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2012 LEWIS HINE AWARDS
T H E N AT I O N A L
CHILD LABOR
COMMITTEE
JANUARY 30, 2012 NEW YORK CITY
THE NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
B E N E FAC T O R
PAT R O N
SPONSOR
DONOR
SUPPORTER
FRIEND
L E W I S H I N E AWA R D S C H A I R
MetLife
RR Donnelley
Xerox Corporation
Merrill Corporation
Greenberg Traurig
The Cochran Firm, P.C.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
CVS Caremark
Maria R. Morris
CHILD LABOR
COMMITTEE
JANUARY 30, 2012
G R A N D H YAT T N E W YO R K | N E W YO R K C I T Y
PANEL OF JUDGES 2012
CAROL BIONDI
JOSEPH CAHALAN
R AQ U E L C A S T R O
MARY HENRIKSON
DA M I E N H O R N E
KRISTEN KREPLE
JOEL NEUMAN
Commissioner, Los Angeles County Commission for
Children and Family Services
President, Xerox Foundation
Youth Academy Advisor, Dynamy
New Canaan, Connecticut
Recording Artist
Counsel to Senator Herb Kohl,
Committee of the Judiciary
Vice President & Senior Managing Counsel,
Coca-Cola Refreshments
JEFFREY NEWMAN
President & Executive Director,
National Child Labor Committee
W I L L I A M O ’ R E I L LY
Tri-State Management Consultants
J A N E T WO L F
Assistant to Joan Ganz Cooney
N AT I O N A L C H I L D L A B O R C O M M I T T E E
CHAIR > ERIK BUTLER
President, Human Investment Institute
V I C E C H A I R > B E T SY B R A N D
Director, American Youth Policy Forum
TREASURER > J. ROBERT CAREY
Member (Retired), Board of Education,
Greenwich, Connecticut
S EC R E TA RY > V. W. (J I M ) S T E WA R D
D I R EC TO R S > E L I Z A B E T H N . C A L L AWAY
B E R T R A M C A R P, E S Q.
MICHAEL COHEN, PhD
T R AC E Y B R OW N J A M E S , E S Q.
GERTRUD LENZER, PhD
BERNARD MELEKIAN
T H O M A S R OY E R , M D
LEKEVIN SMITH
S TA F F > J E F F R E Y N E W M A N
S U S A N L A D N E R , E S Q.
2 2012 LEWIS HINE AWARDS
Ambassador (Retired)
Dean of Admissions (Retired), The Dwight School
Principal, Williams & Jensen
President, Michael Cohen Group
Partner, The Cochran Firm
Director, Children’s Study Center, CUNY
Director, COPS, U.S. Department of Justice
CEO Emeritus, CHRISTUS Health
Denver Broncos
President & Executive Director
Vice President & Director of KAPOW
L E T T E R
Maria R. Morris
executive vice president of metlife , inc . & chair , 2012 lewis hine awards
THE LEWIS HINE AWARDS began in 1986 and during the past twenty-six years
over two hundred and fifty remarkable men and women have been identified
and recognized for their heroic work with our nation’s young people. I’m delighted that MetLife has been a part of these honors.
We know well the importance of these unheralded Americans, and the true
value of the contribution they make to young people, families, communities,
and the nation.
As we honor the award recipients tonight, I hope you will take the time to
read about their inspiring work in your program. These heroes have a deep and
abiding commitment to children, and their work is vital in protecting the wellbeing of all children.
MetLife shares the values of the Lewis Hine Awards recipients—providing
protection and support for the well-being, growth, and development of our nation’s youth. We are proud to be a part of the Lewis Hine Awards and to honor
those who go the extra mile for children and our communities.
“We are proud to honor
those who go the extra
mile for children and
our communities.”
2012 LEWIS HINE AWARDS 3
LE TTE R
Jeffrey Newman
president & executive director , national child labor committee
BECAUSE IT IS A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR ,
Today’s Hine laureates
are the real building
blocks on whom
we depend for our
country’s strength and
well-being.
we will hear a lot of talk
from politicians in the months ahead about the future in order to get our vote.
Most of it will concentrate on the economy, on the wars around the globe, on
leadership here and abroad, on our nation’s infrastructure, and on right wing,
left wing, and the center. But precious little will focus on children, their wellbeing, their current status, and their futures, except in the broadest of terms.
The people you’ll read about in this book know what a mistake that is, and
how important all of our children are to how we live today, and to how we will live
tomorrow. Each and every one of our honorees has devoted a significant portion
of their lives to that very issue, and has made, in our estimation, contributions
which are incalculable in making the world a better place for every child, every
family, and every community.
So whether you’re reading and hearing about the work being done by a
Hine laureate in Wyoming or in Florida, in Connecticut or California, in Massachusetts or Texas, I hope you will take an extra moment to consider the breadth
and scope of the work so many men and women do under the radar throughout
our nation. They may not be mentioned by any candidate this year but be assured that they, like the 250-plus Hine laureates before them over the past
quarter of a century, are the real building blocks on whom we depend for our
country’s strength and well-being. We vote for them.
CHILD LABOR
COMMITTEE
CARING FOR OUR FUTURE
IN AN IDEAL WORLD , the work of the National Child Labor Committee would be of only historical interest. The
photographs by Lewis Hine of children in mills, streets, factories, fields, and mines might seem almost nostalgic, tokens of a bygone time when children and youth were put at risk by powerful interests.
Yet starker than any photograph have been the news reports this past year: of political figures suggesting
that child labor laws interfere with parenting, encourage the poor to be lazy, and hamper family farms; and, too,
of trusted coaches or their assistants on celebrated athletic teams, accused of inappropriate sexual activity with
children and youth, or of covering up such offenses by others.
The man or woman in office who argues against child labor laws may not stand accused of criminal acts; yet
he or she is willing to put children in harm’s way. This, despite ample evidence over the last 100 years showing
that work for young children is dangerous and compromises their futures, that the stereotype that the poor are
uninterested in work is false, and that it is far more vital for young people to receive an education than a subminimum wage.
It was for similar reasons, more than 70 years ago, that the National Child Labor Committee fought for what
became the first real federal child labor law, the Fair Labor Standards Act. And it is for such reasons that even
today we celebrate extraordinary work on behalf of young people via the annual Lewis Hine Awards.
Our 2012 awardees are as remarkable as any we have ever recognized. They include a man who works now
to enhance existing child labor laws and prevent child exploitation in the workplace; a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who
turned her own story into a means of raising awareness; and
a remarkable man, the inaugural recipient of the Nancy Daly
Award, who founded a bakery to empower marginalized young
people via work and community.
Above all, it is for such reasons that the Committee itself
will continue to serve children and youth, as advocate, information resource, and watchdog against exploitation. For all our
sakes, we ask you to join with us.
n
LE TTE R
Erik Butler
c h a i r , n at i o n a l c h i l d l a b o r c o m m i t t e e
GLOBALLY THERE ARE more than 1.5 billion young people aged 16-24.
These heroes take
young people and their
futures seriously, and
invest time, talent, and
energy in them.
More than 60 million are in the United States. Who will serve them? Who will
help them find pathways to adulthood? This is a vast and daunting challenge,
but more than that it is a poorly recognized resource, a remarkable asset as we
move fully into the 21st century.
We are gathered tonight to celebrate a few of the many who have stepped
forward. Our outstanding honorees tonight—and the many others that they represent—are part of the glue of a stable and caring society, which at its core is
what America remains. Here are a few of the professionals and the volunteers
who have stepped forward out of love and duty, who labor with little public notice to be sure that the oncoming generations are prepared for the opportunities
and responsibilities of adult life—careers, family, active citizenship, and human
relationships.
There may be global answers to the needs of the 1.5 billion; surely there are
better answers for the 60 million in the U.S. But we know from meeting the impressive group gathered here tonight that there are local and personal answers
to the questions facing young people in the cities and towns of America. The
challenges, and the responses, are highly personal, and always local. We think
the people who embody work with young people are true heroes. We gather
here in New York City once a year to acknowledge and celebrate them.
These heroes take young people and their futures seriously, and invest time,
talent, and energy in them. They are mostly without acclaim, as Lewis Hine was
when he began to travel the nation to document the often-appalling exploitation
of child workers. Most encouraging, they are not alone. For every Lewis Hine
Award recipient you will meet tonight, there are thousands more whose stories
are similarly compelling.
The Lewis Hine Awards have been recognizing these amazing people and
their counterparts from every part of the country for more than 25 years, and the
Board of Directors and the staff of NCLC are inspired anew every year. By now
there have been more than 250 recipients of this recognition. Collectively and
individually they represent the deepest quality of active caring and the highest
standards of our field. They also embody heroism and make us proud to share
their commitments by this modest, but much-deserved recognition.
