St. Luke's honors volunteers at banquet
Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
St. Luke's volunteers were honored at a recent banquet at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center.
The volunteers were treated to dinner, entertained by the Eclectix -- a vocal jazz group from Morningside College -- and presented with awards to mark their achievements. The evening concluded with dessert and coffee in St. Luke's Atrium.
A volunteer force of 300 adults and teens contributes more than 30,000 hours of service to St. Luke's each year. Volunteers deliver mail, visit with patients, do clerical projects, work with the pet therapy program, knit baby caps and other items, paint memory boxes, escort patients, host patients and families and staff the gift shop and information desk among other activities.
Only those volunteers who participated from Oct. 1, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2007, are listed. Volunteers receive certificates, pins or bars to designate hours, with those achieving a new level in 2007 noted by an asterisk. Volunteers and their hours of service are:
10,000+ Hours -- Lotus Wittkamp
8,500+ Hours -- Arlene Kjeldseth
7,000+ Hours -- Berline Jacobsen
6,500+ Hours -- Bill Hossack*
6,000+ Hours -- Marlene Downs*
5,000+ Hours -- Joyce Axthlem, Jack Bern*
4,500+ Hours -- Helen DeLay*.
4,000+ Hours -- Audrey Mook, Doree' Conkey*, Barbara Kelsey, Maxine King, Harry McDuff* and Rennie Batcheller*.
3,500+ Hours -- Kaye Rasmus, Bea Young, Cecelia Hutton*, Lorraine Vollers* and Mary McCoy*.
3,000+ Hours -- Glad Hill, Don Cook*.
2,500+ Hours: -- Lillian Brady, Bonnie Brown, Luverne Schroeder, Jan Deuhr, Ann Conley, Winnie Macfarlane*, Mary Enocksen*, Lo Borschuk, Marian Jacobson* and Evelyn Carle.
2,000+ Hours -- Nancy Johnson, Carl James, Helena Lawrence, Susan Horst, Bill Enocksen, Mary Ellen Lenagh*, Helen Smith, Dorothy Jansen* and Earl Pratt Jr.
1,500+ Hours -- Gerald Laedke, Virginia Wilder, Craig Croston, Judy Cowley, Rose Jensen*, Marilyn Moen, Aleck Yarosevich, Stacy Vennard*, Bernice Finzen, Norma McCarthy, Charlotte Held, Fran Egan* and Hermine Windle*
1,000+ Hours -- Peggy Lamaak, Lois Sakaraison, Pauline Meloy, Eileen Sardeson, Marje Jarvill, Nancy Harrison, Joyce Lake, Mickey Darrough, Gary Shaner, Dianna Michaelis, Inez Zinter, Kenneth Wittkamp, Jan Nelson*, Eula Henline*, Julie Gatzemeyer*, Phyllis Franzen*, Bev Holmes, Jack Sorenson, Linda Williams*, Chet Axthlem, Doris Adams, Patricia Walsh*, Jerry Meiners*, Dorothy Hansen*, Ila Zellmer*, Mary Gay Gunsch*.
500+ Hours - Jack Smith, Inez Malmgren, Alice Sea, Wanda Nelson, Carol Anderson, Jim Hrdy, Don Heath, Anne Boston, Margaret Moran, Lois Hoover, Marlene Welding, Leah Shearon, Ellen Chaussee, M. Frances Graham, Fran Cole*, Barbara Frey, Ed Blackburn, Jim Batcheller, Phyllis Olson, Janice Bristow, Lee Cwikla, Betty Beyer, Ruth Johnson, Dick Dickman, Dorothy Dickman*, Donna Wooldridge, Arlene Baldes, Mary Croston*, Liz Draisey*, Mona Kelly*, Valorie Kruse, Lorraine Oostenink*, Jenny Herrick*, Adah Towne*, Rebecca Pearson*, Maureen Hartnett* and Doris Johnson.
