Many things, base in the doing, please when
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage
In words that kindle glory from the stone.
done. (Multaque, dum fiunt, turpia, facta
done nothing, but one should not abus
SCHILLER, The Walk.
placent.)
RIVAROL, Petit Almanach de nos
3
Things done well,
OVID, Ars Amatoria. Bk. iii, 1. 218.
Hommes: Preface.
14
Did nothing in particular, And did it V
And with a care, exempt themselves from
Foul deeds will rise,
W.S. GILBERT, Iolanthe. Act ii.
fear;
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's
2
Things done without example, in their issue
eyes.
And all that you are sorry for is wi
Are to be fear'd.
SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet. Act i, SC. 2. See also
haven't done.
SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII. Act i, SC. 2, 1. 88.
under MURDER.
MARGARET WIDDEMER, De Senectute.
4
15
How far that little candle throws his beams!
There shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
VI-Deed and Doer
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. Act iii, SC. 2, 1. 43.
3
SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice. Act v,
A deed without a name.
Who doth right deeds
SC. 1, 1. 90.
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. Act iv, SC. 1, 1. 49.
Is twice-born, and who doeth ill deeds
O, would the deed were good
Deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed.
EDWIN ARNOLD, The Light of Asia. Bk.
For now the devil, that told me I did well,
SHAKESPEARE, Othello. Act iii, SC. 3, 1. 370.
4
Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
16
We are much beholden to Machia
SHAKESPEARE, Richard II. Act v, SC. 5, 1. 115.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
others, that write what men do, and n
5
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. Act v, SC. 1, 1. 79.
they ought to do.
Not till earth be sunless, not till death strike
17
BACON, Advancement of Learning. Bk
blind the skies,
You undergo too strict a paradox,
5
May the deathless love that waits on deathless
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
I did some excellent things indifferent
deeds be dead.
SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens. Act iii, 5, 24.
Some bad things excellently. Bot
SWINBURNE, Grace Darling, 1. 103.
18
6
Let guilty men remember their black deeds
praised,
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
The latter loudest.
Great deeds cannot die;
JOHN WEBSTER, The White Devil. Act v, SC. 6.
E. B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh. Bk. i
They with the sun and moon renew their light
6
For ever, blessing those that look on them.
V-Deeds Done and Undone
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, fr
TENNYSON, The Princess. Pt. iii, 1. 237.
19
but self expect applause.
7
We have left undone those things which we
SIR RICHARD BURTON, The Kasidal
And do we still hesitate to extend our renown
ought to have done; and we have done those
viii, st. 37.
by deeds? (Et dubitamus adhuc virtutem ex-
things which we ought not to have done.
7
tendere factis?)
Book of Common Prayer: General Confes-
Our grand business undoubtedly is, n
VERGIL, AEneid. Bk. vi, 1. 806.
sion.
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
It is valor's task to extend our fame by deeds.
20
lies clearly at hand.
(Sed famam extendere factis, Hoc virtutis opus.)
For deeds undone
CARLYLE, Essays: Signs of the Times
VERGIL, Aneid, Bk. x, 1. 468. "Famam ex-
Rankle and snarl and hunger for their due,
Our works are the mirror wherein the si
tendere factis"-To extend fame by deeds—
Till there seems naught so despicable as you
sees its natural lineaments.
was the motto of Linnæus.
In all the grin o' the sun.
CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus. Bk. ii, ch.
8
W. E. HENLEY, Rhymes and Rhythms. No.
8
A deed well done pleaseth the heart.
vii, st. 2.
Our deeds determine us, as much as
UNKNOWN, How the Good Wife, 1. 110. (1460)
21
termine our deeds.
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to
consider what he has done, compared with
GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede. Ch. 29.
IV-Deeds: Evil Deeds
9
Our deeds still travel with us from afar
what he might have done.
When about to commit a base deed, respect
And what we have been makes us what
SAMUEL JOHNSON. (BOSWELL, Life, 1770.)
thyself, though there is no witness. (Turpe
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch: Ch. 7
22
quid ausurus, te sine teste time.)
It is done and cannot be undone. (Factum est
ing.
ANACHARSIS. (AUSONIUS [?], Septem Sapien-
illud: fieri infectum non potest.)
Our deeds are like children born to us:
tum Sententiæ, 1. 43.)
PLAUTUS, Aulularia, 1. 741. (Act iv, SC. 10.)
and act apart from our own will. Chil
10
Inasmuch as ill deeds spring up as a spon-
The thing that is done cannot be undone.
be strangled, but deeds never.
RICHARD TAVERNER, Proverbs. No. 35. (1539)
GEORGE ELIOT, Romola. Ch. 16.
taneous crop, they are easy to learn.
9
CERVANTES, Coloquio de los Perros.
What's done, cannot be undone.
The manly part is to do with might a
11
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. Act v, SC. 1, 74. (1606)
what you can do.
Men loved darkness rather than light, because
Things without all remedy
EMERSON, Conduct of Life: Wealth.
their deeds were evil.
Should be without regard; what's done is done.
10
New Testament: John, iii, 19.
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. Act iii, SC. 2, 1. 11.
For as one star another far exceeds,
12
What is done cannot be now amended.
So souls in heaven are placèd by the
Every guilty deed
SHAKESPEARE, Richard III. Act iv, SC. 4, 1. 291.
ROBERT GREENE, A Maiden's Dream.
DEEDS
DEEDS
425
But these are deeds that should not pass away,
here are deeds which have no form.
And names that must not wither.
SHELLEY, The Cenci. Act iii, SC. 1.
BYRON, Childe Harold. Canto iii, st. 67.
Ve do as we can, since we can't do as we
Things of to-day
ould, as the saying is. (Ut quimus, aiunt,
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!
EBENEZER ELLIOTT, Hymn, 1. 22.
uando ut volumus non licet.)
13
TERENCE, Andria, 1. 805. (Act iv, SC. 5.)
There may be danger in the deed,
II-Deeds: Deed and Thought
But there is honour too.
W. E. AYTOUN, The Island of the Scots, 1. 43.
ur deeds are sometimes better than our
14
thoughts.
Great things are done when men and moun-
P. J. BAILEY, Festus: A Village Feast, 1. 918.
tains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but
WILLIAM BLAKE, Gnomic Verses. No. 1.
what man Would do.
15
ROBERT BROWNING, Saul. Sec. xviii.
Great deeds are reserved for great men.
Ve know better than we do.
CERVANTES, Don Quixote. Pt. ii, ch. 23.
EMERSON, Essays, First Series: The Over-
His deeds inimitable.
Soul.
CHAPMAN, Bussy D'Ambois. Act i, SC. 1.
16
Knowledge we ask not-knowledge Thou hast
Remember thine own verse: "Should heaven
lent,
turn hell
But, Lord, the will-there lies our bitter need,
For deeds well done, I would do ever well."
Give us to build above the deep intent
CHAPMAN, The Tears of Peace: Induction.
The deed, the deed.
17
JOHN DRINKWATER, A Prayer.
Born, Cæsar-like, to write and act great deeds.
DRYDEN, Annus Mirabilis. St. 175.
Do noble things, not dream them.
18
CHARLES KINGSLEY, A Farewell.
No great deed is done
To stretch the octave 'twixt the dream and deed,
By falterers who ask for certainty.
h, that's the thrill!
GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, The Decadent to His
19
Soul.
Desperate deeds of derring do.
Thinking the deed, and not the creed,
W.S. GILBERT, Ruddigore. Act i.
20
Would help us in our utmost need.
I count this thing to be grandly true:
LONGFELLOWA Tales of a Wayside Inn: Prel-
ude, 1. 221.
That a noble deed is a step toward God.
J. G. HOLLAND, Gradatim.
And what they dare to dream of, dare to do.
Nor doubt that golden chords
J. R. LOWELL, Commemoration Ode.
Of good works, mingling with the visions, raise
The dreaming doer is the master poet-
The soul to purer worlds.
nd lo, the perfect lyric is a deed!
WORDSWORTH, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Pt. i, 18.
JOHN G. NEIHARDT, The Lyric Deed.
21
First in the fight, and ev'ry graceful deed.
pace is as nothing to spirit, the deed is out-
HOMER, Iliad. Bk. iv, 1. 295. (Pope, tr.)
done by the doing.
22
RICHARD REALF, Indirection.
Oh! 'tis easy
To beget great deeds; but in the rearing of
He knows a baseness in his blood
them—
t such strange war with something good,
There lies the self-denial.
He may not do the thing he would.
CHARLES KINGSLEY, The Saint's Tragedy. Act
TENNYSON, The Two Voices, 1. 301.
iv, SC. 3.
23
orget the poet, but his warning heed,
But the good deed, through the ages
nd shame his pcor word with your nobler
Living in historic pages,
deed.
Brighter grows and gleams immortal,
WHITTIER, The Panorama. Last lines.
VILL FOR THE DEED, see under WILL.
Unconsumed by moth or rust.
LONGFELLOW, The Norman Baron.
III-Deeds: Great Deeds
Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
2
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought,
ur wreaths may fade, our flowers may wane,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
ut his well-ripened deeds remain.
To higher levels rise.
ALFRED AUSTIN, At His Grave.
LONGFELLOW, Santa Filomena.
CANDOR
216
CANDLE
CANDOR
1
9
I sketch your world exactly as it goes.
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and
BYRON, Don Juan. Canto viii, st. 89.
BYRON, Don Juan. Canto xii, st. 21.
play the man. We shall this day light such a
But now I'm going to be immoral; now
Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
candle, by God's grace, in England, as I
I mean to show things really as they are,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
trust shall never be put out.
Not as they ought to be.
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
HUGH LATIMER, at the stake, to Nicholas Rid-
BYRON, Don Juan. Canto xii, st. 40.
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
ley, who was burned with him, 16 Oct.,
GEORGE CRABBE, The Parish Register: Intro-
1555. (The Martyrdom, p. 523.) Hume
1 I was so free with him as not to min
duction. Pt. i.
(History of England. Ch. 37) gives a slightly
different version.
matter. CERVANTES, Don Quixote: Author's Pre
Some future strain in which the muse shall tell
10
How science dwindles and how volumes swell.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it
2 We use great plainness of speech.
How commentaries each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it
New Testament: II Corinthians, iii, 12.
YOUNG, Love of Fame. Sat. vii, 1. 95.
giveth light unto all that are in the house.
3 "Not to put too fine a point upon
2
New Testament: Matthew, v, 15.
favourite apology for plain-speaking W
How inferior for seeing with, is your bright-
Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or
est train of fireworks to the humblest farth-
under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
Snagsby. DICKENS, Bleak House. Ch. 11.
ing candle!
New Testament: Mark, iv, 21.
CARLYLE, Essays: Diderot.
3
And useless as a candle in a skull.
4 Speak boldly, and speak truly, sha
WILLIAM COWPER, Conversation, 1. 785.
devil.
Then he never snuffed a candle with his
fingers.
11
JOHN FLETCHER, Wit Without Money
CHARLES I, of Spain, reading upon the tomb-
He that is worst may still hold the candle.
SC. 4. See also 2057:15.
stone of a Spanish grandee, "Here lies one
JOHN RAY, nglish Proverbs.
5 Do all things like a man, not sneakin
who never knew fear." (BOSWELL, Johnson,
Must I hold a candle to my shames?
Think the king sees thee still; for h
1769.)
SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice. Act
4
ii, SC. 6, 1. 41.
His candle burns within the socket.
GEORGE does. HERBERT, The Church-Porch
I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.
JOHN CLARKE, Paræm. Anglo-Latina, 279.
Frankness is a natural quality. (La frar
SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet. Act i, SC. 4, 1.
5
38.
une qualité naturelle.)
The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays,
12
JOUBERT, Pensées. No. 108.
and the papillæ of a man run out to every star.
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
EMERSON, Conduct of Life: Fate.
SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice. Act
6 Speak out, hide not thy thoughts. ('E
6
ii, SC. 9, 1. 79.
KEÛOE vów.)
Tace, madam, is Latin for candle.
13
HOMER, Iliad. Bk. i, 1. 363.
FIELDING, Amelia. Bk. i, ch. 10.
And then, exulting in their taper, cry,
He spake, and into every heart his word
Brandy is Latin for a goose and Tace is Latin for
"Behold the sun; and, Indian-like, adore!
Carried new strength and courage.
a candle.
YOUNG, Night Thoughts. Night iv, 1. 779.
HOMER, Iliad. Bk. v, 1. 586. (Bryant,
SWIFT, Polite Conversation. Dial. i. (According
tc Notes and Queries, 6 Dec., 1851, this ex-
7 Be not ashamed to say what you
pression is much older and occurs in
CANDOR
ashamed to think. (Non pudeat dic
Dampier's Voyages, 1686.)
See also Heart: The Speaking Heart;
non pudet sentire.)
7
Sincerity
MONTAIGNE, Essays. Bk. iii, ch. 5. (
He consuming just like a candle on both ends,
8
between wine and women.
I-Candor: Definitions
His heart's his mout
RICHARD FLECKNOE, Enigmatic Characters, p.
14
64. (1658)
"Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts,
What his breast forges, that his tor
Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face,
vent.
The butler and steward were in a confederacy
SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus. Act iii, so
and burnt the candle at both ends.
When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
ADDISON, Cato. Act i, SC. 4.
He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and
LE SAGE, Gil Blas, iii, 116. (Smollet, tr.)
is the clapper, for what his heart thinks
My candle burns at both ends;
You know I say
It will not last the night;
Just what I think, and nothing more nor
speaks. SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About N
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
less,
iii, SC. 2, 1. 13.
It gives a lovely light!
I cannot say one thing and mean another.
He speaks home, madam; you may
EDNA Sr. VINCENT MILLAY, A Few Figs from
LONGFELLOW, Giles Corey. Act ii, SC. 3.
more in the soldier than in the schol
Thistles: First Fig.
15
SHAKESPEARE, Othello. Act ii. SC. 1,
Gracious to all, to none subservient,
8 Sith Nature thus gave her the praise,
9
I want that glib and
Without offence he spake the word he meant.
To be the chiefest work she wrought,
To speak and purpose not.
T. B. ALDRICH, The Sisters' Tragedy.
SHAKESPEARE, King Lear. Act 1, S
In faith, methink, some better ways
16
On your behalf might well be sought,
To talk like a Scythian.
Henceforth my wooing mind shall b
Than to compare, as ye have done,
ANACHARSIS, who was a Scythian, and so frank,
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes
To match the candle with the sun.
that this phrase became a synonym for frank-
SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Los
HENRY HOWARD, Sonnet to the Fair Geral-
ness. (DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Anacharsis, 1.)
2, 1. 412.
17
dine.
Without, or with, offence to friends or foes,
10 He was wont to speak plain, and
APR-11-90 WED 13:10 VOLUNTEER
P.02
April 11, 1990
Ms. Leah Geraghty
Deputy Director
Office of National Service
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Leah:
To help us in our final planning for the events associated with
the presentation of the 1990 President's Volunteer Action Awards,
I will outline those events, tentative schedules and what needs
to be accomplished over the next two weeks.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1990
5:30 pm - Orientation
The Mayflower
During our orientation, ACTION will film brief
interviews (1 minute) with each of the winners.
They may ask Gregg Petersmeyer to film an
introduction at the end of this session.
6:30 pm - Reception
East Room, The Mayflower
Stand up cocktail reception, no program
7:30 pm - Dinner
State Room, The Mayflower
Seated dinner. The 250 guests include all winners,
their guests, VOLUNTEER board, ACTION regional
directors, representatives of the nine corporate/
foundation program sponsors, representatives of
voluntary organizations, staff from the White
House Office of National Service, VOLUNTEER and
ACTION. Invitations to the dinner will be mailed
Friday, April 13.
We're working with Perry Liles to secure a member
of the President's Cabinet as the main speaker.
Following is a tentative schedule with approximate
times for the evening:
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7:30 pm Call to order, welcome
George Romney
7:35 pm - Dinner
8:20 pm - Introduce Award Winners
Frank Bailey
8:35 pm - Introduce Jane Kenny
Frank Bailey
8:37 pm - Jane Kenny
8:42 pm - Introduce Gregg Petersmeyer
George Romney
8:45 pm - Gregg Petersmeyer
8:50 pm - Introduce Funders
Frank Bailey
Governor Romney, Gregg Petersmeyer &
Jane Kenny will present gifts to funders
(photo)
9:05 pm - - Introduce main speaker
Governor Romney
9:10 pm - - Main speaker
9:25 pm - Closing
Governor Romney
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
Following times are based on past experience and can
be adapted to needs of White House Social Office.
10:00 am - Award winners gather at ACTION
10:45 am - Depart by bus for White House
11:00 am - Award winners and other ceremony participants cleared
in to White House for briefing by Social Office.
I understand invitations to the luncheon went out
on April 10. Because we invited the full Cabinet, we
were unable to accommodate the entire guest list and
I submitted a supplementary list. As regrets come in
to the Social Office, those on the supplementary list
will be invited.
Awards Presentation - East Room
The guests, including the award winners will assemble
in the East Room. When in place, the President and
Mrs. Bush will be announced.
President Bush will open the awards presentation
with remarks, approximately ten minutes. Frank
Bailey will provide you with talking points or
suggestions late Monday, April 16.
We'd like to recommend that Governor Romney and Jane
Kenny assist the President in the presentation.
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President Bush will present the awards individually
to the award winners. In the case of an organiza-
tion, one person will accept. I'll provide those
names to you next week. I assume that seating at
this event will be open, theatre style. It would be
nice if we could put the booklets on the seats so
guests could follow along. In that case, the order
should be the same as in the book.
Last year Mrs. Bush read the brief descriptions of
the winners and we would very much like for her to
do that again. It worked better than any other
format we've used. I will send those descriptions
along with name pronounciation to you next week.
In order to make this part of the program move
smoothly, it would be good if the award winners can
be seated in assigned seats either on the stage or
just off the stage. Mrs. Madrid has severe arthritis
and will using a walker and wheelchair while here.
We're not making appointments for her that morning so
she should be rested and able to use the walker.
This event will be covered by the press. The account
representative from Keyes Martin, the public
relations firm providing pro bono assistance, will
work with Lucy Carney on the press involvement. Our
press releases announcing the awards are out in all
of the communities with winners as well as a general
release and list of the winners to all newspapers
with circulation of over 50,000. The White House
press office will post the event on April 26 and
Keyes Martin will work with Lucy and national and
local press to assure the event is well covered.
This has worked very well in past years.
Luncheon State Dining Room
Following the presentation, the guests will move to
the State Dining Room for the luncheon. While the
guests are being seated, we would like to recommend
a brief receiving line for one representative of
each of the funders (nine) to meet the President and
have their photo taken. This could be done in the
Blue Room.
The past two years, we have been able to seat all of
the winners at either the President's or the First
Lady's table. Because we have 19 winners this year
(20 people are involved because one award is shared)
we'll not be able to do that this year. However, if
the Vice President attends, we could seat winners at
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those three tables. I will work with you next week
on some suggestions for seating and will plan to be
available by phone when you work with the Social
Office on the final seating plan.
By this time, the guests should be in their places,
the funders can move to their places and the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Bush can enter the room for lunch.
I assume that the President will make some closing
remarks to end the event.
Press Availability - North Lawn
Following lunch, all guests will leave the White
House at the direction of the Social office. Winners
will proceed to the lawn where many of them will be
interviewed by local and national press. Again,
KM and Lucy will work out the details and we usually
have interviews for most of the winners. We'll also
take a group photograph at this time.
A bus will be at the Pennsylvania Avenue gate to
return the winners to The Mayflower.
If you have questions or need any further information, please
give me a call.
Thanks so much for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Richard C. Mock
Deputy Executive Director
for Communications
Grant/Cawley
April 20, 1990
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A:ACTION
BRIEF REMARKS: VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS LUNCHEON
THE EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
((Acknowledgements)
It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
Seeing so many volunteer leaders here today reminds me of a story
about the Red Cross, one of the largest and best-recognized
volunteer organizations in the world. It's a story that begins
with a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin
all but covered by snow drifts.
A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to within
a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and shoveled a
path through the now. Finally, arriving at the door, the lead
rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.
"We're from the Red Cross," the rescuer explained. The
mountaineer stood and scratched his head. "Well, it's been a
right tough winter," he said at last. "I don't see how we can
give anything this year. III
I thought of that story because everyone here is part of a
rescue operation -- not just those of you who bravely went out in
fax fr.
the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake --
Volunteer
Ctr.
but the ones who reaching out every day to those free-falling
through our society to give them a hand, give them a start on a
new beginning. And because of every one these unselfish
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citizens, it is my honor today to present the 1990 President's
Volunteer Action Awards. III
I have said that from now on, any definition of a successful
life must include serving others. And today's award winners
embody that definition. Let me tell you about a few of them:
Take a look at Clarence Wilson of St. Louis. Clarence is a
17 year-old high school student, who watched the neighborhood he
grew up deteriorate into a den of crime, drug dealing, and
condemned housing. And then, a year ago, tragedy struck. A fire
destroyed his home and killed his mother, cousin and aunt. Well,
Clarence decided it was time for action. He set up a
Neighborhood Watch program, set up citizen teams to paint over
graffiti, and encouraged neighbors to cooperate with police to
get rid of the drugs. Clarence, you are an outstanding example
to the young people of this country, and I wish we had more like
you. Thank you.
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities
that provide a home to women and children in crisis situations.
Providence House is unique in that most facilities like this that
serve women do not accept children. One of the homes, named "My
Mother's House," gives shelter to the children of incarcerated
women, allowing them to say to their friends, "I live at My
Mother's House with my mother's friends." Another home is a
homeless shelter, with low-cost housing and job counseling. Over
100 concerned volunteers are involved in the program, and we
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appreciate your dedication to making a better life for these
women and children.\
Here in Washington, Henry and Mary Ann Gaskins began a youth
club, the Freedom Youth Academy, but soon decided that young
people in the inner city needed advice about college, jobs, and
their future. So Mr. Gaskins, a supervisor at the Library of
Congress who holds a doctorate in education, and Mrs. Gaskins,
who works at NASA and also holds an education degree, began
tutoring young black children for free -- six days a week in
their own home. Soon enough, their students' SAT scores jumped
by anywhere from 50 to 360 points; over 80 percent of the
Academy's enrollment have received academic recognition at their
schools, with thier students going to the nation's top schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins, you've done so much for these young people,
and we're grateful to you. 11
And among the many businesses pitching in across America --
as "points of light," as I like to call them -- is the Adolph
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Coors Company
Nearly half the total Coors workforce in
Colorado, about 4,000 company employees and retirees, have joined
together to donate approximately 35,000 hours of service to 116
separate projects in the community. They've participated in
winter clothing drives, food drives, community health checkups,
low-income housing renovations, recycling programs, Special
Olympics -- you name it, they've done it. ( (Must be something in
that mountain water.)) The enthusiasm these employees have for
community service is remarkable, and every company in America
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should follow your example. To all the Coors employees, thank
you for your time and talents. 111
I wish we had time to tell you the amazing story of every
person here today. For today's winners know that prosperity
without a purpose means nothing. Instead, they personify what
matters: simple values like compassion, caring, friendship and
love for our neighbors. As President I want to promote those
values, for they are the core of volunteerism. And they are at
the core of a better country and a better world.
These great Americans hold the light of the world in their
hearts, and, like a candle, they pass the flame to others without
extinguishing it in themselves. And in the process, they light
the way for goodness and love through the darkness of sadness and
despair. "Great deeds cannot die," wrote the poet Tennyson,
"They with the sun and moon renew their light. for ever, blessing
those that look on them." God bless each of you, and thank you
for your great deeds.
And now, Barbara and I will present the awards.
# # #
INTERACT, The Volunteer Program of Jobs for Youth
Chicago, IL
Jobs for Youth is a nonprofit organization that provides job
training, employment assistance and literacy training for low
income, mostly minority, youths in the Chicago area. INTERACT is
the volunteer component of the program.
The program provides a wide range of training, counseling and
followup. Each student begins with an orientation meeting, then
spends the next several weeks in an intensive pre-employment
training workshop. This part of the curriculum focuses on how to
get a job and keep it. At this point, the student is teamed with
a counselor who assists with job-related problems and decides
when the student is ready to go begin interviews. Then the
employer services department sends students out on job inter-
views. During the process, students learn how to dress for
success, how to fill out job applications, how to develop atti-
tudes businesses are looking for and how to prepare for a job
interview.
At the outset of the program, students are tested. Those who
dropped out of school or score below the sixth grade level in
reading and math can enroll in the Learning Center to improve
academic scores and can also be prepared to take the test for the
G.E.D. diploma.
Ninety percent of the young people who begin the program complete
it; of those, 70 percent secure jobs through the program. After
working for three or more months, many students return for
assistance in finding a better one. Students found either using
drugs or convicted of theft are automatically dismissed from the
program.
More than 200 volunteers, mostly from business and professions,
are active in the program. They teach 70 percent of the training
classes and contribute over 150 tutor hours a month to the
Learning Center. Volunteers also serve as mentors, role models,
fundraisers and administrative aides. Volunteers continue to
work with graduates for two years after they find their initial
job, offering services such as counseling, assisting with job
changes or promotions, resolution of job-related problems,
remedial education and assisting with school enrollment.
