​Senior Champions From Previous Years ​

 The following is a list of previous Senior Champions who have been honored.

Award Category​

Senior Champion

Grand Champion

G. Nicholas Beckwith, III and
Dorothy Boyles Beckwith, 2014
Paul M. Winkler, 2013
Loren Roth, MD, 2012
Stephanie Studenski, MD, 2011
Fred Rubin, MD, UPMC Shadyside, 2010
Richard Sobehard, 2009

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Community Champion

 Family Hospice and Palliative Care, 2014, accepted by Barbara Ivanko, President and CEO
Gail Roddie-Hamlin, MPH, CHES on behalf of Alzheimer's Association of Greater Pennsylvania, 2013
​Eleanor and Deborah Scully on behalf of the Seeders and Weeders Garden Club, 2012
Mildred Morrison on behalf of the Area Agency on Aging, 2011

​Caregiver Champion

Margaret Mary Kimmel, PhD, 2014
Edmund M. Ricci, PhD, MLitt., 2013
Robert Shuster, 2012
Ellen Parkes and James Collie, 2011
Evelyn Sayles, 2010
J. Robert Williams, 2010

​Good Neighbor Champion

Jean Curtis, 2012
Margaret McCoy, 2011
Maxine Allison*, 2009
Doris Dorsey, 2009
Mary Farrell, 2009
Ruth Huey, 2009
Dorothy Matthews, 2009
Jack Stull, 2009

​Sharing and Caring Champion (Volunteers)

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Hazel Malter, 2010
Alan Mishkin, 2010
Sandra Mordoh, 2010
Philomena Barbarita, 2009
Mary Burger, 2009
Mary Sascek, 2009
Margaret Tallis, 2009
Olive Wepfer, 2009
Florence Zieger, 2009

Sharing and Caring Champion (Employees)

​Shikha Iyengar, 2010
Eugene Cherok, 2009
Linda Collins, 2009
Kristine Diodati, 2009
Joseph Frederick, 2009
Bridget Humphreys, 2009
Antoinette Ponce, 2009

Honor Roll Champion

​Michele Chestnut, 2010
Denise Hodes, 2010
Maryann Kascsak, 2010
Jennifer Marty, 2010
Virginia McKinney, 2010
Charles Palmer, 2010
Deborah Parker , 2010
Richard Pian, 2010
Laura Svenson, 2010

  

*Honored posthumously



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