2012 LEWIS HINE AWARD AWARDEES
PROFESSIONALS
LAUREN BOOK
LESTER PAUL CLARAVALL
GREGORY L. DAVIS
MICHAEL DUGGAN
MARSHA A. GLINES
ANA R. PAGAN
VOLUNTEERS
MIRIAM P. ABERNATHY
HUSSEIN A. BERRY
BOBBYE R. BURKE
SR. PATRICIA CARAHER, O.P.
THEODORE J. HORVATH
NANCY DALY ADVOCACY AWARD
FR. GREGORY BOYLE, S.J.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
DARELL HAMMOND
MARLEY KAPLAN
DAVID T. KEARNS AWARD
J. CLIFFORD HUDSON
RONALD H. BROWN AWARD
DAVID R. JONES
VO LU N T E E R C H E Y E N N E , W YO M I N G
Miriam P. Abernathy
just out of college, Miriam P. Abernathy moved far from
her home—all the way to the high plains city of Cheyenne. It was a way of
declaring her independence. But what she couldn’t have imagined was how
quickly her new life would come to center on a single cause: volunteering on
behalf of troubled youth.
Miriam acquired a roommate and a job in sales. Then, at a bowling alley,
she met someone remarkable: Ronn Jeffrey, a family counselor who five years
earlier had started a small city agency called the Office of Youth Alternatives.
He had volunteers, but needed more. And so he began explaining the agency’s
purpose to Miriam.
“I remember I had this feeling when I walked away,” Miriam says. “I said to
my roommate, ‘We need to do this. Because we can change the lives of these
kids.’ And I remember Ronn told me one other thing—it wasn’t just that I would
change their lives, but that they would change mine. And they have. I’ve been
incredibly blessed to do what I can and try and make a difference.”
That was in 1975. In the 36 years since, Miriam has gotten married, raised
two daughters, and worked full-time helping run her husband Bill’s construction
company. And through these same years, she has put in uncounted hours for
Youth Alternatives.
Youth Alternatives’s goal is to divert troubled kids from the criminal justice system and re-engage them with school, family, and community. And so
for many years Miriam served as a volunteer mentor in the Court Mentoring
program, working with tough young women who needed a friend to believe in
them. “Some of them are in their 30s now and we’re still friends,” Miriam says.
“And they say to me, ‘Miriam, you were always so positive with me.’”
More recently, Miriam has changed her focus to fundraising. As an example, she raised $50,000 to create an endowed scholarship at nearby Laramie
County Community College for teens from Youth Alternatives who graduate
from the agency’s drug and alcohol education program. She finds time for
many other volunteer activities as well, such as helping run a winter coat drive
that over the last five years has distributed more than 5,000 coats to needy kids.
It all goes back to that conversation with Ronn Jeffrey, Miriam says. “I’ll
always need Youth Alternatives to be part of my world. For the kids and for me.”
AS A YOUNG WOMAN
“Many young
people to this day
thank Miriam for
caring when they
weren’t sure where
to turn for help.”
S
ally Meeker, Office of Youth
Alternatives
Nominated by Sally Meeker,
Volunteer Coordinator, Office of Youth
Alternatives
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER
Hussein A. Berry
but struggling factory city of Dearborn, MI,
Hussein A. Berry never played football; he was one of eight children, and the
family simply couldn’t afford the cost of after-school transportation. But even
as a boy Hussein was a shrewd observer, and over the years he noticed how
football helped those kids who did get to play: “I saw the relationships they built
in school, and how successful they were in the business world and the corporate
world.”
Hussein grew up to be a success on his own. He built a career as a realtor,
started a family, and got involved in community and business organizations. Yet
he kept thinking about football and about the sport’s potential to help needy
young boys in Dearborn, if only they had the means to play. Other cities and
towns in the area around Detroit had junior football teams, but Dearborn had
none. Hussein decided to change that.
In 1991, he persuaded a group of like-minded parents and other supporters to join him in establishing two junior football teams for the city. Any boy
from ages 8 to 13 was welcome to play. The fledgling Dearborn Youth Football
Association asked only that each boy’s family pay a $100 annual fee to cover
equipment. For hard-hit families who couldn’t afford even this much, Hussein
found sponsors in the local business community. The point was to get kids on
the field where they could start learning.
And learn they do: not just the skills, discipline, and hard work needed to win
games, but to excel academically. Hussein tells the story of one boy who at first
played defense as poorly as he performed in the classroom, where he earned
only mediocre grades. After a coach taught him to focus and anticipate, he not
only began tackling like a champion, but made straight As on his report card.
And the story is not an isolated one. Former players in the program inevitably
do well in Dearborn’s three high schools, and now they are being accepted at
places like Wayne State, Bowling Green, and the University of Michigan.
Even 20 years after the program’s founding, Hussein remains revved up
about the possibilities. With the approval of the parent league, he hopes to expand the total number of participating students from 250 to 375. “The success
of these kids has lit a fire under me,” he says. “We’re going to take it to the
next level.”
GROWING UP IN THE GRITTY
“Hussein is a
model, a mentor,
and a true
champion of
youth.”
Maha Freij, ACCESS
Nominated by Maha Freij, Deputy
Executive Director, Arab Community
Center for Economic & Social
Services (ACCESS)
P R O F E S S I O N A L AV E N T U R A , F LO R I DA
Lauren Book
her 18th birthday, Lauren Book recalls, that she
finally had the chance to testify in court about the six years of abuse she had suffered, starting at age 11, at the hands of her nanny. And it was then that she also
decided she had a mission: to raise public awareness about childhood sexual
abuse, and to strengthen laws for protecting children and survivors.
“I felt it was my responsibility to say abuse does happen here,” says Lauren,
now 27. “It does happen in your temple, your church, your school, your neighborhood. And 95 percent of it is preventable with education and awareness.”
So it was that Lauren founded the nonprofit she now heads, Lauren’s Kids.
It is a vehicle for her full-time efforts to not only help protect kids from sexual
abuse, but to reach out to survivors of past abuse no matter how old they may
now be. “I help answer hotline calls on occasion, and calls have gone up exponentially from men in their forties, fifties, and sixties who were abused as children, and who are just now talking about it,” she says.
With the help of her father, she has successfully fought for better protections
under Florida state law. These include the right of a victim to require an accused
offender to take an HIV test, with results provided to the victim within 48 hours;
a law eliminating the statute of limitations on prosecutions when the victim is
under age 16; and a lifetime ban on molesters contacting victims or families.
Lauren has also testified in Congress about strengthening federal laws.
A “Safer, Smarter Kids” curriculum Lauren co-wrote will be available in all
Florida kindergarten classrooms starting in January 2012. And also in January,
she will undertake her third annual Walk in My Shoes event, walking across
Florida to raise donations and awareness. Meanwhile, she is following up on her
published memoir, It’s Okay to Tell, with a book for children.
Childhood sexual abuse continues to dominate the news, with scandals
erupting in organized sports and other institutions, and with the Internet and social media making it all too easy for sexual predators to find targets. To Lauren,
each fresh headline just proves her point. “We need to do more to protect our
children,” she says. “Because just as in my case, it seems to take a tragedy for
people to really look at the issue.”
IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE
“Without Lauren,
Florida would still
be in the dark ages
about protecting
children from
sexual abuse.”
S
taci Ehrenkrantz,
SJE Concepts, Inc.
Nominated by Staci Ehrenkrantz,
SJE Concepts, Inc.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS VOLUNTEER
Bobbye R. Burke
AS A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER ,
Bobbye R. Burke says she was lucky: she
got to teach for 41 years in the same classroom at the William H. Wharton Elementary School. “It was a huge room with a fireplace and closets and a bathroom,” she recalls. “A perfect room for kindergarten.”
Bobbye, 77, retired from teaching in 2000. Yet since 2001, she has been
volunteering two days a week at the ABC West school, a county-based school
in Greater Houston. As a volunteer, she says she has been even luckier than as
a teacher—even though the children she now works with are far more troubled,
and far harder to communicate with, than her kindergartners ever were.
ABC West serves students in two categories: first, those with learning difficulties, where the goal is to eventually return them to their regular schools; and
second, those with severe autism, Down’s syndrome, and similar conditions. It
is this second group of students with whom Bobbye assists: teaching them skills
such as sorting, cleaning, and cooking; walking with them to the cafeteria; helping them during the holidays with fun tasks such as wrapping presents.
And most of all, helping them connect with other people so effectively that
staff at the school say Bobbye’s presence is a blessing. “I began volunteering
because I saw how much these children needed interaction,” she says. “And I
found that because I didn’t have to discipline them, I could say things to them
and encourage them in many ways.”