The program works with over 350 businesses in the Chicago area,
to provide employment to students who are prepared, screened and
eager to work. Among the employers are Kraft, Marshall Field's,
Northern Trust Bank, First Chicago, law firms, restaurants and
other service businesses that both fund the program and use it to
help fill their entry level positions. Jobs for Youth is funded
by individuals, businesses, foundation contributions and through
the Jobs Training Partnership Act. Services are free both to the
employers and to the young people.
Lucia Rede Madrid
Redford, TX
Lucia Rede Madrid developed the only lending library in the
immediate area to serve the 100 residents of the small town of
Redford, located on the Texas border with Mexico. Farther from a
commercial airport than any other town in the 48 contiguous
states, the dusty town, home to mostly poor Hispanic laborers,
has no theatres and no parks and most of the children have never
seen a fast food restaurant or shopping mall.
As a school teacher in Redford, Mrs. Madrid was allocated $400
annually to buy books but had to keep them in a library in Marfa,
a town 75 miles to the north. The library allowed her to borrow
only 25 books at a time, so she traveled weekly to Marfa, checkin
out the books to share with her 80 students.
She retired in 1976 and began her private lending library three
years later in her family's combination gas station convenience
store. During the first several years, books were stored in
cartons donated by the milkman and piled in corners of the store.
Her initial 25 books have grown to a collection of over 10,000
volumes. Although the store has now ceased operation, the
library thrives. Crowded but neat book shelves fill the small
building. All available floor space is filled with small tables
and chairs at which the children can sit and read.
The check-out system is informal yet, although Mrs. Madrid checks
out up to 100 books a day, she claims never to have lost a book.
One of the most popular volumes continues to be the Sears
catalog. Mexican children wade the Rio Grande to study the
catalog, matching the words to pictures, in their quest to learn
English.
The walls of the library are covered by Ms. Madrid's Library Hall
of Fame. Featured there are pictures of engineers, doctors,
teachers and accountants, all former local children and students
of Ms. Madrid who have gone on to live successful lives away from
Redford.
Suitland High School Community Service Group
Forestville, MD
The Suitland High School Community Service Group was developed to
provide students in the school with experience in service to
others through activities within the school and in the community.
The year-long service program is developed each fall by the
students with the guidance of school administration.
In the school, members of student government work with ninth
graders who have a history of tardiness to help correct the
problem. Other government members work with the English depart-
ment to assist students at all grade levels in danger of failing
English. The Peer Tutoring program is co-sponsored by the
National Honor Society and student government and provides peer
tutors to students upon request in English, science, mathematics,
social studies and foreign languages. The C.H.A.T. (Communi-
cating To Help Alleviate Troubles) program provides trained peer
counselors for students on all grade levels who are experiencing
school, social or interpersonal problems.
In the community, students are active through several different
programs. For the past three years, groups of students have
visited an area nursing home each Wednesday afternoon. They
visit individually with the residents, present programs and often
bring small gifts. Because some of the students have been part
of the program since its inception, they have been informally
adopted by their resident buddy.
Another group of seniors visits the school each Wednesday,
spending part of the day with their student buddy, assisting with
clerical needs or participating in craft programs. These seniors
eat lunch each week with the students.
Through the elementary tutoring program, Suitland students tutor
at-risk students in an elementary school three days each week in
language and mathematic skills. The student develops the tutor-
ing program, monitors the elementary student's progress and
recommends software difficulty level.
Students also work weekly with profoundly disabled adults at the
Capital Concepts Center. There they assist the disabled in
learning life skills. At the end of the school year, the
students coach incoming community service students on this aspect
of the program.
During the summer students work one day each week with learning
disabled elementary children at Camp Suitland, providing games,
craft, computer and tennis activities.
Department of Transportation Volunteer Committee
Washington, D.C.
The Department of Transportation Volunteer Committee promotes a
variety of volunteer programs which include adopt-a-school
program, a partnership with a senior center, support to homeless
and fundraising for disaster relief.
The Committee's longest running and largest program is the adopt-
a-school program with Hine Junior High School, located on Capitol
Hill and serving a largely disadvantaged student body. The
committee works with school administrators during the summer
months to develop the year-long program. Volunteers provide
tutorial services in science, math and English and sponsor field
trips. They provide a career lecture series and workshops on
developing a resume and filling out a job application. To expose
the children to the work situation, they also sponsor a career
shadowing program. The volunteers provide a cultural enrichment
program for the students including attendance at the annual
"Christmas in Washington" performance, tickets to the National
Symphony, tap dance lessons, poetry readings and tickets to other
plays and shows in the area.
Working with a group of 25 at-risk students, volunteers have
served as Friends, providing guidance and attention. Students
involved in this program have reduced their average absenteeism
from 13 to three days a month. Volunteers also serve as mentors,
friends and listeners. They have taken them home to spend time
with their families and helped raise money to help families in
time of emergency. They remember them on their birthdays, when
they receive awards and when there is a death in the family.
They support the Rent-A-Teen program, in which 28 students are
enrolled, to refer students to after school jobs. The volunteers
have secured a $2,000 scholarship from Citizens for a Sound
Economy for a Hine student to study economics in college.
Since 1984, volunteers have been involved with the Southwest
Senior Citizens Center, providing tickets and transportation for
plays and shows, planning shopping trips and holiday celebrations
throughout the year. In 1985, the group expanded the senior
program to include Sarah's Circle, a senior shelter. Beginning
in 1989, groups of DOT employees volunteer one day a week serving
the homeless at Martha's Table, one of the city's largest soup
kitchens. They also collect household items, clothing and toys
for distribution to the homeless.
DOT employee volunteers have raised over $50,000 to finance their
programs through book sales, bake sales, auctions, raffles and
donut sales.
Michelle Powell Harvey
Salt Lake city, UT
Michelle Powell Harvey worked with the Salt Lake County Fire
Department to develop a three-act play on safety that she and
members of the department present to elementary school students
in the area.
Ms. Harvey, a professional opera singer and certified school
teacher, worked with a member of the department detailed to the
project in developing the concept. She then wrote the words to
the songs and used her performing experience to design the
production.
Presented over 70 times during a six-week period each fall for
the past several years, the play now reaches over 60,000 ele-
mentary school children. The performers include Ms. Harvey and
members of the county fire department and rescue squad. It deals
with fire safety, how to dial 911 in case of emergency, traffic
safety, kitchen safety and how to say no to drugs effectively.
In one of her main numbers, Ms. Harvey emphasizes kitchen safety
in the song "Great Balls of Fire." She and the firemen appear as
the Flame Dame and the Flickers.
The show is fast paced and participatory with the firemen/per-
formers teaching the children many of the songs. The drug
portion is presented to give the children attractive ways of
saying no. Because they may be approached by peers, it is
difficult simply to rebuff the child so they're taught ten ways
of getting out of the situation without weakening their position
on drugs.
Northwest Pilot Project Access to the Arts Program
Portland, OR
Volunteers of the Northwest Pilot Project have provided suppor-
tive care services to the low income elderly for the past 20
years. Realizing that many of the elderly lead isolated lives
because of mobility problems and fixed incomes, the group con-
ducted a survey of those living in the downtown area of Portland
in 1987 and found that 66 percent of those surveyed wanted to
attend cultural events but were hindered by cost, transportation
and security.
Project volunteers developed Access to the Arts to provide the
opportunity for this group to attend cultural events. They found
that performing arts groups frequently have unsold seats and are
willing to make those tickets available to those unable to pay.
However, the cultural groups have no way to identify qualifying
recipients and to coordinate the ticket distribution.
The volunteers developed a program that identified interested
seniors, secured donated tickets and ensured safe transportation
to theatres and concert halls. In addition to unused tickets
that are donated, several area corporations have purchased blocks
of tickets and contributed them to the project.
A major difficulty is transportation. Volunteers pick up the
seniors at their apartments, deliver them to the theatre and then
return them to their homes after the performance. Coordination
is important since the tickets are frequently made available at
the last minute.
During the past year, the group has solicited and donated tickets
and provided transportation, to 358 elderly people to attend
operas, ballets, symphony concerts, the Portland Arts and Lec-
tures Series, the Ice Capades, plays, jazz and seasonal concerts.
Brenda Canada and Kathy Seltzer
Port Orange, FL
Brenda Canada and Kathy Seltzer began working on the development
of the All Children's Park in Port Orange two years ago. Ms.
Canada was looking for a suitable city playground for her chil-
dren; at the same time, Ms. Seltzer was looking for a playground
that was accessible to handicapped children.
The women had read about Robert Leathers, an internationally
known playground architect, and were impressed with the way he
approached playground development. Over the past 15 years, he
has designed over 500 playgrounds.
When Mrs. Canada and Mrs. Seltzer approached the city council
about the lack of suitable facilities, the council agreed to
donate one and one-half acres of land in a newly acquired 37-acre
city recreational facility for the playground and match the money
raised in the community. The women agreed to raise the necessary
funds, secure a suitable design and oversee the development of
the park.
Beginning with a small community meeting, the women began forming
ten planning committees. They enlisted Mr. Leathers, who worked
closely with children in the community in developing a wish list
of what they wanted in the playground. By January 1989, they had
raised $25,000; the balance was raised by penny collections at
McDonald's restaurants and area schools. Individuals as well as
local businesses and corporations "bought a piece of the park"
with contributions. By the end of the fundraising, the committee
had secured $115,000, $25,000 more than their goal. Five
thousand dollars of the surplus funds were returned to the city
to use in maintaining the park; the balance is being used as seed
money for the development of a Safety Village.
Actual construction of the park began on April 19 and was com-
pleted five days later on Sunday afternoon when the opening
ceremonies were held. Nearly 2,000 volunteers were involved in
the five days of the construction phase. When the city safety
inspectors completed their checks, the park was declared open.
Sixty percent of the facility is accessible to handicapped
children. The facility would have cost over $250,000 had it been
built by the city government.
Volunteers of Courage Center
Golden Valley, MN
Courage Center, a nonprofit rehabilitation facility founded in
1928, serves over 22,000 children and adults each year through 70
separate programs. With over 6,200 volunteers, 2,000 of whom are
involved in direct client services, Courage Center has one of the
most comprehensive volunteer programs of any rehabilitation
center in the U.S.
The mission of Courage Center is to empower people with physical
disabilities and sensory impairments to achieve their full
potential through rehabilitation, enrichment, independent living
and educational services. Facilities include the headquarters in
Golden Valley which incorporates Courage Residence, a
transitional living program, and a wide range of rehabilitation
services; Courage camping services, which includes two campuses -
Camp Courage and Courage North; Courage St. Croix, an aquatic and
therapy facility; and recreational services through Courage
Duluth.
Volunteers are involved in direct service to the clients as well
as support services to the organization. Direct service
volunteers contributed more than 71,000 hours in 1989, a con-
tribution worth over $700,000. In addition to the direct service
volunteers, many other groups and individuals contribute critical
support to fundraising and public awareness activities.
Central to Courage Center's volunteer program is the philosophy
that everyone has a gift to give someone else. At the heart of
each volunteer's commitment to Courage Center is the desire to
help people with disabilities achieve maximum independence,
personal responsibility, self-esteem and dignity. Former clients
have become teachers in Life Enrichment classes, tour guides and
volunteers in music therapy and other classes. Several have gone
on to become board and committee members.
Key components to the overall professional management of the
program are the diversity of volunteer opportunities and the
individualized training available to volunteers. This diversity
of volunteer opportunities is reflected in the volunteers them-
selves who are recruited from corporations, corporate retiree
programs, businesses, schools, community and service
organizations, and individuals - people of all ages, backgrounds
and experiences.
League Against Cancer, Inc.
Miami, FL
The League Against Cancer was founded in Florida in 1975, modeled
after a similar organization that began in 1925 in Havana, Cuba.
In Miami, the League's medical center serves as an intake and
treatment facility for individuals who have been diagnosed with
cancer. Once determined to be eligible for services, patients
receive the appropriate treatment and follow-up services com-
pletely free of charge. Services are provided at the League's
own facility, in private physicians' offices and at local hospi-
tals, depending on the need.
The League accepts both children and adults, without regard to
race, creed or nationality. The League serves patients who do
not have the means to cover the costs of their treatment or those
who cannot afford to pay the 20 percent not covered by insurance
or medicare, thus saving thousands of dollars to taxpayers.
Patients must have established legal residence in the state of
Florida or must have political asylum status.
The League Against Cancer provides assistance from case review
and social services to surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy,
laboratory services and radiology, medication, prosthetics, home
nursing aid services, home medical equipment, transportation, and
providing moral support to patients and their families.
A person seeking medical help is interviewed by a social worker
to determine financial eligibility and is then examined by a
physician who makes a preliminary diagnosis and refers the
patient to an expert in that specific tumor. The doctor, in
consultation with colleagues, prescribes the necessary treatment
including surgery if needed. The League, which receives special
rates from local laboratories and hospitals, pays the bills.
Over 170 doctors provide voluntary services to the League's
patients. In addition, the paid staff is supplemented by a corps
of over 200 full- and part-time volunteers in the operation of
the clinic. The strong involvement of volunteers keeps the
administrative costs at about 12 percent of total costs, one-
third the costs in a traditional doctor's office.
Since its inception, the League has served almost 20,000 patients
who have been treated for many different types of cancer.
The major sources of income are the League's annual fundraising
telethon on a Miami Spanish language television station, a raffle
and private donations, which amount to 91 percent of the League's
revenues. The League's annual gala black tie ball attracts
strong support from Miami society. The balance of funds comes
from local and state government.
Harry Vines
North Little Rock, AR
For the past 11 years, Harry Vines has served as coach to the
Rollin' Razorbacks, Arkansas' championship wheelchair basketball
team. When Mr. Vines agreed to become the coach, he petitioned
the National Wheelchair Basketball Association for acceptance of
the team into a conference.
The first year under his leadership was a losing one, but since
that time, the Arkansas team has been to five consecutive nation-
al post season tournaments after winning the Arkansas Valley
Conference title. In January 1990, the team was ranked number
one in the nation.
Mr. Vines had coached basketball for several years after gradu-
ating from college and had worked for several state agencies
involved in handicapped issues when he was approached by the
founder of the team about coaching on a volunteer basis. Unsure
about the abilities of the wheelchair bound to play basketball,
he borrowed a wheelchair and developed strategies and plays.
Mr. Vines not only coaches the team in basketball, he works with
the individuals to help them in their personal lives. He has
helped several overcome drug and alcohol problems by building
their self esteem through their performance on the basketball
court and helping them develop as responsible productive citi-
zens. The team itself serves as an inspiration, not only to the
handicapped, about the abilities of people with disabilities.
In 1987, Mr. Vines coached the U.S. team in the British Stokes-
Manville Games, the "Olympics" of wheelchair sports, to its first
world championship in the team's 17 year history.
Since 1987, he has assisted in conducting a one-week summer
program for the Paralyzed Veterans of America Wheelchair Basket-
ball Camp. He is also coaching the 1990 U.S. Team in the
National Wheelchair Basketball Association Gold Cup Games.
All of Mr. Vines' coaching activities are done as a volunteer.
He is employed by the state of Arkansas workers compensation
commission.
Dr. and Mrs. William P. Magee, Jr.
Norfolk, VA
Dr. and Mrs. William P. Magee, Jr. founded Operation Smile in
1982 to correct facial deformities in children and adults in
developing countries. The previous year Dr. Magee, a plastic
surgeon, and Mrs. Magee, a nurse, had been part of a medical team
that visited the Philippines to correct cleft lip and palate
deformities in children. They were affected by the medical needs
of the people and decided to return to continue the work.
In 1989 Operation Smile teams made six trips to the Philippines,
Vietnam, Africa, South America and the Far East; during 1990,
teams will make twelve trips. During the visits to Vietnam and
the Philippines, teams worked simultaneously in Ho Chi Minh City
and Hanoi as well as five cities in the Philippines. Teams
include plastic and orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists,
nurses, dentists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists,
speech and child-life therapists, social workers, photographers,
medical writers, researchers, primary health care educators and
students groups.
In the eight years since Operation Smile began, teams have
screened more than 10,000 children and provided specialized
surgery to more than 4,000 individuals in developing countries.
In addition, the program has brought 29 patients to the U.S. for
more extensive surgery. An important focus of the teams is
providing medical education to local medical staff. Thirty-eight
hundred medical staff and 4,700 community health workers in the
countries visited have received specialized training from the
teams.
Approximately two weeks before the arrival of the medical team,
an advance team arrives to set up the logistics. Once the
medical team is on site, members work 14 hours a day. While part
of the team is performing operations, others are conducting
classes for local medical personnel. Another team remains for
several weeks doing follow up work with the patients after the
medical team departs.
Since its beginning, Operation Smile has involved over 12,000
volunteers from 70 cities. Over 2,500 high school students are
members of "Happy Clubs" that help in promoting the program and
raising money. Students are chosen to travel with the teams
providing primary health care education to patients and their
families.
In his private practice, Dr. Magee devotes more than 20 hours a
week to Operation Smile; Mrs. Magee has left her paid position to
volunteer full time with the program.
Lions Clubs International
Oak Brook, IL
The world's largest service organization, Lions Clubs Inter-
national involves 1.4 million members in volunteer activities
through its clubs in 39,000 communities in 166 countries and
geographic regions.
Charged by Helen Keller in 1925 to become the "Knights of the
blind in the crusade against darkness," Lions Clubs are best
known in the U.S. for the assistance they provide in eye care.
During 1989, Club members made care possible for nearly 11
million people around the world. The largest operators of eye
banks that provide corneal tissue for sight restoring operations,
Lions sponsors 54 banks in the U.S. They support guide dog
schools, screen millions for eye disease, furnish white canes,
provide sheltered workshops and vocational training, and support
basic research into eye disease.
The Lions have developed a drug abuse program that now reaches
1.2 million children in 12,500 schools in the U.S. It is
designed to help elementary and junior high students build the
self esteem to remain drug free. The Skills for Growing program,
for kindergarten through fifth grade helps children learn posi-
tive social behavior and be responsible members of their familie-
S, schools and communities. The Skills for Adolescence program
teaches students in grades six through eight to say no to drugs
and to deal with problems of growing up.
The Lions Clubs sponsor a variety of activities promoting world
peace and understanding. More than 200,000 children participate
from 50 countries participate annually in a peace poster contest.
Over 100 international youth camps bring together several thousa-
nd young people for a two to three week camping experience. Fre-
quently, those young people remain in the host country visiting
with a local family for an additional week.
Because diabetes is the foremost cause of adult blindness, the
Lions Clubs have screened millions for the disease and conduct
education programs urging the proper diet and exercise for those
threatened and those afflicted. They support medical research
through the Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF).
Funds from the LCIF also assist with disaster relief, vocational
training and human services throughout the world. Lions sponsor
programs for seniors, for youth including Leo Clubs for young
people, camps for children with physical and mental disabilities,
parks, playgrounds and other recreational facilities.
In February 1989, a Club was chartered in Budapest, Hungary, the
first chapter of any international service organization in an
Eastern Bloc country since World War II. Since then, clubs have
been chartered in Poland and Estonia.
Apple Computer, Inc. Earthquake Database Project
Cupertino, CA
The Apple Earthquake Database Project was conceived by a group of
Apple employees to provide immediate assistance to Red Cross
chapters and Volunteer Centers in the San Francisco Bay Area in
the weeks following the October 17 earthquake. They met early
the next morning, contacted Red Cross officials and Volunteer
Center personnel, and established a command center, the
"Epicenter," at the company's headquarters building.
Employee volunteers, recruited through flyers and Apple's in-
house electronic bulletin board, designed information management
systems. Programmers, writers, trainers and data entry
volunteers began their work while other employees began locating
the necessary equipment including computers, printers,
telephones, beepers, FAX machines. Eventually more than 100
computers were loaned to agencies, the "Epicenter" and for use in
shelters and emergency facilities.
The assistance allowed the agencies to respond quickly to
community needs. Within two weeks of the quake, the Volunteer
Exchange of Santa Clara County had registered 1,400 prospective
volunteers, placing nearly 700 of them in critical positions.
The San Mateo Red Cross Chapter was able to respond in two
minutes to a call from the San Francisco Mayor's office
requesting housing for 25 people whose homes had been condemned.
During the project, the employees created more than 30 different
databases.
In addition to registering more than 15,000 volunteers, the
computer project aided in the effort to locate missing persons by
recording people in shelters; provided the only source of
communications in some communities by publishing information
flyers; expedited the release of federal assistance funds to
individuals by recording damage assessment information.
To assist relief agencies in integrating computer technology into
their work, employees from Apple's internal training department
created self-paced instructional materials for easy use and held
daily training sessions for agency volunteers.
Two hundred Apple employees donated more than 3,000 hours to the
Apple Earthquake Database Project in the days immediately
following the quake, in the evenings and on weekends. In
addition, employees prepared meals for people who had lost their
homes; helped small businesses move from condemned buildings;
donated tons of food, clothing and household goods to victims.
Apple employees donated $224,835, matched by Apple Computer, to
support relief efforts.
The United Mine Workers of America Hugo Relief Project
Lebanon, VA
When Hurricane Hugo struck the Charleston, South Carolina, area
in September 1989, members of District 28 of the United Mine
Workers of America agreed to recruit a group of volunteers from
its membership to assist in recovery efforts. Although it was a
very difficult time economically in the area because of the coal
strike, 150 members volunteered. Forty-seven members, including
electricians, carpenters, loggers, brick and block masons, cooks,
emergency medical technicians and laborers, were chosen to travel
to South Carolina.
The Red Cross asked the UMW group to assist McClellanville, a
community that had received very little outside assistance.
Members collected supplies and materials to support the camp as
well as supplies to assist McClellanville residents. A local
merchant provided two heavy trucks, one filled with potable water
and ice, the other with clothing, food and household items, all
collected from local coal field communities. The local Job Corps
provided a 40-man military tent that would provide a home for the
UMW volunteers. Local hardware stores provided building
supplies, camp fuel, rope, chain saw oil and chains and other
items. The caravan to South Carolina included the two heavy
trucks and 23 pickup trucks loaded with supplies.
During the week long project, the volunteers had to contend with
extremely difficult working conditions. Nearly all of the
streets were made impassable by fallen trees and debris; tar-like
oyster mud covered everything and there were hundreds of dead
animals and fish.
The labor crews used chain saws to clear streets and lawns of
fallen trees and accumulated brush and shoveled oyster mud from
homes. Experienced loggers worked on damaged trees that had to
be taken down. The electrical crew went door to door checking
and repairing residential electrical service.
Construction crews assisted a local school that had been inun-
dated by the tidal surge by reconstructing walls and repairing
the electrical and sanitary system.
Using a truck donated by the town of Garden City, New Jersey, and
a back hoe, the UMW volunteers hauled brush and garbage to a dump
site. Another crew assisted the Red Cross by unloading tractor
trailers. Others helped to re-float a shrimp boat and assisted
residents in clean and remove flooded furnishings.
Clarence Wilson
St. Louis, MO
Clarence Wilson is a 17-year-old high school student from the
Jeff-Vander-Lou section of St. Louis who has independently
developed an awareness program to help stop the neigborhood's
deterioration.
Mr. Wilson grew up in the neighborhood, an area where crime and
drug dealing are commonplace and where much of the housing is run
down or condemned. A year ago he was made homeless by a fire in
his home that killed his mother, cousin and aunt.
During the past year he worked individually with residents of one
block in the neighborhood, urging them to work with the police
and undergo a training program to establish a neighborhood watch
program. During the summer, groups of neighbors walked the
streets encouraging people to get involved. They erected signs
welcoming people to the neighborhood and announcing that drugs,
loitering and loud music were not welcome. They set up citizen
teams and painted over graffiti. The neighbors know Mr. Wilson,
accept and trust him, an important factor in following his lead
and cooperating with the police department.
His success on his own block has led to interviews on the radio,
being cited by the school board as a role model, and speaking to
groups of businessmen about young people.
He has also been recruited by Operation Brightside, an environ-
mental improvement program. There he serves as an advisor to the
Environmental Youth Corps, one of 15 corps selected to
participate in a national youth service demonstration project,
the Urban Corps Expansion Project. At the end of the school
year, he will work with the Corps in a youth leadership capacity.
Providence House
New Rochelle, NY
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Providence House is a network of six residential facilities that
provide a home to women and children in crisis situations. The
facilities were developed because most existing ones that serve
women cannot accept children. The program is operated by
Catholic nuns who work at other jobs in the community and live at
Providence House and manage the facility as volunteers. One nun
directs the children's center at a state women's prison; others
are school teachers and administrators, social workers and
nurses.
Over 100 community volunteers are involved in the program, with
several of them residing there. One advertisement for summer
volunteer work resulted in two volunteers who now live at the
facility. Their summer commitment has continued and they teach
school part time to cover their expenses. Volunteers who reside
at the facilities pay for their lodging expenses. In addition to
supervising the facility, volunteers work with the women as
counselors, help with day-to-day problems and help them find
employment.
