White House Honors 13 ‘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 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:

1417. Clay Mountain Housing, Clay, W.Va., an organization that helps low-income families in Clay County repair their houses or purchase new houses by obtaining financial counseling and securing loans that establish payments based on the families’ income levels.

1418. Sylvia Goodman, Shreveport, La., who led a fund-raising and lobbying effort to build the Sci-Port Discovery Center, a hands-on science center for children; she raised a total of $17-million from the local and state governments.

1419. Mimi Levin Lieber, New York, a retired member of the New York State Board of Regents who founded Literacy Inc., an organization that uses school staff members, parents, and community members to teach young children to read. More than 700 volunteers have acted as reading partners to thousands of children.

1420. TMC HealthCare Learn, Earn, Advance, and Prosper Program, Tucson, Ariz., which aids people who recently lost their welfare benefits by employing them after providing job training, mentors, and help in finding transportation and child care.

1421. Michael Bowler, Chatsworth, Cal., a hearing-impaired mentor who has helped four boys through the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program of Catholic Big Brothers in addition to counseling juvenile offenders through a church program and sponsoring clubs at Hawthorne High School, where he teaches special-education classes.

1422. Peter Genuardi, Tucketon, N.J., a student at New York University who founded the Anti-Hunger League, a volunteer student group that collects food for local homeless individuals and performs the Midnight Delivery, a project to distribute bag meals that contain information about services and resources available to homeless people.

1423. Alisia Michelle Orosco, Abilene, Tex., a 12-year-old who sends presents to poor and hospitalized children, a project she began after two of her siblings died. She saves all her allowance and cash gifts to buy stuffed animals and has attracted the help of companies, friends, and her school’s Parent/Teacher Association

1424. Sister Rosario, Houma, La., who founded the Louis Infants’ Crisis Center to care for children who have been abandoned, abused, and neglected, and to offer child-rearing classes to their parents.

1425. Blacks in Government, Washington, a national association of black government workers that offers classes in professional development and trains high-school students in communications and computers.

1426. Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, Toledo, Ohio, which instructs parents in how to use the legal system to collect child-support payments and lobbies for government policies to improve the rate of collection.

1427. Youth Volunteer Force, Maplewood, Minn., a group of mildly mentally disabled students at John Glenn Middle School who serve meals at a homeless shelter.

1428. Amy Bennington, Grand Rapids, Mich., a mentor at Arbor Circle Corporation Homeless Youth Services who works with homeless teen-agers or those at risk of becoming so. She helps young women gain the skills needed to obtain a job and procure transportation and child care.

1429. Harriet C. Tillman, Plaquemine, La., who led the effort to get buildings in the predominantly black, rural town of Dorseyville, La., on the National Register of Historic Places and to restore them, including a 19th-century school for black children from nearby plantations.