100+ Hours -- Bernice Van Eldik, Leo Ehli, Darlene Cale, Jean Gill*, Dianna Reuschling, Janice Mohan, Alberta Spalding, Judy Herbold, Dan Chapman, Mary Wolf, Mary Lou Nicolls, Mary Jane Koenigs*, Virginia Pflanz, Rohnda Dennehey, Twila Weaver, June Thilo, Dora Posey, Rose Ann Pridie, Jesse Christopherson*, Julie Dorn*, Joyce Moore, Pat Christensen, Elaine Miller, William Peterson*, Pat Zimmerman, Garneth Oostenink, Sandy Fitch*, Carol Clay, Steph Anderson*, Pattry Brockhaus*, Jerri Ducommun, Jeanne Dunbar, Sue Schuldtz*, Phil James*, Marianne Zeigler, Patty Jensen, Sheryl Banks, Sandy Fravel*, Elaine McCuddin*, Shanna Bendixen, Ramona Mehrer*, Metta Devine*, Connie Richardson-Smith, Sue Gwin*, Sandy Gunnink*, Anna Whitaker*, Lois McIntyre, Lo Mitchell, Tereasa Marsh*, Heidi Thompson*, Nancy Steffe*, Jo Peterson*, Megan Wimmer*, Belinda Schorman*, Lorna Skinner*, Lucille Zellmer*, Sherry Hirschman*, Kay Sorenson*, Sheryl Olsen*, Collette Burnette, Connie Lanagan*, Joan Berggren*,
Helen Davenport*, Patty Considine*, Marcid Cambique*, Jan Gramm*, Sue Brent*, Barbara Bobier*, Helen Flammang*, Tamme Saul*, Diane Paugh*, Sue Geddes*, JoAnne Geddes*, Sarah Geddes*, Dianne Davidson*, Myrna Baker*, Eleanor Felton*, Connie Gagnon*,Zelma Abbott*, Julie Heckart*, Virginia Hamner*, Jean Grego*, Nancy Bishop*, Babs Hickson*, Madeline John*, Loretta Smith*
50+ Hours - .Deb Gray-Helseth , Bonnie Simmons*, Mae Hanna*, Patricia Windeshauson*, Margaret Ditter*, Nancy Means, Rick Pridie, Sherry Ratcliff*, Rita Potter*, Marti Ebner*, Anna Hoover, Barbara Christensen*, Pat Koth*, Emily Domayer*, Lynne Springer, Lois Zellmer*, Duane Lawrence*, Mary Kimbell*, Lois Schock*, Lin Snyder*, Alfa Fischer*, Francisco Sanguino* and Dorothy Erwin*.
25+ Hours -- Gary Reeves, Daniel Walding, Mike Paugh, Marilyn Wooldrige, Carey Sahu, Kathy Massey, Connie Miller*, Nicole Clark*, Linda Reeves, Brittany Gonsor*, Don Kelsey*, Steve Benson*, Etta Polaycoff*, Melissa Dreyer, Kacie Tjeerdsman*, Corey Harman*, Dee Walding* and Sharon Schmitz*.
The volunteers were treated to dinner, entertained by the Eclectix -- a vocal jazz group from Morningside College -- and presented with awards to mark their achievements. The evening concluded with dessert and coffee in St. Luke's Atrium.
A volunteer force of 300 adults and teens contributes more than 30,000 hours of service to St. Luke's each year. Volunteers deliver mail, visit with patients, do clerical projects, work with the pet therapy program, knit baby caps and other items, paint memory boxes, escort patients, host patients and families and staff the gift shop and information desk among other activities.
Only those volunteers who participated from Oct. 1, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2007, are listed. Volunteers receive certificates, pins or bars to designate hours, with those achieving a new level in 2007 noted by an asterisk. Volunteers and their hours of service are:
10,000+ Hours -- Lotus Wittkamp
8,500+ Hours -- Arlene Kjeldseth
7,000+ Hours -- Berline Jacobsen
6,500+ Hours -- Bill Hossack*
6,000+ Hours -- Marlene Downs*
5,000+ Hours -- Joyce Axthlem, Jack Bern*
4,500+ Hours -- Helen DeLay*.
4,000+ Hours -- Audrey Mook, Doree' Conkey*, Barbara Kelsey, Maxine King, Harry McDuff* and Rennie Batcheller*.
3,500+ Hours -- Kaye Rasmus, Bea Young, Cecelia Hutton*, Lorraine Vollers* and Mary McCoy*.
3,000+ Hours -- Glad Hill, Don Cook*.
2,500+ Hours: -- Lillian Brady, Bonnie Brown, Luverne Schroeder, Jan Deuhr, Ann Conley, Winnie Macfarlane*, Mary Enocksen*, Lo Borschuk, Marian Jacobson* and Evelyn Carle.
2,000+ Hours -- Nancy Johnson, Carl James, Helena Lawrence, Susan Horst, Bill Enocksen, Mary Ellen Lenagh*, Helen Smith, Dorothy Jansen* and Earl Pratt Jr.
