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Every year, the Daily Progress selects 12 individuals from the community as its distinguished dozen.
1995
- Fletcher Arnitt Jr., FUMA teacher and coach
- Linda Bowen, youth baseball booster
- Margaret McLeod Cain, attorney
- Thomas J. Calloway, CHS basketball coach
- Deborah DiCroce, PVCC president
- Nancy Gercke, Charlottesville’s preschool education coordinator;
- Edward W. Hook Jr., doctor and teacher at UVa
- A.E. Dick Howard, constitutional scholar at UVa
- Alicia Lugo, Teensight director
- Fran Sackett, Live Arts artistic director
- Charles Stickle, UVa hospital volunteer
- Richard Wellbeloved-Stone, teacher at Living Education Center for Ecology and the Arts
1996
- Sonny Beale, Boy Scout leader
- Rev. Bruce Aaron Beard, pastor of First Baptist Church
- Lelia Brown, community leader
- Eddie Dean, Madison County High School math teacher and football coach
- Rae Ely, attorney and founder of Historic Green Springs
- Vicky Generelly, Nelson County Rural Health Outreach Program nurse
- Michael A. Mallory, UVa’s director of minority recruitment
- Marion Nolan, president of Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts
- Bert Roby, chief of Orange County VFD
- Donna Selle, regional library director
- Gabe Silverman, developer and arts booster
- Vince Tornello, CHS band director
1997
- Dequeta Anderson, Abundant Life Family Center manager
- Jasper Bell, Charlottesville fire educator
- Fred Boyce, Prism Coffeehouse’s booking agent
- Shirley Cox, volunteer organizer
- Judy Goetz, volunteer
- Gary Greenwood, youth sports booster
- Dr. Sharon Hostler, pediatrician
- Mark Lorenzoni, businessman and fitness advocate
- Tim Murphy, Orange County K-9 officer
- Ginny Smith, leader of Compassionate Friends
- Mack Tate, Yancey Elementary School principal
- John Thomasson, Louisa businessman and community activist
1998
- Patricia Bottom-Delany, Venable Elementary School special-education teacher
- Carl Brown, juvenile probation officer
- Annette Grimm, director of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency
- Robert V. Heffern, principal of Madison Primary School
- Joy Johnson, public housing advocate
- Heinz Kramp, founder of Innisfree Village, a home for brain-injured adults
- Anna Mirra, Greene County Primary School volunteer
- Dr. Mohan Nadkarni, Charlottesville Free Clinic co-founder
- Martin Schulman, veterinarian
- James W. Simmons, Charlottesville Municipal Band director
- Julie Trueblood, interpreter for the deaf at UVa Medical Center
- Albert Weed II, Nelson County community activist
1998-1999
- Ken Ackerman, executive director of Monticello Area Community Action Agency
- Agnes Cross-White, publisher of Charlottesville/Albemarle Tribune
- Joseph Frisina, Habitat for Humanity volunteer
- Marcia Invernizzi, program director at UVa’s McGuffey Reading Center
- William Lewis, businessman and community leader
- Janet Murphy, cancer survivor
- Dr. Vito Perriello, pediatrician
- Paul Rittenhouse, volunteer soccer coach and rescue worker
- Jessamy Rouson, founder of Animal Haven
- Betty Simon, volunteer at Runaway Emergency Shelter Program and Shelter for Help in Emergency
- Edith Wheeler, enrichment teacher at Venable Elementary School and co-founder of Imani Project
- Rev. James E. Woods, founder of First Bible Baptist Church and United Christian Academy
1999-2000 (Distinguished dozen of the 20th century)
- Raymond C. Bice Jr., UVa professor and administrator
- Drewary J. Brown, civil rights advocate
- Bernard Chamberlain, attorney and historian
- Nan Crow, Charlottesville’s recreation director
- Dr. Halstead S. Hedges, founder of Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Thomas Staples Martin, U.S. senator
- Rebecca Fuller McGinness, teacher and community leader
- Paul Goodloe McIntire, philanthropist
- Rev. Frederick W. Neve, Episcopal priest and educator
- Randolph H. “Pete” Perry, businessman and politician
- Edgar F. Shannon Jr., president of UVa
- A. Darden Towe, civic leader
2000-2001
- Mozell H. Booker, Burnley-Moran Elementary School principal
- Elain Carlton, volunteer at elder-care facility
- Stephen H. Helvin, district court judge
- Greg Howard, musician and literacy advocate
- Linda Krongaard-DeMong, nurse practitioner and patient advocate
- Harry Porter, landscape architect at UVa
- Mary Reese, director of Barrett Day Care Center
- Sterling Robinson II, chef and community activist
- Patricia L. Smith, director of Offender Aid and Restoration of Charlottesville-Albemarle
- Lou Southard, state chief of forest protection
- George Welsh, UVa football coach
- Jim Wootton, local historian
2001-2002
- Suzanne Brower, founder of Pathway Volunteers, a program for Alzheimer’s patients
- Luvelle Brown, assistant principal and founder of Walker Academy for black male students
- Robert Covert, diversity educator
- Dave Matthews Band, community benefactors
- Mary Lee Embrey, Nelson County volunteer
- Dr. Greg Gelburd, Downtown Family Health Care founder and physician serving low-income people
- Robert Hammond, retired veterinarian and Ivy Creek Natural Area volunteer
- Anthony Iachetta, engineering professor emeritus and civic activist
- Robert S. Pace Jr., Fluvanna County animal care advocate
- Deborah Pettit, Louisa County educator
- Dr. Jo Ann Pinkerton, women’s midlife health and menopause center founder and director
