“Volunteers Meet the Challenge”- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
“Volunteers Meet the Challenge”- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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May 16, 2000
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“Volunteers Meet the Challenge”
Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s over 800 volunteers were thanked in a special ceremony entitled “Volunteers Meet the Challenge,” held on May 4 in the Bornstein Family Amphitheater. In addition to addressing and thanking all of BWH’s volunteers, the five Volunteers of the Year—Yvonne Allen, Leonard Einstein, Edna Liberman, Janet Kessin, and Julie Von Lambsdorff—were presented with plaques of congratulations. Nelda Quigley, director, Volunteer and Community Access Services, likened the presence of the volunteers to the guidance that Sacajawea gave to Lewis and Clark during their historic expedition into western America. “In this place of incredible accomplishment and prestige, sometimes we have intermediaries who just appear in the nick of time—to show the way, to reassure, to assist in powerful but very simple ways,” said Quigley. “Your presence here is vital to helping patients and families and our staff, to meet their respective challenges.”