Ship’s Crew Among Those Honored with Points of Light Award

Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’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 World-Wide 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:

1430. Jane Hoppe, Front Royal, Va., a retiree who volunteers as a reading instructor at E. Wilson Morrison Elementary School and is involved in many extracurricular activities at the school.

1431. Jim Call, Huntsville, Ala., who directs a community garden where volunteers produce and deliver harvests to homebound elderly individuals. He also created the GardenAngel program, which helps elderly people maintain their own gardens.

1432. U.S.S. South Carolina, Portsmouth, Va., whose crew donated more than 3,000 hours as mentors, tutors, and volunteers at local schools, food banks, and health-care institutions.

1433. Chinese-American Volunteer Corp, New York, a program at New York University Downtown Hospital that provides translations of health-promotion materials and helps health professionals communicate with the local Chinese-speaking population.

1434. Charlotte Jimenez, Greeley, Colo., a volunteer and board member at the Greeley Transitional House who coordinates classes on educational services available to adults, including help with school enrollment and financial aid.

1435. Pat Murphy, DePere, Wis., the owner of a construction company who donated and raised more than $18,000 to complete the first home built by St. Norbert College’s student chapter of Habitat for Humanity and has since continued to recruit donations of materials and labor for the group.

1436. Michael Coffman, Placerville, Cal., who facilitates the “Men’s Alternative to Abusive Patterns” program, counsels battered women, and participates in outreach activities at the El Dorado Women’s Center.

1437. Jack Hiehle, Carmichael, Cal., who volunteers with many animal- and environmental-conservation groups restoring habitats and guiding field trips, including one he developed for visually impaired people.

1438. Michael Edwards, Little Rock, Ark., who serves as a volunteer probation officer and mentor for juvenile offenders. He has achieved the distinction of having no recidivists in more than three years of service, compared to Pulaski County’s average recidivism rate of 17 per cent.

1439. Weld Food Bank Coupon Program Volunteers, Greeley, Colo., a group of 16 women who raise money for the food bank by distributing food coupons at a grocery store. The store then donates the value of each coupon that customers used to buy products at the store, raising more than $32,000 for the food bank last year.

1440. John Wessner, Baltimore, the chairman of the physics department at Towson University who has used his background in heating installation to furnish heating systems in more than 120 homes through the Sandtown neighborhood’s Habitat for Humanity program.

1441. Olla Rae Chicola, Alexandria, La., who turned her grocery store into Manna House, a project that serves meals to homeless and poor families, and who recruits donations from her contacts in the food industry.