Volunteers are the heart and soul of School on Wheels. In 2010, 1,501 volunteers dedicated more than 90,000 hours to helping homeless students at School on Wheels!
April is National Volunteer Month and every year School on Wheels nominates volunteers to receive the President’s Volunteer Service Award. 39 of our volunteer tutors received the prestigious award for volunteering more than 100 hours in a year.
Here are our amazing Presidential Award Winners for 2011:
Jerry Buchanan, Sung Sook and Joshua Baek, Yolando Mitchell Brown, Betty Burdick, Marie Camacho, Erin Cervantes, Tamar Chafets, Sinead Chilton, Jane Correia, Patty Cummins, Mary Curl, Danielle DeMack, Ryan DeRosa, Seema D’Souza, Michael Duncan, Katie Farrowe, Julie Giroux, Terry Harstad, Amy Johnson, Mike Kelley, Melvie Kim, David Kojimoto, Norah Lally, David Landsberger, Eileen McAndrews, Eileen Miller, Heather Odell, Chiaw Pang, Jacqueline Papineau, Catherine Meek, Alisha Park, Donna Preston, Jason Rarick, Jacqueline Romo, Ellen Snyder, Chris Sutherland, Meshack Vallesillas and Katie Van Cleave.
 Sung Sook and Joshua Baek  Patty Cummins
 Betty Burdick and Renee Longan
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 Yolando Mitchell Brown  Mary Curl and Ellen Snyder
 J. Vanessa Lee |
 Jason Rarick with Steve Hibbert  Mike Kelley with Catherine Meek
 Catherine Meek with Linda Huddle |
 Meshack Vallesillas
 Sinead and Susannah Chilton
 Terry Harstad |
About the Award
The President’s Volunteer Service Award recognizes individuals, families, and groups that have achieved a certain standard – measured by the number of hours of service over a 12-month period or cumulative hours earned over the course of a lifetime.
Award recipients receive:
- An official President’s Volunteer Service Award lapel pin
- A personalized certificate of achievement
- A congratulatory letter from the President of the United States
School on Wheels Staff also nominates volunteers every month to be ‘Volunteer Tutor of the Month’ You can read about our star tutors for this month here.