One of the homes, named My Mother's House, was developed to
provide a positive home experience for the children of incar-
cerated women. The name of the home allows the children to say
to their friends, "I live at My Mother's House with my mother's
friends." Volunteers at My Mother's House take the children to
the prison for weekly visits with their mothers. During the
summer, the children are treated to a week long stay with host
families in communities near the prison. That allows the child-
ren to visit with their mothers each day for a week.
The homeless shelter has room for seven families who stay an
average of five months. Each "apartment" has a kitchen, dining
room, bedrooms and a bathroom. The women are responsible for
cleaning their living areas as well as communal areas and for
cooking dinner. The communal living experience is a positive one
with women assisting each other and helping to teach parenting
skills to young inexperienced women.
Funding for the program comes from the state parole board,
contributions and state welfare board payments. In addition to
the fact that Providence House provides a much better environment
than a public shelter, the cost to the government for shelter is
considerably lower. For example, the Westchester County depart-
ment of social services pays $1,400 a month for a family to stay
at Providence House; housing that same family at a motel would
cost up to $3,000.
Coors Volunteers in Community Enrichment
Golden, CO
The Coors Volunteers in Community Enrichment Program, the
V.I.C.E. Squad, was formed in 1985 to foster a "family spirit"
among employees and to enhance the community image of Adolph
Coors Company. An auxiliary group, A.D.V.I.C.E. (Additional
Duties Volunteers in Community Enrichment) was formed to involve
retired employees. Friends of Coors provides opportunities for
friends and neighbors who want to become involved as volunteers.
Since its establishment, the Coors program has grown to include
more then 3,600 members, nearly half the size of the total
company workforce in Colorado. In 1989, company volunteers
donated approximately 34,900 hours to 116 separate projects.
Coors employees and retirees may submit proposed projects for
review by a V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. board. If the board considers
it beneficial to both the community and the company, it is
accepted and published in the "Monthly Activity Guide, which is
sent to all members. The company provides t-shirts, transporta-
tion and refreshments to help make each activity a positive
experience. Members evaluate all projects on completion.
Volunteers receive credit for volunteer activities and are
recognized at special ceremonies held during National Volunteer
Week.
Volunteer activities are varied and include projects designed to
meet both broad and specific community needs. V.I.C.E./
A.D.V.I.C.E. has taken leadership roles in projects like the
Great Colorado Warm-Up, a statewide winter clothing drive; a
corporate and public food drive that benefits over 100 Colorado
food banks; assisting Colorado fruit growers during a severe
labor shortage; the Channel 9 Health Fair, free community health
checkups and information; and the Denver Paint-A-Thon, painting
homes of low income seniors.
Company volunteers constructed a wheelchair-accessible trail for
handicapped children at the Colorado Easter Seal handicamp.
V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. also developed an ongoing aluminum and
glass recycling program with the proceeds going to purchase new
shoes for needy children in the local community. Coors volun-
teers also organized a clothing drive to provide new and nearly
new clothing for needy children in area elementary schools.
Company volunteers joined with S.E.T. Ministries, Inc. to assist
area public housing residents fill out rent rebate forms and
helped promote A World of Difference, a prejudice reduction and
awareness program of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Over 200 Coors volunteers participated in the Colorado Special
Olympics Summer Games and others are involved as mentors for at-
risk students in inner city schools. To celebrate National
Volunteer Week 1989, 50 Coors volunteers participated in cleaning
up a five-mile stretch of nearby highway. MORE
The V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. activities bring together individuals
from diverse areas of the company, from industrial production to
management to retirees, for a common purpose and helps to build
strong relationships between the groups and within the company.
OFFICE OF NATIONAL SERVICE
THE WHITE HOUSE
A THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT:
THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED
"From now on in America,
any definition of a successful life
must include serving others."
President Bush
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The Daily Point of Light
Intended as a national tribute of the highest order to every American who makes a positive difference, each
day the President recognizes those who are successfully addressing our most pressing social problems
through community service. Individuals, families, businesses, groups, and organizations of every conceivable
type are taking direct and consequential action to combat drug abuse, illiteracy, inadequate education,
environmental decay, homelessness, hunger, AIDS, and other critical ills."
The President urges all Americans to make serving others central to their life and work. "If you have a
hammer, find a nail. If you know how to read, find someone who can't. If you're not in trouble, seek out
someone who is. Because everywhere there is a need in America, there is a way to fill it.
There is no
problem in America that is not being solved somewhere."
100. Barbara Tomblinson, Riverside, MO
Monday, March 26, 1990
Barbara Tomblinson is dedicated to giving homeless families a new start in life.
Ms. Tomblinson, once homeless herself, founded "New Start-New Life Ministries," a non-profit
corporation which provides transitional housing assistance for homeless families. Families are given rent-free
apartments for ninety days. In return, they are required to find a job within two weeks and save half the
earnings. They also receive counseling in home economics and budgeting. Eventually these families become
productive, self-supporting members of society.
"Everything begins
with a dream or an
idea. Our dream is for
no person to be
homeless.
"
Barbara Tomblinson
Director, New Start-
New Life
A Thousand Points of Light:
The First One Hundred
1.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
Wednesday, November 22, 1989
"
The Memphis Commercial Appeal, a Tennessee newspaper, answered the President's
I do give off light,
call on media institutions to recognize volunteers in their community.
and / do make a
On July 2, 1989, The Memphis Commercial Appeal began a series highlighting citizens
who have made community service a central part of their lives. The series, entitled "A
difference. My challenge
Thousand Points of Light," reflected the President's conviction that "From now on in
America, any definition of a successful life must-include serving others."
to you is to make a
As the rain streamed down on a chilly Thanksgiving Eve, President Bush addressed a
difference.
"
crowd in front of The Commercial Appeal building. He congratulated the newspaper and its
honorees, referring to them as "great American success stories."
Cari McRae
President Bush closed his speech by announcing The Memphis Commercial Appeal as
Volunteer recognized by
his first "Daily Point of Light."
The Memphis Commercial
Appeal
2.
William and Sandra Hale, Oklahoma City, OK
Monday, November 27, 1989
The Hales, a doctor and nurse team, both afflicted with multiple sclerosis, operate a free medical clinic.
For 15 years, the clinic has been located at the Baptist Mission center in the crumbling neighborhood of
Packingtown. Economically disadvantaged people live there out of necessity; Dr. and Mrs. Hale work there
out of choice.
The all-volunteer clinic, open two nights a week, has treated nearly 43,000 indigent people since it
opened. It consists of a network of medical specialists to whom patients are referred for free treatment.
After finding a crumpled prescription outside the mission one night and realizing the patients could not
afford medicine, the Hales arranged for donations from local pharmacies, doctors, and hospitals.
3.
"We get an awful lot
Richard Andrew McDonough, Phoenix, AZ
Tuesday, November 28, 1989
more out of it than
Richard McDonough founded Hotels/Motels in Partnership eight years ago, when he was only 22 years
old. This program matches people in need of emergency shelter with hotels willing to donate empty rooms.
we put in it The
Hotels/Motels in Partnership has grown to include over 700 hotels nationwide. Each participating
establishment commits a specific number of nights or provides lodging as needed. A local social service
Lord has really
agency screens people and places them in participating hotels. More than 15,000 homeless families, disaster
victims, battered individuals, and others in need have received free lodging.
blessed us.
4.
Helen VerDuin Palit, New York City, NY
Wednesday, November 29, 1989
Dr. William Hale
Helen Palit is the co-founder of City Harvest, a New York food distribution network. This initiative
kitchens and shelters throughout New York City.
collects surplus, food from wholesale markets, restaurants, stores, and offices for distribution to soup
City Harvest's efforts have helped feed hungry men, women, and children with nutritious food which
would otherwise go to waste. A driver collects the surplus food and delivers it immediately to a nearby
hunger program. Through the generous help of corporations and foundations, City Harvest provides an
average of 8,000 meals a day.
97.
Glaxo, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC
Thursday, March 22, 1990
Glaxo, Inc. is committed to supporting its employees' community service activities.
In 1987, this firm began the "Glaxo's Investment in Volunteer Excellence" (GIVE) program. For every
employee who dedicates 30-49 hours to community service over a one-year time period, the firm donates
Glaxo, Inc. has donated $56,000 on behalf of over 14,000 volunteers.
$250 to the charity of the employee's choice. For over 50 hours, $500 is donated. In the last three years,
98.
Joan Stairs and Juanita Suggs, New Castle, IN
Friday, March 23, 1990
"I'll never quit being
Recognizing the needs of the growing number of homeless individuals in their community, Joan
Stairs and Juanita Suggs now dedicate their time and energy to bettering the plight of the homeless.
an advocate for other
Ms. Stairs, as chairperson of the New Castle/Henry County Homeless Task Force, and Ms. Suggs, as
director of Christian Love Center, have combined their resources to create the Christian Love Help
people. / will go on
Center/Shelter. The center provides housing, food, clothing, counseling, and literacy programs for 20 people
at a time, encouraging them to better their lives and obtain employment.
doing what I believe
99. VYTAL (Volunteer Youth Training and Leadership), Pittsburgh, PA
in."
Saturday, March 24, 1990
The VYTAL project, a collaborative effort between Pittsburgh New Futures and the United Way, is
committed to the promotion of student engagement in community service.
Juanita Suggs
This program is designed to prepare tomorrow's leaders to contribute to their community. It instills in
youth the knowledge, skills, and values essential for community service, helps them learn how to support
community service agencies, and augments human resources through a student volunteer corps.
94.
Jesse Sanchez Berain, Boise, ID
Monday, March 19, 1990
Jesse Berain is committed to helping improve the living conditions of migrant agricultural workers.
While growing up as a cotton field worker, Mr. Berain experienced first-hand the plight of Hispanic
Americans. He founded IMAGE and CAMP, initiatives designed to assist Hispanic migrants with college
funding, seeking employment, career advancement, and self-development. He also works with community
groups and churches to plant grass and trees in migrant camps, installs playground equipment for children,
and organizes clean-up crews. In addition, he interprets and writes letters, provides transportation to
medical appointments, assists with preparing tax returns, and raises funds for the needy.
"My babies are dying
95.
Pauline Hord, Memphis, TN
Tuesday, March 20, 1990
and all everyone is
Pauline Hord is committed to promoting literacy.
In 1986, Ms. Hord founded the "Heads Up" program, an initiative which tutors inmates. Ms. Hord and
saying is how sad or
other volunteers travel every Wednesday to the Parchman Penitentiary in Northern Mississippi. Over the
past four years, she has taught over 100 men to read and write and 47 men who have been taught by her
how bad it is. /
program now serve as tutors themselves.
haven't given up on
96.
William Warner Johnson, Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 21, 1990
my babies yet.
Two years ago, Officer W. W. Johnson was ready to quit his job. As a 20-year police veteran in the
District of Columbia, he was sickened by the many tragedies of human waste he confronted every day.
W. W. Johnson
Officer Johnson turned his frustration into inspiration by dedicating his personal and professional life to
helping the most vulnerable and valuable members of our society: our children. He envisioned and created a
youth-oriented business enterprise.
The Conner-Harris Mini-Mall, named after two victims of the drug war, started with a weight lifting
room in Woodson Junior High School donated by Officer. Johnson. He expanded the mall to include several
stores that would cater to the consumer interests of youngsters. In addition, by allowing the students to
operate the stores as their own businesses, they learn how to be junior entrepreneurs. The mini-mall, open
after school and on weekends, serves as a teaching tool, whereby participants make their own products,
such as T-shirts and craft items, and learn bookkeeping and marketing skills.
5.
The Volunteer Project, San Diego, CA
Thursday, November 30, 1989
The Volunteer Project, a non-profit center, is dedicated to increasing the capacity of participating social
service agencies by recruiting, training and placing volunteers.
The project provides a link between volunteers and social service projects throughout San Diego. It has
"Everybody's fed up
approximately 350 volunteers working in county-wide programs, helping troubled youth, low-income
seniors, and the homeless. Collectively, the volunteers have contributed over 200,000 hours of community
service.
with the drug trade.
6.
Shahid Samad Watson, Trenton, NJ
We are losing one or
Friday, December 1, 1989
two kids per night.
Shahid Watson, 29, founded the Grassroots Movement: This initiative, committed to ridding the streets
of crack dealers, uses ordinary citizens in the fight against drugs.
I refuse to step
The movement, a community-based mobilization effort, has organized anti-drug campouts, with the
hope of keeping drug dealers out of the neighborhood during the night. In addition, the campouts bring
down."
members of the movement into tough neighborhoods, giving neighbors an incentive to come together and
fight street-level drug trafficking. With Mr. Watson's help, community leaders have successfully intervened
in an ongoing drug war in their neighborhood.
Georgette Watson
7.
Director, Drop-A-Dime
Drop-A-Dime, Boston, MA
Saturday, December 2, 1989
Drop-A-Dime, a 24-hour anonymous crime hotline, connects residents in the Boston area to local law
enforcement officials. The hotline allows victims, witnesses, and the community to participate actively in
crime fighting.
The program uses a "tip" line that people call anonymously. Volunteers write a report and immediately
send it to the relevant law enforcement agency. Calls to the hotline have been credited with several felony
arrests. In addition, the program conducts lectures on crime prevention in elementary schools, senior
citizen centers, and for any group requesting their services. Drop-A-Dime has been successful in building a
working relationship between law officials and the community.
8.
Adopt-A-School, Orange Park, FL
Monday, December 4, 1989
The Adopt-A-School program of Orange Park, Florida is a partnership between Navy Patrol Squadron 45
and the Penney Farms Retirement Community. Together, they have adopted the students of Green Cove
Elementary School.
This partnership was formed to supplement the education of the students and involve the squadron
and the retirement community in the education of local youth. The men and women serve as tutors,
supervise field trips, and provide inspirational talks. The students reciprocate by corresponding with
"It [Adopt-A-School]
members of the patrol squadron stationed at sea. The experiences of the senior citizens and the dedication
of the Navy personnel greatly enhance the learning process of the Green Cove students.
is a win-win situation
9.
Edward Castor, Wind Falls, IN
- it's good for the
Tuesday, December 5, 1989
most of his life, he was illiterate.
Edward Castor, 47, kept a secret shared only by family and a few close friends for almost 40 years. For
kids, and it's good for
us."
As a 27-year employee of General Motors, he was reading at-a third grade level. But after encountering
an embarrassing situation at work, he decided to seek help. He enrolled in a GED class sponsored by
General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union and received his GED diploma. Today, he speaks out
Gus Hager
for others who share his former problem, giving lectures on literacy and teaching others how to read. In
Unit Command Master
addition, he serves as the Governor's appointee to the Indiana Adult Literacy Coalition.
Chief, Patrol Squadron 45
10. REACH, Inc., Detroit, MI
Wednesday, December 6, 1989
REACH, Inc., a non-profit community development and community service corporation, began in the
12th Street Missionary Baptist church, where gunfire could be heard from surrounding crack houses and
street corners during worship services.
This initiative grew when the church, its members, and the community vowed to reclaim their
neighborhood, protect their children, provide housing for the homeless, and create jobs to end the
continuous cycle of poverty and despair. Crack houses are purchased by the community, renovated using
unemployed workers, and sold to drug-free families using "sweat equity" as a down payment.
91.
Joseph Ziskovsky, Shoreview, MN
Thursday, March 15, 1990
Joseph Ziskovsky, 14, has committed his young life to making his community a better place.
Mr. Ziskovsky, an active Boy Scout, was only 12 years old when he became concerned about the
dangers of pollution. He had experienced first-hand the effects of a drought on his hometown and had
to address these issues. He persuaded nursery owners to donate nearly 3500 trees and the National Arbor
learned that planting trees could help solve environmental problems. He initiated a community-wide project
Day Foundation to provide educational brochures on the importance of trees for a healthy environment. He
then mobilized area organizations to distribute the trees, planting instructions, and educational materials to
every child in three local elementary schools.
"I like to help out
92.
The Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, (AFL-CIO), Oakland, CA
friends whenever /
Friday, March 16, 1990
can. / consider
for donation to homeless families.
The Council helped found the "Homes for Homeless" project in order to renovate abandoned houses
everybody my
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul owned four deteriorating houses which were scheduled to be torn
down. In 1989, the Society donated the houses to the "Homes for Homeless" project. Once the houses
friend."
were obtained, members of the council began rebuilding them for low-income occupants. Volunteers
painted and installed electrical wiring, plumbing, and carpeting. Due to this initiative, four families have now
settled into comfortable homes, and the council plans to continue and expand the project in the future.
Joseph Ziskovsky
93.
Toni Allee, Norfolk, VA
Saturday, March 17, 1990
have been stationed.
Toni Allee, a military wife for 21 years, has served others in every community she and her husband
Ms. Allee has volunteered in many family-related efforts concerning military personnel. When
stationed in Charleston, she worked to alleviate the shortage of adequate child care. Currently, she is a
board member and volunteer with the Bertha Snyder Children's Care fund. She spends 18-20 hours a week,
in addition to her work schedule, developing promotional strategies for the fund. In addition, she
volunteers on the Child Care Answer Line, which serves as a child care resource and referral system. She
counsels adults about child care options, offering advice and support.
88.
Robert and Jacquelyn Corrigan, Gorham, NH
Monday, March 12, 1990
The Corrigans, both high school teachers, are committed to encouraging high school seniors to strive
for advanced education.
The couple dedicates over 60-70 hours a month to helping students stay in school and eventually
attend college. The Corrigans sponsor and chaperone college visits, tutor students outside of class, and offer
encouragement and advice, showing the young people that positive opportunities abound. In addition, they
"We've changed their
founded a community scholarship program. This effort offers financial support to any student wishing to
attend college. The money is supplied by community fundraising activities.
[the children's] feeling
89.
Julia Goldstein, University City, MO
about themselves.
Tuesday, March 13, 1990
Julia Goldstein, 90, believes that senior citizens can play a major role in the education of younger
We've taken unhappy
generations.
Three years ago, Ms. Goldstein went to visit her great-grandchild's first grade class. Her "educator's
kids and made them
antenna" spotted a youngster having difficulty paying attention to the lesson and sensed a potential
dropout. Ms. Goldstein approached the school with a plan of action to build children's self-confidence, thus
successful."
motivating them to learn. She founded PEEP (Partners for Educational Excellence Program), a volunteer
corps of senior. citizens who spend time each week in a one-on-one relationship with first-grade students.
Julia Goldstein
90.
Robert Low, Waianae, HI
Wednesday, March 14, 1990
Robert Low, 27, has dedicated himself to helping abandoned, troubled youth.
Mr. Low is the key force behind Adult Friends for Youth, a non-profit organization that matches "at
risk" youths with stable adult friends. He uses humor and friendship to bolster the self-esteem of young
people who have had little reason to trust adults. In addition to working with Adult Friends for Youth, Mr.
Low shelters young people who have been through the juvenile court system.
11.
Acres Homes War on Drugs, Houston, TX
Thursday, December 7, 1989
Acres Homes War on Drugs, a partnership between the citizens and police department of the Acres
Homes community, was founded to combat the drug problem in their neighborhood. Residents of the
Acres Homes community believe that solving the nation's drug epidemic must begin at home.
"We are not afraid.
Two years ago, crack cocaine was sold often and openly in a neighborhood park. Today, the park is
drug-free. Regular police sweeps and vocal opposition from churches, community groups, and school
We are going to
children help make it happen. A neighborhood committee sponsors workshops to educate the public about
drugs. "Lot clean-ups" and other volunteer activities are organized to help police.
continue to fight the
12.
WWOR-TV, Secaucus, NJ
drugs. It's hard, but
Friday, December 8, 1989
WWOR-TV was recognized for its "A+ For Kids" project, a station-wide initiative designed to look at
we're still out there.'
the problems and promise of our children's education.
The project aims to inspire increased business, community and parental involvement while providing
support for teachers. On-air activities include news segments, public service announcements, and
Thelma LaStrapp
primetime specials on education. Off-air, the station has created an "A+ For Kids" teacher network,
Founding Member,
whereby outstanding teaching ideas are shared. In addition, the station adopted one of New Jersey's most
Acres Homes
troubled high schools.
War on Drugs
13.
South Seattle Crime Prevention Council, Seattle, WA
Saturday, December 9, 1989
The South Seattle Crime Prevention Council, an alliance of residents, businesses, and civic groups,
formed a partnership with the Seattle Police Department. By pooling resources, the partnership jointly
attacks the area's drug and gang problems.
After discussing targeted problem areas, the police initiate a project aided by community support. The
project includes weekly coordination meetings with precinct commanders and city officials, neighborhood
clean-up programs, law enforcement drives, and conferences with state legislators to discuss areas of
concern. The council illustrates the power of a community united in the fight against drugs.
14.
Carolyn Lantz Jackson, Wilmington, DE
Monday, December 11, 1989
Carolyn Jackson, founder of the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program, is dedicated to the health and
happiness of disabled youngsters.
In 1981, Ms. Jackson initiated a therapeutic riding program. Three years later, the first disabled child
mounted a horse. Through therapeutic riding, horses provide exercise for children with muscle disorders,
improving their muscle tone and coordination. Volunteers work with children, sharing their love for horses
"When you show
and riding skills. Ms. Jackson volunteers 30 hours a week for the program, supervising a volunteer staff of 20.
teenagers their
15.
G. D. Searle & Company, Skokie, IL
potential, their
Tuesday, December 12, 1989
This pharmaceutical firm realized that numerous Americans are never treated for heart ailments. In.
individual pride will
1987, G. D. Searle & Company began giving away drugs useful in the treatment of heart ailments to
Americans without health insurance.
manifest itself
16.
Ewing Marion Kauffman, Kansas City, MO
eventually and they'll
Wednesday, December 13, 1989
begin to understand
The Chairman Emeritus of Marion Merrell Dow, Inc., and owner of the Kansas City Royals, Mr.
Kauffman is committed to keeping students off drugs and on a career path to success.
themselves."
Ewing Kauffman offers young people a choice. He pledges to pay their college tuition if they promise
to study hard and stay off drugs. He established Project STAR (Students Taught Awareness and Resistance)
Thomas Rhone
and Project Choice. Project STAR offers classroom curriculum and role-playing to convince students that
they can overcome peer pressure for drug involvement. Project Choice was designed to change the
Program Director,
disadvantaged youth think of their future. Because of Mr. Kauffman's efforts, many youth are offered way the
Project Choice
opportunity to escape a never ending cycle of poverty.
85.
Page Attacks Trash, Page, AZ
Thursday, March 8, 1990
tourists each year.
The residents of Page take exceptional pride in their community, a community that hosts 2-3 million
Page Attacks Trash helps keep the community litter-free. Since its founding in 1983, this effort has
grown to include the entire city of Page, Navajo lands, and the Glen Canyon National Recreation On
"ADFAC is about
the third Saturday each May, organizations, scouts, local and state officials and community members area. lend
discarded in 1989.
helping hand. Degradable plastic garbage bags are used to collect the waste, of which over 140 tons was a
helping people help
86.
Project Chesed, Miami Beach, FL
themselves. It
Friday, March 9, 1990
provides longer term
community service.
Project Chesed, an initiative of the Hebrew Academy, encourages the student body to engage in
assistance to help
Under the coordination of Rabbi Boruch Sofrin, the school implemented a 20-hour per year
community service requirement. The students assist physically disabled people and individuals with mental
people get on their
retardation, coordinate food drives, deliver sandwiches to homeless people, and visit abused children. Once
involved, many students choose to serve over and above the school's requirement.
feet."
87.
Jonathan Soderstrom, Oak Ridge, TN
Saturday, March 10, 1990
Dr. Jonathan Soderstrom
assistance. Jonathan Soderstrom realized that many people in his community were distressed and needed
In 1986, Dr. Soderstrom mobilized community churches and civic organizations and founded "Aid To
Distressed Families of Anderson County" (ADFAC). This initiative is now supported by more than 40
religious, civic, corporate and community organizations, with numerous volunteers donating time. It serves
as a central clearinghouse for volunteer activity and a safety net for needy families. ADFAC provides food,
shelter, clothing, and long-term counseling for job training and placement. In addition, Dr. Soderstrom has
helped to rebuild deteriorating houses.
82. Edith Lewis, Garland, TX
Monday, March 5, 1990
Edith Lewis, known as "Grandma", has selflessly dedicated her life to helping troubled youth become
productive citizens.
Ms. Lewis, 63, converted her home into a shelter for abandoned young adults. She takes in those
whom most of society has written off as hopeless. Their stories vary, from ones of broken families, abused
childhoods, alcoholic or drug addicted parents to depression. Most have run away or been kicked out of
their homes and are dangerous. Ms. Lewis serves as a 24-hour counselor, psychiatrist, cook, and surrogate
"This looks like a
mother, while individuals and church groups donate food, clothing, and medical care. While many of these
green house and
young people are accustomed to expressing themselves through violence, she handles outbursts calmly but
firmly. Ms. Lewis' rehabilitation method of love and affection has encouraged many distressed youth to
finish school and lead a successful adult life.
smells like a green
83.
Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, Cheyenne, WY
house, but it's really a
Tuesday, March 6, 1990
The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens employs a volunteer work force of disabled individuals, senior
garden where people
citizens, juvenile offenders, and local residents to operate the botanic garden and municipal nursery.
can grow.
