Founder of New York’s Guardian Angels; Oral-History Group Among ‘Points of Light’

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://www.pointsoflight.org, or by contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

2225. Team Tobati of Kingswood-Oxford School, West Hartford, Conn., a group of teachers, students, and parents that raises funds needed to purchase medical and educational supplies for Tobati, Paraguay, a town located in one of Latin America’s poorest regions. The team also visits the town during spring break for two weeks to volunteer their services.

2226. Trotter’s Cafe and Bakery, St. Paul, which organizes programs for preschool children, educates community members about volunteer opportunities, and provides baked goods to local volunteer groups. Many employees are volunteers as well, and donate their tips to community-outreach projects.

2227. Bryan McClure, East Lansing, Mich., a 13-year-old who has raised thousands of dollars, primarily through bikeathons he organized, to help pay the medical bills of a friend who is battling cancer.

2228. Moses E.N. Timah, Cairo, Ill., who founded a diabetes-support group and a walking and exercise program for low-income minority individuals. Originally from Cameroon, Mr. Timah was brought to the United States as a youth by a Peace Corps volunteer who helped him obtain a college education. Now an American citizen, Mr. Timah has served two years in Guyana as a Peace Corps volunteer and one year in a low-income urban area in Illinois as an AmeriCorps volunteer.

2229. Kathy Gowans, Orem, Utah, who has contributed more than 100 hours each month for the past several years to local literacy activities.

2230. Saddlebrooke Community Outreach, Tucson, a nonprofit group run by 435 retired volunteers who help motivate children in low-income neighborhoods to increase their school attendance and improve their grades. One project of the group, Kid’s Closet, has provided new winter and summer clothes for 1,200 underprivileged children since 1996.

2231. Client as Volunteer Program, Jewish Family Service of Greater Wilkes-Barre, Pa., through which clients dealing with depression, anxiety, or other mental-health issues carry out volunteer activities designed to boost their self-esteem and provide positive social interaction.

2232. Curtis Sliwa, New York, who founded the group that later became the Guardian Angels Safety Patrol, which has expanded its activities — originally designed to reduce crime on the city’s subway trains — to include after-school programs for at-risk youths.

2233. Antonio Alonso, Tulsa, Okla., dean of student services at Tulsa Community College, who has undertaken several activities to increase the number of minority students attending Oklahoma colleges, promoted volunteerism among his colleagues, and coordinated a program designed to motivate minority and low-income people to attend college.

2234. Scrap Mettle Soul (Stories of Urban Life), Chicago, a program that involves residents of the city’s Uptown-Edgewater neighborhoods in oral-history performances.

2235. Charles Shane, Portage, Mich., who volunteered more than 1,000 hours in 2001 for a number of charities, including the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross, Hospice of Greater Kalamazoo, and the Kellogg Biological Station.

2236. Debi Johnson and Terri McAllister, Salt Lake City, who have served the children of Mill Creek Elementary School, in Salt Lake City, through their tenures as PTA president. They also started a reading-incentive program, a safety program, and an artist-in-residency program for the school.

2237. College Bound, Washington, an organization that provides public-school students with academic and financial support designed to prepare them for higher education. In addition to pairing students with volunteer tutors, the program offers workshops on SAT and ACT review and the college-application process.

2238. Heather Young, Blanding, Utah, who is involved with many organizations and committees that serve youths. One program she helped create and continues to support prepares young people for postsecondary education and “real life” situations like creating budgets and opening bank accounts.

2239. Brian Orloff, Clearwater, Fla., a high-school senior who has volunteered at a local hospice since he was 13. In addition to working with patients, he serves as a mentor for the hospice’s support groups for siblings.

2240. Teen Challenge Illinois, Decatur, an organization that provides food, shelter, education, medical care, counseling, and skills training to individuals struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, through its street ministry, phone counseling, and residential programs.

2241. Louise King, Dixmoor, Ill., who organizes back-to-school and Christmas parties at which she distributes donated gifts and school supplies to low-income families.

2242. Paula Lucas, Portland, Ore., who founded American Women Overseas, a nonprofit organization that operates an international, toll-free crisis line for American citizens living abroad who are victims of domestic violence.