1,500+ Hours -- Gerald Laedke, Virginia Wilder, Craig Croston, Judy Cowley, Rose Jensen*, Marilyn Moen, Aleck Yarosevich, Stacy Vennard*, Bernice Finzen, Norma McCarthy, Charlotte Held, Fran Egan* and Hermine Windle*
1,000+ Hours -- Peggy Lamaak, Lois Sakaraison, Pauline Meloy, Eileen Sardeson, Marje Jarvill, Nancy Harrison, Joyce Lake, Mickey Darrough, Gary Shaner, Dianna Michaelis, Inez Zinter, Kenneth Wittkamp, Jan Nelson*, Eula Henline*, Julie Gatzemeyer*, Phyllis Franzen*, Bev Holmes, Jack Sorenson, Linda Williams*, Chet Axthlem, Doris Adams, Patricia Walsh*, Jerry Meiners*, Dorothy Hansen*, Ila Zellmer*, Mary Gay Gunsch*.
500+ Hours - Jack Smith, Inez Malmgren, Alice Sea, Wanda Nelson, Carol Anderson, Jim Hrdy, Don Heath, Anne Boston, Margaret Moran, Lois Hoover, Marlene Welding, Leah Shearon, Ellen Chaussee, M. Frances Graham, Fran Cole*, Barbara Frey, Ed Blackburn, Jim Batcheller, Phyllis Olson, Janice Bristow, Lee Cwikla, Betty Beyer, Ruth Johnson, Dick Dickman, Dorothy Dickman*, Donna Wooldridge, Arlene Baldes, Mary Croston*, Liz Draisey*, Mona Kelly*, Valorie Kruse, Lorraine Oostenink*, Jenny Herrick*, Adah Towne*, Rebecca Pearson*, Maureen Hartnett* and Doris Johnson.
100+ Hours -- Bernice Van Eldik, Leo Ehli, Darlene Cale, Jean Gill*, Dianna Reuschling, Janice Mohan, Alberta Spalding, Judy Herbold, Dan Chapman, Mary Wolf, Mary Lou Nicolls, Mary Jane Koenigs*, Virginia Pflanz, Rohnda Dennehey, Twila Weaver, June Thilo, Dora Posey, Rose Ann Pridie, Jesse Christopherson*, Julie Dorn*, Joyce Moore, Pat Christensen, Elaine Miller, William Peterson*, Pat Zimmerman, Garneth Oostenink, Sandy Fitch*, Carol Clay, Steph Anderson*, Pattry Brockhaus*, Jerri Ducommun, Jeanne Dunbar, Sue Schuldtz*, Phil James*, Marianne Zeigler, Patty Jensen, Sheryl Banks, Sandy Fravel*, Elaine McCuddin*, Shanna Bendixen, Ramona Mehrer*, Metta Devine*, Connie Richardson-Smith, Sue Gwin*, Sandy Gunnink*, Anna Whitaker*, Lois McIntyre, Lo Mitchell, Tereasa Marsh*, Heidi Thompson*, Nancy Steffe*, Jo Peterson*, Megan Wimmer*, Belinda Schorman*, Lorna Skinner*, Lucille Zellmer*, Sherry Hirschman*, Kay Sorenson*, Sheryl Olsen*, Collette Burnette, Connie Lanagan*, Joan Berggren*,
Helen Davenport*, Patty Considine*, Marcid Cambique*, Jan Gramm*, Sue Brent*, Barbara Bobier*, Helen Flammang*, Tamme Saul*, Diane Paugh*, Sue Geddes*, JoAnne Geddes*, Sarah Geddes*, Dianne Davidson*, Myrna Baker*, Eleanor Felton*, Connie Gagnon*,Zelma Abbott*, Julie Heckart*, Virginia Hamner*, Jean Grego*, Nancy Bishop*, Babs Hickson*, Madeline John*, Loretta Smith*
50+ Hours - .Deb Gray-Helseth , Bonnie Simmons*, Mae Hanna*, Patricia Windeshauson*, Margaret Ditter*, Nancy Means, Rick Pridie, Sherry Ratcliff*, Rita Potter*, Marti Ebner*, Anna Hoover, Barbara Christensen*, Pat Koth*, Emily Domayer*, Lynne Springer, Lois Zellmer*, Duane Lawrence*, Mary Kimbell*, Lois Schock*, Lin Snyder*, Alfa Fischer*, Francisco Sanguino* and Dorothy Erwin*.
25+ Hours -- Gary Reeves, Daniel Walding, Mike Paugh, Marilyn Wooldrige, Carey Sahu, Kathy Massey, Connie Miller*, Nicole Clark*, Linda Reeves, Brittany Gonsor*, Don Kelsey*, Steve Benson*, Etta Polaycoff*, Melissa Dreyer, Kacie Tjeerdsman*, Corey Harman*, Dee Walding* and Sharon Schmitz*.
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