In 1982, a community. greenhouse expanded into the 6500 square foot Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.
Volunteers grow vegetables, plants and flowers. Sixty-five percent of the food goes to low-income families,
and the plants and flowers are donated toward municipal beautification efforts. One of the greatest benefits
Shane Smith
of this initiative is the mutually rewarding interaction between juveniles, seniors, and the disabled.
Program Director,
84.
Zenobia White, Des Moines, IA
Cheyenne Botanic
Wednesday, March 7, 1990
Gardens
Zenobia White is committed to building self-confidence in economically disadvantaged women, many
of whom have little education and have been abandoned by husbands or families.
After raising six children alone and working her way through college on income from part-time jobs,
Ms. White founded OSACS (One's Self-Actualizing and Communications Skills). Through this program,
volunteers tutor women in literacy, health, job skills, and self-confidence. Ms. White also encourages local
hospitals to give free checkups and health care workshops for the indigent.
17.
Antonio Valle Jr., La Habra, CA
Thursday, December 14, 1989
Antonio Valle, a special education teacher for 20 years, is likely to be found helping a neighbor with a
paint brush, teaching a class, or leading a community meeting.
In 1984, Mr. Valle became the first Hispanic member of the local school board. He has been named
Orange County's Hispanic Teacher of the Year and the Citizen of the Month by the La Habra Chamber of
Commerce. Starting as a volunteer, he is now President of the La Habra Neighborhood Housing Services.
food to elderly homebound residents, Mr. Valle is always ready to help those in need.
From co-founding a program to deter elementary school students from gang and drug involvement to taking
18.
The Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Lawrence, MA
Friday, December 15, 1989
"We need to
The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune realizes that media institutions have the ability to shape public attitudes,
heighten awareness, and mobilize people for action.
encourage our young
This newspaper began its own community service recognition program in February 1988, honoring local
people to be
volunteers every day in its pages. Nominations for the newspaper's series come from local individuals,
churches, synagogues, schools, colleges, and hospitals. The paper will continue to recognize citizens who
volunteers and help
have made community service a central part of their lives until one thousand have been identified.
our fellowman.
19.
Jack L. Powell, Salisbury, MD
Saturday, December 16, 1989
Antonio Valle
disadvantaged individuals.
Jack Powell annually organizes his community to gather food and clothing for economically
Each year empty grocery bags are placed on door steps in various neighborhoods to be filled with non-
perishable food and clothing. Neighborhood children distribute the bags to area homes and then collect the
full bags. The food is then distributed to local needy people by the Joseph House, a private Salisbury
emergency relief organization that provides counseling, as well as food. Since 1986, the Joseph House drive
has raised over 25 tons of food and clothing for impoverished families. Contributors have ranged from
elementary school students to the Governor of Maryland.
20.
Aja Dyani Henderson, Baton Rouge, LA
Monday, December 18, 1989
After realizing that many of her peers did not have transportation to a library, Aja Henderson, 15,
founded a lending library in her home. In addition to her own collection, she receives book donations from
private individuals and the Library of Congress. Unlike school libraries, Aja's remains open throughout the
summer. She also volunteers in a church-run literacy program targeted at inner-city youth.
21. The GlenCastle Project, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, December 19, 1989
"When you're reading
The GlenCastle Project is dedicated to the welfare of economically disadvantaged people. This initiative
organizes numerous volunteers to help transform an historic building into low-cost housing.
a book, you're not
From 1863 to 1929, the Atlanta Stockade was one of the most infamous prisons in the South. Since
closing, it has been a "hang-out" for drug dealers and addicts. Through the cooperation of community
poor or middle class
members, the prison is now the site of an innovative housing complex and community center for Atlanta's
poor. The combined skills of local architects, contractors, and homeless laborers are helping to refurbish the
or rich. You're just a
old building. The community will include 67 apartments for homeless individuals and families, non-profit
person losing yourself
food and clothing stores, a day care center, a job training institute, and a chapel.
in a book."
22. Eugene Lang, New York City, NY
Wednesday, December 20, 1989
Aja Henderson
Eugene Lang, a New York City businessman, founded the "I Have A Dream Foundation." This initiative
encourages at-risk youth to stay in school.
Through the foundation, volunteers tutor and provide personal support and encouragement. In 1981,
Mr. Lang offered personally to pay college costs for a group of Harlem sixth-graders if they would stay in
school. Since then, the program has grown to include chapters in 32 cities, with 150 sponsors and hundreds
of adults volunteering their time and resources to help over 9,000 young people nationwide.
79.
Joseph A.A. Fournier, Augusta, GA
Thursday, March 1, 1990
Joseph Fournier, a psychotherapist, realized that the financial and emotional strains that burden
families of hospital patients needed to be addressed.
Mr. Fournier mobilized other concerned members of the community and in 1988 founded "Comfort
House." This initiative provides affordable lodging and a supportive environment for the out-of-town
families of adult hospital patients. The house is supported by volunteer labor, church-donated meals and
community-donated blankets, sheets, and other necessities.
"We got away from
80.
Black Hills Regional Ski For Light, Rapid City, SD
the traditional family
Friday, March 2, 1990
values. We need to
The Black Hills Regional Ski For Light, an annual volunteer effort, provides a week of skiing and
entertainment for visually impaired and physically disabled individuals.
relearn, reteach,
Since 1978, over 500 participants have enjoyed this program. The program includes cross-country
skiing for the visually impaired, downhill skiing for the physically disabled; and sledding for paraplegics,
reconstruct, and
quadriplegics, and individuals with severe mental retardation. The activities culminate in racing contests and
an awards ceremony. In 1989 alone, 138 volunteers donated over 10,000 hours to providing a stimulating
restore these values."
way for the participants to enjoy the outdoors.
81.
Stop The Violence Movement, Milwaukee, WI
Ruth Varnado
Saturday, March 3, 1990
Co-Founder, Stop the
"Stop The Violence Movement" is committed to removing the threat of drugs and violence from the
community.
Violence
Ruth Varnado and Queen Hyler, residents of Milwaukee, became outraged by the drug and crime
activity in their city. They founded the "Stop The Violence Movement" to fight back. This initiative sponsors
marches and rallies to encourage people to join the war against illegal behavior. In addition, the women visit
a prison once a week to speak with inmates, searching for insight into the world of drugs and crime. These
discussions allow them to target their message to the community. The flight of drug dealers from this
community attests to the effectiveness of this initiative.
76.
Save The Bay, Providence, RI
Monday, February 26, 1990
Save The Bay, an environmental organization, is committed to protecting our valuable natural
resources.
This initiative is composed of staff members and numerous volunteers. The volunteers help with
managerial tasks, conduct pollution research, and educate members of the community about the dangers of
pollution. Save The Bay has taken on many large projects, including the 1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill. Save
The Bay mobilized and coordinated thousands of volunteers, making the cleanup effort efficient and
"If I can help one
successful.
person change their
77.
Orangeburg School District Five, Orangeburg, SC
Tuesday, February 27, 1990
life, then / did
The Orangeburg School District Five promotes educational excellence through the combined efforts
something
of concerned volunteers and school faculty. Recently, the dropout rate in this district has fallen to less than
2 percent from 35 percent in 1984.
worthwhile, but it
The dropout rate alarmed parents, community members, and school faculty. As a result, community
members rallied to support the school system. The business community donates supplies, parents volunteer
doesn't stop there.
as tutors and chaperones, and civic leaders serve on the School Improvement Council.
78.
The Shoulder, Houston, TX
Joseph Kegler
Wednesday, February 28, 1990
Administrative Assistant,
The Shoulder, a residential substance abuse rehabilitation center, helps low-income individuals win
The Shoulder
their own personal battles against drug and alcohol addiction.
Since its creation in 1977, this initiative has treated over 15,000 economically disadvantaged
individuals for chemical dependency. The center provides detoxification and long-term treatment. In
addition, the center is involved in efforts to develop and coordinate substance abuse services throughout
the community.
23.
Tero Mauldin Coleman, Washington, DC
Thursday, December 21, 1989
Tero Coleman, 101, comforts 70 and 80 year olds, telling them to "hang in there" and get better.
She has been a volunteer with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) at the Simpson-Hamline
United Methodist Church for 11 years. She calls on elderly home-bound worshippers, answers the church
telephone, addresses envelopes, and helps out in any way she can. Ms. Coleman's exuberance and sense of
"The only way you
humor bring cheer to those around her. She attributes her long life to eating whatever she wants, reading
the Bible every morning and night, and following the Golden Rule.
can live and be
24.
Town of Hope, Hope, NM
happy is to treat
Friday, December 22, 1989
The citizens of this small town, population 300, volunteered to improve their community.
other folks like you
Through their combined efforts, they transformed an abandoned school into a new community center.
Scraping classroom windows with a razor blade and cleaning bricks with steel wool were some of the
want to be treated. "
painstaking jobs they undertook. The center now houses the town's library, an adult center, and the Hope
Police Department.
Tero Coleman
25.
Anchorage Neighborhood Housing Services, Anchorage, AK
Saturday, December 23, 1989
This chapter of Group Neighborhood Housing Services is committed to renovating homes, providing
affordable housing for needy community members.
Since its founding in 1981, this initiative has adopted three neighborhoods. Through the "Paint the
Town" project, volunteers have helped paint and make minor repairs to over 70 homes in the adopted
communities. Families who would not otherwise be able to improve their homes now have increased
property values and a pleasant atmosphere in which to live. The organization also provides low-interest
home-improvement loans and is helping to organize a home-ownership cooperative.
26.
Stephanie Ann Fox, Milton, DE
Tuesday, December 26, 1989
Stephanie Fox, 17, has already made community service a central part of her life.
Last year, she devoted over 1000 hours to helping others. Besides her many school activities including
cheerleading, band, chorus, and drama, she works with organizations ranging from the 4-H Club to the
Delaware Cancer Society. She has been active in "SPIRIT," a student anti-drug organization, and she has
helped to raise funds for organizations combating epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and domestic
violence. She also received the 1989 Governor's Outstanding Volunteer Award.
"[Through F.C.Y.I.P.]
the youth are
27.
Foster Care Youth Independence Project, Syracuse, NY
becoming more
Wednesday, December 27, 1989
Foster Care Youth Independence Project, a non-profit organization, helps foster youth make a
self-confident and
successful transition from foster care to independence.
The project's volunteers serve as mentors to foster youth aged 14-21, offering them training and
responsible."
guidance. Through different programs, young people participate in lessons on independent living. They gain
valuable knowledge and skills in money management, communication, and teamwork. Through their one-
Foster Care Youth
on-one relationship with mentors, the young people gain self-confidence which gives them an opportunity
Independence Project
to lead a successful adult life.
73.
Project Aware, Jackson, MS
Thursday, February 22, 1990
Project Aware, a collaborative effort of the Telephone Pioneers of America and the State Department
of Corrections, developed an innovative approach to educating youth about the dangers of drug abuse.
Through the cooperation of the employees of South Central Bell, Bell South Services, AT&T, and
inmates at the state penitentiary who have been imprisoned on non-violent drug charges, young people
hear first-hand about the nightmares of drug involvement. The inmates, as part of their rehabilitation, talk
with students about the pricé they are paying for drug involvement. The employees supply transportation,
"I see myself in the
pay expenses, schedule appearances, and hold fundraising events.
74.
Daisy Patricia Hitchcock, Louisville, KY
broad concept of a
Friday, February 23, 1990
mentor. I wanted to
Daisy Hitchcock, spends her free time volunteering for many community service initiatives, helping
fellow community members reach their full potential.
give something back,
Aside from her professional career, Ms. Hitchcock serves as a mentor for young women seeking
employment, volunteers for an inner-city theatrical group which develops the communication skills and self-
I've been so
esteem of the performers, mentors students, and helps design minority recruitment projects. She has served
in many leadership roles, including member of the Board of Directors of the Westside Player's Association
blessed."
and the YMCA Black Achievers Association.
75. George Simmons, Provo, UT
Daisy Hitchcock
Saturday, February 24, 1990
George Simmons, 78, has dedicated the last six years of his retirement to the students of Mt. View
High School, volunteering as a woodworking instructor.
He spends four hours per day, five days a week sharing his experiences and talents, assisting students
in creating pieces which have won state awards. His one-on-one approach forms close relationships with his
students, helping bridge the generation gap. He has also filmed a videotape which teaches simple
woodworking skills. In addition, he has instructed numerous people in the art of blacksmithing, with the
hope of continuing the existence of the nearly extinct trade.
71.
ActionAIDS, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, February 20, 1990
ActionAIDS, a community based non-profit organization, is committed to ending the scourge of AIDS.
Founded in 1986, this initiative provides a wide range of services to people affected by AIDS and HIV-
"When you go into
related diseases. The professional staff and numerous volunteers work directly with patients and provide
information about AIDS and HIV-related diseases to the community. A "Buddies" program trains volunteers
this work you've
to work one-on-one with patients, providing companionship, support, and assistance with meal preparation.
deliberately placed
To many people without hope and medical care, ActionAIDS is a light at the end of a dark tunnel.
yourself in the path of
72.
Stacy Lynn Priest, Little Rock, AR
Wednesday, February 21, 1990
death. Knowing that
Stacy Priest, a freshman at the University of Arkansas, has been involved in community service since
she was 9 years old.
helps me remember
Ms. Priest has been an enthusiastic member of the 4-H Club for over eight years and has held such
positions as Recreation Leader, Secretary, and Vice President. She has visited nursing homes and taken part
why I'm doing it. But
in community clean-up efforts. Currently, when she is not studying, she finds time to run a youth center at
her old-high school with the help of the United Way, and delivers speeches at the 4-H Club, the Farm
I'm not helping
Bureau, and various safety organizations, informing people about social issues and potential solutions.
people die - I'm
helping them live.
Ann Butchart
Volunteer, ActionAIDS
28.
Julius Glass, Forest Hills, NY
Thursday, December 28, 1989
Julius Glass, 73, is committed to enhancing and enriching the lives of physically disabled individuals
with mental retardation.
Mr. Glass, a retired psychologist, devotes his skills to helping the residents and staff at the Bernard
Fineson Developmental Center, a residential home for the mentally disabled. He provides counseling,
administers diagnostic exams, and helps the staff create therapy programs. He also trains staff members and
confers with them on difficult cáses. Mr. Glass has used the knowledge gained from 50 years of practice to
help a new generation of mental health professionals.
29.
Duke Power Company, Charlotte, NC
"We have proven you
Friday, December 29, 1989
Duke Power Company is committed to supporting quality education. The company encourages its
can take people
employees to volunteer in local schools by sponsoring a school improvement program.
nobody else will hire
Its "Power in Education" program, started in 1984, now includes 2,300 workers who volunteer as tutors,
teaching assistants, science fair judges, and school facilities inspectors. The program. also offers academic
and meld them into
scholarships to high school seniors. Over 2,500 schools have been enriched by the contribution of Duke
Power Company employees.
a work force."
30.
Pioneer Human Services, Seattle, WA
Saturday, December 30, 1989
Gary Mulhair
This multi-faceted rehabilitation program has led the way in addressing the needs of former inmates,
President, Pioneer
individuals recovering from alcohol and drug dependencies, and the Seattle community at large.
Human Services
Founded in 1962 by a recovering alcoholic, this initiative has provided numerous services to the socially
disadvantaged, including low-cost alcohol- and drug-free housing, work release programs, and drug
rehabilitation programs. In addition, clients from Pioneer Human Services, along with others from the
community, operate a warehouse and food distribution network for local food banks, helping them stretch
their food purchasing dollars by buying food at cost and distributing it to local programs. With a volunteer
work force, the network shipped nearly 4 1/2 million pounds of food last year.
31. Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center, Santa Monica, CA
Tuesday, January 2, 1990
The Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center provides health care services to meet the physical,
mental, and social needs of thousands of elderly residents.
In 1976, five senior citizens founded the center to enhance the quality of life of their peers. This non-
profit organization offers health screening, internships for health professionals, and training for senior
citizens to help counsel physically and mentally ill elderly patients at little or no cost. More than 10,000
people receive direct assistance annually, with another 15,000 served annually through educational
presentations.
"Everytime you help
a family hold onto
32. Sophia Jeffery, Springfield, MA
their home or make it
Wednesday, January 3, 1990
Sophia Jeffery is committed to united community members in order to make their neighborhoods a
a safe place, it gives
safe place to live.
Many individuals in Ms. Jeffrey's community cannot afford to maintain their homes. Many buildings.
you that surge to
were abandoned and deteriorating. Under Ms. Jeffery's leadership, many families receive the help they
need.. She has recruited groups to purchase run-down buildings and convert them to homes and has also
keep going."
organized people to fight drugs and crime. She has convinced people that they do not have to give up when
the odds are against them.
Sophia Jeffery
68. Seniors Serving Schools Program, Mission, KS
Thursday, February 15, 1990
The Seniors Serving Schools Program, a partnership of the Volunteer Center of Johnson County and
the Shawnee School District, provides an intergenerational approach to educating youth.
Since 1986, senior volunteers have dedicated their knowledge and talents to educating young people
"If you want to
in their community. The volunteers offer one-on-one instruction or small group tutoring in subjects ranging
from math to art, including vocal and instrumental music lessons. Through this program, students receive
impact effectively a
extra attention, teachers receive assistance in the classroom, and senior citizens share their knowledge and
experiences with energetic youth.
child's life, you must
69.
Self Enhancement, Inc., Portland, OR
Friday, February 16, 1990
be there with them,
Self Enhancement, Inc. is dedicated to providing urban youth with alternatives to drug and alcohol
and be a consistent
abuse.
This initiative has formed a comprehensive program designed to empower urban youth with a sense
part of their lives
"
of purpose in life. Through its curriculum, self-development activities, and career exploration program, this
effort seeks to increase self-esteem, improve academic skills, and encourage civic and community
involvement.
Joy Cross
Curriculum Specialist,
70. Lou and Lola Stouffer, Terra Alta, WV
Saturday, February 17, 1990
Self Enhancement, Inc.
The Stouffers, endearingly known as "Santa and Mrs. Claus," bring the joy of the holiday season to
needy children in their community.
For the past 17 years, the Stouffers have delivered gifts during the holiday season. Throughout the
year, the Stouffers collect clothing and toys and refurbish them during the summer months. The gifts are
then boxed according to the needs of economically disadvantaged families. During the holiday season,
"Santa and Mrs. Claus" dress in their red suits and deliver the gifts to delighted children. Without the
Stouffers, many economically disadvantaged families would not have a merry holiday season.
65.
Project Good Turn, Missoula, MT
Monday, February 12, 1990
Project Good Turn, initiated by the Montana Council of Boy Scouts in Great Falls, is dedicated to
cleaning up the environment.
Originally founded as a highway cleanup in 1985, this initiative has grown to include beautifying
public lands. Today, the Montana State Department of Highways, the Montana State Highway Patrol, the
State Amateur Radio Club, the Montana Sheriff and Peace Officer's Association, and many civic
"The whole
organizations take part in this initiative. Now an annual Montana tradition, more than 5,000 tons of trash
have been collected over the past five years.
community is working
66.
Men on the Move's "ESTEEM", Cordele, GA
Tuesday, February 13, 1990
together. Neighbors
Men on the Move, a civic club of black males, founded the "ESTEEM" program. This initiative is
working with
designed to help adolescent boys deal with the difficult pressures they experience while growing up.
"ESTEEM" (Early Start Toward Educational Excellence and Maturity) provides positive role models for
neighbors. It's a real
young boys. The mentors' goal is to help each boy develop, maintain, and consistently upgrade skills and
attitudes. This, in turn, enables the adolescents to think highly of themselves, take pride in their
neighborhood again."
accomplishments, and strive to improve the quality of their lives and the lives of others in their community.
67.
South San Jose Neighborhood Association, Albuquerque, NM
Jack Candelaria
Wednesday, February 14, 1990
President, South San Jose
The South San Jose Neighborhood Association successfully confronts the threat of gangs and drugs in
Neighborhood
its community.
Association
Two years ago, the South San Jose neighborhood was overrun by drug dealers, gangs, and crime. Mr.
Jack Candelaria, president of the association, convened a meeting between members of the association and
the police chief to discuss the deteriorating situation. In response, the police established a substation in
South San Jose to provide police visibility. Through the combined efforts of the police and community
members, South San Jose is now a safe place to live.
33.
Senior Center Foster Grandparents Program, Charlottesville, VA
Thursday, January 4, 1990
This program unites the young and old, enriching relationships between generations.
The program exposes children to senior citizens in a natural and friendly way, challenging myths and
misconceptions each may have about the other, while providing a living history lesson for the young. The
foster grandparents visit with a class monthly. They may choose to read a story, teach a song, tell about a
life experience, or listen to the children. They also tutor and help with school work. This program allows
"Rewards of the
senior citizens to make a valuable contribution to the development of a younger generation and gives them
a chance to interact with enthusiastic and energetic young people.
program work two
34. MOVE (Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts), Winooski, VT
ways - for both the
Friday, January 5, 1990
Founded in 1986, MOVE encourages students of St. Michael's College to serve others. During the 1988
children and the
academic year, more than 400 students performed over 20,000 hours of community service. Several students
spend their spring break volunteering at projects throughout the country. Current programs are targeted at
grandparents."
helping youth, senior citizens, and the physically disabled.
Dela Alexander
35. Jefferson County Community Center, Lakewood, CO
Director, Foster
Saturday, January 6, 1990
Grandparents Program
The Jefferson County Community Center, a non-profit organization, helps those with severe
developmental disabilities attain their highest potential level of self-sufficiency.
The center provides an alternative to institutionalization. It operates two schools which offer
individualized education and job training. Partnerships with local businesses provide work opportunities, and
residential training is available for the disabled and their families. The center also offers group homes, semi-
independent apartments, individual apartments, host homes, and follow-up services. Numerous volunteers
lend support throughout the process. The center's programs have benefited more than 12,000 individuals
and families.
36.
Katherine Donihi, Altamonte Springs, FL
Monday, January 8, 1990
Katherine Donihi, 17, has already experienced the joy that comes from serving others.
As a volunteer at the Rachel Pace Therapeutic Riding Academy, she helps disabled youngsters ride
horses, providing recreation and exercise for the youth. She also volunteers in her church and school. In
addition, Miss Donihi chairs the Student Advisory Council of the Central Florida Young Volunteers in
"The point is that if
Action, a volunteer initiative encouraging young people to get involved in their communities.
we don't provide
37.
Little Vikings Program, Arlington, TX
aggressive
Tuesday, January 9, 1990
The Little Vikings Program was developed to encourage local elementary school students to complete
rehabilitative care for
their education.
Little Vikings are elementary school children, often from economically disadvantaged families, who
these women now,
have been identified by their school principals as potential dropouts. Lamar High School classrooms "adopt"
these children and provide friendship and academic support. They tutor the children, send Christmas and
we will pay for it in
birthday cards, donate clothing and toys, and encourage academic success. The high school students
the future."
sponsor their Little Vikings throughout their elementary school years, maintaining friendships and mentor
relationships over an extended period of time.
Betsey Smith
38. Neil J. Houston House, Roxbury, MD
Director, Social Justice
Wednesday, January 10, 1990
for Women
The Neil J. Houston House, a project of Social Justice for Women, is a home for women, some of them
pregnant, some of them with newborn babies, all of them addicted to drugs or alcohol and convicted of
crimes.
The house is a residential program that offers pregnant women an alternative to incarceration. The
facility provides comprehensive prenatal care, substance abuse treatment, family intervention, community
reintegration services, and follow-up counseling. It is a safe, nurturing environment for mother and baby.
The mission of the house is to break a cycle of crime and drug, use before it is passed on to a new
generation.
62.
Holy Rosary Family Center, Columbus, OH
Thursday, February 8, 1990
The Holy Rosary Family Center, an initiative of Catholic Social Services, is dedicated to helping
homeless families get a new start in life.
Since 1983, this effort has maintained two shelters for homeless families, providing support, referral
services, family counseling, a private room for each family, medical treatment, and three meals a day. After
90 days, residents are prepared to live on their own. To keep in touch, they attend a monthly dinner with
current and former residents.
63.
Alan Waters, Daleville, AL
"We are giving them
Friday, February 9, 1990
help, and not just a
Alan Waters, a high school teacher, encourages his students to become concerned citizens.
As an advisor of the local chapter of Future Farmers of America, Mr. Waters is dedicated to involving
place to live."
the teenage members of FFA in numerous community service projects. For example, to help combat farm
and rural theft, Mr. Waters and the youth work with farmers to place identification numbers on their
machinery and then worked with the police department to secure these identification numbers. Through
Earlene Jeffries
discipline and a strong sense of values, Mr. Waters encourages his students to initiate projects and follow
Housing Director,
them through.
Holy Rosary
64.
Pamela Calhoun, Sparks, NV
Family Center
Saturday, February 10, 1990
Pamela Calhoun created the "Energy Awareness in the Northern Nevada Community" initiative to
inform the public about energy and its conservation.
In 1986, after taking a class on energy resources, Ms. Calhoun asked her fifth graders to think of ways
to educate the community on energy sources and the need to conserve. They created an assignment book
which was used by 650 students the next year. For the last four years, Ms. Calhoun has implemented various
projects to create public awareness about energy conservation issues. She also uses energy issues to teach
reading, writing, science, and math.
