Please join the Area Agency on Aging of Broward County (AAABC) as we continue to honor the tradition of recognizing outstanding Broward senior volunteers, age 60 or older, and their contributions to the community.
Nominations Are Now Open!
Click HERE to Nominate An Outstanding Senior
Can’t submit electronically?
Please email nominations@adrcbroward.org to be sent a paper form.
Senior Hall of Fame Nominee Criteria:
Be age 60 or older
Be a resident of Broward County, FL
Be making/have made a profound difference and impact in Broward County, FL for 5 or more years
Nomination deadline: Friday, February 18, 2022
The Awardees will be honored at the 38th Annual Dr. Nan S. Hutchison Broward Senior Hall of Fame in May 2022. Their names will be etched on a plaque that is displayed in the Broward County Government Building.
Broward Senior Hall of Fame Inductees
1978
Mayor Gilbert H. Colnot
Easter Lily Gates
Fred Haller
Kathleen Sabourin
Ernestine Smith
1979
Earl A. Thompson
Nellie M. Thompson
Dr. Louis L amato
Paul Barlow
Dwight Burkam
Sarah Hoyle
Rev. J.H. Montgomery
Mayor Frank Veltri
1980
Irma Allen
Comm. Harry Black
Moe Katz
Ida Kostoff
David Lawrie
Fred Mason
Veto Melfi
Leonard Weisinger
1981
Gladys Borenstein
Harriet Engel
Philip Hershey
Mary Alice Owens
Anita Perlman
Margaret Roach
Julius L. Bronfman (Posthumous)
1982
James Carey, Sr.
Sister Clarette Gross
Harold Hickey
Minerva Kaplan
George Kurland
Arthur Lezar
Henry F. Nolan
Jerry Noyer
Elizabeth Williams
1983
Robert E. Allen, Sr.
Thelma Daniel
Cato Roach, Jr.
Dr. Herman Weiss
Evelyn Wells
Phyllis Werner
Dr. Von Delaney Mizell
1984
Robert Bentley
John Cincotta
Sylvia McMillian Gillins
Ben Portner
Edwin Sand
Ruth Lenz Simon
Sy Simons
Abe Tuchman
Violet Woodhouse
1985
Annie Mae Dailey
Philip Halle
Lillian Hargan
Lyon Lee Hariton
Ethel Jacobs
Murray Kirschbaum
Irving Mendelson
Morris Sher
Elliott Shernoff
1986
Johnnie Mae Barnes
Marion Messina Bonavolant
Comm. Vicki Coceano
Dr. M. B. Gillman
Fredrica Glass
Adelaide Jabolonsky
Dr. Robert J. Kassan
Leonard Miller
Ben Packer
Bessie Packer
Willie Webb, Sr.
1987
Etta M. Carey
Walter W. Falck
Lilliam Kirschenberg
Marie Maxson
Fannie E. Meyer
Molly Pollack
William Resnick
Grace Robinson
Hildegarde S. Schwartz
Joseph G. Typner, Sr.
1988
Hilda R. Bruman
Isabel Butler
Harvey B. Ehrlich
Leon Ehrlich
Robert Friedlander
Sam Garber
Helen B. Hoffman
Hy Regan
Helen Sobel
Angelo Spadaro
Leetta P. Williams
1991
Jack R. Chasin
Lorraine M. Heller
Sarah I. Jencks
James McCulloch
Hester L. Nelson
Sidney Permisson
Rachel S. Postal
Tillie Rothstein
Shirley Adler Silverman
Evelyn Smith Gooden
1992
Mayor Norman Abramowitz
Mollie Charters
Lessie Lee Curry
Ruth Hoffmeister
Myrim “Mike” Levine
Florence B. Loss
Edith Pomerantz
Dorothy Schue
William B. Snyder
Gertude Weinberg
Ida Dixon Williams
1993
Sophie Berger
Edris Mae Cox
Beatrice Crystall
Nettie Gross
Ted Latimer
Bert Lichtenstein
Leonard Marcus
Nan Namiot
Hannah R. Schaeffer
Frances Scruggs
Sheila Steinberg
1994
Mildred Cleinman
Lucy Conca
Ethel Glass
Ida Kolber
Sid Marcus
Aaron Neuhaus
Anne Oler
Sylvia Schreiber
Shirley Sumner
Joe Welsh
Theodora Williams
1995
Elaine Appel
Bernard Bernhardt
Norman Birger
Comm. Constance Caloggero
Oscar Davis
Irving R. Friedman
Dr. Shirley Schaffer Kaufman
Eleanor Locascio
Juanita Phillips
Edward Pudaloff
Sybil Scheinman
1996
Shirley Berman
Marjorie A. Davis
Frank Ford
Rubye Haile Howell
E. Bentley Lipscomb
Audrey Millsaps
Deputy Mayor Dan Pearl
Joe Rosen
Jean Ross
Marc Sultanof
Comm. “Kitty” Tribault
Comm. “Trinchi” Trinchitella
Eula Williams
1997
Samuel Bonier
Pearl Canady
Daniel D. Cantor
Marie Antoinette Capazzi
Chris Franklin
Rickey Pine Garber
Nat Geier
Edith Schaffer Lederberg
David J. Mears
Angelo Quattrociocchi
Herman Small
Bertha Walker
Benjamin Wermiel
1998
Arnold Abbott
Ruth Forbes
Comm'r. Arnold & Joann Lanner
Evelyn Jones Lewis
Claire Mitchel
Estella May Moriarty
Lily Ann Olfern
Reuben Sperber
Jacob Stateman
Ira Subin
1999
Panchitta Chishom
Estelle Ernstoff
Mayor Sam Goldsmith
Max Klein
Bill Kling
Ellie Anderson Lawrence
Madolyn Markham
Hyman Moskowitz
Hattie Robinson
Marvin Simon
John R. (Jack) Washburn
2000
Hazel K. Armbrister
Abe Asofsky
Louis "Buddy" Dresner
Rosie Evans
Cy Gruberg, Ph.D
John L. Krause, O.D.
