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Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient

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Overbrook’s Board of Trustees is soliciting nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award. This is the only award that the Board gives out on a yearly basis.

Please consider nominating a person you know who meets the criteria for the award. Anyone who has attended Overbrook School for the Blind is eligible. The person could have attended through elementary school and graduated from a different high school. Having a diploma or certificate from Overbrook is not a requirement.

Criteria on which the nominee will be chosen are as follows:

The nominee shall have shown unusual success and achievement in his/her chosen career; and/or

The nominee shall have shown unusual courage, persistence or imagination in overcoming multiple physical or cognitive handicaps and/or

The nominee shall have made a significant contribution to society on a local, state, national or international level; and/or

The nominee shall have made a significant non-monetary contribution to Overbrook School for the Blind or the lives of the students of Overbrook School, or the disabled generally.

Please know that the nominee must meet one or more of the above. Nominations may be made by submitting a nominating letter with supporting material (such as a resume) to the Board of Trustees, in care of Todd Reeves, Executive Director, Overbrook School for the Blind, 6333 Malvern Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19151 no later than Friday, April 22, 2022.

The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented at the Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 9:30 A.M. in the Overbrook Auditorium.

 


Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

2021: Cathy Eichelberger Long

2020: No award due to Covid-19

2019: Nanci Sumner 

2018: Alexander J. Stewart (deceased)

2017: Marilyn Kline

2016: Linda Heskell Justice 

2015: Betsy Gerhart 

2014: Vivian Anderson Williams

2013: Michael Patterson

2012: Jay R. Doudna & Mary J. Smith 

2011: John H. Luttenberger III

2010: Joanne Malatest Davidoff & Louis G. Quay

2009: William H. Meecham  

2008: Lucy Boyle  

2007: Josephine Cordaro  

2006: Donna Brown  

2005: Wiraman Niyomphol

2004: Drs. James R. & Marylou Weitzel-Bissland

2003: William McDonald

2002: Joseph Stabelli

2001: Ann B. Porter

2000: William Newman

1999: Anthony McCloskey

1998: Robert Frack

1997: Dr. Edward Reardon

1996: Thomas A. Benham

1995: Delores Coombs

1994: Walter Evans

1993: Catherine Deraco

1992: Sebastian Demanop

1991: Rudolph Thompson

1990: Thomas (Tom) Morris

1989: Marilyn Lutter

1988: William Murray

1987: Dr. Mae Davidow

1986: Leroy Price

1985: Rudolph V. Lutter, Jr

1984: Henry Griffith Robbins

 


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