Even the most nonverbal students yearn to connect. “They know exactly
what you’re saying, and they try to communicate with you in many ways. So
you just pay attention to them and to their reaction to things. It’s just common
sense.”
In 11 years at the school, Bobbye has seen much. One time, she was the first
to realize that a learning disabled student knew how to read for himself, and had
only been waiting to be asked. Another time, she was bitten by a young autistic
man for reasons no one ever could figure out; despite needing stitches to close
the wound, she returned the next day as if nothing had happened, astounding
teachers and students alike.
It was chance that originally led her to ABC West—she took a temporary job
there immediately after her regular retirement. But chance or not, the experience has changed her life: “I have so much empathy now with people. You see
the growth in the children—you just see them change so much.”
“Having Bobbye
at the school is like
having another
administrator,
teacher, or parent
—but one with a
very special ability
to reach out to
each and every
child.”
Victor Keys, Principal,
ABC West
Nominated by Celes Harris, Assistant
Superintendent, Harris County
Dept. of Education
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V O L U N T E E R AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A
Sr. Patricia Caraher
of Sister Patricia Caraher, and of the remarkable
things she has done in her 77 years to help disenfranchised children with education and social justice, you are likely to think her an especially remarkable
person. How could it be otherwise?
In the ’60s and ’70s, Sister Patty taught under segregation at a black school
in Mobile, AL; she joined in protests, learned firsthand about the systemic nature of injustice, and made such an impression on her students that she remains
in touch with many of them today. In the 1980s, she created an afterschool program for the children of migrant farm workers in Ft. Myers, FL; notices she posted in churches coaxed wealthy snowbirds to come driving down the dirt road to
the farm camps, seeking to volunteer as tutors. “It was a wonderful merging of
the very poor with the very rich,” Sister Patty recalls.
Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is what Sister Patty did in 2001: along with
educator Bill Moon and journalist Barbara Thompson, she co-founded the International Community School, a charter school based in Decatur, GA, a suburb just outside Atlanta. Half the ICS’s nearly 400 students are refugees from
war-torn countries; the other half are from either low-income families in Decatur, or middle- to upper-middle class families seeking to expose their children to
other cultures. The school has been praised for academic excellence, and for its
goal of recreating what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the beloved community,”
where persons of all ages, races, and classes can live in friendship and peace.
Yet ask Sister Patty and she will tell you simply that it is not she who is remarkable, but the power of community. This includes her order of Catholic
nuns, the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters; and it includes such ad hoc communities as the “Discernment Group” of 25 or so volunteers who met regularly in
Atlanta to help build the ICS. She still volunteers at the school, she says, helping
with mentoring and other duties; and more than ever, she sees that it is community—and the passion and commitment that community makes possible—that
will lead us toward Martin Luther King’s vision.
She recalls a story told recently by a school administrator about a Burmese
child who fell down: “All the children came running to help the child, and then
they called the child’s home. The children took charge of the situation, because
the kid didn’t speak English. So is this a school where the beloved community
exists? I believe it is.”
WHEN YOU FIRST LEARN
“Sister Patty taught
us to not only be
good listeners, but
to be respectful of
different points
of view.”
The Hon. Alexis Herman, former
U.S. Secretary of Labor and former
student of Sr. Patricia Caraher
Nominated by Laurent Ditmann,
Principal, the International
Community School
O K L A H O M A C I T Y, O K L A H O M A
PROFESSIONAL
Lester Paul Claravall
FOR MANY AMERICANS ,
the struggle to protect youth in the workplace must
seem like ancient history. After all, it was in 1938 that the Fair Labor Standards
Act came into being, restricting work hours for children under age 16, as well
as forbidding the employment of anyone under 18 in jobs deemed too hazardous. Even the various state laws, which add to the Act’s protection, have been
around long enough for some to take them for granted.
But Lester Claravall does not take any of these laws for granted, and he is
making sure no one else in Oklahoma does either. Lester does not simply work
for the state’s Child Labor Unit—he is the Unit. Since 1997, he has been a oneman band helping young people across the state stay protected on the job.
“I’m responsible for education, outreach, and enforcement for all 77 counties,” he explains. “And yet we’ve still been able to do a lot of innovative things
to get the job done.”
Lester graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in human
relations, a strong interest in public service, and an equally strong interest in
interactive learning methods. A fellowship landed him in the state Labor Department just in time to be appointed to the new Child Labor Unit, created by
lawmakers in response to several tragic teen deaths in the workplace in the
1990s. Starting as he was from scratch, Lester was in a perfect position to put
his interests to work.
His accomplishments in the past 15 years would be exceptional for a department of 20, let alone a single individual. He converted an inefficient paper
system of work permits into an online system that saves the state $50,000 a
year. He has conducted more than 2,500 investigations and school visits; partnered with trade associations to extend his reach to employers; and written a
wealth of informational materials, such as the poster and brochure he created
to warn parents, schools, and children of the dangers of illegal “youth peddling,”
in which underage children are conned into selling door-to-door, often across
state lines. An educational game he created to teach students about workplace
rights, “Paying Attention Pays,” has been so successful in Oklahoma schools
that it has been shared with child labor officials in Canada and Europe as well.
“It’s my hope we never have to investigate a teen killed on the job,” Lester
says. “That’s my motivation to reach out. The more awareness we create, the
better the chance we may prevent an employer from doing something they’re
not allowed to do.”
“In a relatively
rural state like
Oklahoma,
Lester’s work on
behalf of youth
is crucially
important; even
life-and-death
important.”
James W. Carlton, Jr.,
Attorney
Nominated by
James W. Carlton, Jr., of Garvin,
Agee, Carlton & Mashburn, P.C.
PROFESSIONAL BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Gregory L. Davis
WHEN IT COMES TO WARNING young people about the traps that poverty can
“There is no one
that I know who
cares more about
families and
community and
young people
than Greg.”
D
oris Bunte,
former administrator,
Boston Housing Authority
Nominated by Lydia Agro,
Director of Communications,
Boston Housing Authority
set for them, nobody tells a scarier story than Gregory L. Davis, Family Services
Manager for the Boston Housing Authority. As a young man, he fell into just
about every trap you can name—until finally he saw his life had value, and that
he could make a difference. Since then he has dedicated himself to helping
others see the same.
Growing up in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood in the ’60s and ’70s, Greg
had only his mother to look out for him. Then, at age 12, he was taken under
the wing of the Rev. Michael E. Haynes, a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr.
and mentor to many young men. Rev. Haynes arranged for a basketball scholarship, but Greg got addicted to drugs. Later he robbed a liquor store and was
sentenced to jail. His mother died while he was serving time.
That was when Greg made the choice to value himself for who he was. Instead of despairing, he quit drugs for good and began looking to give back. “I
made a decision that my life had been spared for a reason, and I needed to do
something with that,” he recalls.
After his release, he got training in drug intervention, leadership, and education skills; became director at a community health clinic; and in 1990, came to
the Boston Housing Authority to work with youth. Life had one more tragedy to
throw at him: the death of his son, Damien, hit by a stray bullet in a shooting.
Greg vowed to honor Damien’s spirit by dedicating himself even more to helping young people.
At the Authority, Greg is a hands-on manager, always available to tenants;
yet somehow he also finds time to serve as a liaison with police, the mayor’s
office, and Boston area universities and health agencies. As just one example,
he helped create a partnership with Boston University and the Boston Public
Health Commission to train residents as community health advocates. He gives
back outside of work as well, putting in long hours as the volunteer head of Boston Metro Alive, a nonprofit he founded in 1978 to offer recovery meetings for
adults, and counseling and basketball camps to at-risk teens.
And everywhere he goes, Greg talks to young people. About history, prejudice, and responsibility. About the difference the civil rights movement made in
America, and how they can make a difference too. “I tell them I’m a prospector,
and that I’m looking for gold in them. And I tell them that they need to be prospectors too.”
S TA M FO R D , C O N N E C T I C U T
PROFESSIONAL
Michael Duggan
MICHAEL DUGGAN ,
Executive Director of Domus, likes to say it’s easy to figure him out: “I was raised in a great big Irish Catholic family, educated by Jesuits, and raised professionally by nuns. And that means a lot of food, a lot of love,
and a lot of direct conversation.”
Such ingredients help to explain how it is that in 1991, Mike was able to
take charge of a small, financially troubled group home for boys in Stamford,
CT, and over the course of 20 years turn it into a $14.4 million program. Today,
Domus serves more than 1,000 at-risk kids each year through charter schools,
vocational education, and a community center, as well as by providing family
advocacy, mentoring, and gang outreach and violence prevention.