59. The Reverend Michael Wayne Lewis, Tampa, FL
Monday, February 5, 1990
Reverend Lewis transformed his church and community, both on the verge of collapse, into a safe
and nurturing environment.
At one. time, Reverend Lewis' community was plagued by burglaries, vandalism, and violence. He
discovered that many members of his church had cocaine-addicted or AIDS babies. With help from, his
congregation, Reverend Lewis transformed an abandoned crack house into a center to recruit and train
foster parents to care for these babies. This initiative places the babies into the homes of graduates of the
training program and offers drug counseling to the children's natural mothers. In addition, his congregation
"We took a crack
volunteers to clean the neighborhood and repair local schools.
60. Salvation Army Hope Center, St. Louis, MO
house and turned it
Tuesday, February 6, 1990
into a faith house.
The Salvation Army Hope Center provides children with a way out of the tragic cycle of abuse and
neglect.
We've taken back our
In 1977, the center was established to provide emergency shelter for displaced children. Today, the
center serves approximately 220 foster children per year. Most of the children have emotional, behavioral,
neighborhoods
and developmental problems and have lived in two or three foster homes. The Hope Center is dedicated to
healing the effects of maltreatment, fostering the development of children, and restoring and enhancing
ourselves."
families. The staff and numerous volunteers provide residential treatment, outpatient treatment, therapeutic
foster care, family therapy, day care, and community awareness programs.
Reverend Michael Lewis
61.
Friends, Fargo, ND
Wednesday, February 7, 1990
"Friends" is committed to the welfare of distressed community members.
This initiative matches those people experiencing serious crises or traumatic situations with a
volunteer in the community who has experienced a similar problem. Problems addressed by "Friends" range
from divorce to back surgery. Most volunteers have received help through this initiative and wish to return
the favor. "Friends" also offers sixteen support groups for people who prefer group help rather than
one-on-one counseling.
39. Higher Achievement Program, Washington, DC
Thursday, January 11, 1990
The Higher Achievement Program (HAP) is investing in America's future. Through HAP, economically
disadvantaged students with academic potential are given the opportunity to succeed.
Since 1975, HAP has helped over 3,500 young people in grades 4-8. Through after school programs,
"The one thing that
intensive summer programs, and high school placement assistance, many students have realized their
potential. Numerous volunteers offer tutoring in math, English, and science, supplementing the children's
/ got from HAP that
daytime lessons.
influenced me to go
40. The Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH
Friday, January 12, 1990
to college was
The Cincinnati Youth Collaborative helps hundreds of local students make the most of their education.
Founded in 1987, this initiative now operates two preschools, funds additional teachers for public
support. That's all.
schools, and provides scholarships. It aims to increase the number of pupils involved in early childhood
educational programs, improve the overall academic performance of students, reduce the number of
Just support. Just
dropouts, increase the number of students attending college, and increase the number of youth entering
support to do
the job market. It incorporates the help of all those directly involved with the youth, including parents,
teachers, religious leaders, and business people.
whatever / really
41.
Herbert John Chamberlain, Rochester, NY
wanted to do."
Saturday, January 13, 1990
Herbert Chamberlain, founder of the Volunteer Workshop for Adaptive Equipment, designs and
Tommi Delaney
manufactures one-of-a-kind adaptive devices to help disabled people. become self-sufficient.
Former Student, Higher
Twenty-five years ago, Mr. Chamberlain began building adaptive equipment during the evening in the
basement of his home. Upon retiring in 1982, he founded a workshop at the Monroe Developmental
Achievement Program
Center, where he now works every day supervising a team of seven volunteers.
42. Saint Vincent De Paul-Joan Kroc Center, San Diego, CA
Tuesday, January 16, 1990
The Saint Vincent De Paul - Joan Kroc Center is committed to helping economically disadvantaged
citizens rebuild their lives.
The center, founded in 1987, provides temporary and long-term housing for 400 homeless individuals
and families. The center offers laundry facilities, a library, a barber shop, a medical clinic, a security. system, a
grassy courtyard, a one-room schoolhouse, and a dining hall that doubles as a basketball court. The large
kitchen staffed by volunteers and shelter residents provides daily meals for over 2,000 local homeless
"I'm not important.
people.
It's what I'm doing
that's important. /
43. Marsha Goggans Johnson, Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, January 17, 1990
could die tomorrow
Marsha Johnson raises a family, runs her own greeting card company, and still finds time to work
but / want what I'm
actively in community service.
In 1987, Ms. Johnson founded Women Helping Other Women (WHOW), which sponsors seminars and
doing to live on.
other activities to help mothers cope with the stress of raising children. Parents meet monthly to talk about
problems and counselors are available on demand. In addition, she sends 400 inspirational cards from her
That's helping
company to people in need of a cheerful message. She also volunteers her time as a probation officer for
the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.
people."
Marsha Johnson
56.
Youth Aware, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, February 1, 1990
Youth Aware is committed to addressing the many concerns that elementary school children have
about alcohol and drugs.
For seven years, this program has sought to reach students before their attitudes on drugs and alcohol
become hardened and difficult to change. After receiving extensive training on substance abuse and public
speaking, volunteers from the community serve as instructors, informing kids about choices and options
before experimentation begins. The volunteers relay their messages through storytelling, discussions, role
playing, games, and lectures.
"I feel a great
57.
Daniel James Greene, David, KY
responsibility. to
Friday, February 2, 1990
Daniel Greene's selfless dedication to others has affected the lives of hundreds of youth.
educate my students
Twenty years ago, Mr. Greene moved from New York to the coal fields of Kentucky. He realized that in
globally. There are
this community, economic survival often takes precedence over education. In 1974, he founded The David
School, giving the region's economically disadvantaged adolescents a second chance at education. The
problems we can
David School recruits dropouts and visits their parents at home, enlisting their support and stimulating
interest in their children's education. Of the students who enroll, 95 percent go on to earn a high school
affect."
degree.
58.
Phyllis Lydia Green and her 6th graders, Long Grove, IA
Phyllis Green
Saturday, February 3, 1990
Phyllis Green believes that community service should be a central part of her students' lives.
For five years, Ms. Green and her students have visited nursing homes, helped the homeless, and
donated winter coats to needy children. They also collect milk jugs for recycling, averaging 100 jugs a day.
Ms. Green instills in her students the motto: "Think Globally: Act Locally."
53. The Town of Yoncalla, Yoncalla, OR
Monday, January 29, 1990
The town of Yoncalla, population 870, united to meet a community need.
For years, the town of Yoncalla had no public meeting place for a group over 25 people. The residents
of the town and surrounding rural areas were determined to change that by building the Yoncalla
Community Center. The volunteer work force, with an average age of 73, completed the structure in May of
1989. Their effort was supported by the local Lions Club and financed by private donations. Since its
completion, the Community Center has been in constant use as a "Senior Dining Hall" and a meeting place
for community functions.
"Schools aim to
54. Daniel Emanuel Conrad, Minnetonka, MN
produce good
Tuesday, January 30, 1990
citizens, but
Daniel Conrad, a high school social studies teacher, implemented an innovative course to encourage
his students to serve others.
citizenship is
Mr. Conrad created the "Community Involvement Class." His students volunteer two hours a day, four
days a week in nursing homes, day care centers, and with senior citizen groups in the community. The
something you do,
students keep a daily journal and write essays on their experiences. Each Friday, the students attend a
seminar where they discuss the many different issues raised by their experiences throughout the week. The
not just something
students gain valuable experience through their service work and become attuned to social issues.
you know.
55. Michael Carlton Noyes, Levant, ME
Wednesday, January 31, 1990
Daniel Conrad
Michael Noyes, an active volunteer in his community, draws on his personal experiences as a physically
disabled citizen when serving others.
Mr. Noyes directs a 24-hour counseling service for adults, helping them through personal crises. He
also spends much time teaching archery, riflery, and soccer to children. In addition, he is a full-time parent,
as the biological father of two, the foster parent of two, and the father of an adopted daughter with artificial
limbs.
44.
Marilyn Millard Murphy, Stamford, CT
Thursday, January 18, 1990
Marilyn Murphy has dedicated her time and energy to help improve her community.
Ms. Murphy has been associated with the Stamford Volunteer Center of Southwestern Fairfield County
since its creation in 1973. She has been Executive Director of the center for 12 years, helping recruit and
"When they [the
match volunteers to specific requests, training volunteers, and promoting community service. She was
instrumental in developing the Fairfield County Corporate Volunteer Council and serves as its consultant.
residents] call it
Currently, she is chair of The Advisory Council and a member of the Board of Directors of VOLUNTEER-The
National Center.
home, that's
45.
Kelley Renee Edwards, Lilburn, GA
the ultimate
Friday, January 19, 1990
Kelley Edwards, 17, is a veteran volunteer. She has been serving others since the age of 11.
compliment.
Miss Edwards has been a Girl Scout for eleven years and is currently working with the Girl Scouts to
implement a stronger drug-free program for the 1990s. She has worked with physically and mentally
Jean Brady
disabled children in Arcado Elementary School and has volunteered at Lilburn Health Care Center. In
Executive Director,
addition, she is currently forming a drug-free coalition in her high school. This program will provide peer
support in the school and community to help students resist the temptation of drugs.
Victory Housing
46.
Mary's House, Rockville, MD
Saturday, January 20, 1990
Mary's House, a project of Victory Housing, is concerned with the health and happiness of senior
citizens.
The house, transformed from an empty convent, is now a home for 15 elderly people at one-half the
cost of regular nursing home care. The first floor of the building houses the St. Mary's Elementary School;
community efforts helped transform the second floor into Mary's House. Children from the school spend
time with the senior citizens, adding enthusiasm and vitality to their living environment. Volunteers provide
all the residents with three meals a day, housekeeping services, and assistance with bathing, dressing, and
grooming.
47.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Harrisburg, PA
Monday, January 22, 1990
Having been a recipient of volunteer service herself, Sheila Fitzpatrick understands the value of
reaching out and helping others.
Ms. Fitzpatrick spends much of her time serving others, even though she is developmentally disabled.
She is a client of the Association for Retarded Citizens, which helped her find a full-time job. In addition to
working, she has volunteered more than 1000 hours in 18 months for the Polyclinic Medical Center. Her
appointments. duties include assisting nurses in such jobs as filling water pitchers and taking patients to in-house
"
a thousand
points of light can
48. Third Grade Class of Dian Wurst, Polk, NE
Tuesday, January 23, 1990
make an infinite
The Third Grade Class of Dian Wurst demonstrates that citizens of all ages can make a difference.
difference in the life
For seven years, Ms. Wurst has assigned a "tele-care" program to her third graders. Every morning the
students call nineteen homebound seniors, delivering a morning greeting and asking if they need anything.
of these United
The students méet with the recipients twice a year at a Christmas party and spring tea, and many students
visit them after school and on weekends throughout the year. The program gives the seniors and their
States."
are safe and well.
families the peace of mind that comes from knowing that someone will check daily to make sure that they
Richard Gunderson
49.
Get Involved Before Your Kids Do, Appleton, WI
President and CEO,
Wednesday, January 24, 1990
Aid Association for
"Get Involved Before Your Kids Do," developed by Aid Association for Lutherans, recognizes that
Lutherans
parents are the first and best protection against teenage substance abuse.
This initiative is composed of "Get Involved" workshops and community outreach events. The
workshops encourage parents to talk with their children about alcohol and drugs, set family rules, assess
their own behavior with respect to alcohol and drugs, and "network" with other parents. Community events
include alcohol-free parties for high school students, sponsoring speakers, and funding local Students
Against Driving Drunk projects.
50.
The Kerby Sisters, Troy, MI
Thursday, January 25, 1990
Beth, 13, Kerry, 10, and Megan, 7, have made community service a central part of their lives.
The sisters volunteer at the Wing Lake Development Center in West Bloomfield Township, which
provides education and recreation to severely physically and mentally disabled children. Their
responsibilities include playing with the children and assisting them in activities. The Kerbys' volunteer work
gives the disabled children an opportunity to interact with their peers, while bringing friendship and joy into
their lives.
"We did this for
51.
PALS (Principle of the Alphabet Literacy System)/Entergy Corporation, New Orleans, LA
Friday, January 26, 1990
experience and to
Entergy Corporation believes that nothing is more important to the future of America than literacy.
give back to society a
PALS, sponsored by Entergy Corporation, is an interactive computer system which provides literacy
training to adults and adolescents. The Entergy Corporation has installed PALS learning systems in New
portion of the
Orleans, Monroe, Jackson, and Helena in public schools and a prison. The corporation's goal is to promote
literacy in rural areas in order to improve the standard of living for those less fortunate.
wonderful things we
52.
have received."
Gallia Academy High School Key Club, Gallipolis, OH
Saturday, January 27, 1990
The Gallia Academy High School Key Club is committed to bringing joy to economically disadvantaged
Beth Kerby
citizens during the holiday season.
The GAHS Club's "Toy Town" Christmas project provides toys for underprivileged children and food for
the entire family. The club raised $10,000 in 1988 and $18,000 in 1989 to provide toys for over 750 needy
children. In addition, the club opened an office in town to collect and distribute toys for area kids and
sponsors other service projects throughout the year.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 9, 1990
I am delighted to congratulate the recipients
of the 1990 President's Volunteer Action Award.
As these generous and hardworking men and women
have shown, volunteerism is not just a concept,
but a genuine movement that is growing across
America. Americans of all walks of live under-
stand that reaching out to help others is a
patriotic act, an act that says of itself:
"I love my country, and I recognize that the
immutable fact of a healthy democracy is that
my fellow citizens are not just colleagues,
not just fellow passengers on a journey, but
my brothers and sisters. And we are a family.
And families help their own."
ACTION REGIONAL DIRECTORS
ACTION
Beth Anderson
John B. Keller
Jerome D. Ryans
DOMESTIC
DALLAS, TX
SEATTLE, WA
ATLANTA, GA
ACTION is the
FEDERAL
VOLUNTEER
Joyce Emerson
Margaret D. Matisko
John F. Torian
federal domes-
DENVER, CO
PHILADELPHIA, PA
BOSTON, MA
tic agency for
JCTION
Teresa Keeshan
Cynthia C. Rudmann
Suzanne Tufts
volunteer serv-
THE
AGENCY
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
CHICAGO, IL
NEW YORK, NY
ice. Its mission
is to stimulate
U.S.A.
and expand voluntary citizen partici-
pation through coordination of its
ACTION
VOLUNTEER
White House
efforts with public and private sec-
tor organizations and other govern-
Program Staff
Program Staff
Program Staff
mental agencies. ACTION addresses
current and emerging needs, partic-
Jane A. Kenny
Frank H. Bailey
Honorable C. Gregg Petersmeyer
Director
Executive Director
Deputy Assistant to the President
ularly those related to the poor, the
and Director, Office of National
disadvantaged and the elderly, by
John Seal
Richard C. Mock
Service
utilizing to the fullest extent the en-
Executive Officer
Deputy Executive Director
ergy, experience and skills of Ameri-
for Communications
Leah Geraghty
cans to serve local communities and
Deputy Director
the Nation. ACTION supports al-
Lynda Lancaster
Office of National Service
most 500,000 volunteers through its
Program Assistant
Don Iloff
Retired Senior Volunteer, Foster
Barbara Watkins
Associate Director for Awards and
Grandparent, Senior Companion,
Program Assistant
Recognition
Volunteers in Service to America
Office of National Service
(VISTA), Student Community Serv-
ice and special volunteer programs.
Perry Liles
Associate Director for Events and
Initiatives
Office of National Service
The President's Volunteer Action Awards Co-sponsors
The President's Volunteer Action Awards Program
is co-sponsored by VOLUNTEER-The National Center and ACTION
in cooperation with the White House Office of National Service.
VOLUNTEER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
VOLUNTEER
Honorable George
John Dutton
John Hartman
Honorable Sargent Shriver
The National
Romney
APPLETON, WI
KEY LARGO, FL
WASHINGTON, D.C.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI
Pablo Eisenberg
Honorary Member
Honorary Member
Center
Chairman
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dr. Harry Hogan
Dr. Marta Sotomayor
Robert M. Schneider
BETHESDA, MD
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Richard Eyre
LYME, CT
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Honorary Member
Ronald K. Speed
Vice Chairman
Melinda S. Haun Hohnecke
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
VOLUNTEER-The National Cen-
Martha Fimbres
Putnam Barber
FARGO, ND
TUCSON, AZ
Donald Staheli
ter, celebrating its twentieth annu
SEATTLE, WA
Frank Judge
NEW YORK, NY
versary during 1990, is the only na
Honorary Member
Zachary Fisher
DEARBORN, MI
tional voluntary organization with
NEW YORK, NY
Sally Stewart
the sole mission of stimulating and
Joyce Black
Gretta Forrester
Harvey Kapnick
TOLUCA LAKE, CA
NEW YORK, NY
strengthening volunteer citizen in
NAPLES, FL
ST. LOUIS, MO
W. Clement Stone
volvement in addressing human,s
Joan Bradley
Diana Lewis
LAKE FOREST, IL
cial and environmental problems.
RENO, NV
Vera Foster
NEW ORLEANS, LA
ALEXANDRIA, VA
Deborah Szekely
VOLUNTEER is a national advocate
Winifred L. Brown
Edward A. Meagher, III
ARLINGTON, VA
for the volunteer community; pro-
NEW YORK, NY
Mary Galligan
LOUISVILLE, KY
vides a wide range of support serv-
WILMINGTON, DE
Lucius Theus
John Mack Carter
ice to Volunteer Centers, volunteer-
Edward L. Gardner
Evelyn Moore
BIRMINGHAM, MI
NEW YORK, NY
involving organizations and major
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Honorary Member
RYE, NY
Daniel W. Toohey
corporations VOLUNTEER.has just
Frank Popoff
WASHINGTON, D.C.
launched a five year effort to
Honorable David
Willard W. Garvey
MIDLAND, MI
strengthen existing Volunteer Cen-
Durenberger
WICHITA, KS
Hicks B. Waldron
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Lenore Romney
HARTFORD, CT
ters and to assist in the creation of
T George Harris
new ones in communities where
Honorary Member
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI
NEW YORK, NY
Honorary Member
none exist.
In communities across the country, people of all
ages are "helping their own" and demonstrating
the power of individual goodness and private
initiative. Working through their places of
worship, through community programs, or
privately, millions of Americans are making a
a difference in their communities. Whether they
teach the unskilled or bring material aid and
the Word of God to the spiritually and physically
impoverished, volunteers give that special touch
that is beyond the power of government to give.
They are not giving dignity, for that cannot be
conferred, or education, because that must be
acquired. They are not bestowing ambition,
because ambition comes from within. What these
volunteers do is even more miraculous: they
impart to disadvantaged individuals the means
to earn a degree or a skill, to gain greater
self-esteem, and to become more self-sufficient.
On behalf of all Americans, I thank the 1990
President's Volunteer Action Award recipients
for their leadership and their example. These
outstanding men and women are helping to build
a better America. God bless you all.
ay Bush
The President's Volunteer Action Awards
The President's Volunteer Action
Awards were created in 1982 to call
public attention to the contributions of
our nation's 80 million volunteers and
OF THE UNITED 28HL OF
The 167 recipients of the President's
Awards over the past nine years contin-
ue to reflect the diversity of American
volunteering. Winners include indi-
to demonstrate what can be accom-
viduals, established national orga-
plished through community service.
nizations with thousands of volun-
The President's Awards Program. is
teers, newly established grassroots or-
co-sponsored by VOLUNTEER-The
ganizations, fraternal organizations,
National Center, a private nonprofit
employee volunteer programs, and
organization, and ACTION, the federal
ACTION's regional directors, joined by
labor union members. Some of the
domestic volunteer agency, in coopera-
two members of VOLUNTEER's board
award winners have achieved national
tion with the White House Office of Na-
of directors, reviewed 70 finalist nomi-
recognition for their involvement; oth-
tional Service. Program management
nations and from those chose the group
ers are known only to those whom they
responsibility rests with VOLUNTEER;
to be submitted to the White House for
serve.
funding is provided by private corpora-
the final selection.
The President's Volunteer Action
tions and foundations.
The President presents the awards,
Awards, the most prestigious award
In 1990, over 2,800 nominations were
sterling silver medallions, to each win-
ever presented for volunteer service,
submitted and reviewed in ten catego-
ner at a White House event during Na-
reflect the importance President Bush
ries: arts and humanities; education;
tional Volunteer Week. The citationists
has placed on citizen involvement and
environment; health; human services;
receive certificates by mail from the
community service. As he frequently
international volunteering; mobiliza-
President. All remaining nominees re-
says, "From now on in America, any
tion of volunteers; public safety; youth
ceive special cards of appreciation
definition of a successful life must in-
volunteering; and the workplace.
from the President.
clude serving others."
forward and building a new tradition on this foundation, Ford has launched a
as young people, families, and those pursuing religious vocations.
corporate pilot volunteer program, Ford ACTS (Assisting the Community
In 1984, the Knights of Columbus was honored to receive the President's
Through Service). Being tested in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Greater
Volunteer Action Award for mobilization of volunteers.
Detroit, Michigan, area, this program seeks to enlist employees and retirees
to give of their time and talents in addressing community needs by matching
them with available volunteer opportunities.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Providing financial support for a wide variety of volunteer organizations,
Ford works to help strengthen the fabric of our American way of life.
The Mayflower A Stouffer Hotel
Hundreds of organizations each year benefit from grants made in support of
Bernard C. Awenenti
local and national programs concerned with community improvement,
Vice President and General Manager
youth, employment, safety, minority relations, and public policy research.
Ford supports economic education to further its commitment to a
The Mayflower recently celebrated its 65th anniversary. The hotel's history
democratic form of government and a private economy. Through its grants to
and association with our country's history were officially recognized in No-
the National 4-H Council, Junior Achievement, and similar youth groups,
vember 1983 when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It
Ford continues to support volunteer efforts that develop private-economy
has been the home of a great many Senators, Congressmen and elected Presi-
values in America's youth. Support of 144 United Ways throughout the
dents, all of whom have had Inaugural Balls at the Mayflower since President
country provides funding for social welfare and hospital organizations
Coolidge. Stouffer Hotels operates 41 hotels in the U.S. and Mexico.
serving our communities.
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Henry E. Kates
Dr. Russell G. Mawby
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company's community involvement in its
home office cities of Newark, New Jersey, and Kansas City, Missouri, in-
Since its inception in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has been providing
cludes volunteer, in-kind and contributions programs. Among the activities
support to volunteer programs designed to respond to the complex and
are matching individual employees with volunteer jobs, sponsoring commu-
sometimes overwhelming needs of people. Since 1972, more than $22 million
nity service projects involving employees as volunteers, providing released
in Kellogg Foundation support has been invested in more than 79 projects
time employees and loaned executives to agencies, recognizing employee
directly related to volunteerism. Foundation programming is concentrated in
volunteer efforts through recognition programs, in-house publications, do-
helping the nation's service volunteers-individuals who seek to help others
nating materials/learning facilities, encouraging executives to serve on
tackle the issues of health, youth, work, social services, education and reha-
boards of voluntary organizations and sponsoring volunteer fairs.
bilitation.
Nationally, Mutual Benefit has extended its support of corporate volun-
For example, the Kellogg Foundation is now into the second year of pro-
teerism to include: à national advertising campaign promoting business in
viding assistance to the Michigan Compact, a statewide association of col-
volvement; the commissioning of two survey reports on the nature and ex-
leges and universities that promote student volunteerism. Other important
tent of corporate and small business commitment to volunteerism; and the
foundation-funded programs are aimed at improving the abilities of citizen
publication of a "how to" manual for small businesses interested in commu-
boards and senior managing staffs to solve problems in the availability, quali-
nity involvement. The company also sponsors a volunteer incéntive award
ty and cost of human service and educational programs. Attention also is
program to honor employees and agencies. Mutual Benefit's Model Block
being given to state, regional, and national efforts to increase understanding
Program in Kansas City received the 1986 President's Volunteer Action,
of the role of volunteerism.
Award.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
SPRINGFIELD, NEW JERSEY
Elizabeth and Zachary Fisher
Keyes Martin
Business and civic leader Zachary Fisher, a senior member of the Fisher
Lee Dmitzak
Brothers Real Estate and Investment building concern, is a long-time active
Executive Vice President
volunteer. As founder and chairman of the board of the Intrepid Museum
Foundation, Mr. Fisher spent five years getting the carrier into New York to
Volunteerism is a way of life at Keyes Martin, one of New Jersey's largest
serve as the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum. He recently opened the first
advertising and public relations firms. Executives and employees are in-
Fisher House near Bethesda Memorial Hospital to provide temporary accom-
volved in a myriad of community volunteer activities. In addition, the agency,
modations for families visiting former members of the armed forces in mili-
as a volunteer service, has created and expedited programs for many New
tary hospitals.
