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  • Silver Star Betty Chinn, 12 Others Receive 2010 Citizens Medal
    President Obama honors winners at the White House
    Silver Star Betty Chinn, herself once a homeless child on the streets of China, has been feeding the homeless in Eureka, California, twice a day, every day, for more than 20 years. For her work to alleviate suffering, she has won the nation's second-highest civilian honor.
  • Silver Star Betty Chinn Wins MLB All-Stars Among Us Award
    One of three nominees for the San Francisco Giants
    Commissioner Bud Selig: "Major League Baseball is privileged to recognize this team of 'All-Stars,' whose selfless and tireless work is making a significant impact within communities across the nation. . . ."
  • Silver Star Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
    Photojournalist, publisher
    Joan has been photographing the world for more than half a century—from the days when women weren’t “supposed” to work. She even photographed the birth of her first son. It was 1951, and she was just 22.
  • Silver Star Mary Lou Cook
    Community activist, artist, volunteer
    There is a lot that’s not traditional about Mary Lou Cook, 91. A calligrapher, constant volunteer, peace activist, minister, teacher, author, organizer, cancer survivor —she has left her imprint in cities around the country, the last 40 years in Santa Fe.
  • Silver Stars Flo and Fred MacLean
    Couple winters in Philadelphia to serve the poor
    Many of us volunteer for a few hours each month, but Flo and Fred MacLean take it a little further than that. For four months a year, the couple lives and breathes volunteering, taking up residence at St. Francis Inn, a Philadelphia facility run by the Franciscans.
  • Silver Star of 2008 Announced
    Congratulations!
    And the winner is . . . Marion Downs! Marion has been selected as the Silver Star of the Year for 2008. Silver Stars are extraordinary, inspiring seniors who embrace a new view on aging.
  • Silver Star Carol Brock
    More than 60 years in the culinary world
    Legendary culinary expert Carol Brock, founder of Les Dames d’Escoffier, has spent a lifetime as a food reporter, hostess editor, restaurant critic, writer, and educator, pausing only to give birth to three sons, working “until the first contraction each time.”
  • Silver Star Betty Chinn
    Inspiring a community to care
    When California First Lady Maria Shriver presented her 2008 Minerva Award, Betty said, “I accept this award for the desperate people and the needy people. This award is not about me—it's about them.”
  • Silver Star Bill Tapia
    World’s oldest professional ukulele performer
    A lifelong professional musician who has played with countless famous people, 101-year-old "Duke of Uke" Bill Tapia is still hard at work. He released his first two CDs four years ago, and a new one is coming out in a few months. In April, he’ll go on tour. In the meantime, he gives private lessons to 20 students.
  • Silver Star Itka Zygmuntowicz
    Holocaust survivor
    “I’ve had so many tragedies and so many miracles in my life,” says Itka Zygmuntowicz. “I’m the luckiest unlucky woman.”
  • Silver Star Marion Downs
    Audiologist pioneered hearing screening program for infants
    A chance decision on a course of study led Silver Star Marion Downs to an acclaimed career in audiology. Now the 94-year-old has written a book about living out your passions and getting the most out of a long life.
  • Silver Star Mildred Heath
    Eighty-five years in the newspaper business
    For Mildred Heath, 100, home has always been south-central Nebraska. Work has been journalism ever since she was 15. And life has been, and still is, good.
  • Silver Star Eugene Curnow
    Iwo Jima veteran’s book a page turner
    Eugene Curnow, 83, grew up in poverty, then lived through one of the bloodiest campaigns in American military history: Iwo Jima. He's written a riveting, story-filled memoir titled Life, the Hard Way: Up from Poverty Flat.
  • Silver Star Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne
    Born in war-torn Russia and raised on the stage, energetic Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, nearly 90, is excited about her latest book, a “sexy” novel titled The Chaperone.
  • Silver Star Ray Jenkins
    Here’s one working man who’s not interested in retiring
    Horatio “Ray” Jenkins was honored as America’s Oldest Worker for 2007 by Experience Works, the nation’s largest provider of training and employment services for older workers.
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