- Debbie Ryan, UVa women’s basketball coach and cancer research advocate
2002-2003
- Franklin Bacon, community volunteer
- Dan Bieker, conservationist, Ivy Creek Natural Area volunteer
- Juanita Wilson Duquette, owner of Wilson School of Dance
- Gary Eisenhuth, science teacher at Western Albemarle High School
- Miriam Green, nurse at Our Lady of Peace
- Jim Hingeley, chief public defender for Charlottesville-Albemarle
- Barbara Lachance, “soup lady” at Church of the Holy Comforter
- Beth McPhee, Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA shelter manager
- Alberto Ojeda, advocate for area’s Hispanic community
- Ivan Orr, executive director of the Music Resource Center
- Helen “Sandy” Snook, community activist
- Lillie Taylor, longtime cook at Nathanael Greene Elementary School
2003-2004
- Harold Boyd, Boys and Girls Club leader
- Ray Caddell, real estate broker, community helper
- Holly Edwards, parish nurse at Westhaven Clinic and Holy Comforter Catholic Church’s soup kitchen
- Dr. Raymond Ford, pediatrician, leads medical missions to Haiti
- Sandra Levine, community volunteer
- Marshall Pryor, community and civic service work
- Ann Rooker, community volunteer
- Barbara Shifflett, executive director of the Albemarle County Fair
- Deirdre “Dede” Smith, director, Ivy Creek Foundation
- Gordan and Mary Beth Smyth, funders of Nelson County students’ education
- Phillip Stinnie, CEO and president, Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Club, basketball coach
- Ruth Stone, executive director, Piedmont CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
2004-2005
- Dyan Aretakis, family nurse practitioner/ project director of the Teen Health Center
- Dr. David Deviese, Madison dentist with many Medicaid patients
- L. Dayton Haugh, chief of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, lawyer
- The Rev. Edward Hopkins, pastor of Hinton Avenue United Methodist Church and chaplain for the Charlottesville Police Department
- Frances McQ Lawrence, helped establish the Rivanna Trails Foundation and the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center, lawyer
- Peppy Linden, executive director of the Virginia Discovery Museum and community helper
- Ellen Miyagawa, Fluvanna County Historical Society archivist and publications editor
- Tom Powell, Toy Lift founder, community helper
- Mildred Spicer, therapeutic recreation supervisor, Charlottesville parks and recreation
- Juandiego Wade, Albemarle County transportation planner and community helper
- William Washington, executive director and founder of the Bridge Ministry
- Mary Ellen Wooten, provides care packages and other assistance to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
2005-2006
- Lee and Paulette Albright, state agency watchdogs
- Sonny and Debra Beale, Somali refugee helpers
- James Taylor Beard, anti-poverty, civil rights activist
- Judy Hunt, hospice volunteer
- Cornelia Johnson, Charlottesville sheriff
- Eric and Marcia Johnson, volunteer tutors
- Oliver Kuttner and David New, Katrina relief organizers
- Dave Norris, housing, low-income advocate
- Cindy Payne, guidance counselor
- David Strider, nurse manager; swim program volunteer
- Carlos Teran, Hispanic community advocate
- Karen Waters, Quality Community Council executive director
2006-2007 (teen edition)
- Brian Bills, senior, Charlottesville High School
- Tyler Coppage, junior, Madison County High School
- Ellie Craddock, senior, Monticello High School
- Rebecca Dolan, senior, St. Anne's-Belfield School
- Ashley Johnson, senior, the Covenant School
- Kelly McDowell, junior, Orange County High School
- Jessica Michelle Oliva, senior, Albemarle High School
- Lucie Rhoads, senior, St. Anne's-Belfield School
- Alicia Trice, senior, Albemarle High School
- Michelle Walker, freshman, Monticello High School
- Hunter Weaver, sophomore, Orange County High School
- Sean Zimmer, senior, the Renaissance School
2007-2008
- Mary Birkholz, animal sanctuary operator
- Jim Carpenter, photographer, volunteer
- Janet Herman, Women’s Four Miler volunteer
- Jeanne McCusker, senior citizen helper
- William Moors, Spanish-speaking physician
- Steve Murray, provider of running trails for local teams
- Rydell Payne, Prospect-area community worker
- Rick Richmond, JABA board member, community volunteer, lawyer
- Ed Russell, volunteer for local Alzheimer’s Association
- Eben Smith, Rivanna Trails Foundation volunteer
- Josephine Whitsett, retired school guidance counselor
- William “Whit” Whitten, musician/teacher
2008-2009
- Mary P. Anderson, administrator, nurse and therapist at the Lafayette School & Treatment Center
- Suzanne Jessup Brooks, serves on numerous community boards
- Maureen Burkhill, works with at-risk youths, most recently with Teensight
- Janet Centini, co-founder of Jeffrey’s Gifts
- Dr. Alan Dalkin, Central Little League leader
- Harold B. Folley, community organizer; coordinator of the Westhaven Afterschool Program
- Del Horan, founder of quilting group; community service
- ElizaBeth McCay, principal of Jackson-Via Elementary School
- Mary T. Miller, community and therapeutic arts volunteer
- Fahy “Skip” Mullaney, co-founder of People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry
- Carolyn Ohle, executive director, Innisfree Village
- Tom Payne, volunteer reserve sheriff’s deputy; oversees the Project Lifesaver program
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
