Violence Reduction, Volunteer Induction Among Goals of Recent ‘Points of Light’ Honorees

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:

1510. Agnes Flaherty, Saco, Me., a full-time volunteer who coordinates hospice care for patients and their families at home; to finance the hospice programs, she also helped create two shops that sell donated used books.

1511. Peace Games, Somerville, Mass., originally an annual violence-prevention festival for children that has become a continuing program that uses student volunteers from Harvard University to lead activities and community-service projects for schoolchildren and that offers nighttime workshops and events for parents.

1512. Interval House: the Second Generation, Seal Beach, Cal., an all-volunteer program operated by and for teen-agers who grew up with domestic violence in their homes; the volunteers offer peer counseling and a 24-hour hotline in more than 30 languages.

1513. Oakland Asian Students Educational Services, Oakland, Cal., which was founded by volunteers at the University of California at Berkeley to provide mentors, tutors, and advocacy and service-learning programs for children from low-income Asian-immigrant families.

1514. Nancy Spivey, Dallas, a volunteer for Literacy Instruction for Texas who teaches adults to read and who designed a special curriculum for educating students with dyslexia and other learning disorders.

1515. Patrick Morris, Miami Beach, who continued to work at a Habitat for Humanity project after a drive-by shooter’s bullet grazed his head, and who founded Hands on Miami, an organization that helps people with limited time to volunteer find flexible projects.

1516. Lujack’s Northpark Auto Plaza, Davenport, Iowa, whose employees contribute time and resources to charities — including collaborating with local high schools in a food drive, building a playground for the Family Museum of Arts and Science, and donating money to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

1517. F.E.G.S. Long Island Division Volunteer Corps, Syosset, N.Y., a network of several facilities serving an array of needs, from psychological services to legal aid to holiday gifts for needy families.

1518. Students Teaching AIDS to Youth, Tulsa, Okla., a peer-education program developed with the American Red Cross-Tulsa Area Chapter that uses volunteers aged 14 to 22 to teach H.I.V./AIDS prevention; the curriculum has been approved by the Red Cross for use nationwide.

1519. Alternatives to Violence Project, Shreveport, La., a non-religious program begun by Quakers to reduce violence in schools, prisons, and society by teaching people to respect and care for themselves and others; volunteers teach AVP principles in 45 states and 25 countries.

1520. Dorothy Dulberger, Palatine, Ill., who inspired the creation of Boy Scouts Troop 457 for developmentally disabled boys and arranged for senior scouts to volunteer weekly with this troop; she also spends one week each summer at a camp for her scouts.

1521. Will Gove, Minneapolis, who has volunteered for myriad organizations, recently leading an effort to turn blighted land into soccer fields for children using the resources of local government agencies, corporations, and environmental groups.

1522. Sheriff’s Auxiliary Volunteers, Tucson, Ariz., who aid the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in crime-prevention programs and tasks such as fingerprinting, and who assist in weather-related emergencies.