Amherst's Senior Citizen volunteers to be honored

More than 1,500 senior citizen volunteers will be honored Thursday, May 8, as the Amherst Center for Senior Services presents its 25th annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, held at Samuel's Grande Manor.

In 2007, these men and women offered 117,964 hours of service in a variety of settings in our community. Services are coordinated from the Amherst Senior Center but are provided throughout the Town of Amherst and Western New York.

Volunteers served Amherst Meals on Wheels, the Telephone Assurance Program and a variety of community agencies assisting the homeless, hospital patients, school children, nursing home residents and many others.

The annual luncheon extends special appreciation to these volunteers. "Volunteers Inspire!" is the luncheon theme.

Donald Wright, chairman of the Amherst Senior Services Advisory Board, will serve as master of ceremonies.

The following volunteers are recognized:

Stephen Abbott, Betty Abdallah, Linda Ahl, Patricia Akens, Sid Akens, June Alker, John Allenby Jr., Elsie Allenby, Robert Allendoerfer, Margaret Amato, Marilyn Arcara, Jean Armstrong, Evelyn Aumer, Herbert Aurbach, Frank Baginski, Joan Baier, Judith Bailey, Christine Balcerek, Gloria Baltes, Sally Barone, Virginia Barone, Angela Bartolone, Joseph Bartolone, John Bartone, Fred Bates, Mary Bates, Ruth Bates, Janice Bauchle, Robert Bauer, Teresa Bednarczyk, Betty Beishline, Mary Ann Belus, Shirley Bent, Albert Benz, Barbara Berg, Victor Berg, Arlene Bergwall, Harold Bergwall, Josephine Bernhard, Beverly Bilz, Virginia Blenman, William Boltz, Elaine Bolz, John Bond, Betty Bowling, Patricia Boyer, Rodney Bradley, Virginia Bradley, Alice Braniecki, John Bratek, Joseph Braunscheidel, Susan Braunscheidel, Ronald Breutzmann, Robert Briggs, Gil Brink, Marie Brinkel, Dick Brophy, Daniel Brown, Mary Brown, Phyllis Bruckenstein, Sue Budzich, Robert Buike, Ann Burgasser, John Burgasser, Raymond Burgess, M. David Burns, Lester Busdiecker, David Butts, Suzanne Butts, Mary Cadenhead, Joseph Calaman, Vanita Calzi, Helen Camp, Pauline Campagna, Theresa Campagna, Caesarina Cardarelli, Joyce Carey, Ernestine Carlson, Rita Carman, Jodi Casseri, Joseph Casuccio, Audrey Ceglinski, Robert Chamberlin, Audrey Cherry, William Cherry, Kokila Chheda, May Chou, Patricia Ciminelli, Wilma Cippola, Carol Claxton, Clayton Claxton, Roslyn Clement, Evelyn Cole, Matthew Cole, Robert Collins, Helga Colosi, Ann Conaway, George Conti, Pauline Cooper, Thomas Coppola, David Corrigan, Judy Corrigan, Joseph Cosgrove, Patricia Cosgrove, Mary Ellen Cotter, Eugene Covelli, Sandra Covelli, Eva Craden, Della Crays, Martha Crowley, Eileen Cull, Jay Cull, Jean Cummings, Marjorie Cunningham, Frank Cuomo, Prudence Curvin, Domenico D'Angelo, Walter Dannhauser, Efner Davis, Kevin Davis, Lynn Davis, Colleen Day, Joseph Day, Rosemary Dayton, Ann DeCillis, Madeline Decker, Patricia DeDominicis, Mary Deibel, Joanne Delmont, Frances DeMeester, Barbara Denk, Ruth DePasquale, Suzanne Derrah, Ruth Devonshire, Elizabeth Diegelman, Marian DiMarco, Rita Dohm, Sara Donnelly, David Doran, Jean Doran, Kathryn Dorney, Gerald Dove, Roberta Doyle, Gary Drzewiecki, Gary Dunham, Jeanne Eaton, Nancy Eberhard, Gale Eberhardt, Warren Eberhardt, John Eberle, Deborah Edwards, Leila Edwards, Marge Edwards, Carol Ennis, Robert Estes, Jean Fabiano, Catharine