Just to backtrack, “raised in a great big Irish Catholic family” refers to Mike
growing up in Quincy, MA, as one of eight brothers and sisters. “Educated by
Jesuits” refers to graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, then joining the
Jesuit Volunteer Corps. And “raised professionally by nuns” refers to his nine
years of learning from Good Shepherd Services, a New York City-based youth
and family services agency.
As for his tendency to rely on “direct conversation,” here are some examples:
“So I wanted to be in charge.” “I’m big into ‘you make a commitment, you stick
with your commitment.’” And this, about opening two charter schools: “I kept
saying to the board of education and the mayor and the police chief, ‘Listen,
give me your most struggling, struggling kids. We’ll work with them. Because
right now what they’re getting is not right.’ It took 9 years before the mayor
came to me and said, ‘I have a great idea—why don’t you open a school?’ Even
though I had been banging on his door all those years.”
The mayor in question was Dannel P. Malloy. Today, as Governor of Connecticut, he is among those who celebrate Domus. He cites this example: the
charter high school Domus operates took in kids who were underperforming
by as many as six grade levels—and yet was able to send 91 percent of them
on to further education. It’s this kind of success that has led to a similar school
program in New Haven, CT, and interest from other cities.
Why does the Domus model succeed so well with youth? Mike seems to
suggest it goes back to the fundamentals he has always depended on himself.
“Our work is all about relationships. We’ll love you to death. And we’ll also tell
you the way it is.”
“What is truly
amazing about
Mike is not just
his ability to raise
funds, but his
commitment to
the kids.”
Lucy Ball,
Executive Director,
Lone Pine Foundation
Nominated by Dannel P. Malloy,
Governor, State of Connecticut
P R O F E S S I O N A L B O C A R AT O N , F L O R I D A
Marsha A. Glines
that Marsha A. Glines’s mother caught polio in 1949, shortly after
Marsha’s birth—and that she then demonstrated to her daughter a blithe and
resolute example of overcoming disability, teaching high school English for the
next 20 years. And it is also a fact that Marsha, at age 12, volunteered at a camp
for persons with cerebral palsy and found she loved it.
Yet do these events explain why Marsha eventually became what she is today—an internationally recognized pioneer in developing programs to support
college students with learning disabilities? She herself thinks serendipity may
have played an equally large role: the simple chance of getting hired, soon after
college, for what was then a brand-new program in Massachusetts elementary
schools: resource rooms for kids with special needs.
“I didn’t have the right certification or experience,” she recalls. “But I had a
principal who interviewed me and said, ‘I think you might be good at this.’”
And she was good at it. She came up with simple, effective ways to take away
the stigma of “special needs,” such as weekly “Bring A Friend” days, with students encouraged to bring friends from “regular” classrooms for activities such
as planting seeds or making paper. Her resource room became a model for others to learn from. And Marsha herself embarked on a deep professional journey:
a masters and a Ph.D. were followed by the study of curriculum development at
Harvard under Howard Gardner, famous for his theory of multiple intelligences.
Marsha’s next step was radical. At a time when few colleges supported students with learning differences, she began designing curriculums to do exactly
that. In 1989, she co-founded Beacon College in Leesburg, FL, a two-year
school for such students; and in 1991, she came to Lynn University, in Boca
Raton, to design a similar program, the Institute For Achievement and Learning. At the Institute, students with learning differences are integrated with other
students on campus, and these other students can take advantage of research
on learning, too. Everyone wins.
But schools like Lynn remain an exception. Studies show more students
than ever with learning disabilities are enrolling in college, but that most colleges lag in supporting them. As a frequent speaker at conferences here and
abroad, Marsha is working to change this.
“We need to spread the word,” she says. “Stop looking at the differences,
and start looking at the potential. That’s a whole different way of framing how we
view our young people.”
IT IS A FACT
“Marsha’s success
is grounded in
the belief that
everyone, no
matter their
disability, can
learn if they are
empowered with
the self-knowledge
to do so.”
Joshua D. Glanzer,
Lynn University
Nominated by
Joshua D. Glanzer,
Lynn University
CLEVELAND, OHIO
VOLUNTEER
Theodore J. Horvath
SINCE 1904 , the Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute has helped low-income
children and families on Cleveland’s East Side, first as a settlement house, and
then as an arts center, helping kids realize their potential via performance and
visual arts. What is startling is that for nearly half those 107 years, one man
has kept watch over Rainey, guiding it for decades through times of economic
uncertainty—and in the past 16 years, overseeing the creation of a brand-new
building with greatly expanded services.
This man is Theodore J. “Ted” Horvath. He is a former lawyer, an amateur
singer of classical music, and a member since 1958 of Rainey’s board of trustees. At age 83, he radiates enthusiasm and kindness. His enthusiasm is especially strong when he talks about Rainey’s programs and what they can do for
inner-city kids in search of something to empower and engage them.
“Once a kid gets the idea that he can play an instrument or sing or act or
draw, he gets an incentive,” Ted explains. “‘Gee whiz, I’m succeeding!’ It’s the
same way I was when I learned to sing. And then, when we get them into group
classes like an orchestra, they learn how to stick together and complement each
other.”
Ted began volunteering with Rainey after his employer, a regional electric
utility, urged him to develop a community interest. Rainey was still a settlement
house, serving what had once been a Hungarian immigrant neighborhood, but
was now mostly African-American. “We had very little community support,” Ted
recalls. “It was a one-horse place with a small endowment, and my efforts at first
were just to keep it going.”
By 1960, Ted had guided the trustees into creating a community-based
board of managers. In 1967, in the wake of racial turmoil and the realization that
Rainey needed to change its role to stay relevant, he led the adoption of the current arts-based program. In 1995, the trustees committed to build a new center
in the same neighborhood, with modern facilities and room to expand. Ted not
only spearheaded the $5.6 million capital campaign, but supervised design and
construction. The new building opened a year ago this January, and already
Rainey has been able to expand from 650 students to 850.
The satisfaction of a half-century of volunteering is personal. “When I walk
into the building, there are these little five- and six- and seven-year-olds, and
they say, ‘Hi, Mr. Ted!’ When I hear that I feel good, because then I know we’re
actually accomplishing something. We’re helping kids get out of poverty.”
“Without Ted’s
commitment,
Rainey would
doubtless not exist
today.”
Lee Lazar,
Executive Director,
Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial
Institute
Nominated by Lee Lazar,
Executive Director, Eleanor B.
Rainey Memorial Institute
P R O F E S S I O N A L M E R C E D C O U N T Y, C A L I F O R N I A
Ana R. Pagan
ON PAPER , Ana R. Pagan’s life seems full of unexpected jumps: A high school
“Ana has heart and
vision. She knows
that if she can
build bridges in
an organization,
ultimately the
kids and the
community will
benefit.”
artha Hermosillo,
M
Program Manager,
First 5 Merced County
Nominated by Laura De Cocker,
Deputy Director, Child Welfare
Services, Merced County Human
Services Agency
graduate at 16—then a college dropout after freshman year. An Army medic
during the Vietnam era—then a corporate HR manager in civilian life. And then
at age 49, the most surprising jump of all: leaving behind corporate life to become administrator of an agency in a poor California county, delivering social
services to children and families.
Today, as director of the Merced County Human Services Agency, Ana
oversees a $292 million budget and 500 employees. The agency has become
a model for the creative delivery of mandated services such as food stamps,
employment training, and child welfare, and also a model for the creation of innovative new services. An example is an enthusiastically received “Boot Camp
for Dads,” which to date has taught more than 1,500 fathers to love caring for
their children.
Despite the seeming jumps in her life, Ana has always been drawn toward
helping kids and families—drawn by a deep sense of purpose, nurtured when
she was a child herself, growing up in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood. Her hardworking mother insisted Ana’s job was to stay in school. And a beloved teacher,
Mrs. Gold, took her and her P.S. 50 classmates to museums and concerts,
opening their minds to wider worlds and futures. “Without that intervention,
who knows where I’d be?” Ana says. “When you grow up in poverty, you don’t
really know that other things are possible. In essence, what I’m doing today is
carrying on Mrs. Gold’s work.”
Merced County is poor, with migrant farm workers struggling with illiteracy,
teen pregnancy, and unemployment. Ana has shaped mandated programs to
reflect a child-centric focus—for example, adding anti-obesity education to the
food stamps program. Leadership training for new staff has made the agency
one of the best in the state at keeping children in mind and coordinating services so that parents can more easily meet requirements. “We hire for talent,
compassion, and passion,” Ana says. “That gives us fertile ground to pass on
our philosophy.”
That philosophy goes far back. Ana can remember a young man coming up
to her years ago and telling her that in the mid-1980s, when she was a corporate
HR manager, she convinced his parents not to pull him out of school to help
pick crops in the field. “I wanted to thank you,” he told her. “Because of you, I’m
a medical technologist and my life is so much better than it would have been.”
