ROTC Cadets Among New ‘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:

2362. Chapin High School Navy Junior ROTC, S.C., whose cadets perform approximately 5,000 hours of service per year; their activities include soliciting toys for hospitalized children and collecting coats for needy families.

2363. Senior Volunteer Programs of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, through which more than 500 volunteers carry out community service, including acting as companions to homebound people and as mentors and tutors for children and youths.

2364. Mark Hudson, League City, Tex., an engineer who volunteers at Kruse Elementary School, where he helps students improve their reading skills and participates in an annual fund-raising event for the school’s college-scholarship fund.

2365. MaryRose Mazolla, Chelmsford, Mass., a 12-year-old girl who has helped to initiate a number of fund-raising and cancer-awareness drives for the Lahey Clinic, in Burlington, Mass., where her grandmother is an oncology patient.

2366. Kathleen McKenna-Harmon, Eden Prairie, Minn., who has helped to develop job-training and placement programs in property management and real estate for homeless and formerly homeless women.

2367. Brooke Anderson, Atlanta, who designed the Decision Making 101 program to help middle-school students make informed, wise choices in their everyday lives.

2368. The Chore Service, Hackensack, N.J., a program of the Volunteer Center of Bergen County that provides home-repair services to elderly and disabled people.

2369. Nancy Simons, Kansas City, Mo., who serves as a Police Athletic League volunteer by coaching a youth-basketball team and by providing access to a court she built for neighborhood youths in her backyard.

2370. David Pickett, Bronx, N.Y., who performs a number of volunteer services at the Beacon of Hope Boulevard Clubhouse, a program for people coping with mental illness.

2371. Palm Coast Lions Club, Fla., whose members volunteer at the Suncoast Tape Library for the Blind, in St. Petersburg, helping to augment and maintain a collection of over two million Braille books and cassettes.