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Good Neighbor Awards are presented annually by Goddard
Riverside Community Center to those people who voluntarily
do something extraordinary to improve community life
or help their neighbors on the Upper West Side.
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At the
sixth annual Neighbor to Neighbor Dinner on May
6, 2006, Goddard Riverside officials and volunteers
join this year’s Good Neighbor Award recipients.
Front row from left: Awardees Betty Sellers, Patricia
Craddick, Joseph Meezan, Esther Gross, Morris
Levine and Betty Dickstein. Back row from left:
Evie Joselow, Award Committee Chair; Victor Gonzalez,
Board member; Stanley Heckman, Board President;
Stephan Russo, Executive Director; Doris Brunson,
Board Vice President; Rob Grossman (for the award
to the Veteran REACH volunteers); Edmundo Yearwood,
Awardee; Eric Rosenfeld, Board member; Anita Fiorillo
and Peter Meyer, Dinner Co-Chairs
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The following people are this
year’s awardees:
Patricia Craddick:
for her vision and dynamic leadership in establishing
ParentJobNet, a three year old organization which
empowers public school parents and caregivers on the
Upper West Side to share with each other and employers
via the internet information about jobs, childcare
options, business and volunteer opportunities and
professional services; additionally providing in person
training for parents for whom English is a second
language and workshops in schools about jobs and careers.
All without cost.
Betty Dickstein:
for her strong leadership at the Senior Center, her
invaluable contributions to the Advisory, Recognition,
Public Issues and Food Committees, her extensive work
in the community with her tenants association, at
a neighborhood public school and Symphony Space and
her compassion and devotion to the homebound and the
hospitalized.
Esther Gross:
for her devotion to improving the conditions of life
for her neighbors, her outspoken advocacy for social
and political justice, her work in the community with
her church and public housing, her assistance to her
neighbors with translations and helping them negotiate
government bureaucracies, and her impassioned efforts
to educate the public about autism.
Morris Levine:
for his expertise, devotion and care in assisting
seniors the past fifteen years with befuddlingly complex
Medicare, Medicaid and health insurance problems;
for his tenacity in dealing with the health bureaucracies
resulting in helping hundreds of his neighbors by
giving them peace of mind and saving them thousands
of dollars.
Joseph Meezan:
for a lifetime of activism pursuing social justice,
his work with his union, as a Mitchell Lama tenant
organizer and his devoted work with the blind and
the homeless.
Betty Sellers:
for her devotion to the residents of Corner House,
for teaching and helping those of her neighbors who
are disabled or elderly with housekeeping, for her
leadership in recreational activities and birthday
parties and for helping provide food and clothing
to families in the neighborhood.
Veteran REACH Volunteers:
to the nine veteran tutor-mentors, Seth Eisenstein,
Elizabeth Greenburg, Robert Grossman, Heather Hanson,
Jeffry Ho, Lisa Hunter, David McCarthy, Nitzan Palman
and Frances Rosenfeld for their devoted service and
multi-year commitment to the students of the REACH
program.
Edmundo Yearwood:
for his devoted caregiving to the elderly residents
of Columbus Park Towers; for looking after their welfare,
for shopping for them or doing their laundry when
they weren't able to, for escorting them to appointments
when they couldn't go alone; for his wise counsel
and the friendship, comfort and support he has given
to his neighbors.
The Good Neighbor Awards committee congratulates
the award winners and is grateful to everyone who
participated in this process. The Sixth Annual Good
Neighbor Awards was presented at the Neighbor to Neighbor
Dinner on May 6, 2006.
- Executive Director’s
Remarks from the Good Neighbor Awards Dinner.
- 2007 Good Neighbor Awardees
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