N A N C Y D A LY A D V O C A C Y AWA R D
Fr. Gregory Boyle
FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS NOW ,
Father Greg Boyle has strived to help
young people in East Los Angeles escape the cycle of gang violence. Father
Greg’s approach might seem unusual: rather than treat gang-involved youth as
menaces, he invests in them as employees of the nonprofit he founded, Homeboy Industries. But does this make him an idealist, or a pragmatist?
It might seem that only an idealist would go around quoting the mystic Persian poet Hafez, to the effect of loving everyone we meet; or persevere in the
face of violence and funding difficulties alike, when by his own admission even
the thousands of young people Homeboy Industries has helped represent only
“a tiny drop in a pretty big bucket.”
Yet two decades of striving have shown that idealism of this sort is the ultimate in pragmatism. Nothing could be more pragmatic than the bluntly truthful
phrase that defines Homeboy Industries: “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.”
And only a pragmatist would have realized what Father Greg did back in 1992,
when the skies of L.A. were dark from arson fires: that if a workplace could bring
together former members of rival gangs, they might finally see each other as
people.
It was this insight that led Father Greg to found Homeboy Industries’ first
business, a bakery. Other businesses today include a cafe, silk screen shop,
diner, retail store, and farmers’ market. Related services include job placement,
laser tattoo removal, and therapy for such issues as substance abuse and anger
management. Other groups and individuals in L.A. have adopted a similar approach of loving investment, says Father Greg, and the combined result has
been positive: even with the bad economy, gang violence remains far lower
than in previous decades.
Father Greg has received numerous awards, including a $100,000 Opus
Prize in 2011, recognizing him as a hero of faith who has helped solve a persistent social problem. As the Opus Prize Foundation noted, Father Greg’s attitude
is contagious: “The young men and women he works with say that this is the
first time someone believed in them, and thus the first time they’ve believed in
themselves.”
❉ This year marks the
inauguration of the Nancy Daly
Advocacy Award to recognize
persons in the public eye who
have demonstrated extraordinary
creativity and commitment in
helping young people neglected
by the existing system of care,
or otherwise disenfranchised by
society. For nearly 30 years, until
her death in 2009, Nancy worked
tirelessly to reform child care
in Southern California. Among
her many efforts, she founded a
support group for L.A. County’s
only 24-hour shelter for abused
or abandoned children; lobbied
for the creation of the Dept. of
Children and Family Services;
and helped found United Friends
of the Children to aid youth in
foster care.
“In the old days I used to work on gang ceasefires, but I don’t do that anymore. Now it’s
one gang member at a time.”
D I S T I N G U I S H E D S E R V I C E AWA R D
Darell Hammond
by volunteers in a Chicago group home, Darell Hammond knew firsthand the power of community service. And so as a young man,
he moved to Washington, DC, to lead local service projects, including building
a few playgrounds. But it was not until he read a news story about the deaths
of two children that he had the revelation that changed his life—and has since
changed the lives of millions of children.
On a hot summer day, the children had been trapped for too long inside
the abandoned car where they had gone to play. Simply put, they had died because there was no safe place to play. Darell found this intolerable; more than
that, he realized it represented a much larger problem: the unavailability of safe,
creative, healthy outdoors play for far too many children in inner-city neighborhoods.
He decided to do something about it. In 1996, he co-founded a nonprofit
called KaBOOM!. The organization’s mission was simple: help communities
create safe and accessible playgrounds across the country. In the 16 years since,
KaBOOM! has raised more than $200 million, rallied a million volunteers, and
led the hands-on construction of more than 2,000 playgrounds serving over 5.5
million children. Among KaBOOM!’s many supporters are such public figures
as First Lady Michelle Obama, who has stated that “organizations such as KaBOOM! are necessary not just to the health of our children, but to the health of
the entire nation.”
A big mission poses big challenges, but Darell, his staff, and his board
have found creative ways to increase the organization’s reach. An example is
KaBOOM!’s partnership model, which helps match child-serving nonprofits in
a community with local businesses who can provide funding. The KaBOOM!
web site has evolved into a leading-edge example of using social media to make
information freely available to those who can benefit most from it. Just as persons planning a wedding can make use of online tools to plan the perfect wedding, communities can make use of KaBOOM!’s online tools to plan and build
the perfect playground. There’s even an iPhone app, Playgrounds!, for finding,
sharing, and rating playgrounds with others across the country.
Darell says the high-tech approach will do what matters: help build more
safe playgrounds. “We don’t care whether we get any credit for it,” he says. “We
have two big aims: that our tools make a difference in people’s lives, and that we
can collect the data and learn from it.”
HAVING BEEN RAISED
Organizations like
KaBOOM! are
necessary not just to the
health of our children,
but to the health of the
entire nation.
D I S T I N G U I S H E D S E R V I C E AWA R D
Marley Kaplan
IT WAS IN 1994 that Marley Kaplan left investment banking and began search-
ing for a new direction in life. Schools? A nonprofit? She came across something unusual: an ad for a part-time job at what was then the American Chess
Foundation. Marley had zero experience in nonprofits and didn’t play a lick of
chess; yet the foundation’s director, impressed by her business savvy, hired her
on the spot.
It was a brilliant move. Within a few years, Marley led the organization in
changing its name to Chess in the Schools, reflecting an exclusive focus on
helping inner-city kids throughout New York City. Where the Foundation had
taught only a few hundred kids per year, Marley grew Chess in the Schools
by leaps and bounds; today, its programs connect with 13,000 students in 50
inner-city schools annually. And it is not just chess that these students are learning, but what chess can instill in a young and growing mind: analytic thinking,
concentration, self-control, and confidence.
Studies have shown that students who participate in chess programs show
gains on standardized reading tests, with students whose scores were low or
average to begin with showing the greatest gains. And chess instruction also
helps raise what psychologists call “emotional intelligence.” Students enrolled
in Chess in the Schools are more likely to attend school regularly, and to solve
conflicts through peaceful means.
Today, as President and CEO, Marley remains devoted to not only the mission of Chess in the Schools, but its people as well. She helps board, staff, volunteers, and students alike connect with each other and share the excitement
of learning. As an administrator, she inspires her board to get involved via mentoring and volunteering, and helps staff develop new programs—for example, a
College Bound program to help high school seniors. And as a role model and
mentor, she makes herself freely available to students, to the point that they
often call or stop by her office, seeking her input on matters such as school and
career. She travels with teams to national tournaments and with high school seniors to visit colleges. She writes letters of recommendation for colleges, helps
students find internships through her personal network of connections, and
more.
Marley clearly has no regrets about leaving investment banking. “Every time
I see the kids,” she told an interviewer, “it is overwhelming to realize that what
we can give them will change their lives.”
Marley’s ability to do the
right thing for students
is infectious. She is
the glue that keeps
Chess in the Schools
prospering.
D AV I D T. K E A R N S A W A R D
F O R E X C E L L E N C E A N D I N N O VAT I O N I N E D U C AT I O N
J. Clifford Hudson
NOT ALL KIDS LIKE SCHOOL ,
“Educational opportunity
in the community is
equal in importance to
economic opportunity.”
but people who knew J. Clifford Hudson
in the early 1970s, when he was attending Northwest Classen High School in
Oklahoma City, say he gave the impression of liking not only school, but everyone who made schools tick: teachers, students, everyone. “Cliff was a people-oriented person, and he wanted to see things happen,” a retired guidance
counselor, Loretta Greene, recalled in an interview.
In fact, “making things happen” in education has been a theme in Cliff’s
life ever since. As CEO and President of the SONIC Drive-In chain of fast-food
restaurants since 1995, and chairman of SONIC since 2000, he has led a full
business career and then some—yet he has always made time in his life to help
schools become better, whether in Oklahoma City or across the nation.
Perhaps the most impressive such involvement was Cliff’s chairing of a
newly commissioned board of education for the Oklahoma City Public Schools
district, from 2001 through 2008. It was a homecoming of sorts for Cliff, given
that the inner-city district, the largest district in Oklahoma and one of the most
troubled, was the very one that he himself had graduated from.
Under Cliff’s leadership, the board sought to guide a series of transformational improvements. Even prior to his becoming chairman, he had been working behind the scenes on a master plan to improve school facilities. The plan
came to reality a few months later when city voters passed a first-ever sales tax
for schools and bond issues to pay for more than $500 million in improvements.
Many observers say it was Cliff’s credibility that won voters over. Cliff’s other
achievements as chair included helping the district implement a badly needed
system of tighter fiscal management, as well as raising private funds to create
an endowment to aid Oklahoma City teachers seeking national certification.