Jersey organizations, including the Society to Prevent Blindness, the North-
He has served as advisor to the United States Delegation on the Housing
ern New Jersey Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Cancer
Committee of the Economic Commission for Europe Conference for three
Care, National Burn Victim Foundation, and Newark Symphony Hall.
years. He is a director of Honor America, a member of the board of directors
of the Ellis Island Restoration Project and the board of advisors of the Veter-
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
ans' Bedside Network, a member of the advisory committee of the New York
Council and the Navy League of the United States, director of the Marine
Knights of Columbus Supreme Council
Corps Scholarship Foundation and of the Marine Corps Memorial Associa-
Virgil C. Dechant
tion, a Fellow of Brandeis University and à trustee of the National Jewish
Supreme Knight
Hospital in Denver. Mr. Fisher has received Secretary of the Navy Outstand-
ing Civilian award for his contribution to national defense. In 1989 he re-
In the 108 years since its founding, the Knights of Columbus has grown from
ceived the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award from
a small group of Catholic parishioners in New Haven, Connecticut, to the
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his contribution and service to
world's largest Catholic lay organization. What began in 1882 as a society
the armed forces of the United States. Zachary Fisher received the Presi-
formed to provide support to families who suffered the loss of their bread-
dent's Volunteer Action Award in 1988.
winner, is now an international organization with 1.5 million dues-paying
members dedicated to their Catholic faith and the principles of charity, unity,
fraternity and patriotism. The Order was founded by Rev. Michael J. McGiv-
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN
ney, a young Catholic priest, and a handful of his parishioners at St. Mary's
Church in New Haven. It has never wavered in the pursuit of its original goal
Ford Motor Company
to provide insurance protection to members and their families. Today, the K
Harold A. Poling
of C is among the most successful of North American insurance enterprises
with more than $15.7 billion of insurance in force and $2.6 billion in assets.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Over the years the Order has broadened its original focus, reached out to
Inspired by the civic leadership of Henry Ford II, Ford Motor Company has a
assist all sectors of the communities in which it is active and established a
long tradition of encouraging volunteerism among its employees. The Com-
proud record of fraternal and service related accomplishments. Knights and
pany maintains a network of 64 Community Relations Committees which
their families constitute a volunteer force of nearly 5.5 million people. In
operate in each of the U.S. locations in which Ford is a corporate citizen.
1988, the most recent year for which complete statistics are available,
Through these Committees, with over 600 management members, the Com-
Knights provided 27 million manhours of service to their Church and com-
pany encourages its employees to offer their time and expertise to organiza-
munities, and donated $85 million to charitable causes through more than
tions that emphasize an improved quality of life in their communities. With
9,500 local councils. Over the past ten years, Knights have committed 165
this support, a number of Committees have taken a role in education, with
million volunteer manhours and $565 million to helping elderly, physically or
members volunteering as tutors and mentors for school children. Moving
mentally handicapped, poor, sick and other disadvantaged citizens, as well
1990 Award Recipients
Volunteers of the Northwest Pilot Project have provided
supportive care services to low-income elderly persons
PORTLAND, OREGON
for the past 20 years. Realizing that many of the elderly
lead isolated lives because of mobility problems and
Northwest Pilot Project Access to the Arts Program
fixed incomes, the group conducted a survey of those liv-
ing in the downtown area of Portland in 1987 and found
1001
WEDNESDAYS
that 66 percent wanted to attend cultural events but were
5:30-7:30 PM
hindered by cost, transportation and security.
Project volunteers developed Access to the Arts to pro-
vide the opportunity for this group to attend cultural
events. They found that performing arts groups frequent-
OREGON
ART
ly have unsold seats and are willing to make those tickets
INSTITUTE
available to those unable to pay. However, the cultural
groups have no way to identify qualifying recipients and
to coordinate the ticket distribution.
The volunteers developed a program that identified in-
terested seniors, secured donated tickets and ensured
safe transportation to theatres and concert halls. In addi-
tion to unused tickets that are donated, several area cor-
porations have purchased blocks of tickets and contrib-
uted them to the project.
Recognizing that transportation to these events is a
major difficulty for the elderly, volunteers pick up the se-
niors at their apartments, deliver them to the theatre and
return them to their homes after the performance. Coor-
dination is important since the tickets are frequently
made available at the last minute.
During the past year, the group has solicited and do-
Photo by Virginia Finch.
nated tickets and provided transportation to 358 elderly
people to attend operas, ballets, symphony concerts, the
From left to right, Bea Carroll, Ellen Glynn (volunteer), Elfie Richards, Hilda
Ice Capades, plays, jazz and seasonal concerts.
Geszvain, Kathryn Webster and Victoria Hawkins.
SLOCOMB, ALABAMA
Agnes Louise Windsor
Agnes Louise Windsor has been the leading force behind the development of a pub-
lic library in the town of Slocomb and has used her own family's heritage to develop
a program of black history for the community.
An elementary social studies teacher, Mrs. Windsor worked for 15 years to estab-
lish the library. She worked closely with the city government on the project and the
result is a facility with over 80,000 volumes. She now serves as the chairwoman of
the library board.
For the past several years, Mrs. Windsor has coordinated an annual black history
exhibit. Thirty years ago, she had inherited a trunk of clothing, household goods,
family portraits and other items, some of which had belonged to her great grandpar-
ents, who were former slaves. The first settlers in the Slocomb area, her great grand-
parents moved there in the 1880s and the land deeds to their property were signed
by President Benjamin Harrison. Several of the family portraits in the collection
date to 1835.
However, it was only in 1983 that she opened the trunk and investigated its con-
tents. Mrs. Windsor uses these items and others in her collection to mount the black
history display which is featured every February at the Heritage House. She inherit-
ed the home, unchanged since it was built in 1906. She draws on the stories passed
down through her family as well as her research in making oral presentations on the
history of one family from slavery to the present.
Corporate and Foundation Support
The following corporations and foundations
made very generous financial and in-kind contributions to the
1990 President's Volunteer Action Awards Program.
APPLETON, WISCONSIN
AAL's caring attitude has produced results that count. One need look no
AAL
further than those who have given recognition to AAL. In 1986, AAL was
presented with the President's Volunteer Action Award for mobilizing its vol-
Richard L. Gunderson
unteers. In January, 1990, AAL's "Get Involved Before Your Kids Do" alcohol
President and Chief Executive Officer
and drug abuse prevention program was named President George Bush's
Caring for the well-being of others has been a primary concern of AAL, the
49th daily "Point of Light."
nation's leading fraternal benefit society, since it was founded in 1902. This
concern for others, the essence of fraternalism, is reflected in the many ongo-
ing activities and endeavors of AAL's more than 1.5 million members across
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
the United States.
Avon Products Inc.
The AAL home office in Appleton, Wisconsin, maintains a close relation-
James E. Preston
ship with its volunteers, providing them with organizational and financial
resources when needed and supporting their endeavors. That generous sup-
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
port enables AAL volunteers to conduct humanitarian service and social and
Avon Products Inc. encourages volunteer efforts at its New York headquar-
educational programs to benefit needy individuals, organizations and institu-
ters and its facilities throughout the U.S. and overseas. Employees respond
tions in their local communities.
with enthusiastic support for such causes as the United Way, the Blood Bank
AAL's support of education is a good example of its outreach to others.
and "adopted" schools from New York to the Philippines. An organization
AAL has contributed a fty-year-$30 million legacy of scholarships to more
that receives special support from Avon Employees is Project LIVE (Learn-
than 23,000 recipients. The result has been better educated and informed
ing through Industry and Volunteer Education), a Children's Aid Society pro-
people who, in turn, have provided valuable contributions to their communi-
gram in which volunteers tutor hundreds of junior high school students in
ties, their nation and the world. AAL's belief in the value of education is a
math and reading.
basic conviction that knowledge can unlock the potential that is in everyone.
Avon's senior management not only encourages volunteer participation,
AAL also influences volunteerism in America. In 1989, more than 7.8 mil-
but also sets the pace through personal involvement in such organizations as
lion people participated in 172,000 AAL activities which benefited thousands
the American Institute for Managing Diversity, the American Woman's Eco-
of people in need. AAL committed more than $45.2 million to its fraternal
nomic Development Council, the National Puerto Rican Coalition and Op-
outreach last year. In addition, more than 1,000 home office employees took
portunities Industrialization Centers of America (O.I.C.). Avon regional man-
an active and varied role in their communities through the Involvement
agement in locations throughout the world support a variety of local initia-
Corps Team (ICT).
tives.
Arts and Humanities Council of the Lake Region, DEVILS LAKE,
gramming for the state's hearing and sight impaired, physically
1982
ND-an umbrella organization for nine arts agencies, offers a strong
handicapped and mentally retarded populations.
program of cultural and educational activities to the 63,000 residents
of the sparsely populated 20,000 square-mile area around Devils
New Directions Club, Inc., HOUSTON, TX-founded and staffed by
Award
Lake.
ex-offenders, provides halfway houses for men and women and as-
sistance with employment, clothing and developing positive atti-
Recipients
Contact Teleministries USA, HARRISBURG, PA-involves over
tudes to newly released ex-offenders.
15,000 volunteers who provide hotline telephone reassurance and
counseling to more than 1,500,000 callers each year in 150 calling
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, PORTLAND, OR-
areas across the country.
sponsors 48 Community Relations Teams throughout Oregon, Wash-
East Hampton Striders Athletic Association, HAMPTON, VA-
ington and Idaho to assess community needs and develop employee
was formed to provide recreational and athletic activities for inner
volunteer projects to address those needs.
city children from low-income families.
REACT International, NORTHBROOK, IL-with over 25,000 dues
Employment Aptitude and Placement Association, VENTURA,
paying members who monitor citizen band radios in their cars and
CA-although charging no fee to either the applicant or employer,
homes, has answered more than 20 million calls on highway acci-
has found jobs for more than 2,000 hard-to-place workers since 1969.
dents since its founding in 1962.
Mrs. A.E. "Von" Eulert, WICHITA, KS-a pioneer in Braille serv-
Lawrence A. Shulman, SILVER SPRING, MD-has organized three
ices, has recruited over 100 local volunteer Braille translators, partic-
nonprofit foundations that provide vocational education to over 400
ipated in the development of a new paperless Braille technique and
high school students annually in the construction, automotive and
developed a system for transcribing ancient numeration systems.
retail trades.
Homer Fahrner, SACRAMENTO, CA-established Gleaners State-
Sunshine Foundation, PHILADELPHIA, PA-grants special wishes,
wide, a program that annually involves over 500 seniors in gleaning
such as weekends at the seashore or a visit to Disney World, to
and distributing over 500 tons of food that otherwise would be
chronically and terminally ill children as a way of providing positive
burned, dumped or buried.
experiences for them and their families during their last months of
Higher Achievement Program, WASHINGTON, DC-provides spe-
life.
cial tutoring to over 650 of the District's brightest and poorest stu-
Tenneco Inc., HOUSTON, TX-sponsors Volunteers in Assistance,
dents, allowing the underprivileged children to meet their full poten-
through which employees provide assistance to more than 40 com-
tial.
munity organizations, offers a wide range of employee volunteer
International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 61, Em-
services to three adopted agencies and sponsored the first statewide
ployees of Rohm & Haas Company, PHILADELPHIA, PA-mem-
conference on corporate volunteerism in the U.S.
bers utilize their carpentry skills to design and build rehabilitative
equipment for the Philadelphia Easter Seal Society.
Elizabeth C. Titus, SHAFTSBURY, VT-developed the Student
Conservation Program in 1957, which since that time has involved
Lee's Friends Oncology Patients, NORFOLK, VA-founded in 1978
more than 7,000 high school and college age young people as
to commemorate the courageous attitude and battle of Lee Harkins
volunteers in the national parks, a service valued at more than $12
who died of cancer at age 16, provides support, comfort and concern
million.
to cancer patients and their families.
Bobby Trimble, MIDLAND, TX-annually organizes Christmas in
Jacqueline F. Merritt, DUBUQUE, IA-organized the Iowa Com-
April, a program involving over 2,500 volunteers in the repair of 130
mittee* Arts for the Handicapped to provide cultural and arts pro-
homes of low-income elderly and handicapped individuals.
Henry and Mary Ann Gaskins founded the Freedom Youth Academy to provide sup-
plementary educational assistance to inner city students from elementary school
through college. They began their involvement as a neighborhood youth club but
soon realized that the young people needed advice about college, jobs and family
situations.
Mr. Gaskins had worked for some time as a tutor in a suburban program where
children paid $35 an hour for assistance. Feeling that the black community does not
place a high value on education, the Gaskinses decided to develop their own pro-
gram and bring the services to black children at no cost.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. Gaskins holds a doctoral degree in education and is a supervisor at the Li-
Henry Jesse and Mary Ann Gaskins
brary of Congress; Mrs. Gaskins, who holds a bachelor's degree in education, works
at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters. They run the
program in their home from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and on Saturdays from
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Their objectives are to teach young people to utilize their skills
fully; to improve their study habits and math and verbal skills; to stimulate and
develop creative abilities; to develop leadership and social responsibility; to im-
prove school and scholastic test performance; and to motivate the students to excel
in academic pursuits.
The Academy involves teachers and peer tutors on a volunteer basis, who help
with a variety of individualized, small group, computer and video programs. The
Academy also emphasizes test-taking techniques and vital strategies for preparing
students for scholastic aptitude tests.
Students attending the Academy have consistently improved their performance:
Their SAT scores, for example, have risen from 50 to 360 points, and more than 80
percent of the Academy's total enrollment has achieved academic recognition at
their schools. Among individual successes are the average student who attended for
three years and graduated as class valedictorian; the high school athlete who raised
his SAT score by 360 points after six months and won an athletic scholarship to
college; and the student who graduated from college summa cum laude.
Classes are free but the Gaskinses recently began asking students to pay $5 a
session to cover the costs of school supplies such as computer software, photo-
copying, books and videos; however, those unable to afford the tuition are still ac-
cepted into the program.
REDFORD, TEXAS
Lucía Rede Madrid
Lucía Rede Madrid developed the only lending library to serve the 100 residents—
mostly poor Hispanic laborers-of Redford, Texas. Located on the Mexican border,
Redford is farther from a commercial airport than any other town in the 48 contigu-
ous states. It has no theatres, no parks, and most of the children never have seen a
fast food restaurant or shopping mall.
Ms. Madrid spent most of her life as a school teacher in Redford. During those
years, she was allocated $400 annually to buy books but had to keep them in a
library in Marfa, a town 75 miles away. The library allowed her to borrow only 25
books at a time, so once a week she traveled to Marfa to check out the books to
share with her 80 students.
Three years after retiring in 1976, she set up a private lending library with 25
books in her family's combination gas station convenience store. During the first
several years, she stored the growing collection of books in cartons donated by the
milkman. Although the store has closed, the library continues to thrive. Now book
shelves hold the growing collection of more than 10,000 volumes. All available floor
space is taken up with small tables for children to sit and read.
The check-out system is informal, yet Mrs. Madrid claims never to have lost a
book. Each day she checks out up to 100 books. One of the most popular volumes is
the Sears catalog, which Mexican children borrow to learn English quickly by
matching the words to the pictures.
The walls of the store are covered by Ms. Madrid's Library Hall of Fame, which
features pictures of engineers, doctors, teachers and accountants-all former local
children and students who have gone on to live successful lives away from Redford.
Alcoholics Anonymous, NEW YORK, NY-founded in 1935 by two men
grams for seniors and involves residents of all ages and backgrounds in its
1983
regarded as incurable alcoholics, has helped over 650,000 men and wom-
stage productions.
en overcome their alcoholism and today has over 40,000 chapters in North
America.
Mayor's Task Force, Frito-Lay, Inc., DALLAS, TX-was organized to
Award
help the 5,000 employees of Braniff Airlines, who became suddenly unem-
Lupe Anguiano, NEW YORK, NY-formed the National Women's Employ-
ployed when the airline declared bankruptcy in May 1982, to find employ-
ment and Education Model Program in 1973 to assist women on welfare
ment.
Recipients
with child care, transportation, job training and in finding employment.
Audrie Megregian, COCOA BEACH, FL-has been active with the Bre-
Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., SANTA BARBARA, CA-a retired geologist, has
vard County Commission Against Sexual Assault, speaking to local orga-
mapped over 3.4 million acres of the Los Padres National Forest as well as
nizations on the consequences to the victims of rape, raising funds for
sections of the San Andreas Fault, conducted field trips for Minerals Man-
CASA and counseling victims.
agement Service and served as volunteer advisor to geology students.
Jeremiah Milbank, GREENWICH, CT-has been involved with the Boys
Clubs of America for over 25 years, leading the BCA in the design of orga-
Frank Ferree, HARLINGEN, TX-known as the Border Angel until his
nizational development plans.
death in 1983, devoted his life to helping those less fortunate than himself,
begging food and building materials to help the desperately poor living
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, HURST, TX-with over 110 chapters
near the Mexican border.
in 36 states, works to effect changes in the criminal justice system, in law
enforcement and motor vehicle agencies and in prosecuting attorneys'
Friends of Handicapped Readers, JACKSON, MS-an auxiliary to the
handling of DUI cases.
state library program, produces talking books on request and books of
special interest to blind readers in the state.
Elizabeth O'Donnell, CHICAGO, IL-a certified rehabilitation teacher/
educator who is blind, volunteers almost full-time at the Illinois Visually
Dr. Joseph Nguyen-Trung Hieu, CHICAGO, IL-a high school social
Handicapped Institute, teaching Braille and independent living skills.
studies teacher, has helped almost 1,000 Indochinese refugees in Illinois
learn English, adapt to American culture, obtain an education and gain
Operation California, BEVERLY HILLS, CA-depending on surplus
employment.
goods of American corporations and on donated transport, has provided
over $17 million in material aid to Asia, Africa, Central America, Poland
Hispanic Women's Council, Inc., LOS ANGELES, CA-provides support-
and Lebanon since it was founded in 1979.
ive service and developmental programs including professional training,
Oregon Food Share, PORTLAND, OR-the first statewide foodbank in
peer counseling and informational workshops and seminars to Los Ange-
the country, consisting of 323 independent nonprofit programs, distribut-
les area Hispanic women.
ed over one million pounds of contributed food and 800,000 pounds of
Honeywell, MINNEAPOLIS, MN-sponsors HELP, a community involve-
U.S. Department of Agriculture cheese to 225,000 Oregonians in 1982.
ment team effort involving small groups of employees in community vol-
Esther R. Schaeffer, GREAT FALLS, VA-organized Telecommunica-
unteer activities; the Management Assistance Project, which provides
tions for the Deaf, Inc., to provide 24-hour telephone service to the large
technical and management assistance to local nonprofit organizations;
hearing-impaired population in the Washington, D.C. area.
and the Retiree Volunteer Program.
Union Retirees Resources Division, AFL-CIO King County Labor
Infant Hearing Assessment Foundation Volunteers, CONCORD,
Council of Washington Labor Agency, SEATTLE, WA-makes repairs
CA-involves over 2,000 volunteers in 35 hospitals across the country in
to homes and appliances of low-income elderly and handicapped in the
testing the hearing of high-risk newborn infants using equipment devel-
Seattle area.
oped by Foundation workers.
Volunteer Illini Projects, URBANA, IL-the largest and most diverse
Little Town Players, Inc., BEDFORD, VA-the focal point for cultural
student-run volunteer organization in the country, involves over 900 uni-
activities in the small town, provides dramatic readings and musical pro-
versity students in volunteer projects.
Americares Foundation, NEW CANAAN, CT-operating with an
Laid-Off Employees Assistance Program (LEAP), Armco, MID-
1984
overhead of one-half of one percent, sent 21 shipments of medicine,
DLETOWN, OH-raised $278,000 to assist steelworkers laid off from
medical equipment and food to Poland, Pakistan, El Salvador, Guate-
the company and provided hotlines for laid-off employees to discuss
mala and Lebanon between 1982 and 1984.
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personal and financial problems.
Irene Auberlin, DETROIT, MI-founded World Medical Relief in
Levi Strauss & Co., SAN FRANCISCO, CA-involved company em-
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1953 to provide unused samples of American medicines and surplus
ployees in community activities through 70 Community Involvement
medical equipment to hospitals around the world and since that time
Teams in 52 communities in 14 states in 1983.
has sent 6,000 tons of supplies to missionary doctors, hospitals and
Nick Monreal, SAN ANTONIO, TX-developed Teach the Children, a
clinics worldwide.
program that raised $105,196 to provide school supplies to 9,718 chil-
dren from economically disadvantaged homes in ten school districts.
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Barton, NAPLES, FL-were instrumental
in the development of Naples Informed Parents and in the subse-
Tom Rader, DOS PALOS, CA-a Vietnam veteran retired on perma-
quent development of the National Federation of Parents for Drug-
nent disability, serves as a volunteer probation officer and has devel-
Free Youth, which involves over 4,000 parent groups.
oped a local alternative sentencing program.
San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, SAN
James F. (Buck) Burshears, LAJUNTA, CO-a Boy Scout leader for
DIEGO, CA-established the Unemployment Information and Assis-
over 50 years, developed the Koshare Indian Dancers who have been
tance Center to meet health and human care needs of unemployed
responsible for preserving Indian tribal dances and for raising over
workers.
$10 million to build the Kiva and Museum at LaJunta, which contains
one of the largest Indian lore collections in the world.
Chris Stout, LYNNWOOD, WA-developed Sparrow Ministries,
which includes a gleaning program, community household goods
Children of the Night, HOLLYWOOD, CA-was founded in 1979 by
pantry and classes in the preservation and drying of the gleaned
Dr. Lois Lee to protect, provide shelter and serve as an advocate for
foods.
sexually exploited teenage prostitutes.
Elizabeth Cooper Terwilliger, MILL VALLEY, CA-over 30 years
Corporate Angel Network, Inc., WHITE PLAINS, NY-provides no-
ago developed a unique program to teach nature to children and still
cost transportation on scheduled corporate flights for cancer pa-
teaches over 8,000 children each year.
tients to cancer treatment facilities throughout the U.S.
Ray G. Villarreal, EL PASO, TX-a certified pedorthist and owner of
a corrective shoe business, has fit artificial limbs, braces and ortho-
Delaware Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, WILMING-
pedic shoes to crippled children in Juarez, Mexico for the past 19
TON, DE-developed as a buddy program, finding unsubsidized jobs
years.
for over 55 veterans.
Volunteer for Minnesota, ST. PAUL, MN-a statewide program to
Friends of Copper Mountain College, TWENTY-NINE PALMS,
facilitate volunteer involvement in community problem-solving, was
CA-raised $1,850,000 to build a community college facility in the
developed by the Minnesota Office on Volunteer Services, a division
high desert area when the town lost its eligibility for state funds.
of the state Department of Administration.
Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, NEW HAVEN, CT-raised
Glenn Williams, SEATTLE, WA-after serving ten years in Alcatraz
over $52 million in 1982 for charitable and benevolent causes while
for bank robbery, developed Attica, Inc. to provide transportation to
members of the 8,000 local councils contributed over 13 million
families of prisoners and Teen Intercept, a program to educate young
hours in community volunteer service.
people about the use of drugs and alcohol.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Department of Transportation Volunteer Committee
The Department of Transportation Volunteer Committee promotes a variety of vol-
unteer programs including an adopt-a-school program, a partnership with a senior
center, support to a homeless program and fundraising for disaster relief.
The Committee's longest running and largest program is the adopt-a-school pro-
gram with Hine Junior High School, located on Capitol Hill and serving a largely
disadvantaged student body. The committee works with school administrators dur-
ing the summer months to develop the year-long program. Volunteers provide tuto-
rial services in science, math and English and sponsor field trips. They provide a
career lecture series and workshops on developing a resume and filling out a job
application. To expose the children to the work situation, they also sponsor a career
HUHS
shadowing program. They provide a cultural enrichment program, which includes
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the annual "Christmas in Washington" performance, National Symphony, tap dance
lessons, poetry readings and various plays and shows in the area.
Working with a group of 25 at-risk students, volunteers have served as Friends,
providing guidance and attention. Students involved in this program have reduced
their average absenteeism from 13 to three days a month. The volunteers also devel-
oped the Rent-A-Teen program to refer students to after-school jobs, and obtained a
$2,000 scholarship from Citizens for a Sound Economy for a Hine student to study
economics in college.
Since 1984, volunteers have been involved with the Southwest Senior Citizens
Center, providing tickets and transportation for plays and shows, planning shopping
trips and holiday celebrations throughout the year. In 1985, the group expanded the
senior program to include Sarah's Circle, a senior shelter.
Newly appointed Secretary Samuel K. Skinner meets with
To finance these programs, DOT employee volunteers have raised over $50,000
Hine students on a visit to DOT.
through book sales, bake and donut sales, auctions and raffles.
Brenda Canada and Kathy Seltzer began working on the de-
velopment of the All Children's Park in Port Orange two
years ago. Ms. Canada was looking for a suitable city play-
PORT ORANGE, FLORIDA
ground for her children; Ms. Seltzer was looking for a play-
Brenda Canada and Kathy Seltzer
ground that was accessible to handicapped children. They
approached the city council about the lack of suitable facili-
ties, and the council agreed to donate one-and-a-half acres
of land for the playground in a newly acquired city recre-
ational facility. It also promised to match the money the
women raised in the community for the project.
