Jane Quercia, Volunteer Grief Support Services Facilitator, Samaritans Jane Quercia, currently Samaritans’ Grief Support Services Facilitator, has been a Samaritans volunteer since 1988, the year after she lost a brother and close friend to suicide. While driving to the Cape, she saw a billboard about Samaritans and decided to try volunteering. For the past 34 years, Jane has continued her …
2022 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient Wildflower
Debbie Whitehill, Volunteer, Wildflower Debbie Whitehill has been with Wildflower since the beginning and has played a pivotal role in the creation of Wildflower’s program model. She has continued as an active Board member for the last 18 years. As a professional social worker, she provided clinical support and referrals to families, and was one of the first to look …
2022 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient Runway for Recovery
Emily Cohen, Volunteer for Runway for Recovery, MA Driven by the personal desire to give back to a cause that dramatically changed her own life, Emily Cohen has taken it upon herself to mentor and coach a 14-year-old Runway for Recovery grantee, Athena, whose mother died from breast cancer. Emily has gone above and beyond for this young woman, as …
2022 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient JP
Dan and Joan Scott, Volunteers for Jeff’s Place, Framingham Dan and Joan Scott turned to Jeff’s Place to begin their healing journey when their son Danny died in 2014, at the age of 20. After they graduated from the bereavement program, they immediately turned their grief to action and kicked off years of volunteer support for Jeff’s Place. Dan first …
2020 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient
Apropos of the award’s namesake, the Parmenter Board of Trustees bestowed the 2020 Grace Johnson Volunteer Appreciation Award to Grace Chen, a Camp Casco volunteer. In 2015, Grace first volunteered as a camp counselor at Camp Casco, where she immediately brought limitless energy and enthusiasm to enriching the lives of children who were enduring or had battled cancer. She made …
2019 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipients
Shown in the photos left to right are: Judy Mongiardo and Laraine Marthinsen from Family Promise Metrowest; Ginny Berzin and Rebecca Wendler from Miriam Boyd Parlin Hospice Residence For the first time, The Parmenter Foundation Board of Trustees was pleased to present two extraordinary volunteers, Laraine Marthinsen of Natick, MA and Ginny Berzin of Cambridge, MA with the Grace …
2018 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient
Shown in the photo left to right are: Laurie Hojlo, Ami Danoff, Andrew Kuan, Sue Kuan, Michael Halloran The Parmenter Foundation Awards Wayland’s Sue Kuan with the Grace Johnson Volunteer Appreciation Award for her dedication to the Parmenter Food Pantry. Established in 2005, the award is given annually to an outstanding volunteer from a Parmenter Foundation grantee organization. “I …
2017 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient
Shown in the photo from left to right are: Stuart Hamilton, Gail-Ann Simon, The Parmenter Foundation Trustees; Dr. David Bechtel, Medical Director of the MetroWest Free Medical Program; Nancy Carapezza, The Parmenter Foundation Trustee; Michael Halloran, Executive Director, The Parmenter Foundation. The Parmenter Foundation Presents Dr. David Bechtel, Medical Director of the MetroWest Free Medical Program, with The Grace Johnson …
2016 Grace Johnson Volunteer Award Recipient
Shown in the photo left to right: Michael Halloran, Executive Director, The Parmenter Foundation; Catherine Nicholson, award recipient; Tom Travers, Co-Chair, Board of Trustees, The Parmenter Foundation. Weston Resident Catherine Nicholson Receives The Parmenter Foundation’s Annual Grace Johnson Volunteer Appreciation Award Catherine Nicholson, a resident of Weston, is the 2016 recipient of The Parmenter Foundation’s Grace Johnson Volunteer Appreciation Award. …
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