15-Year-Old Volunteer Among ‘Points of Light’ Recipients

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

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 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:

1964. Mario Montejo, Dallas, a learning-disabled man who, since 1970, has served as an aide in the Rehab Services Department of the Dallas Home for Jewish Aged-Golden Acres Campus.

1965. Rick Rollins, Dallas, who has developed new programs, raised money, recruited volunteers, served as steering-committee chairman, and conducted public relations for the Dallas County Juvenile Department’s Youth Village program for three years.

1966. Carl and Norma Miller, New Market, Md., who established a child-care center at a local community college. Mrs. Miller also has helped administer the VIP Children’s Day Program since it was started 12 years ago; the program provides a free day at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair for terminally ill and severely disabled children.

1967. Ron Patchett, Kalamazoo, Mich., an 87-year-old man who has provided in-home support to frail elderly people since 1994 through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program.

1968. Goodfellow Shoe Fund, North Platte, Neb., an organization founded in 1947 to provide shoes for children and youths in North Platte.

1969. Carrie Hamerslag, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a 15-year-old girl who started Art for a Cure, a program to raise money for cancer research at the Salk Institute. Ms. Hamerslag also volunteers at the Door of Hope, a care center operated by the Salvation Army for unmarried teenage mothers and their children.

1970. Amanda Nevers, Washington, who established Ophelia’s House, an organization that serves young women, many of whom are teenage mothers and minorities.

1971. Linda White Epps, Hamden, Conn., a breast-cancer survivor who works to raise awareness of the disease among African-American women. Ms. Epps recently produced Sisters’ Journeys-2001, a calendar containing stories and encouragement by women who have experienced breast cancer.

1972. Sandy Wimsatt, Encinitas, Calif., a volunteer who has raised more than $8-million in four years as fund-raising chairman for Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

1973. Kathryn Donohue, New York, who served as executive director of the Fire Department of New York Fire Safety Education Fund and as assistant director of the Fire Department Institute, which promote programs to reduce fire-related injuries and deaths. In addition, Ms. Donohue has organized the Fire Commissioner’s Humanitarian Awards Dinner, which benefits fire-safety-education programs, since 1995.