Even today, Cliff has education on his mind. As a member of the board of
trustees for the Ford Foundation, he chairs the Committee on Education, Creativity and Free Expression. He has led SONIC in creating Limeades for Learning, where students vote online for supplies for school teachers, with SONIC
and its franchisees donating the funds to match the votes. In 2010 alone, the
program raised more than $1 million to help buy supplies and learning materials
for more than 1,457 public school teacher projects across the country.
“Educational opportunity in the community is equal in importance to the
economic opportunity that we hope to create through our franchises,” Cliff once
told an interviewer. “It’s a holistic view of life.”
R O N A L D H . B R OW N AWA R D
David R. Jones
“the conscience of New York City,”
and with good reason: as President and CEO of the Community Service Society, a nonprofit anti-poverty agency, he pulls no punches in describing the
plight of city residents caught below the poverty line—especially the youth increasingly put at risk.
“Each year, after having failed them in elementary and junior high school,
we fail to graduate hundreds of thousands of young people from high school,”
David pointed out in an interview this past December. “In New York City alone,
over 800,000 working-age adults lack a high school diploma.... We are at risk
of turning into a second-rate power within a generation.”
David’s reliance on chilling fact to bolster passionate argument has been
a trademark of CSS under his leadership. Its impeccably researched reports,
complete with practical recommendations, are relied upon by business, government, and nonprofits. And yet this is just one aspect of CSS’s mission, and of
David’s own lifelong work on behalf of young people and social change.
The son of Judge Thomas R. Jones of Brooklyn, a well-known advocate
for civil rights, David has said that even in high school he knew he would enter
public service. After Yale Law School and time at a private law firm, David was
appointed in 1979 by then-Mayor Edward Koch as a special advisor in race relations and education. In 1986, he became the first black leader of CSS.
CSS traces its history to 1848, yet it is in the past 25 years, with David to
urge it on, that it has evolved the most. In 1989, for example, David announced
CSS would empower poor people to become politically active on their own behalf, via voter-registration drives and monitoring voting records; the effort led
a state court in 1991 to order the New York State Board of Elections to obey
existing law, and enroll more poor and minority voters. And in 2005, a CSS
report on limited employment prospects for black and Latino men, as well as for
young people, led the city to establish the NYCWorks program to devise new
ways of helping the chronically unemployed get jobs. CSS continues to advocate via litigation and research for disconnected and marginalized youth, and
to advocate as well on issues such as health care, workforce development, and
affordable housing.
And David remains a prophet of hope. “When I talk to young people, I hear
a yearning,” he said. “They’re excited by new ideas, new investments, new technology, and they want everyone to share in the bounty of this great country.”
DAVID R. JONES HAS BEEN CALLED
“When I talk to young
people, I hear a
yearning.”
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President,
NFL Properties, Inc.
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President, U.S. Business,
MetLife, Inc.
JOHN J. CREEDON
President & CEO,
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
TRACEY BROWN JAMES
Partner,
The Cochran Firm
JOHN W. LEE II
Chairman,
Ready To Learn Partnership
ANNE M. MULCAHY
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
C. ROBERT HENRIKSON
President & COO,
MetLife, Inc.
HUGH B. PRICE
Senior Advisor,
Piper Rudnick
DEVAL L. PATRICK
Executive Vice President &
General Counsel,
The Coca-Cola Company
FRANK A. BENNACK, JR.
President & CEO,
The Hearst Corporation
JOHN EYLER
Chairman & CEO,
F•A•O Schwarz
CAROL PARRY
Executive Vice President,
Chase Manhattan Bank
HARRY P. KAMEN
Chairman & CEO,
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
PAUL A. ALLAIRE
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
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DAVID T. KEARNS
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
JOHN F. McGILLICUDDY
Chairman & CEO,
Chemical Banking Corporation
J. RICHARD MUNRO
Co-Chairman & Co-CEO,
Time Warner, Inc.
HICKS B. WALDRON
Chairman,
Avon Products, Inc.
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LEWIS HINE AWARD
RECIPIENTS
1985-2011
Professionals
SHERILYN ADAMS
San Francisco, California
Nominator: Larkin St. Youth
Services
FRANK ANDREWS
Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Nominator: West Virginia
Department of Education
MARY GROSS ASHBY
Pullman, Washington
Nominator: United Way
AUGUSTINE “CHRIS” BACA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nominator: New Mexico
Department of Children-YouthFamilies
WILLIE L. BATTLE
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: The Robin Hood
Foundation
GERI ANN BROOKS, Ph.D.
Petaluma, California
Nominator: Silicon Engineering,
Inc.
JASMIN BENAB
Washington, DC
Nominator: Latin American
Youth Center
DONNA BROWN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Eastern
Pennsylvania Organizing
Project
ANTHONY J. BIBBO
Newton, Massachusetts
Nominator: Mayor of Newton
REBECCA BLACK
Portland, Oregon
Nominator: Mayor of Portland
DON BLUESTONE
Bronx, New York
Nominator: Ciporen Associates
CATHERINE BOES
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nominator: Visiting Nurse
Services
JAMES PIPER BOND
Baltimore, Maryland
Nominator: Living Classrooms
Foundation
GENE BOWEN
Warwick, New York
Nominator: Dr. Scott
Bienenfeld
ROBERT BRANDHORST
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: YouthBuild USA
JACK BRENNAN
Newburgh, New York
Nominator: Family Focus
Adoption Services
C. ROBIN BRITT, SR.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nominator: Governor of North
Carolina & Mayor of High Point
ROBERT BRUESCH
Rosemead, California
Nominator: Mayor of
Rosemead
SAUNDRA A. BRYANT
Los Angeles, California
Nominator: United Way of
Greater Los Angeles
THOMAS “MIKE” BUZBEE
New Waverly, Texas
Nominator: Gulf Coast Trades
Center
CHRISTOPHER BYNER
Boston, Massachusetts
Nominator: Boston Centers for
Youth and Families
ROSE MARIE BYRON
Daytona Beach, Florida
RAQUEL CASTRO
Worcester, Massachusetts
Nominator: Worcester
Education Collaborative
WILLIAM C. CHANDLER
Montgomery, Alabama
ROOSEVELT CHIN
Louisville, Kentucky
Nominator: The Cabbage Patch
Settlement House, Inc.
ANN BLAKENEY CLARK
Charlotte, North Carolina
Nominator: IBM Corporation
CECILY COLEMAN
Albany, New York
Nominator: Prison Families of
New York
JOSE COLON-RIVAS Hartford, Connecticut
Nominator: Mayor of Hartford
WILLIAM E. COPE
Denver, Colorado
Nominator: Colorado National
Bankshares, Inc.
MICHAEL COX, SR.
Cleveland, Ohio
Nominator: Mayor of Cleveland
DON CRARY
Little Rock, Arkansas
Nominator: Governor of
Arkansas
DIXIE VAN DE FLIER DAVIS
Denver, Colorado
Nominator: Colorado
Department of Human Services
TERESA DECRESCENZO
New Haven, Connecticut
Nominator: Hill Health Center
RENEE DINKINS
West Hollywood, California
Nominator: Gay and Lesbian
Adolescent Social Services
ALAN DUBOIS
Kansas City, Missouri
Nominator: H&R Block, Inc.
HELEN FOX
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nominator: Mayor of
Albuquerque
MARY FROST
Olympia, Washington
Washington
BERTHA GARCIA-TUCKER
San Clemente, California
Nominator: Mayor of San
Clemente
JACK GEISLER
Sheridan, Wyoming
Nominator: Wyoming Girls’
School
ERNEST JENKINS
Chicago, Illinois
Nominator: Governor of Illinois
SCOTT JIMISON
Gatonia, North Carolina
Gaston County
REID LEHMAN
Greenville, South Carolina
Nominator: Governor of South
Carolina
GERTRUD LENZER, Ph.D.
New York, New York
Nominator: Brooklyn College,
CUNY
CHARLIE GOLDEN
Columbus, Georgia
Nominator: Mayor of Columbus
JOHN JOHNSON
Albany, New York
Nominator: NYS Office of
Children & Family Services
ROBERT LIPSCOMB
Memphis, Tennessee
Nominator: Holiday Corporation
ARLENE GOLDSMITH, Ph.D.
New York, New York
Nominator: Robin Hood
Foundation
LORI KAPLAN
Washington, DC
Nominator: American Youth
Policy Forum
SR. PAULETTE LoMONACO
New York, New York
Nominator: NYC Deputy Mayor
for Health and Human Services
RODNEY GOO
Waianae, Hawaii
Nominator: Honolulu Police
Department
HOWARD KNOLL
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: National Youth
Employment Coalition
MARY-JEAN LONGLEY
Anchorage, Alaska
Nominator: Cook Inlet Tribal
Council
SAUL GOODMAN
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Nominator: Mayor of
Parsippany
TIMOTHY LANE
Des Moines, Iowa
Nominator: Governor of Iowa
TERESA LOVING
Chesnee, South Carolina
Nominator: SOAR. Academy
DIANE LATIKER
Chicago, Illinois
Nominator: Your Community
Consultants
ALLAN LUKS
New York, New York
Nominator: Big Brothers Big
Sisters of New York City
DAVID LAWRENCE, JR.
