Junior League of Boca Raton celebrated volunteerism at 23rd Annual Woman Volunteer of the Year Luncheon 
 
Junior League of Boca Raton held the 2010 Woman Volunteer of the Year (WVOY) Luncheon and After Party on Friday, October 8, 2010 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.  This year, over 700 people attended the prestigious luncheon, which recognized 31 nominees from non-profit organizations throughout Palm Beach County for their dedication and expertise as volunteers.   Brooke Qualk from the Home Safe Foundation was named the 2010 Woman Volunteer of the Year.  This year the selection committee also chose a 2010 Life Time Achievement Recipient, Barbara Schmidt.  Congratulations!
 
Over the past 22 years, the Junior League of Boca Raton has helped recognize more than 450 women volunteers in the community through this event.  These women are nominated for making significant and noteworthy contributions to the lives of children, families, individuals and seniors within the community.
 
This year’s outstanding nominees were Bonnie Mason, American Red Cross South County Service Center; Laurie Udine, Boca Ballet Theatre; Margaret (“Peggy”) Jones, Boca Helping Hands; Elizabeth D. (Betsy) Fletcher, Boca Raton Historical Society; Sara Jo Kobacker, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Ann Ehrlich, Boca Raton Police Services Department; Linda L. Snelling, Caridad Center; Devina Kirpalani, C.R.O.S. Ministries; Debbie Leising, Debbie-Rand Memorial Service League, Inc.; Lynn Hover, Florence Fuller Child Development Centers; Sharon Higerd, 4Kids of South Florida, Inc.;  Pam Casanave, George Snow Scholarship Fund; Helen Bass, Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County; Margi Cross, Hospice by the Sea, Inc.; Vicki Rautbord, Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation; Paula Ciavolino, ItsJust4Kids, Inc.; Judy Levis Markhoff, Jewish Association for Residential Care (JARC); Dorothy C. MacDiarmid, Junior League of Boca Raton; Maggie Dickenson, Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County; Karen Hoffheimer, Louis and Anne Green Memory & Wellness Center; Susie Roegiers, Milagro Center; Casey Cole, Nat King Cole Generation Hope; Dorinda Spahr, National Society of Arts & Letters/Boca Raton-South FL Chapter; Esther Uria LaBovick, PACE Center for Girls; Cynthia Brown, Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park; Cynthia Cummings, Soroptimist International of Boca Raton/Deerfield Beach; Janyce Speier, SOS Children's Villages – Florida; Barbara Schmidt, Spirit of Giving Network; Louise Levinson, The Volen Senior Center.  Congratulations!
 
The Junior League of Boca Raton was proud to have the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation on board for the second consecutive year as the Presenting Sponsor of the Junior League of Boca Raton’s Woman Volunteer of the Year Award.  
 
JLBR was also pleased to have the long-standing partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue continue as the Luncheon’s Fashion Show and After-party sponsor.  Additional sponsors included Presenting Sponsor -- The Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation; GOLD Sponsor – The Kazma Family Foundation; GOLD Community Partner –Rendon Center for Dermatology & Aesthetic Medicine; SILVER Sponsors – Elaine Wold, Peggy Henry, The David and Lucy Craske Long Family Giving Fund, and the Schmidt Family Foundation; BRONZE Sponsors – Kathy and Paul Adkins and Cendyn; GRAND PATRON Sponsors – Northern Trust, Denise Elia, Kate Obstgarten Family Foundation, Babione Funeral Home, Marta Batmasian, Denise & Jordan Zimmerman, Karen & Jay Foreman, Pat Thomas, Printz & Feenie Families, and The Wyndham Boca Raton Hotel; PATRON sponsor – Comerica Bank; Media Sponsor – Boca Raton Magazine; Chandelier Table sponsors – Boca by Design and Capitol Lighting; Champagne Sponsors - Brewzzi and Palm Bay Imports.