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Hall of Fame |
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The Hall of Fame was established to
honor by chapter the "Best of the Best." The Pioneers honored here
have devoted countless hours to serving their communities with their
time and leadership. |
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James T. Norberg - 2009
1973 was the
year that Jim joined the Pioneers. Jim has served as life member
club president for several terms. He currently is the South
Ocean life member chaplain.
Jim volunteers with a group
that repairs Talking Book Machines for the Library of Congress
which supplies the machines to vision impaired individuals. He
serves monthly communion to clients in the Arcadia Nursing Home.
Jim spends his spare time telephoning, sending cards or
visiting people who are ill. For 18 years, Jim chaired a group
of co-workers who canvassed vendors on the streets of New York
for articles to be used at their monthly bingo games.
Jim
is a life member in the Little Egg Harbor VFW and is vice
president of AARP on Long Beach. Jim is a man who can't stop
helping people.
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Janice E Knodel - 2008
Janice has been a dedicated
Pioneer since the early 1970s. She was fundraiser for many
years, managing the Pioneer Store, and a member at large for
more than five years. As group representative, Janice was
responsible for getting information to all offices in the
council's area. Janice also served as life member affairs chair
and life member representative.
Janice, known to many as
"Noodles the Clown," helped establish the Clown Troop and was
its director for several years. For many years, "Noodles"
participated in Pioneering and community events for mentally and
physically challenged youth. This included Tournament of
Champions at McGuire Air Force Base and Day on the Bay boat
rides, games, food, and entertainment in Brigantine and several
shore cities. She also supported Camden County's Park Peach
Festival, helped with construction of the world's largest banana
split for Guinness Records Book, painted faces at Collingswood's
May Fair, participated in Making Strides Against Cancer Walk,
helped with St. Bartholomew School's Christmas stockings project
for homeless children in Cherry Hill, helped at physically and
mentally challenged youth Dance at St. John's of God, assisted
with a Luau Benefit to raise money for a much-needed elevator
for a Haddonfield family, and was instrumental in raising money
for an assist dog for a girl with muscular dystrophy. Janice
used her contacts with the Lutheran Brotherhood to have the
funds from all of our life member club's matched.
Janice
has been active with the Sports Jamboree for physically
challenged youth since it started in 1991, sometimes as a clown
but always as a clapper and support person. She participates in
environmental beach clean-ups in Brigantine and County Parks and
has served ice cream at the Scoopers kiosk at McGuire and
Millville Airports for several years. She collects cancelled
postage stamps and forwards them to the Eastern Star of NJ. They
prepare the stamps for sale to stamp dealers. The money raised
is given to Morristown School for the Blind to support the
upbringing of guide dogs for the blind. Janice helped with the
design and publishing of the Council's "Heart-Line" Newsletter.
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Joan Mahon
- 2007
Joan joined the Pioneers in 1969 and has served as chapter
president and chaired several committees for the council, club
and chapter. She currently serves as the chapter's Hug-A-Bear
chairperson. Joan has actively served as president of the
Trenton Life Member Club for many years. She has been the Sports
Jamboree Co-Chair for the past 15 years, is active in the
Prospect Heights Fire Ladies Auxiliary of Ewing, NJ, and is
president of Club D - Ewing Township Senior Club. She is a flea
market fundraiser for the Life Member Club and fundraises for
the Pancake Breakfast. Joan was the recipient of the Good
Citizen Award from Bell Atlantic and, earlier this year, she
received the Volunteer Award from Lore School and the Township
Board of Education. She was also recognized as the "Fire Lady of
the Month" from Mercer County Fire Ladies Auxiliary. As Pinkie
the Clown, Joan entertains children of every age at Pioneer
events as well as other community events. She also participates
in Dream Lift - a 6 a.m. lift-off at Trenton Mercer Airport with
the Make-a-Wish Foundation. She is always ready, willing and
able to do anything called upon. She is an excellent role model
for anyone interested in volunteering. Joan exemplifies the
Pioneer Spirit of "answering the call."
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Cynthia Douglas - 2006
While Cynthia has been a Pioneer member since 1990, she was
performing volunteer work for more than 20 years before she was
able to join. She has served as president of the Raritan Valley
Council as well as Community Service Chairperson. She is the
current vice president of the chapter. As a single mother of one
son, Cynthia has been involved for many years with the Boys
Scouts, Little Leagues, and PTAs. She has volunteered at Project
Graduation, Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, March of Dimes,
Sports Jamboree, Book About Me, Adopt A Highway, and Domestic
Violence Projects. She recruited and organized more than 100
Verizon Pioneers, family and friends for the September 11th
relief work. She has received the Verizon Excellence Award,
Pioneer of the year for 2001 and certificates of appreciation
from the Mayors of Perth Amboy and Plainfield. Cynthia’s
continued community involvement and volunteer work comes from
the heart and her passion for caring about others.
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 Olivia
Sandy - 2005
Olivia has served as club, council, and chapter
president, as well as life member representative. She is now the
chapter administrator and the current chapter treasurer. In 1991, Olivia
encouraged the chapter to embrace and complete its first Annual Sports
Jamboree. Fourteen years later, the event is still going strong. She is
always ready to volunteer at her club's fundraising events, luncheons and
at vendor sales. She has been involved with the Pioneer Annual Meeting in
Pittsburgh and has served as the entertainment chairperson for the New
Jersey Pioneers Reunion. Olivia is so actively involved that her fellow
Pioneers often forget that she is a life member.
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.JPG) Denise
Hodges and Group VP Steve Kohn - 2004
Denise served as chapter president, vice president,
council president and chapter membership chairperson. As chair of
the pioneer patriotism project she helped send 900 care pkgs to our
service men & women. She re-instated the chapter fundraising
letter for life members, which raised funds for the chapter. She
started the Edupack project & participated in the E-Map program. |
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 Albert F Schneider
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2003
Al has been a Pioneer for 29 years and within those years he has
held he following positions:
Chapter President, Vice President, Secretary and Auditor.
He also was on the General Assembly committee in Atlantic
City and Pittsburgh, and also was the assistant to the telephone
pioneer association President John Motusesty.
His specialty is construction and he helped construct Mini-Parks
throughout Southern New Jersey and worked on numerous community service
projects for physically handicapped children and adults.
In the past 5 years he personally co-ordinated and distributed a
total of more than 1200 I like me and A book about Me books to 68
classes of Kindergarten students in the Forked River, N.J. school
district.
He has received the Bell Atlantic Chairman’s award for gaining
the acceptance of the telephone Pioneers of America Association for the
proposal to restructure Pioneer Region 8 as a Bell Atlantic Pioneer
Region. |
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