Hattie McKinzie
V.Mayor Larry Mishkin
Lorelei Pelaia
Harold Roth
Terry T. Sherman
2001
llo Cox
Sydney Dworkin
Flora Fasciani
Ena Henry
Edward Levy
Johnnie McCray
Elizabeth P. Scheuerman
Bert Soff
Lotte Stein
Ralph Weinstein
2002
Evelyn Denner
Clara Font
Joan Hinden
George Olfern
Casey Pollack
Sidney Spector
William Teague
Jack Tobin
Dr. H. Murray Todd
Ellyn F. Walters
2003
Elizabeth Avanzato
Mayor Jack Brady
Dr. Eloise McCoy-Cain
William M. Claxton
Ralph DiSanto
Jeanette Feder
Sol Kaiser
Al Kalina
Tony Salgado
Miriam Schuler
2004
Joan Barren
Comm'r. Wally Elfers
Comm'r. Samuel D. Goldstein
Evelyn Glasser
Edwin H. Hamilton, MD
Julia McElvy
Carmen McGarry
Selma Telles
Mary Warren
Francis "Duke" Wollschlager
2005
Vincent Ciardullo
Nathan "Nat" Goren
Jean Johnson
Betty Priscak
Betty Kaufman
Shirley Lewenberg
Mary Macomber
Rep. "Matt" Meadows
Esther Schneiderman
Shelly Spivack
Mary Todd
2006
Judith Armstrong
Reverend James Gooden
Frieda Kramer
Helen Landers
Marie Long
Robert Millikan
June Sragow
Shirley Strassler
Jean Thompson
Mayor Joseph Varsallone
Sunny Wein
2007
Dr. Kamala Anandam
Lucille D'Orso
Ron English
Elizabeth "Betty" Mate
Evelyn Miller
Pearl Monchek
Comm'r. Allegra
Webb Murphy
Sister Germana Sala
Charles Singer
Eleanor Sobel
2008
George Bisbikos
Mary Jane Bowen Graff
Sidney Feinberg
Edith Gooden-Thompson
Velma Hawthorne
Rev. Grant Lynn Ford
Dr. Henry "Hank" W. Mack
Marilyn Manning
PaulB.Snow
Lesley Tobin
Polly O. Wilkie
2009
Dorothy Arbogast
Mayor Samuel S. Brown
Joan Fink
Hazel Haas
Judy Henry
Mayor Judy Paul
Mayor Sylvia Poitier
Senator Nan H. Rich
Marcia Slow Sandler
Greta Silver
2010
Dorothy Fairweather
Gale and John Fontaine
Rachel Goldberg
Reverend Mae Griffin
Nat Gross
Comm'r. Ilene Lieberman
Chuck Nicholls
Frank Pumilia
Lucille Scruggs
Gladys Warner
2011
Joel S. Fass, Esq
Bea Hedigan
John Gargotta
Maria Thereza Mayo
Kenneth S. Rubin, Esq.
Mayor Emma Shoaff
Esmie Straw
Lora Thomson
Belle Trebuck
Dr. Steven Weisberg
Comm'r. Lois Wexler
2012
Alan Brass, CPA
Barbara Brathwaite
Catharine GeMeiner
Samuel S. Goren, Esq.
Rochelle Koenig
Paula Layne
Martha Myrick
Yvonne Siegrist
Philip Solomon
Comm'r. Becky Tooley
2013
Judge Arthur M. Birken
Rep. Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed
Josephine D'Espies
William 'Bill" Giroux
Pauline Grant
Sandy Harris
Dr. Robert "Bob" Levy
June & John McCarthy
John G. Primeau Margaret Reilly
2014
Margaret "Marnie" Allen
William "Bill" Edelstein
Rose Manni
Rita Martin
Carmen Morales
Anthony C. Musto
Soutien Peng
Jackie Rosen
Joseph "Joe" Schwartz
Lucy Stevens
Ilene Weisberg
2015
Eugene Andresen
Comm'r. Claudette Bruck
Dr. Abraham Fischler
Dino Georgiou
Comm'r. Diane Glasser
Lieut. Colonel Leo Gray
Luvonia McCray
Lori Parrish
Rona Silberman
Loretta Young
2016
Sandra K. Booth
Mitchell "Mitch" Ceasar
Commr. Sue Gunzburger
Mohsin Jaffer, MD
Marie Goodrum Johnson
George A. Kling, MD
Arlene Lakin, Esq.
Patti Lynn
Judge Ronald J. Rothschild
Jack Shifrel
2017
Karen Caputo
Vera Chuck
Patricia Crowley
Antoinette Galleta
Barbara Gordon
Norman & Sharon Saphier Grad
Gwen Major
Roberta Nazimovitz
Addie Sanders-Owens
John W. Jr. & Dorothy Ruffin
Barbara Beasley Williamson
Ilene Lieberman
Chuck Nicholls
Frank Pumilia
Lucille Scruggs
Gladys Warner
2018
Lillian Bergstein
Bruce A. Blitman, Esq.
Elizabeth Dawson
Shelly Greenberg
Ann Harsh
Comm'r. Caryl Hattan
Linda Houston Jones
Gary "Lee" Lawson
Julia Ruiz
Renee Smoley