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 Awards
Gabe Olah - Chapter President inducted into the Hall of Fame
Gabe Olah,  our Mt. Valley Empire Chapter president has been inducted into the Verizon Pioneer Hall of Fame for 2009.  Gabe has worked in the Bronx, Southern Manhattan, Greenwich, Conn., Fallsburgh, Poughkeepsie and Rockland county.

Gabe has held several positions in the Mid-Hudson Valley Council including different chair positions, Vice President and President.
Gabe Olah
Gabe has been a Pioneer since 1994 and has accumulated over 2500 hours of volunteer time.  He has spent hundreds of hours on projects like painting playground maps, volunteering for Special Olympics, coordinating "911"simulator demonstrations and other areas such as talking book coordination.  He has participated in several work projects and a variety of other volunteer activities.

Congratulations to Gabe on this award.
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2006 Chapter Awards
 

2006 Award Winners

From left to right in the photo below.

Life Member Partner --Harold Hassett
Pioneer of the Year  -  Cheryl Castelluccio
Life Member of the year  - Ron Dibb
Chapter Project Award, Camp Scully  -   Ron Simpson
Presented by Gabe Olah, Chapter President

 
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Past Awards
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Elaine Person and Vice President Stephen Kohn

Elaine W. Person - 2004 Pioneer "Hall of Fame" recipient pictured here with VP Steve Kohn

Elaine has been involved with pioneers since 1985 serving as group rep., vice president, president and clown director.  She has worked on the PAL toy project, Christmas stocking project, bear buddies and love kits for the homeless.  Elaine's clown is Val-N-Tine and she has donated over 3,000 hours clowning around at various community service projects.  Her Clown troupe has raised over $10,000 to help fund community service projects.

 
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Ed Urschel Life Member of the Year

2003 Life Member of the Year

Ed Urschel was named "Life Member of the Year" for his work with the "A Book About Me" for the Albany Club.  This past year Ed interfaced with all the Schools in Albany promoting this important literacy program.  Below Ed is presented with the Award by Steve Vroman. 

 

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