Cross-Country Tour-Bus Driver Among 14 Honored as ‘Points of Light’

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://www.pointsoflight.org, or by getting in touch with the foundation at 1737 H Street, N.W., Washington 20006; (202) 223-9186.

The recipients:

1072. The Rev. Kent Nylander, Bensenville, Ill., who, for the past 23 years, has used his vacation time to conduct bus tours across the United States and Canada that raised funds for 38 charities.

1073. Glenwood Springs High School A-Team, Glenwood Springs, Colo., a group of students who planned and designed a pedestrian mall in the downtown area, raised $75,000 for its construction, and currently work to maintain it.

1074. Fort George G. Meade Adopt-a-School Program, Ft. Meade, Md., which pairs volunteers from the U.S. armed forces with kindergarten-through-12th-grade students to promote self-esteem, responsibility, and physical fitness.

1075. Betty Finney House Corporation, Lancaster, Pa., a group founded by its namesake, a psychologist who counsels H.I.V. and AIDS patients, that provides housing and financial assistance to more than 60 people with the disease.

1076. Tobin Smith, Arlington, Va., who has raised funds for 4-H camps, developed a 4-H club that serves immigrant children, and founded a 4-H club that takes disadvantaged children on weekend fishing trips and to an annual summer camp.

1077. Project Advancing Literacy Northeast Region, Grand Forks, N.D., an adult-literacy program through which 25 volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring at the Grand Forks Public Library and other literacy-related programs and services.

1078. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, R.I., whose employees have organized and assisted clean-up efforts at local beaches and have “adopted” a sixth-grade class in order to teach the students about environmental issues.

1079. Ken Porath, Portland, Ore., who founded the Library Epilepsy Education Project, which has stocked public libraries statewide with information about epilepsy and provided volunteers to dispense information and to insure that the materials are kept up to date.

1080. Karim Haji, Bryan-College Station, Tex., a medical doctor who founded Health For All, which runs a clinic that provides free health-care and medical services to 4,200 low-income patients per year in the Brazos Valley region of Texas.

1081. David and Majorie Ward, Bonita Springs, Fla., who founded the Citizens Association of Bonita Beach, which organizes volunteers to clean up a 40-mile stretch of coastline in southwestern Florida and has lobbied to prevent regional off-shore drilling and overdevelopment.

1082. The New Friends Club, Maryland Heights, Mo., a group of 35 students at Pattonsville High School who promote increased awareness about disabilities, provide sensitivity training to their peers, and organize an annual wheelchair-basketball game and other events.

1083. Joan Connery, Westerly, R.I., a retired reading and literacy specialist who co-founded a family-literacy program at a local pediatric clinic.

1084. William (Dennis) Stewart, Louisville, Ky., who has coached basketball, chaperoned field and camping trips, and driven vans for a charity that helps poor families.

1085. Claude R. Smith, Baton Rouge, La., a retired engineer who resuscitated the English-language program for non-native speakers at the local Migration and Refugee Services of Catholic Community Service after budget cuts threatened to end it.