Ms. Canada and Ms. Seltzer then began the task of obtain-
ing a suitable playground design and overseeing the park's
development. They had read about Robert Leathers, an inter-
nationally known playground architect, and were impressed
with the way he approached playground development. Once
ten planning committees were established, Mr. Leathers be-
gan working closely with children in the community to devel-
op a wish list of what they would like in a playground.
By January 1989, Ms. Canada and Ms. Seltzer had raised
$25,000. Individuals as well as local businesses and corpo-
rations "bought a piece of the park" with contributions.
Penny collections at McDonald's restaurants and area
schools brought in the balance. By the end of the campaign,
$115,000-$25,000 more than the goal-was raised. Five
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thousand dollars of the surplus funds were returned to the
SOUTHERNBELL
city to use in maintaining the park; the balance is being used
AND YOU
as seed money for the development of a Safety Village.
Construction of the park began on April 19 and was com-
childrens
pleted five days later on a Sunday afternoon when the open-
park
ing ceremonies were held. Nearly 2,000 volunteers were in-
volved in the five days of the construction phase. When the
city safety inspectors completed their checks, the park was
Brenda Canada (left) and Kathy Seltzer with a foreman during the playground
declared open. Sixty percent of the facility is accessible to
construction phase.
handicapped children.
Henrietta H. Aladjem, WATERTOWN, MA-founded the Lupus
orchestra and music scholarships for orchestra members.
1985
Foundation of America, which provides the more than 89,000 lupus
patients and family members in the U.S. with the emotional and edu-
Missouri Speleological Survey, Inc., ELDON, MO-organized in
cational support necessary to learn to cope with the disease.
1956, provides a volunteer force to explore and map the thousands of
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caves in the state, an important activity both for visitors' safety and
Allstate Insurance Company, NORTHBROOK, IL-provides a wide
for identifying sources of water pollution.
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variety of opportunities for employees to become involved, including
serving as loaned executives, assistance with Junior Achievement
National Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, SE-
and involvement in community activities through the Helping Hand
ATTLE, WA-provides specially trained volunteer advocates for chil-
program.
dren in court cases through 115 local CASA programs in 26 states.
Amanda the Panda Volunteers, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-spon-
Parents Anonymous, TORRANCE, CA-formed in 1970 by an abu-
sored by the county school board's Vocational, Technical and Adult
sive parent and her therapist, now involves more than 8,000 profes-
Education Department, provides senior women volunteers to assist
sional and paraprofessional volunteers serving as counselors, pro-
young first-time mothers in developing parenting skills.
viders of referral services and crisis counselors to abusive parents.
Kelsy J. Caplinger, III, M.D., LITTLE ROCK, AR-was instrumental
Morris Pesin, JERSEY CITY, NJ-has worked since 1956 to establish
in the founding of Med Camps of Arkansas at Camp Aldergate, which
the 800-acre Liberty State Park across the river from the Statue of
annually provides nine weeks of camping for nearly 250 children
Liberty and has served as Jersey City Cultural Arts chairman and City
who otherwise could not participate because of medical reasons or
Spirit director.
handicaps.
Reverend Hezekiah David Stewart, COLLEGE STATION, AR-de-
Concerned Black Men, PHILADELPHIA, PA-founded in 1975 by a
veloped Project Watershed in 1978 to help the residents of the pre-
group of black police officers, involves men from all walks of life as
dominantly black community near Little Rock to help themselves
positive role models and in reinforcing productive and creative be-
through educational, counseling and health programs.
havior among black youth.
Sun City Prides, Inc., SUN CITY, AZ-involves over 400 retired men
Professor Lester W. Cory, TIVERTON, RI-develops innovative
and women in the maintenance of the retirement community's
state-of-the-art communications systems for severely disabled non-
grounds, spraying for weeds, fertilizing trees and shrubs, removing
vocal individuals, allowing them to communicate independently.
trash and debris and maintaining the automatic sprinkling system.
Delmarva Power & Light Company, WILMINGTON, DE-sponsors
Texas Youth Commission, Dallas House, DALLAS, TX-a home to
Radio Watch, which involves more than 1,200 employees in radio-
25 boys, ages 14 to 17, who have been placed there by the courts,
equipped company vehicles in observing and reporting crimes and
involves the boys in a wide variety of community volunteer service
emergency situations, and educates children about the company ve-
activities.
hicles and that company personnel can assist if they need help.
The Volunteer Corps of the 1984 Olympic Games, LOS ANGELES,
Dr. Vernon E. Falkenhain, ROLLA, MO-established the Missouri
CA-involved over 30,000 volunteers from all walks of life in all as-
chapter of Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity in 1977, and
pects of the 1984 Games, from the Olympic Torch Run through the
since then has led teams of optometrists to eight Central and South
closing ceremonies.
American countries, supplying approximately 28,000 people with
eyeglasses.
Nineteen International/National AFL-CIO Unions, Disaster
Coastline Project, WASHINGTON, DC-involved union member
Greensboro Symphony Guild, GREENSBORO, NC-provides a
volunteers who used contributed or loaned equipment in adapting
well-rounded program of musical education, including special chil-
local union halls for use as Red Cross disaster relief staging centers
dren's concerts, in area public grade schools, and sponsors a youth
along 2,000 miles of coastline.
Aid Association for Lutherans, APPLETON, WI-provides its 1.3
teers in neighborhood watch and community/school public safety
1986
million members in 6,400 branches with the organizational and finan-
education programs.
cial resources to conduct humanitarian, service, social and educa-
tional programs that benefit their communities.
Raymond J. Moore, TAMPA, FL-as volunteer director of Wildlife
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Rescue and Rehabilitation, housed and treated over 1,300 injured
Gloria Allred, LOS ANGELES, CA-developed Project Amnesty in
wild animals and returned them to their natural habitat in 1985.
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five California counties to increase child support payments, an effort
that resulted in an increase of nearly $2 million in collections during
The Mutual Benefit Companies, KANSAS CITY, MO-involved em-
the two-month period.
ployee volunteers in rehabilitating two inner-city blocks, clearing va-
cant lots, making home repairs and landscaping yards.
Anthony Barracca, APOPKA, FL-collects and delivers surplus
food to a children's home, the Salvation Army and several migrant
National Association of Letter Carriers, WASHINGTON, DC-in-
worker camps in a three-county area.
volves carriers in monitoring the well-being of elderly and disabled
The Boys Choir of Harlem, NEW YORK, NY-involves parent
adults living alone and reporting problems to social service agencies.
groups, former choir members and community volunteers in raising
Operation Santa Claus, SACRAMENTO, CA-annually involves
money, assisting the choir's regular tutors and counseling the boys
1,200 military and civilian employees of the Sacramento Army Depot
on such topics as substance abuse and personal hygiene.
in collecting and distributing food, clothing and toys to nearly 9,000
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone of West Virginia,
needy military and civilian families.
CHARLESTON, WV-has developed a series of statewide economic
Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association, ASHLAND, OR-in-
development programs, including a Partners in Education and Busi-
volves over 800 volunteers in all aspects of the Tony Award-winning
ness Retention and Expansion program.
repertory theatre's performances, which attracts nearly 400,000 peo-
Kimi Gray, WASHINGTON, DC-founded College Here We Come to
ple annually.
help young people in her public housing project further their educa-
Carol Sasaki, PULLMAN, WA-a former welfare recipient, founded
tion and has seen 500 young people get admitted to college.
Helping Ourselves Means Education to provide technical assistance
Heifer Project International, LITTLE ROCK, AR-since its found-
and emotional support to low-income women who want to attend
ing in 1944 to provide livestock to needy communities around the
college.
world, has sent 74,000 animals and two million poultry to more than
100 countries and 33 states.
Security Pacific National Bank, LOS ANGELES, CA-involves em-
ployees from 630 offices in a variety of community volunteer activi-
Gilbert and Madeline Laake, BELLEVUE, KY-are responsible for
ties and sponsors the SecuriTeam effort, which involves over 3,000
an American Red Cross Mobile Administrative Unit, an 18-wheel
employees in special projects.
tractor-trailer, which they drive to disaster relief staging areas
around the country.
Jerome H. Stone, CHICAGO, IL-founded the Alzheimer's Disease
and Related Disorders Association in 1980 to support families of Alz-
Louis Leeder, BROOKLYN, NY-cofounded the National Associa-
heimer's victims and to raise money for research.
tion for the Jewish poor in 1979 to provide services to poor elderly
homebound Jewish people in the South Bronx, Harlem, Brownsville
The Volunteer Connection, DALLAS, TX-a multi-media volunteer
and East New York.
public awareness campaign cosponsored by NBC affiliate KXAS, the
Volunteer Center of Dallas and Tarrant Counties, five Junior
L.I.A.I.S.O.N., NEW HYDE PARK, NY-formed in 1982 to involve citi-
Leagues, two United Ways and 700 area nonprofit organizations, re-
zens in a crime prevention program, now involves over 2,000 volun-
sulted in a 97 percent increase in volunteer recruitment.
GOLDEN VALLEY, MINNESOTA
Volunteers of Courage Center
Courage Center, a nonprofit rehabilitation facility founded in 1928, serves over
22,000 children and adults each year through 70 separate programs. With more than
6,200 volunteers, 2,000 of whom are involved in direct client services, Courage Cen-
ter has one of the most comprehensive volunteer programs of any rehabilitation
center in the U.S.
Its mission is to empower people with physical disabilities and sensory impair-
ments to achieve their full potential through rehabilitation, enrichment, independ-
ent living and educational services. Facilities include headquarters in Golden Valley,
which incorporates Courage Residence, a transitional living program, and a wide
range of rehabilitation services; two campuses for Courage camping services; Cour-
age St. Croix, an aquatic and therapy facility; and recreational services through
Courage Duluth.
Volunteers are involved in direct service to the clients, fundraising and public
awareness activities. Direct service volunteers contributed more than 71,000 hours
in 1989, a contribution worth over $700,000.
At the heart of each volunteer's commitment to Courage Center is the desire to
help people with disabilities achieve maximum independence, personal responsibil-
ity, self-esteem and dignity. Former clients have become teachers in Life Enrich-
ment classes, tour guides and volunteers in music therapy and other classes. Several
have gone on to become board and committee members.
Key components to the overall professional management of the program are the
diversity of volunteer opportunities and the individualized training available to vol-
unteers. This diversity of volunteer opportunities is reflected in the volunteers
themselves who are recruited from corporations, corporate retiree programs, busi-
nesses, schools, community and service organizations, and individuals-people of
all ages, backgrounds and experiences.
The League Against Cancer was founded in Florida in
MIAMI, FLORIDA
1975, modeled after a similar organization that began in
League Against Cancer, Inc.
Havana, Cuba, in 1925. In Miami, the League's medical
center serves as an intake and treatment facility for indi-
La Liga Contra el Cancer, Inc.
viduals who have been diagnosed with cancer. Once de-
termined to be eligible for services, patients receive the
appropriate treatment and follow-up completely free of
charge. Services are provided at the League's own facili-
ty, in private physicians' offices and at local hospitals.
The League accepts both children and adults, without
regard to race, creed or nationality. It serves patients who
do not have the means to cover the cost of their treatment
or those who cannot afford to pay the 20 percent not cov-
ered by insurance or Medicare, thus saving thousands of
taxpayer dollars. Patients must have established legal
residence in Florida or must have political asylum status.
League services include case review and social serv-
ices as well as surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy,
laboratory services and radiology, medication, prosthet-
ics, home nursing aid and medical equipment, transporta-
tion, and moral support to patients and their families.
Over 170 doctors provide voluntary services to the
League's patients. In addition, the paid staff is supple-
mented by a corps of over 200 full- and part-time volun-
teers in the operation of the clinic. The strong involve-
ment of volunteers keeps the administrative costs at
about 12 percent of total costs, one-third the costs of a
traditional doctor's office.
The major sources of income are the League's annual
fundraising telethon on a Miami Spanish language televi-
sion station, a raffle and private donations, which amount
to 91 percent of the League's revenues. The balance
comes from local and state government. The League's an-
nual gala ball attracts strong support from Miami society.
Ruth Johnson Colvin, SYRACUSE, NY-in the early 1960s founded
involved over 350 employee volunteers in cleaning up the park and
1987
Literacy Volunteers of America, a program that now has over 250
surrounding areas, and commissioned a mural to tell Skid Row resi-
local and state programs with over 40,000 students and volunteers.
dents where to find food, shelter and medical aid.
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C.O.O.L-The Campus-Outreach Opportunity League, WASH-
North Central Mental Health Services Teen Suicide Preven-
INGTON, D.C.-founded in 1982 to help college students become in-
tion Volunteer Program, COLUMBUS, OH-a 24-hour suicide hot-
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volved in their communities, now works with over 300 colleges to
line developed to provide telephone assistance to potential young
build effective student volunteer programs or strengthen existing
suicide victims, involves 24 young volunteers who counsel peers in a
ones.
wide variety of problems.
Exxon Company U.S.A. Volunteer Involvement Program,
Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS), NEW YORK, NY-a joint project of
HOUSTON, TX-involved over 1,000 employees in community volun-
Capital Cities/ABC and the Public Broadcasting Service to increase
teer activities in 1986 through a clearinghouse that sponsors special
public awareness of the problem of illiteracy, includes prime time
projects and matches employees and retirees with nonprofit agen-
broadcasting, public service announcements and over 350 local liter-
cies.
acy task forces.
Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn, HENDERSON, NV-organized in
Ronald McDonald House Volunteers-over 100 strong, provide
the mid 1960s, has constructed 21 water supplies for the bighorn
families of seriously ill children an inexpensive place to stay during
sheep, making over 100,000 acres of remote mountain desert area
their child's treatment at regional children's hospitals.
habitable for this endangered species.
Shell Oil Company Employees and Retirees Volunteerism Ef-
Jack A. Glover, ROSEBURG, OR-has worked for more than 13
fort (SERVE), HOUSTON, TX-a clearinghouse that matches em-
years to develop a trail along the North Umpqua River.
ployees' and retirees' skills and interests with needs of community
Hexagon, Inc., WASHINGTON, DC-with more than 400 volunteers,
agencies, referred approximately 1,500 volunteers to 175 agencies
produces an original musical of political satire, which raises approxi-
and involved an additional 1,341 in special projects in 1986.
mately $135,000 each year for a different local charity.
Stephanie Joyce Kahn Foundation, LONG BEACH, NY-was
Robert A. Hingson, M.D., ScD., OCILLA, GA/PITTSBURGH, PA-the
founded by Stephanie Joyce Kahn, who was blinded in an automobile
inventor of the gas-powered jet "peace gun" which made mass immu-
accident, to provide recorded books and materials to sighted hospi-
nizations possible, immunized over 15 million people in 30 countries
tal and nursing home patients unable to read to themselves.
by 1979 and founded the Brother's Brother Foundation to assist de-
Talkline/Kids Line, Inc., ELK GROVE, IL-which includes the first
veloping countries in agriculture, education and health care.
24-hour crisis intervention hotline for young children in the U.S., now
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 25,
involves over 200 trained volunteers in promotion, answering tele-
MELVILLE, NY-involves members in raising money for health-relat-
phones, raising funds and community speaking.
ed organizations, raising more than $70,000 since its Community
20 Good Men, KANSAS CITY, KS-involves residents of the city's
Services Committee was formed in 1980.
oldest and poorest neighborhood in repairing homes of other resi-
Sylvia Lawry, NEW YORK, NY-founded the National Multiple Scle-
dents unable to do the work themselves.
rosis Society in 1946 and was instrumental in the development of the
George Wager, ANAHEIM, CA-developed a wear-resistant identifi-
International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies in 1965.
cation tag, which includes important medical emergency contact in-
Los Angeles/Orange County Corporate Volunteer Council, LOS
formation, that can be sewn into children's clothing or tied onto their
ANGELES, CA-adopted Gladys Park in downtown Los Angeles and
shoelaces.
Barberton Council of Labor Free Clinic Development Project,
Robert Mosbacher, Jr., HOUSTON, TX-as co-chairman of the
BARBERTON, OH-involved members in remodeling a facility
Houston Committee for Private Sector Initiatives, developed an
1988
donated by a union into a clinic in which volunteer medical
information and referral service for the unemployed and a program
professionals provide no-cost medical treatment to the families of
that cares for latchkey children in 14 sites.
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unemployed workers.
1987 International Summer Special Olympics Committee, Inc.,
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Thomas W. Evans, NEW YORK, NY -founded the Mentor Program,
SOUTH BEND, -organized the 1987 Games that involved 23,000
which exposes high school students to the law as a profession, and
volunteers and over 5,000 mentally retarded athletes from 50 states
developed the National Symposium on Education, convened
and 70 foreign countries.
annually since 1983.
Operation Comeback, ORLANDO, FL-involves college students as
First Bank System Community First Program, MINNEAPOLIS,
counselors and friends to troubled adolescents who participate in a
MN-involves over 2,000 employees and retirees in 23 ongoing or
variety of community activities including an Indian dance troupe that
special projects, providing nearly 600,000 hours of community
gives over 65 performances each year.
service.
Red River Revel Arts Festival, SHREVEPORT, LA-developed in
Zachary Fisher, NEW YORK, -through a unique partnership
1976 by the Junior League, the eight-day event attracts over 350,000
with the city and state governments, established the Intrepid Sea-Air-
people and provides a variety of activities for children and adults.
Space Museum, developed the Veterans Bedside Network and
formed the Elizabeth and Zachary Fisher Armed Services Charitable
Roberta R. Roper, UPPER MARLBORO, MD-has been active in
Foundation.
developing and guaranteeing the rights of victims of crime since the
kidnapping and murder of her daughter in 1982.
Margaret A. Gallimore, DALLAS, TX-provides a home for 20
people with AIDS, nursing and bathing them, cooking and cleaning
Verlyn R. and Martha J. Roskam, GLEN ELLYN, IL-developed
house.
Educational Assistance Ltd. to provide a mechanism through which
companies contribute goods to colleges, allowing the school to use
Dr. Luis A.N. Gomez, EL PASO, TX-prior to his death in 1988,
the unspent funds for scholarships.
provided no-cost treatment to 50 people with leprosy in Juarez,
Mexico.
SHARE, Inc., LOS ANGELES, CA-is an organization of 100 women
in the entertainment industry who raise over one million dollars
Harriet H. Hodges, SEOUL, KOREA has arranged for nearly 2,000
annually for a variety of organizations that serve children.
Korean children to be flown to the United States for essential heart
surgery.
Time Inc. Time To Read, NEW YORK, NY-involves 500 corporate
and community volunteers as tutors to more than 600 functionally
Kaye Kiker, YORK, AL-was instrumental in forming Alabamians
illiterate people in 20 sites in 15 cities.
for a Clean Environment to educate area residents about the impact
of a local toxic waste landfill on the local environment.
Mrs. I.E. (Arnolta) Williams, JACKSONVILLE, FL-an active
volunteer for over 70 years, was a founding member of the
Mission Air Ministries, Inc., CHARLOTTE, NC-founded in 1981,
Jacksonville Urban League, founded the Gateway Nursery and
provides no-cost air transportation to patients who cannot afford the
Kindergarten and is chairperson of the Foster Grandparents
airfare to hospitals and medical centers.
Program.
Midwest Sectional Champs
Arkansas Valley Champs
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
Razorbacks
Harry Vines
5:00 INSOMED BY THE WORTHEN BANKS OF ARKANSAS
For the past 11 years, Harry Vines has served as coach to the Rollin' Razorbacks,
Arkansas' championship wheelchair basketball team. When Mr. Vines agreed to be-
come the coach, he petitioned the National Wheelchair Basketball Association for
acceptance of the team into a conference.
The first year under his leadership was a losing one, but since then, the Arkansas
team has been to five consecutive national post-season tournaments after winning
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the Arkansas Valley Conference title. In January 1990, the team was ranked number
ANY PLACE
one in the nation.
Mr. Vines had coached basketball for several years after graduating from college
and worked for several state agencies involved in handicapped issues when he was
approached by the founder of the team about coaching on a volunteer basis. Unsure
about the abilities of the wheelchair-bound to play basketball, he borrowed a wheel-
chair and developed strategies and plays.
Mr. Vines not only coaches the team in basketball, but also works with individual
members on a personal basis. He has helped several overcome drug and alcohol
problems by building their self esteem through their performance on the basketball
court and helping them develop as responsible, productive citizens.
In 1987, Mr. Vines coached the U.S. team in the British Stokes-Manville Games,
the "Olympics" of wheelchair sports, to its first world championship in the team's
17-year history.
Since 1987, he has assisted in conducting a one-week summer program for the
Paralyzed Veterans of America Wheelchair Basketball Camp. He is also coaching
the 1990 U.S. Team in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Gold Cup
Games.
All of Mr. Vines' coaching activities are done as a volunteer. He is employed by the
state of Arkansas Workers Compensation Commission.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
INTERACT, The Volunteer Program of Jobs for Youth
INTERACT is the volunteer component of Jobs for Youth, a nonprofit organization
that provides job training, employment assistance and literacy training for low-in-
come, mostly minority youths in the Chicago area. Jobs for Youth provides a wide
range of training, counseling and followup. Each student begins with an orientation
meeting, then spends the next several weeks in an intensive pre-employment train-
ing workshop, which focuses on how to get a job and keep it. At this point, the
student is teamed with a counselor who decides when the student is ready to begin
interviews. The employer services department sends students out on job interviews.
During the process, students learn how to dress for success, how to fill out job
applications, how to develop attitudes businesses are looking for and how to pre-
pare for a job interview.
Students are tested when they sign up for the program. Those who dropped out of
school or score below the sixth grade level in reading and math can enroll in the
Learning Center to improve academic scores and prepare for taking the G.E.D.
exam.
Ninety percent of the young people who begin the program complete it; of those,
70 percent secure jobs through the program. After working for three or more
months, many students return for assistance in finding a better job. Students who
are caught using drugs or are convicted of theft are automatically dismissed from
the program.
More than 200 volunteers, mostly from business and professions, are active in the
program. They teach 70 percent of the training classes and contribute over 150 tutor
hours a month to the Learning Center. Volunteers also serve as mentors, role mod-
els, fundraisers and administrative aides, and continue to work with graduates for
two years after they begin work.
The program works with over 350 businesses in the Chicago area, to provide em-
ployment to students who are prepared, screened and eager to work. Jobs for Youth
is funded by individuals, businesses, foundation contributions and through the Jobs
Training Partnership Act. Services are free both to the employers and to the young
Radio personality Harold Lee Rush, Jr. speaking to job-
people.
seekers in Pre-Employment Workshop.
The Association of Junior Leagues, Inc., NEW YORK, NY-pro-
and foster a growing sense of pride among seventh and eighth grade
1989
vides support to its 273 local chapters, through which its members
students by encouraging them to achieve excellent attendance re-
are involved in more than 2,000 different community projects and
cords.
500 local public affairs efforts and raise more than $20 million to
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support League activities.
Inner City Development, Inc., SAN ANTONIO, TX-founded in
1968, sponsors a variety of programs to meet emergency, educational
Recipients
California Marine Mammal Center, SAUSALITO, CA-founded in
and recreation needs for the residents of the largely Hispanic inner
1975 to rescue and rehabilitate sick, injured or distressed marine
city neighborhood adjacent to a public housing facility.
mammals, involves over 330 volunteers in all aspects of the organiza-
tion.
Judeo Christian Health Clinic, TAMPA, FL-begun in 1972 to pro-
vide free medical care to people who cannot afford health insurance
Clothing Bank: New Clothes for the Homeless, NEW YORK, NY-
but do not qualify for public assistance, the clinic now involves 400
established in 1986 by the Mayor's Voluntary Action Center to pro-
volunteer physicians, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists and lay
vide contributed new clothing to agencies serving the homeless, has
persons.
distributed clothing worth over $6 million.
Walter Maddocks, LANCASTER, KY-headed the PolioPlus fund-
Compeer Inc., ROCHESTER, NY-a nonprofit organization that
raising campaign of Rotary International, an effort which raised over
matches trained volunteers with mental health clients in one-to-one
$168 million in cash to eradicate polio in countries around the world.
supportive relationships, has served over 10,000 people since 1973.
Covenant House Volunteers, NEW YORK, provide assistance
R.E.A.C.H. (Responsible Educated Adolescents Can Help),
valued at over $350,000 in all areas of the agency's program, which
SCOTTSBLUFF, NE-involves teams of high school students who
offers shelter to 25,000 runaway and abandoned teenagers each year.
work with elementary students to educate them about the problems
of drug and alcohol abuse.
Samuel E. and Nannette A. Evans, ARLINGTON, VA-founded the
Patriots of Northern Virginia, a 450-member award-winning march-
Alison Stieglitz, MIAMI, FL-a 16-year-old high school student, or-
ing band, in 1965 and continue to manage the band, design and make
ganized the Thanksgiving Basket Fund which now provides baskets
costumes and give music lessons to the young members.
of food to 75 families during the holidays and assisted in the develop-
ment of a program in her temple which feeds 250 people each Sun-
Senior Master Sergeant Apolonio E. (Ed) Garcia, ENID, OK-
day.
tutors Spanish speaking immigrants in English and has assisted over
50 Hispanic immigrants obtain resident status.
Rose Tichy, MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OH-a tutor for Project:
LEARN has written 32 books on a variety of topics for the learning
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc., AMERICUS, GA-an
adult reader and has updated, revised and retyped an additional 50
ecumenical nonprofit housing ministry that has renovated or built
books.
over 2,000 units of simple, decent affordable housing for low-income
families, involves over 35,000 volunteers.