Fasanello, Gene Fechter, Ruby Feggans, Barbara Field, Carol Fierro, James Finley Jr., Pauline Firestone, Marillyn Flavin, Theresa Florek, Charles Fogel, Nancy Foster, Norman Foster, William Fox, John Francescutti, Jane Freer, George Freeze, Sharon Freeze, Nancy Frey, Concetta Fried, Doris Frisch, Nick Frisch, Diane Frisicaro, Patricia Frizelle, Leonard Froustet, Sachiko Fujita, Robert Gacek, David Gardner, Kathleen Garrison, Carl Gebauer, Connie Gessner, Beatrice Glatz, Diane Goff, Thomas Goff, Lois Gordon, Irene Gorski, Gabrielle Goujon, Eleanor Graczyk, Alice Gramza, Joseph Gramza, Hermann Grau, Edward Green, Keller Greene, Marilyn Greiten, Delores Griffis, A. Isabelle Grodem, Arthur Gross, Carolyn Grossman, Dorothy Gruszka, Leonard Grzechowiak, Nancy Grzechowiak, Patricia Guerra, Arthur Gundlach, Carol Gundlach, Thomas Guttuso, Pearl Haas, Edward Haberl, Mary Haefner, Bonnie Hall, Jean Hallac, John Halloran, Rose Halloran, Emily Harbison, John Harbison, Paul Harloff, Norman Hart, Mary Hartwick, Gail Haseley, Manjula Hathi, Patricia Healy, Alberta Heidinger, Beatrice Heine, Robert Hellerer, Marilyn Hennrich, Carol Hensel, Mary Jane Hensen, Ann Hergenroder, Barbara Hergenroder, Marge Herneisey, Shirley Heron, William Heron, Robert Hewitt, Eileen Higgins, Julia Higgins, Leonard Higgins, Margaret Higgins, Bessie Hnath, Joan Hoebbel, Dale Hohl, Theresa Hohl, Helen Honan, Jung Hong, David Hood, Ellen Hooven, Florence Hotaling, Mabel Houghton, Eleanor Howard, Patricia Howell, Gertrude Huber, Karen Hudson, Vickie Huebner, Alex Irvin, Caren Jachimiak, Sharon Jackson, Isabel Jauch, Paul Jessen, Eileen Johnson, Kay Jones, Gwendolyn Joseph, Carol Joyce, Judith Joyce, Jean Jurcheson, James Kaeppel, James Kalenda, Marcie Kallen, Annette Kallett, Muriel Kam, Gina Kankiewicz, Brian Kantz, Mary Karrer, Daniel Kay, Diane Kazmierczak, Claire Keddie, James Keddie, Elenore Keim, Milton Keim, Rita Keller, Arlene Kelly, Virginia Kempf, Mary Kiernan, Bok Kim, Bud King, Peggy King, Gloria Kintzel, Mildred Kishbaugh, Donna Klemp, Frank Klipstein, Carol Knerr, Kenneth Knerr, John Kociela, Esther Koenig, Alicia Kolipinski, Munira Koreishi, Morton Korn, Phyllis Kramer, Stephen Kramer, Carol Krieger, Jutta Krieger, Robert Krieger, Richard Kromer, Heidemarie Kunz, Adam Kurek, Kathleen Kuritzky, Harry Lacey, Ann LaDuca, Anthony Ladziak, Rita Lankes, Herbert Lannen, Shirley LaRusch, Donna Lasker, Paul Lasker, Angela Lavocat, Elsie Leary, Lorraine Leavy, Roy Lehner, Christina Leisner, Robert Leonard, Giustina Leone, John Leutz, Joanne LeVan, Harriet Lindemann, Vinton Lindquist, David Lomas, Janice Loree, Reed Low, Rita MacDonald, Fred Machemer, Helen Machynski, Deborah Mailhot, Alice Major, Evelyn Malone, Barbara Maloney, Leo Maloney, Rose Mancuso, Robyn Mandell, Dorothy Marcynski, Ross Markello, Marilynn Marong, Louise Marvin, Marjorie Marzahn, Susan Matuszak, Carol Mayo, Shirley McCadden, John McCarthy, Lois McCarthy, Pastor Bill McClurg, James McDonald, Joan McDonald, Patricia McGee, Terry McGovern, Valerie McGovern, Joan McGrath, Sandra McKenna, Anne McLellan, Jane McMenamin, Carol McRae, George Mendez, Richard Merkle, Rita Merlo, B. Howard Metzloff, Harold Meyers, Martha Miess, Kirsten Milbrath, Jane Miller, Sandy Miller, Usha Mohan, Carol Molfese, Gilbert Monacelli, Shirley Monacelli, Beverly Monette, Gloria Neri Monroe, Frances Montesano, Lizzie Moore, Marian Morber, Helen