Miami, Florida
Nominator: Mayor of Miami
JAMES K. MANCKE
Spartanburg, South Carolina
CONNIE HOWARD LEACH
Riverside, California
Nominator: Mayor of Riverside
CHARLES MARTIN, Sr.
South Bend, Indiana
SUSAN G. GORDON, M.D.
New York, New York
NORMA GRAY, Ed.D.
Huntington, West Virginia
Nominator: Governor of West
Virginia
TYRONE GREEN
Flushing, New York
Nominator: National Athletic
Neighborhood Association
SAMUEL HALPERIN, Ph.D.
Washington, DC
Nominator: Independent
Consultant, Bethesda
WILLIAM HOOGTERP
Newark, New Jersey
Nominator: Mayor of Newark
JANET JARVIS
Dunkirk, New York
Nominator: Dunkirk Free
Library
25
PREVIOUS LEWIS HINE
AWARD RECIPIENTS
DONALD MATHIS
Harford County, Maryland
Nominator: American Youth
Policy Forum
NENNAYA ONYEJURUA
New York, New York
Nominator: Victim Services
Agency
RUTH RUCKER
Washington, DC
Nominator: Washington Post
Co.
KWAME J. S. McDONALD
St. Paul, Minnesota
Nominator: Lt. Governor of
Minnesota
BETTY OSBOURNE
Birmingham, Alabama
Nominator: Sonat, Inc.
MELVIN SEO
Kailua, Hawaii
Nominator: Governor of Hawaii
PATRICK “OZZIE” OSWALD
San Jacinto, California
Nominator: California Family
Life Center
TERI SHEPPARD
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Nominator: Governor of South
Dakota
ANTONIO PEREZ
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nominator: Alderman and
Common Council President of
Milwaukee
SHARI SHINK
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Nominator: Mayor of Denver
RICHARD McKISSICK
Jacksonville, Florida
Nominator: City of Jacksonville
Community Services
JOE McLAUGHLIN
New York, New York
Nominator: Center for
Alternative Sentencing and
Employment
ROBERT J. McMAHON
Glen Cove, New York
Nominator: Good Shepherd
Services
SCOTT B. PETERSON
Washington, DC
Nominator: Colonie Police
Department
BERNARD MELEKIAN
Pasadena, California
Nominator: Mayor of Pasadena
PATTI PENLAND PHELPS
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Nominator: United Way &
Superintendent of Schools
CARRIE KIMBRELL MELTON
Decatur, Alabama
Nominator: Decatur Women’s
Club
ROBERT “PETE” PHELPS
Amsterdam, New York
Nominator: Mayor of
Amsterdam
EVELYN MOORE
Washington, DC
Nominator: Equitable
Corporation
RUTHELLEN PHILLIPS
Morgantown, West Virginia
Nominator: U.S. Senator
CARLOS MORALES
New York, New York
RON MULHOLLAND
Wheeling, West Virginia
Nominator: West Virginia
Department of Catholic
Education
RICHARD MURPHY
Washington, DC
Nominator: New York
Association for New Americans
JUNE JORDAN O’NEAL
Macon, Georgia
Nominator: Mayor of Macon
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RONNIE POWELL
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Nominator: Association for
Retarded Citizens of Anderson
County
DAVID WILLIAM RICHART
EVELYN ROGERS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Rohm and Haas
TERRIE ROSE
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nominator: Houlihan Lokey
ESTELLE RUBINSTEIN
Lewiston, Maine
Nominator: Mayor of Lewiston
HOPE SILVESTRI
Phoenix, Arizona
Nominator: Valley National
Bank
TERRY SMITH
Bellevue, Washington
Nominator: Mayor of Bellevue
ROBERT SNODGRASS, Ph.D.
Staunton, Virginia
Nominator: Executive Director,
People Places, Inc.
JOYCE SONN
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: YouthBuild USA
STEPHEN SPINDLER
Kendallville, Indiana
Nominator: Noble County
Community Foundation, Inc.
BARBARA CAROL STAGGERS,
M.D.
Castro Valley, California
Nominator: Mayor of Oakland
GARY STANGLER
Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri
HELENA STEPHENS
Seattle, Washington
Nominator: Mayor of
Bellevue
YVONNE STROUD
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: Career
Opportunities
for Brooklyn Youth
DEBORAH SWANSON
Santa Clara, California
PREDETHA THOMAS
Rome, Georgia
CAROLYN THOMPSONWALLACE
Newark, New Jersey
Nominator: National
Association of Service &
Conservation Corps
SUE TODD
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Nominator: North Shore
United Way
IVONNES TORRES
New York, New York
Nominator: Stanley Isaacs
Neighborhood Center
DENNIS M. WALCOTT
New York, New York
Nominator: Equitable
Corporation
R. BENJAMIN WILEY
Erie, Pennsylvania
ELWOOD L. “COACH”
WILLIAMS
Norfolk, Virginia
Nominator: Mayor of Norfolk
FAITH A. WOHL
Landenberg, Pennsylvania
Nominator: DuPont Corporation
PAMELA WONG
Chesapeake, Virginia
Nominator: Mayor of
Chesapeake
JOANNE COBLE WOODARD
Wilson, North Carolina
Nominator: OICs of America
ALFONSO WYATT
New York, New York
Nominator: F•E•G•S
TERRENCE POND ZEALAND
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Nominator: Mutual Benefit Life
1985-2011 Volunteers
BILL ALMS
Hammond, Indiana
Nominator: Mayor of Hammond
MARIA ALVAREZ
New York, New York
Nominator: Chase Manhattan
Bank
MAJORIE BAILEY
Richmond, Virginia
Nominator: Governor of Virginia
JIM BREWER
Topeka, Kansas
Nominator: Burlington Northern
Santa Fe Railway
CHRIS & ANN BURKE
North Kingston, Rhode Island
Nominator: Ruder Finn, Inc.
GERALD & MARY ELLEN
BURKE
Dover, Delaware
Delaware
WILLIAM BALLIEW
Calhoun, Georgia
DONALD CALVERT
Nominator: The Cabbage Patch
Settlement House, Inc.
CORA MASTERS BARRY
Washington, DC
Nominator: Last Word
Production, Inc.
REBECCA CANNING
Waco, Texas
SUZY BASSANI
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Nominator: V. W. Steward
JOHN CANNON, D.D.S.
Davenport, Iowa
Nominator: Quality Genesis
LOU BAUM
Euless, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Euless
PEGGY CHAMBERS
Long Beach, California
Nominator: Mayor of Long
Beach
JAMES M. BAZZOLI, M.D.
Marion, Ohio
Nominator: Marion Adolescent
Pregnancy Program
DARLENE BEALE-NORRIS
Rex, Georgia
Nominator: LADYS, Inc.
DELORES BENNETT
Detroit, Michigan
Nominator: Mayor of Detroit
MICHAEL BENNETT
Washington, DC
Nominator: Potomac Electric
CYNTHIA PRICE COHEN
New York, New York
Nominator: Brooklyn College
and CUNY
JOHNNY O. COLE
Nominator: Phillip Morris USA
THOMAS CONNELLY
Boston, Massachusetts
Nominator: NYNEX
LELA COONS
Warwick, Rhode Island
Nominator: Mayor of Warwick
CONNIE BERRY
West Palm Beach, Florida
Nominator: Migrant Association
of South Florida
SUSAN COWLEY
Waco, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Waco
COLLEEN LUNSFORD BEVIS
Tampa, Florida
Nominator: Mayor of Tampa
BETTY WADE COYLE
Norfolk, Virginia
Nominator: Norfolk Interagency
Consortium
STAN CURTIS
Nominator: Mayor of Louisville
CHESSIE HARRIS
Huntsville, Alabama
Alabama
NANCY DALY
Los Angeles, California
Nominator: SunAmerica, Inc.
VALENE HARRIS
Wilmington, Delaware
Nominator: Women in Need
JOHN & PAT DEVRIES
Algona, Iowa
Nominator: Governor of Iowa
BOBBY JOE HAYWOOD, Sr.
Columbia, Tennessee
Nominator: Union Carbide
GLENN & PAT DOUGHTY
Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Nominator: Parent Child Center
of Tulsa
VIRGINIA HEISE
Malden, Missouri
Nominator: Malden Chamber of
Commerce
EMILY DOUGLAS
Powell, Ohio
Nominator: Secured
Transportation, Inc.
