Leukemia Fund Raiser Among 16 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 contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

1098. Becky Jarvis, Minneapolis, who participates in food-collection drives, volunteers at soup kitchens, visits hospitalized children, and carries out other volunteer activities through the Minnesota Youth Advisory Council.

1099. Tulsa Technology Center, Okla., which “adopted” a local elementary school with a high percentage of at-risk students, with whom the center’s volunteers collaborate on tutoring, skills-development, and community-service projects.

1100. Krista Roberson, Kalamazoo, Mich., who, along with fellow third graders, formed the “Mean Green Recycle Machine” club, whose members pick up trash on their school playground during recess and set up recycling projects in their homes and neighborhoods.

1101. Frederick Hoffman, River Edge, N.J., who has raised $300,000 for the National Leukemia Society by collecting pledges for riding his bicycle throughout the country.

1102. 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Nashville, a group of local leaders and businessmen who provide mentor activities for at-risk black male adolescents in the Nashville area.

1103. Jestine Dennard, Macon, Ga., who helped establish the Adopt-a-Role-Model Program, which links mentors with disadvantaged boys, and who founded a local clothing bank.

1104. Drew University Mentor Program, Madison, N.J., a group of approximately 130 students who provide tutoring and mentor activities for at-risk youths in the Newark, N.J., area.

1105. Rescue Our Children, Newton, Miss., which organizes activities to boost the self-esteem and academic performance of more than 200 poor children and adolescents living in Newton County, Miss.

1106. Nancy Berla, Columbia, Md., who established a program at Running Brook Elementary School in Columbia that helps insure that 3- and 4-year-olds are ready to begin kindergarten and that promotes increased family involvement at the school.

1107. West Virginia Health Right, Charleston, a volunteer-run health clinic that provides free primary-care and diagnostic services, medications, and health-promotion programs for poor people who are not covered by private insurance or Medicaid.

1108. Louis Bolduc San Jacinto, Cal., who lost his larynx due to throat cancer, conducts education programs and provides counseling on the dangers of tobacco at schools, clubs, medical facilities, health fairs, and Indian reservations throughout southern California.

1109. The Perlyn Family, Boca Raton, Fla., who have started three programs: “Doc Adopt,” which matches children in need of medical attention with health-care professionals; “Stepp’n Up,” which provides shoes to needy children; and “To Have and Hug,” which donates teddy bears to abused children who are living in temporary homes.

1110. YouthFriends, Kansas City, Mo., a program that connects students in 13 local school districts with more than 3,500 adult volunteers, who provide services ranging from tutoring to helping students write resumes.

1111. Fort Bliss Army Defense Center, El Paso, which organizes the Fort Bliss Partnerships in Education Program, through which 3,700 soldiers, civilian employees, and family members provide tutoring and mentor activities to local at-risk stu dents.

1112. Serve Houston Youth Corps, a group of young adults who provide mentor and tutoring activities for children from 19 elementary schools in inner-city Houston.

1113. Lila Bjorklund, Salt Lake City, who helped found the Utah Girls’ Village — now the Utah Youth Village — in 1969; the program now serves more than 300 troubled and abused girls and boys annually at 44 locations throughout Utah.