United Auto Workers Local #31, KANSAS CITY, MO-raised more
than $100,000 in donations and converted their old union hall into a
Chessie Harris, HUNTSVILLE, AL-founded the Harris Home for
service center for homeless people.
Children, a facility that has provided a home for over 900 homeless
and abandoned children since 1958.
Virginia Power/North Carolina Power Volunteer Program,
RICHMOND, VA-involves employees in over 1,500 community pro-
Great American First Savings Bank Miss School-Miss Out Pro-
jects each year through 60 team councils and supports their activities
gram, SAN DIEGO, CA designed to increase school attendance
through released time and team operating budgets.
National Council of Jewish Women National Family Day Care
St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, BROOK-
Project, NEW YORK, NY-involves over 500 volunteers in 25 pilot
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LYN, NY-has organized area community groups in a crime preven-
sites who provide technical assistance to providers of family day
tion and anti-drug program that includes weekend evening patrols, a
care service.
newsletter, seminars and a youth program.
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of
Shreveport Works Council and Life Member Club of the Tele-
Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers, Rochester Chapter,
phone Pioneers of America, SHREVEPORT, LA-developed and
ROCHESTER, NY-involves 50 members who provide science en-
built The Children's Fire Safety House to teach school children about
richment classes for 150 students in four grades at a local elementary
fire safety and escape.
school.
Rick Nix, FLINT, MI-organized the first Black Fathers Day
Master Sergeant Thomas E. Smith, KNOXVILLE, TN-founded
Marches Against Drugs and Crime in Flint and Saginaw.
the Knoxville Role Model Program in 1988 to provide inner city low
income young people with positive role models.
Orange County Corporate Combined Volunteer Project, IR-
VINE, CA-a collaborative effort of 40 businesses and three Volun-
Yale Solomon, M.D., BAY SHORE, -founded Volunteer Eye Sur-
teer Centers, involved over 750 volunteers who upgraded the
geons International, Ltd., which has sent eight doctors to India and
grounds and renovated the buildings at the Florence Crittenton Serv-
Liberia to treat people who had lost their sight because of cataracts.
ices facility.
Parkway Partners Program, NEW ORLEANS, public/private
Storm Lake High School SODA (Students Opposed to Drugs &
partnership for the management and maintenance of public green
Alcohol), STORM LAKE, IA-designed by the students to promote a
space, involves over 10,000 volunteers who assist the city parks and
drug and alcohol free student population, includes alcohol free re-
parkways commission in maintaining public grounds.
creation activities and a program through which they serve as role
models for sixth grade students.
Physicians for Peace, NORFOLK, VA-works with both the U.S.
and host governments to arrange visits of teams of health care pro-
Thirteen Labor Unions Providing Volunteer Laborers to the
fessionals to treat people injured by war and those with congenital
Visiting Nurse Association Child Care Center Renovation Pro-
deformities and arranges for physicians from the Middle East to
ject, MANCHESTER, NY involved union members who upgraded a
study in the U.S.
child care center that serves low and moderate income families.
Vera Ann Rodriguez, SAN ANTONIO, been a leader in pro-
grams focusing on women and minority issues and is currently devel-
Jeff and Sally Toughill, GLASSBORO, NJ-founded the Histiocyto-
sis Association of America to provide a support network to the par-
oping a partnership between the local Air Force base and the school
ents of children who have the rare disease.
district.
Sacramento-Sierra's Building & Construction Trades Council
John Whitehead, COLUMBIA, SC-a leader in the development of
#29, SACRAMENTO, CA-involved 395 members from 19 local un-
area performing arts since 1969, has served as volunteer designer for
ions in building a baseball stadium that serves local community col-
community theatre, ballet and opera companies and has developed
leges, high schools and recreation programs.
educational components on the arts for area elementary schools.
NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK
Providence House
Providence House is a network of six residential facilities that provide a home to
women and children in crisis situations. The facilities were developed because most
existing ones that serve women cannot accept children. The program is operated by
Catholic nuns who work at other jobs in the community and live at Providence
House and manage the facility as volunteers. One nun directs the children's center
at a state women's prison; others are school teachers, social workers, nurses and
school administrators.
Over 100 community volunteers are involved in the program, with several of them
residing there. One advertisement for summer volunteer work resulted in two per-
manent volunteers who now live at the facility and teach school part time to cover
their expenses. All volunteers who reside at the facilities pay for their lodging ex-
penses. In addition to supervising the facility, they work with the women as counsel-
ors, helping them with day-to-day problems and in finding employment.
One of the homes-"My Mother's House"-was developed to provide a positive
OVIDENCE
home experience for the children of incarcerated women. The name of the home
HOUSE
allows the children to say to their friends, "I live at My Mother's House with my
mother's friends." Volunteers at My Mother's House take the children to the prison
for weekly visits with their mothers. During the summer, the children are treated to
a week-long stay with host families in communities near the prison, which allows
them to see their mothers daily.
The homeless shelter has room for seven families who stay an average of five
months. Each "apartment" has a kitchen, dining room, bedrooms and a bathroom.
The women are responsible for cleaning their living areas as well as communal
areas and for cooking dinner. The communal living experience is a positive one,
with women assisting each other and helping to teach parenting skills to young
inexperienced women.
Funding for the program comes from the state parole board, contributions and
state welfare board payments. In addition to the fact that Providence House pro-
vides a much better environment than a public shelter, the cost to the government
for shelter is considerably lower.
Dr. and Mrs. William P. Magee, Jr. founded Operation
Smile in 1982 to correct facial deformities in children and
adults in developing countries. The previous year, Dr. Ma-
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
gee, a plastic surgeon, and Mrs. Magee, a nurse, had been
part of a medical team that visited the Philippines to cor-
Dr. and Mrs. William P. Magee, Jr.
rect cleft lip and palate deformities in children. They
were affected by the medical needs of the people and de-
cided to return to continue the work.
In 1989 Operation Smile teams made six trips to the
Philippines, Vietnam, Africa, South America and the Far
East; during 1990, teams will make 12 trips. Teams in-
clude plastic and orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists,
nurses, dentists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psycholo-
gists, speech and child-life therapists, social workers,
photographers, medical writers, researchers, primary
health care educators and student groups.
In eight years, teams have screened more than 10,000
children and provided specialized surgery to more than
4,000 individuals in developing countries. In addition, the
program has brought 29 patients to the U.S. for more ex-
tensive surgery. The teams play an important role in pro-
viding specialized training to more than 3,800 medical
staff and 4,700 community health workers.
Approximately two weeks before the medical team's
arrival, an advance team arrives to set up the logistics.
Once the medical team is on site, members work 14 hours
a day. While part of the team performs operations, others
are conducting classes for local medical personnel. An-
other team remains for several weeks doing follow-up.
Since its beginning, Operation Smile has involved over
12,000 volunteers from 70 cities. Over 2,500 high school
students are members of "Happy Clubs" that help in pro-
moting the program and raising money. Students travel
with the teams to provide health care education.
Friends of the Kennedy Center Volunteer Program, WASHING-
Little Flower Children's Services, SUFFOLK, NY-the state's
TON, DC-involves over 550 volunteers as guides, in public service
largest nonprofit child care agency, involves over 100 volunteers as
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programs and in the gift shop, the proceeds from which go to the
big brothers and sisters to children in the residences, as tutors and in
Center's discounted ticket program.
administrative and maintenance duties.
Gay Men's Health Crisis Volunteers, NEW YORK, NY first
Los Angeles Free Clinic, LOS ANGELES, the oldest continual-
support organization established in the U.S. in response to the AIDS
ly operating free health clinic in the U.S., involves more than 450 vol-
epidemic, involves over 1,700 volunteers who provide a community
unteers who provide medical services to more than 30,000 people
educational program and emotional, legal, financial and practical
each year.
support to people with AIDS.
Maine Island Trail Association, ROCKLAND, ME-a 1,400 mem-
Julin Goldstein, UNIVERSITY CITY, MO-founded the Partners in
ber organization, provides management assistance for the network
Educational Excellence Program (PEEP) which involves seniors
of over 1,300 state owned islands along the coast.
who work with first and second grade children, helping them devel-
op motivation and self esteem.
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, PHOENIX, AZ-estab-
lished to provide special wishes to children with life threatening dis-
Hospital Corporation of America Volunteer Involvement Pro-
eases, fulfills over 3,000 wishes each year.
gram, NASHVILLE, TN -working with the Volunteer Center, match-
es employees with volunteer opportunities in over 200 area nonprofit
George Dwight Martin, RINGWOOD, NJ-a player with the New
agencies.
York Giants, works with non-incarcerated offenders between 13 and
17 and has organized an outreach program that includes teammates,
Independent Aging Program's Intergenerational Project, SAN-
educators and representatives of 30 correctional facilities.
TA CLARA, CA-involves 89 high school and college students who
assist area seniors with grocery shopping, housekeeping, yard work,
McKesson Corporation Alamo Park/Mission High School
light meal preparation and errands.
Youth Development Project, SAN FRANCISCO, CA-involves em-
ployee volunteers in a multi-faceted program to help students with
Interfaith Hospitality Networks for the Homeless, SUMMIT,
motivation, self esteem, respect for the value of education and an
NJ-with 15,000 volunteers in 15 communities, provides a mecha-
understanding of the work ethic.
nism through which networks of churches can provide temporary
shelter and food to homeless families.
Metropolitan Associates, Inc. Children's Rights of America
Project, TIMONIUM, MD-involves staff members of this security
Kids Crusaders for Abused Children, LAUDERHILL, FL-provide
consulting and investigation company who provide assistance to
weekly respite for foster parents, operate a clothing bank and a crisis
Children's Rights in locating missing children.
hotline and sponsor training for foster parents and recreation pro-
grams for the children.
Dr. Jack and Betty Moncrief, AUSTIN, TX-founded the Moncrief
Mountain Ranch in Colorado for children with serious and life threat-
Leonard Koger, MT. CARMEL, IL-a supporter of area arts agencies
ening diseases.
for over 25 years, was instrumental in the organization of the civic
theatre and arts council and worked with the community college in
Mollie Moon, NEW YORK, NY-founded the National Urban League
the development of its campus theatre complex.
Guild in 1942 and continues to serve as its volunteer president.
AFL-CIO Dayton Building & Construction Trades Council,
The Children's Center Summer Program, BEDFORD HILLS, NY-
DAYTON, OH-involved members of 18 building trade union locals
a day camp program designed to strengthen the bond between incar-
The
who built the community's only shelter for the homeless, a facility
cerated mothers and their children, involves volunteers who provide
valued at over $250,000.
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transportation and lodging for the children.
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company Corporate Volunteers Pro-
Volunteer
City Volunteer Corps, NEW YORK, NY-the nation's largest youth
gram, BALTIMORE, MD-involves over 2,400 employees, family
service project, involves over 1,000 stipended young people who pro-
members and friends in volunteer activities including participating in
Action
vide volunteer services to the city and human service agencies and
walk-a-thons, repairing radios for a reading service and serving on
participate in an educational component.
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community boards of directors.
Barlage Center for Science Volunteer Program, MOORHEAD,
Mary Elizabeth Clough, MENOMONEE FALLS, WI-born with
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MN-involves 128 volunteers who provide a variety of science edu-
Down Syndrome, volunteers as a teacher's assistant in an early inter-
cation activities at the 220-acre nature environmental facility.
vention program at The Menomonee Falls Center.
Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc. of the Tennessee Valley Author-
The Compassionate Friends, OAK BROOK, IL-founded in 1972,
ity, KNOXVILLE, TN-involves retired TVA engineers, technicians
operates through over 600 local chapters that provide volunteer as-
and technical managers in developing and implementing community
sistance and bereavement support to parents who have lost children.
waste management, water safety and energy conservation projects.
Larry Barnett, PROSPECT, OH-a major league baseball umpire,
Margaret Conover, SPRINGVILLE, UT-organized the Springville
has visited over 600 veterans hospitals over the past 12 years under
City Shade Tree Commission in 1966 and has worked since that time
the auspices of the Disabled American Veterans.
to encourage the planting of over 4,000 trees in the area.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Berard, HOUSTON, TX-recruit the volunteers
Vivian I. Crestwell, SUITLAND, MD-diagnosed with cancer 12
to accomplish the greeting card fulfillment activities at M.D. Ander-
years ago, provides support services to cancer patients at the Greater
son Cancer Center and coordinate the activity, a project that raises
Southeast Community Hospital.
over $500,000 each year.
Thomas W. Dortch, Jr., ATLANTA, GA-founded the National
Robert E. Bettmann, SCARSDALE, NY-founded Dad's Club in
Black College Alumni Hall of Fame to increase public awareness for
1960 and has remained active with the organization, which provides
traditionally black colleges and universities.
a wide range of recreational activities for area young people.
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, COLLEGE STATION, TX-has enlisted Eu-
Elderfun, Inc., UPPER MONTCLAIR, NJ-developed in 1986 by high
ropean, American and Polish leaders in agriculture, business, bank-
school students Robert Young and Adam Sussman and now managed
ing, trade and science in the effort to develop a strong agricultural
by Ryan Young, provides five entertainment programs each year to
economy in Poland.
nine different nursing homes.
Boys Brotherhood Republic, NEW YORK, NY-established in 1932,
Jeffrey R. Fredrick, TALLAHASSEE, FL-founded the Adopt-A-Vil-
is a self-governing community youth center on the Lower East Side
lage Missions Program, through which Tallahassee residents have
that provides members both recreational and community service op-
adopted a Haitian village, providing medical and nutrition assistance
portunities.
and upgrading the water supply.
OAK BROOK, ILLINOIS
Lions Clubs International
The world's largest service organization, Lions Clubs International involves 1.4 mil-
lion members in volunteer activities through its clubs in 39,000 communities in 166
countries and geographic regions.
Charged by Helen Keller in 1925 to become the "Knights of the blind in the cru-
sade against darkness," Lions Clubs are best known in the U.S. for the assistance
they provide in eye care. During 1989, Club members made care possible for nearly
11 million people around the world. The largest operators of eye banks that provide
corneal tissue for sight restoring operations, Lions Clubs sponsor 54 banks in the
U.S. They support guide dog schools, screen millions for eye disease, furnish white
canes, provide sheltered workshops and vocational training, and support basic re-
search on eye disease.
In addition, the Lions have developed a drug abuse program that now reaches 1.2
million children in 12,500 schools in the U.S. It is designed to help elementary and
junior high students build self esteem to remain drug free. The Skills for Growing
program helps elementary school children learn positive social behavior. The Skills
for Adolescence program teaches students in grades six through eight to say no to
drugs and to deal with problems of growing up.
The Lions Clubs also sponsor a variety of activities promoting world peace and
understanding. More than 200,000 children from 50 countries participate annually in
a peace poster contest. Over 100 international youth camps bring together several
thousand young people for a two- to three-week camping experience.
Because diabetes is the foremost cause of adult blindness, the Lions Clubs have
screened millions for the disease and conduct education programs urging the prop-
er diet and exercise for those threatened and those afflicted. They support medical
research through the Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF). Funds from the
LCIF also assist with disaster relief, vocational training and human services
throughout the world.
In February 1989, a Club was chartered in Budapest, Hungary, the first chapter of
Lion volunteer fits a young Guatemalan woman with a pair
any international service organization in an Eastern Bloc country since World War
of eyeglasses donated by First Lady Barbara Bush.
II. Since then, clubs have been chartered in Poland and Estonia.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Michelle Powell Harvey
Michelle Powell Harvey worked with the Salt Lake County Fire Department to de-
velop a three-act play on safety that she and members of the department present to
elementary school students in the area. Presented at least 70 times during a six-
week period each fall for the past several years, the play now reaches more than
60,000 elementary school children.
A professional opera singer and certified school teacher, Ms. Harvey worked with
a member of the fire department to develop the concept. She wrote the words to the
songs and used her performing experience to design the production. The perform-
ers include Ms. Harvey and members of the county fire department and rescue
squad, who cover fire, traffic and kitchen safety, how to dial 911 in case of emergen-
cy, and how to say no to drugs effectively. Appearing as the Flame Dame and the
Flickers in one number, Ms. Harvey and the firemen emphasize kitchen safety in the
song "Great Balls of Fire."
The show is fast paced and participatory, with the firemen/performers teaching
the children many of the songs. The drug portion presents ten ways to say no, show-
ing the children how to get out of a situation without weakening their position on
Michelle Harvey as the Flame Dame.
drugs.
LEBANON, VIRGINIA
The United Mine Workers of America Hugo Relief Project
When Hurricane Hugo struck the Charleston, South Carolina, area in September
1989, members of District 28 of the United Mine Workers of America recruited a
group of volunteers from its membership to assist in recovery efforts. Although it
was a very difficult time economically in the area because of a coal strike, 150 mem-
bers volunteered. Forty-seven of them, including electricians, carpenters, loggers,
brick and block masons, cooks, emergency medical technicians and laborers, were
chosen to travel to South Carolina.
The Red Cross asked the UMW group to assist McClellanville, a community that
had received very little outside assistance. Members collected supplies and materi-
als to support the camp as well as supplies to assist McClellanville residents. A local
merchant provided two heavy trucks, one filled with potable water and ice, the oth-
er with clothing, food and household items-all collected from local coal field com-
munities. The local Job Corps provided a 40-man military tent to house the UMW
volunteers. Local hardware stores provided building supplies, camp fuel, rope,
chain saw oil and chains and other items. The caravan to South Carolina included
the two heavy trucks and 23 pickup trucks loaded with supplies.
During the week-long project, the volunteers had to contend with extremely diffi-
cult working conditions. Fallen trees and debris made nearly all of the streets im-
passable; tar-like oyster mud covered everything, including hundreds of dead ani-
mals and fish. The labor crews used chain saws to clear streets and lawns of fallen
trees and brush and shoveled mud from homes. Experienced loggers took down
damaged trees. The electrical crew went door to door checking and repairing elec-
trical service. Crews reconstructed the walls of a school and repaired the electrical
and sanitary systems.
Using a truck donated by the town of Garden City, New Jersey, and a back hoe,
the UMW volunteers hauled brush and garbage to a dump site. Another crew assist-
ed the Red Cross by unloading tractor trailers, while others assisted residents in
cleaning and removing flooded furnishings.
GOLDEN, COLORADO
Coors Volunteers in Community Enrichment
The Coors Volunteers in Community Enrichment Program, the V.I.C.E. Squad, was
formed in 1985 to foster a "family spirit" among employees and to enhance the
community image of Adolph Coors Company. An auxiliary group, A.D.V.I.C.E. (Ad-
ditional Duties Volunteers in Community Enrichment), was formed to involve re-
tired employees. Friends of Coors provides opportunities for friends and neighbors
who want to become involved as volunteers.
Since its establishment, the Coors program has grown to include more than 3,600
members-whose ages range from 18 to 90-nearly half the size of the total compa-
ny workforce in Colorado. In 1989, company volunteers donated approximately
34,900 hours to 116 separate projects.
Coors employees and retirees may submit proposed projects for review by a
V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. board. If the board considers it beneficial to both the communi-
ty and the company, it is accepted and published in the "Monthly Activity Guide,"
which is sent to all members. The company provides t-shirts, transportation and
refreshments to help make each activity a positive experience. Members evaluate
all projects on completion. Volunteers receive credit for volunteer activities and are
recognized at special ceremonies held during National Volunteer Week.
V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. has taken leadership roles in projects like the Great Colorado
Warm-Up, a statewide winter clothing drive, and a food drive that benefits over 100
Colorado food banks. V.I.C.E./A.D.V.I.C.E. also has developed an ongoing aluminum
and glass recycling program with the proceeds going to purchase new shoes for
local needy children. Company volunteers constructed a wheelchair-accessible trail
for handicapped children at the Colorado Easter Seal Handicamp.
Company volunteers joined with S.E.T. Ministries, Inc. to assist area public hous-
ing residents in filling out rent rebate forms and helped promote A World of Differ-
ence, a prejudice reduction and awareness program of the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith. Volunteers have participated in the Colorado Special Olympics Sum-
mer Games, and others serve as mentors for at-risk students in inner-city schools.
FORESTVILLE, MARYLAND
Suitland High School Community Service Group
The Suitland High School Community Service Group was developed to provide stu-
dents with experience in service to others through activities within the school and
in the community. The year-long service program is developed each fall by students
with the guidance of school administration.
In the school, members of student government work with ninth graders who have
a history of tardiness. Others work with the English department to assist students in
danger of failing English. The Peer Tutoring program is co-sponsored by the Nation-
al Honor Society and student government and provides peer tutors to students upon
request in English, science, mathematics, social studies and foreign languages. The
C.H.A.T. (Communicating To Help Alleviate Troubles) program provides trained
peer counselors for students on all grade levels who are experiencing school, social
or interpersonal problems.
In the community, students are active through several different programs. For the
past three years, groups of students have visited an area nursing home each
Wednesday afternoon. They visit with the residents, present programs and often
bring small gifts. Because some of the students have been part of the program since
its inception, they have been informally adopted by their resident buddy.
Another group of seniors visits the school each Wednesday, spending part of the
day with their student buddy, assisting with clerical needs or participating in craft
programs. These seniors eat lunch each week with the students.
Through the elementary tutoring program, Suitland students tutor at-risk stu-
dents in an elementary school three days each week in language and mathematic
skills. The student develops the tutoring program, monitors the elementary stu-
dent's progress and recommends software difficulty level.
Students also work weekly with profoundly disabled adults at the Capital Con-
cepts Center. There they assist the disabled in learning life skills. At the end of the
school year, the students coach incoming community service students on this as-
pect of the program. During the summer students work one day each week with
learning disabled elementary children at Camp Suitland, providing games, craft,
computer and tennis activities.
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson is a 17-year-old high school student from the Jeff-Vander-Lou sec-
tion of St. Louis who has independently developed an awareness program to help
stop the neighborhood deterioration.
Mr. Wilson grew up in the neighborhood, an area where crime and drug dealing
are commonplace and where much of the housing is run down or condemned. A
year ago he was made homeless by a fire in his home that killed his mother, cousin
and aunt.
During the past year he worked individually with residents of one block in the
neighborhood, urging them to work with the police and undergo a training program
to establish a neighborhood watch program. During the summer, groups of neigh-
OPERATION
bors walked the streets encouraging people to get involved. They erected signs wel-
coming people to the neighborhood and announcing that drugs, loitering and loud
music were not welcome. They set up citizen teams and painted over graffiti. The
ST. LOUISAN AWARD
neighbors know Mr. Wilson, accept and trust him, an important factor in following
Outstanding Volunteer
his lead and cooperating with the police department.
PRESENTED'D TO
Clarence Witson
His success on his own block has led to interviews on the radio, being cited by the
For OM eptional work performed
school board as a role model, and speaking to groups of businessmen about young
in making your neighborhood a safer place in
which as the
people.
December 1900)
He has also been recruited by Operation Brightside, an environmental improve-
ment program. There he serves as an advisor to the Environmental Youth Corps,
Marter
one of 15 corps selected to participate in a national youth service demonstration
project, the Urban Corps Expansion Project. At the end of the school year, he will
work with the Corps in a youth leadership capacity.
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA
Apple Computer, Inc. Earthquake Database Project
The Apple Earthquake Database Project was conceived by a group of Apple employ-
ees to provide immediate assistance to Red Cross chapters and Volunteer Centers in
the San Francisco Bay Area in the weeks following the October 17 earthquake. They
met early the next morning, contacted Red Cross officials and Volunteer Center
personnel, and established a command center, the "Epicenter," at the company's
headquarters building.
Employee volunteers, recruited through flyers and Apple's in-house electronic
bulletin board, designed information management systems. Programmers, writers,
trainers and data entry volunteers began their work while other employees located
the necessary equipment-computers, printers, telephones, beepers, fax machines.
Eventually, more than 100 computers were loaned to agencies, the "Epicenter" and
for use in shelters and emergency facilities.
The assistance allowed the agencies to respond quickly to community needs.
Within two weeks of the quake, the Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County had
placed nearly 700 volunteers in critical positions. The San Mateo Red Cross Chapter
was able to respond in two minutes to a call from the San Francisco Mayor's office
request for housing for 25 people. During the project, the employees created more
than 30 different databases.
In addition to registering more than 15,000 volunteers, the computer project
helped locate missing persons by recording people in shelters. It provided commu-
nications in some communities by publishing information flyers, and it expedited
the release of federal assistance funds to individuals by recording damage assess-
ment information.
To assist relief agencies in integrating computer technology into their work, em-
ployees from Apple's internal training department created self-paced instructional
materials for easy use and held daily training sessions for agency volunteers.
Two hundred Apple employees donated more than 3,000 hours to the Apple
Earthquake Database Project in the days immediately following the quake, in the
evenings and on weekends. Employees contributed $224,835, matched by Apple, to
support relief efforts.