Once again, people packed the community center
’s largest room Saturday night, to honor Morgan Hill’s most
productive volunteers.
Once again, people packed the community center’s largest room Saturday night, to honor Morgan Hill’s most productive volunteers.
“It was a great turnout,” said Sunday Minnich, Chamber executive director. “We had 240 guests, 60 more than last year.”
She said her team has received a lot of compliments on the evening, especially the way the program was paced. At the 2003 ceremony and dinner, speakers introducing winners and the winners themselves were limited to three minutes each. This year speakers had more leeway.
It was a good thing too since it would have been difficult to mention even a partial list what the honorees do for their communities in three minutes. And, if three minutes were the limit, the audience would have missed hearing about the intricacies of the “Yo-Yo Sisters,” a group sprung from Woman of the Year Daryl Manning’s Leadership Morgan Hill class.
The audience would also have missed David Bischoff’s round up of “The Tales of Peter Anderson,” that Bischoff had gleaned from Anderson friends everywhere. And they would have missed most of Anderson’s philosophy of life.
The Chamber of Commerce has chosen – with help from secret nominations – volunteers of the year beginning in 1958 with a single Citizen of the Year and expanding in 2004 to Man, Woman, Student, Educator, Volunteer and Large and Small Business of the Year.
One rather poignant moment during the ceremony saw as many past winners as were present crowd onto the Hiram Morgan Hill Room stage. It was full, though not as full as it might have been without the 2003 loss of John Moreno, 1960 and Ken Tougas, 1999.