LOUISE HELTON
Las Vegas, Nevada
Nominator: Mayor of Las Vegas
RON DUKES
Rochester, New York
Nominator: Xerox Corporation
SARAH HERBIN
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nominator: National Black Child
Development Institute
JACK EAVES
Madison, Iowa
Nominator: Fort Madison Boxing
Club
HENRIETTA HEYERDAHL
Tifton, Georgia
HECTOR ENRIQUEZ
El Paso, Texas
RUSSELL HOLDERNESS
Tarboro, North Carolina
Nominator: Centura Banks
LEONARD R. FULLER
Detroit, Michigan
Nominator: Coopers & Lybrand
DAMIEN HORNE
Nashville, Tennessee
Nominator: SOAR Academy
LISA-ANNE FURGAL
Largo, Florida
Nominator: Carol Furgal
RICHARD HORNE
Pittsfield, New Hampshire
Nominator: Governor of New
Hampshire
EVELYN GIBSON
Long Beach, California
Nominator: CASA
GAYLAN GOOD
Hazard, Kentucky
Nominator: Appalachian
Regional Healthcare
VINCENT J. GRIPPA III
Pembroke Pines, Florida
Nominator: Pembroke Pines
Optimist Club
DAVID HARMON, M.D.
Bakersfield, California
Nominator: Bakersfield
Homeless Center
BARBARA & HENRY
HOWARD
Delaware
OLSON HUFF, M.D.
Asheville, North Carolina
Nominator: Mission Health Care
Foundation
LAWRENCE JACKSON
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nominator: Wheeler Boys Club
27
PREVIOUS LEWIS HINE
KEVIN KARPOWICZ
Schenectady, New York
STEVE KIDD
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Nominator: Camp AmeriKids,
AmeriCares
WAYNE KISHIDA
Honolulu, Hawaii
Nominator: Mayor of Honolulu
CAROLEE KOEHN
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Nebraska
JOSEPH LAGANA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Homeless Children’s
Education Fund
HENRI LANDWIRTH
Kissimmee, Florida
Nominator: Kmart Corporation
JILL LEDERER
Thousand Oaks, California
Nominator: Mayor of Thousand
Oaks
MIMI LIEBER
New York, New York
Nominator: Literacy Inc.
WAYNE P. LONDON, M.D.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Vermont
STACY SCHUMAKER
MACIUK
Nashville, Tennessee
Nominator: Hon. Al Gore &
Mrs. Tipper Gore
FRANCES A. MACON
Anchorage, Alaska
Nominator: Juvenile Probation
Office, State of Alaska
JEAN MANNING
Augusta, Maine
Nominator: Maine Department
of Mental Health & Mental
Retardation
AWARD RECIPIENTS
ASHLEY MICHELLE
McBRIDE
Greenville, South Carolina
Nominator: Family Counseling
Center of Greenville
TEDDY McMAKIN
Lame Deer, Texas
Nominator: Montana Governor’s
Office
JOHN L. MEREDITH
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Young Lawyer’s
Association
KYLE MONETTE
Mililani, Hawaii
Nominator: Radford High
School
MILDRED MOORE
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Nominator: Rosa M. Williams
GEORGE NAPLES
Youngstown, Ohio
Nominator: General Electric
HARRY G. NEILL, Jr.
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: Carrie Campbell,
Inc.
NORMAN OLIVER
Nominator: Mayor of
Wilmington
CHIRAG PATEL
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Johns Hopkins
University
RAYMOND J. PETERSEN
Grand Junction, Colorado
Nominator: United Way of Mesa
County
CAROL DOE PORTER, R.N.
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Quaker Oats
FREDDIE BARRETT
RAINWATER
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Nominator: Congressman Jeff
Miller
LUZ R. MARTI
Tifton, Georgia
28
BERNARD & AUDRE
RAPOPORT
Waco, Texas
Nominator: Michael Morrison
CHARLES SEYMOUR
San Bernadino, California
Nominator: Mayor of San
Bernadino
LORRAINE REED
Buffalo, New York
Nominator: Parents Anonymous
LARRY SIDEBOTTOM
Lakewood, Colorado
Nominator: Mayor of Lakewood
AL ROSENTHAL
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: Career Opportunities
for Brooklyn Youth
MARILYN SIMONDS
Auburn, Maine
Nominator: Androscoggin Head
Start and Child Care
THOMAS ROYER, M.D.
Danville, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Weis Markets, Inc.
DORIS & TOM SLIMICK
Orlando, Florida
Nominator: Martin Marietta
Electronics, Information &
Missiles
ROSE SANDERS
Selma, Alabama
JORDYN SCHARA
North Freedom, Wisconsin
Nominator: Krystal Schara
KAY SCHECHT
Irving, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Irving
TERRY SEAMAN
Maple Valley, Washington
Nominator: Workforce
Development Council
NAN SONGER
Liverpool, New York
Nominator: Governor of New
York
ADDRENA MATTHEWS
SQUIRES
Madison, Wisconsin
Nominator: Madison Equal
Opportunities Commission
VIRGINIA STANTON
Chicago, Illinois
Nominator: Neon Street Youth
Center
ALLEN STIGLER
New Berlin, Wisconsin
Nominator: Mayor of New Berlin
MONICA STRATMAN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Nominator: Clubhouse
RUSSELL SULLIVAN
Washington, DC
Nominator: Chairman, U.S.
Senate Finance Committee
DEBBIE TAPP
Bradenton, Florida
Nominator: American Red
Cross, Manatee County Chapter
IDA MAE TATE
Starkville, Mississippi
Mississippi
EDWARD P. WAGNER
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Nominator: New Life & Family
Services
TAMMY WALLACE
Dayton, Ohio
Nominator: Dream Builders
Group, Inc.
VIVIAN E. WASHINGTON
Baltimore, Maryland
Maryland
JOY WILKEN
Sprague, Washington
Nominator: 4H Volunteer
NATHANIEL WILLIAMS
Vicksburg, Mississippi
West-Central Mississippi
EDDIE WRIGHT, Sr.
Memphis, Tennessee
Nominator: Community
Foundation of Greater Memphis
Previous Distinguished Service Award Recipients
ANDRÉ AGASSI | Founder, André Agassi Charitable Foundation
PAUL ALLAIRE | CEO, Xerox Corporation
FRANK BENNACK, JR. | Board Chairman, The Hearst Corporation
GEOFFREY BOISI | Chairman, Roundtable Investment Partners
MICHAEL BOLTON | Singer
ROBBIE CALLAWAY | Senior Vice President, BGCA
LARRY CAMERLIN | Founder & President, Angel Flight
RAYMOND CHAMBERS | Chairman, Amelior Corporation
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON | Child Advocacy Leader
JOAN GANZ COONEY | Founder, Children’s Television Workshop
EVAN DOBELLE | President, Trinity College
PETER EDELMAN | Professor, Georgetown Law
JOHN EYLER | CEO, F•A•O Schwarz
JIM HUBBARD | Creative Director, Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
DAVID T. KEARNS | CEO (Retired), Xerox Corporation
JAMES L. KETELSEN | Founder, Project Grad
ANN M. MARCHETTI | VP, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality
McDONALD’S CORP. | Ronald McDonald House Charities
JOHN McIVOR | Executive Director, Summer On the Hill
J. RICHARD MUNRO | Co-Chairman, Time-Warner
SUSAN SAINT JAMES | Actor
CHARLES SCHULZ | Cartoonist
STEPHEN H. SPAHN | Headmaster & Chancellor, The Dwight School
WILLIAM STEERE | CEO, Pfizer Corporation
LAURIE TISCH | Founder, Center for Arts Education
JANICE WEINMAN | President, Kids in Distressed Situations
ELAINE WYNN | Philanthropist
Previous Ronald H. Brown Award Recipients
KAREN BASS | California Assembly Speaker
HARRY BELAFONTE | Artist and Humanitarian
EDWARD LEWIS | Co-Founder & CEO, Essence Communications Partners
DAVID PATERSON | Governor, New York State
MICHELLE PATERSON | First Lady, New York State
DEVAL L. PATRICK | Executive Vice President, The Coca-Cola Company
DIANE B. PATRICK | Partner, Ropes & Gray
HUGH B. PRICE | President & CEO, National Urban League
LISA QUIROZ | Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, Time Warner
JORGE RAMOS | Univision Television Network
DENNIS M. WALCOTT | Deputy Mayor, New York City
OPRAH WINFREY | Entertainer and Business Executive
RAUL YZAGUIRRE | President, National Council of La Raza
Previous David T. Kearns Award for Excellence and Innovation in Education Recipients
VINCENT A. MAI | Chairman, The Sesame Workshop
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