White House Names 16 ‘Points of Light’ Honorees

Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award.

The awards, which are given to those who have done exemplary volunteer work, take their name from President Bush’s description of people who do community service as “points of light.” Some 1,020 people received the honor when Mr. Bush was in office.

The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the President in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the award winners and the program is available at the foundation’s World-Wide Web site, http://pointsoflight.org, or by contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

1220. Hospice Kids Caring for Kids Program, Escondido, Cal., through which students at Orange Glen Elementary School raise money for terminally ill children at the Elizabeth Hospice.

1221. Friends of the Family, Chicago, which operates six volunteer-based programs that provide psychological and support services to pediatric cancer patients at Children’s Memorial Hospital, in Chicago, and to their parents and siblings.

1222. Lois Waterbury, Cazenovia, N.Y., who organizes a program through which 12 to 15 women meet each Friday to sew bedrolls for homeless people.

1223. Stacey Nash, Albuquerque, N.M., who coordinates the Self-Esteem and Educational Development Program at the New Mexico Girls School, which houses female juvenile offenders.

1224. Sandra Rudnick, Culver City, Cal., who founded and serves as president of UFC Bridges, a volunteer-run group that provides support services for young adults in Los Angeles County who are forced out of the foster-care system when they reach the age of 18.

1225. Hudson Cradle, Jersey City, whose volunteers care for “boarder babies” who are suffering from child abuse, prenatal exposure to drugs, or other hazards, and who have no safe place to live.

1226. Bob Bates, Los Angeles, who co-founded Inner City Arts, a non-profit group that provides inner-city youths with bilingual arts instruction in dance, drama, sculpture, and other disciplines.

1227. Walton High School Volunteers, Marietta, Ga., whose members tutor children at a nearby elementary school, prepare brown-bag lunches for homeless people, and socialize with elderly residents of a nursing home.

1228. Glenda Bentz, St. Louis, who teaches severely disabled adults how to use computers and perform complex tasks using adaptive equipment.

1229. Thomas (Pop) Sadler, Charlotte, N.C., who started a drum corps for young people in his disadvantaged neighborhood that has evolved into a resource center that provides access to computers, tutors, and summer activities.

1230. Thomas Porton, Bronx, N.Y., a high-school teacher who involves his students in various community-service projects, with a special focus on AIDS education and delivering care packages to hospitalized AIDS patients.

1231. Ben Massell Dental Clinic, Atlanta, a center through which 85 volunteer dentists provide poor people with dental services — including braces and dentures — on a sliding-fee basis.

1232. John McKenzie, Salisbury, Pa., who teaches local history to schoolchildren, started the Adopt-a-Grandparent Program, and founded the Tub Mill Arts Association, which provides regional artists with a forum for displaying and selling their work.

1233. Green Street United Methodist Youth Group, August, Me., whose members spend their spring vacation traveling hundreds of miles to renovate and repair the homes of low-income people in the Appalachian region.

1234. Steve Fuller, San Diego, the owner of a plumbing company that provides free minor repairs for elderly and disabled people.

1235. Parents Record: My Own Unique Diary (PROUD), Plymouth Meeting, Pa., a literacy program for low-income parents in which they are encouraged to create diaries that celebrate their children’s accomplishments.