Morrison, Herbert Morrison, Alfons Moser, Bernadette Mussen, Thomas Nantka, Wilma Nantka, Mayme Nati, Maxine Nesper, Gloria Nettina, Aloise Neubeck, Grace Neureuther, Mary Nobile, Donald O'Brien, Frances O'Brien, Anne O'Connor, Mary O'Connor, Claudia Ogilvie, James Ogilvie, Laszlo Olchvary, Dan Olczak, Beverly Olszewski, Roxanne Onello, Josephine Paolini, Audrey Paplow, Barbara Parker, Vivien Parker, Gerald Perreault, Fran Petersen, Martha Petruzzella, Hazel Pfalzer, Lise Photiadis, Charlotte Piciulo, James Pierce, Bruce Pieters, Rhona Pinkney, Robert Platek, Patricia Poette, Roger Poette, Linda Ponivas, Joan Potter, Debra Powell, Lola Prisaznuk, Jacqueline Quigley, Jean Quigley, Joan Quigley, Joseph Radder, Nicholas Read, Charles Regan, Grace Regan, Judy Reich, Virginia Reich, Melissa Reichert, Thomas Rein, Rosemary Reinke, Connie Reppucci, Shirley Resnick, R. Kenneth Rhote, Helen Rice, Edna Richards, Thomas Richards, Virginia Roach, Esther Robbins, Phyllis Robert, Elizabeth Roche, Mary Rogers, Mark Rosenthal, Marcia Roth, Douglas Routt, Jane Routt, Marjorie Rovillo, Florence Ruben, Connie Rudes, Norm Rudolph, Lenore Russo, Om Rustgi, Samuel Sampieri, Aida Sanchez, Lorraine Sansom, Richard Schaefer, Richard Schanley, George Schanzer, Elizabeth Scherer, Norma Schmidt, Arnold Schmit, Anne Schneider, Eve Schohn, Robert Schuller, Dorothy Schultz, Marian Schultz, Robert Schultz, Helen Schweichler, June Schweizer, Catherine Scott, Joseph Scott, Louise Seereiter, Anne Seitz, Marsha Selib, John Sestito, Terry Shenton, Diane Silvestro, Mary Sinclair, Henry Sitarek, Kay Skelton, Mary Smith, Rosemarie Smith, Barbara Snelling, Florence Sodus, Frank Sommers, Theresa Sommers, Mildred Sorrento, John Spatola, Betty Sperazza, Peg Stackhouse, Ann Stadelman, Joanne Stahl, Ellen Stancliffe, Chong Standerwick, Gloria Staveski, Margaret Stein, Ardis Stewart, Jessie Stewart, Ronald Stock, Isabel Strachan, David Stroud, Harry Stroud, Moragh Stroud, George Styn, Marjorie Suchman, Seymour Suchman, Barbara Sullivan, Marilyn Summers Boltz, Casimir Surdej, Beverly Surdi, Joseph Surdi, Joan Taggart, Edmund Tally, Beth Taylor, Ralphia Teprovich, Kenneth Terhune, Leonard Testa, Arden Theobald, Arlene Theurer, Cheryl Thomas, Shirley Thomas, Warren Thomas, Molly Thompson, Richard Thompson, Sandra Thompson, Rose Marie Thornton, Marilynn Todd, Dolores Tolnay, Nancy Toney, Mary Treanor, Rosario Triolo, Lorine Troidl, John Tronolone, Melody Tronolone, Eugene Trosterud, Marcia Trosterud, Sherril Truscio, Joseph Udelson, Teresa Udelson, Kay Ullman, Marylou Urban, Mary Ann Urbanski, Jacqueline Valazza, Michael Valentic, Shirleyann Van Dette, Shirley Venditti-Rengel, Antonina Vertino, Margaret Vilardo, Laura Vincent, Ed Voltz, Doris Waldrop, Loraine Wallmeyer, Barbara Walsh, Jean Walzak, Bruce Wansant, Charlotte Warren, Bernie Was, Judith Watkins, Gillis Watson, David Weaver, Lee Weaver, Hildegard Webber, John Weidner, Joanne Welchoff, Christine Wenglowskyj, Irene White, John White, Barbara Whitehead, Robert Whitehead, Christine Whiting, Clifford Whitman, Philip Wiggle, Millicent Wilson, Elizabeth Windringer, Frances Winkler, Richard Wolf, Charlotte Woodfin, Marion Wydra, Dorothy Wynne, Donna Yambor, John Yang, Edward Young, Noreen Zaccagnino, Marie Zafron, Marie Zayan, Beverly Zelazny, Constance Zimmer, Paul Ziolkowski, Alice (Ginger) Zittel, Nancy Zobel, Norman Zobel, Sharon Zysman