Past Recipients

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Lifetime Achievement: Jim Oberhofer
  • Volunteer of the Year: Joan Chin
  • Organization of the Year: Harker Key Club
  • Rising Star: Kelly Tung
  • Public Safety Champion: Leigh Stevens
  • Sustainability Champion: Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team

2020

2019

2018

2017

  • Claudio Bono
  • Cupertino Host Lions Club
  • Hidden Treasures Volunteer Committee
  • Kay Lohmiller
  • Kiwanis Club
  • Liang Chao
  • Monica Tong
  • Quota International of Cupertino
  • St. Joseph of Cupertino Parish
  • Stan Barkey

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2016

  • Monica & Cliff Chung
  • Perry Farnum
  • Pete Goodell
  • Andy Huang
  • Clifford Lai
  • Jerry Liu
  • Diane Piedmont
  • May Tong
  • West Valley Presbyterian Church

2015

  • Angela Chen
  • Cecil Dobbs
  • Cathey Edwards
  • Family Giving Tree
  • Gerd Goette
  • Jim Harrah
  • Margaret Rich
  • Richard Sherman
  • Lichung Ting
  • Tzu Chi Foundation

2014

  • Cupertino Senior Center Volunteers Instructors
  • Paula De Cillis
  • Linking Youth N Community Services
  • Rob McCoy
  • Inge Roberts
  • Dick Schuster
  • Janice Sung
  • Union Church of Cupertino
  • Cindy Van Zoeren
  • De Anza College Auto Tech Club

2013

  • Fari Aberg
  • Alberto Boleda
  • Diane Heckman
  • Thersy Lorenzen
  • LaWanda Moore-Khorsand
  • Janet Riddell
  • Beverly and Jerry Tallinger
  • Don Van Buren

2012

  • Harvey & Celia Barnett
  • Lynn Ching
  • Cupertino Kiwanis Club
  • Cupertino-Hsinchu Sister City Association
  • Helene Davis
  • Patrick Kwok
  • Beverly Lenihan
  • Dolly Sandoval
  • Don Staub
  • Judy Wilson

2011

  • Bob Adams
  • Nancy Coss-Fitzwater
  • Cupertino Senior TV Production Group “The Better Part”
  • Fran Ellis
  • Anna Weber & Janet Hedley
  • Gladys Maiden
  • Pat Pecko
  • Vicky Tsai
  • Hung Wei

2010

  • Lynne Capener
  • Catherine Chen
  • Cupertino Senior Ctr. Desk Volunteers
  • Faith in Action Board
  • Wallace “Wally” Iimura
  • Operation Awareness
  • Planning Team
  • The Rhythmaires Band
  • Isabel Rodriguez & Andy
  • Huang
  • Susan & David Wong
  • Crystal Yan

2009

  • Bob Cloke
  • Buck Cox
  • Tom Dyer
  • Friendly Visitors Program Volunteers
  • Michael Gottwald
  • Marilyn Howard
  • Barbara Juhl
  • Diane Keng
  • Susan Kwok
  • Eno Schmidt

2008

  • Stuart Chessen
  • Amanda Cuva
  • David Greenstein
  • Vivian & Michael Hurley
  • Gail & Howard Jensen
  • Frances Ota & the Aloha Nani Hula Dancers
  • Krishi Peddada
  • Kay Roberts
  • Donna & Jack Van Schaack
  • Chuck Worley

2007

  • Mary Lou Caldwell
  • Mary Ellen Hennig
  • Helen Ho
  • Shawn Poirier

2006

  • Steve Ting
  • John Giovanola
  • Mark McKenna
  • Cookie’s Quilters
  • Organization of Special Needs Families

2005

  • Catherine Wong
  • Alan & Marge Taniguchi
  • Gilbert Wong
  • Alice Jarrett
  • Frances Seward
  • Diane Benedetti
  • Library Volunteers
  • Cupertino Library Commission
  • Friends of the Cupertino Library
  • Cupertino Library Foundation

2004

  • Jack Birkholz
  • Msgr. Joseph Milani
  • Barbara Hill
  • Hema Alur-Kundargi
  • Donna M. Austin
  • Laverne Swanson
  • Cupertino Amateur Radio Emergency Service
  • Mahesh Nihalani

2003

  • Fari Aberg
  • Charles “Chuck” Corr
  • Cupertino Educational Endowment Foundation
  • Fusako Hoyrup
  • Linda Rios
  • Toyokawa Sister City Committee
  • Joe Tembrock
  • George Tyson
  • Victor Wong
  • Ann Woo

2002

  • Don Allen
  • CCS Board of Directors
  • Gail Fretwell Hugger
  • Richard Knock
  • Orrin Mahoney
  • Janice Miyatake
  • Katherine Stakey
  • Robert Yee

2001

  • Diana Argabrite
  • Faith In Action (FIA)
  • Peggy Hamilton
  • Jo Harper
  • Ken McKay
  • Sandie Zander

2000

  • Chaoming and Wanyu Chang
  • Fernando Chen
  • Debbie Dougherty
  • Jean Gallup
  • Jim Oberhofer
  • Rotary Club of Cupertino
  • Chuck Thompson

1999

  • Phil and Frances Bush
  • Andy Chung
  • Mike Masunaga
  • Roberta Hollimon
  • Sr. Ctr. Case Mgr. Volunteers
  • Janet Shannon
  • Joyce Yee

1998

  • Sharon Blaine
  • Cupertino-Fremont PTAs
  • Senior Center Desk Volunteers
  • Vera Ketchum
  • Virgil and Trish Klein
  • Otto Pleis
  • Katherine Waugh

1997

  • Jean Ahern
  • AAPA
  • Host Lions Club
  • Dick Eade
  • Nancy Harper
  • June Lathrop
  • Nicol Lea
  • Kathy Nellis
  • Darryl Stow
  • Dorothy Stow

1996

  • Linda Bentson
  • Chris Capener
  • Lynne Capener
  • Sandra James
  • Terry Mullen
  • Carol Rakich
  • Curtis Woodruff
  • Lois Woodruff

1995

  • Jane Asher
  • Dick Blaine
  • Lucille Honig
  • Greg Jow
  • Charles Liggett
  • Betty Nelson
  • Barbara Nunes
  • Dale Satterfield
  • Dorothy Schmid
  • Elizabeth Vestal

1994

  • Steve Andrews
  • Eunice Cox
  • David Lee
  • Richard Lohmiller
  • Joe Maddigan
  • Art Petersen
  • Helen Riisberg
  • Mathilda Sousa
  • Barbara J. Stolpman
  • Eleanor Watanabe

1993

  • CONTACT Ministries
  • Agnes Locher
  • Henrietta Marcotte
  • Barbara Rogers
  • Jane Shifferd
  • Lauri Steel
  • David Voss
  • Linda Walker