YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles Golden Book of Distinguished Service celebrates volunteers who have given of themselves through service of exceptional length, intensity, and continuity.
YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles Golden Book of Distinguished Service celebrates volunteers who have given of themselves through service of exceptional length, intensity, and continuity.
A tradition that dates back to 1934, the Golden Book Award is an honor reserved for volunteers who have shown extraordinary leadership, commitment, devotion to service, and loyalty to the Y and its core values. Recognition comes in the form of a printed document: One copy is presented to the honoree, another to the branch for prominent display, and a third permanently bound in the Book itself which now holds the names of 357 of our most precious volunteers.
Golden Book Awardees have volunteered their time and experience, making a difference year after year, as true champions of the Y. By means of these volunteer efforts, we are continuously strengthening our communities, improving the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors.
* Herbert A. Ecclestone 1938 DT
* Al S. Keller 1955 EVal
* Ross S. Burghardt 1958 MVal
* Vernon D. Farquhar 1958 Hyd
* Frode B. Kilstofte 1958 Wilc
* Willis H. Merrill 1959 Ga-Wilc
Herbert J. Powell 1960 DT-Met
* C. C. Gabrielson 1964 Met
* John V. Spielman 1967
* L. B. Harbour, Jr. 1969 Met
Donald Tillman 1969
* O. H. Oltmans 1972 S.Pas-SM
* Richard C. Simpson 1972 Met
* Joseph D. Gottwald 1980 Met-WVal
Douglas Herbst 2003
*Hugh MacLean, M.D. 1949
*Claude A. Wayne 1956
*Milo B. Brooks, M.D. 1961
*Cyril A. Elliot, DDS 1961
James A. Collins 1977 Met
Robert C. Evans 1983
*Lewis R. Stroh 1984
Terry R. White 1990
W. Edgar Jessup, Jr. 1998
Donn B. Conner 2006
Todd Katz 2009
Cathy Hession 2012
Don Park 2014
Dana Perel Katz 2016
Mee Semcken 2018
Phil Starr 2020
* Fred A. Nichols 1952 S.W.
* Emery S. Petty 1968
* Lloyd H. Olson 1976 Gar-S.W.
Elmer W. Douglas 1983 * Genevieve Shepherd 2005
* Warren F. Betts 1959
* Ray E. Haddock 1959
* Adolph Steller 1961
* Eugene L. Mueller 1971
* A. Paul Adamson 1972
* Edward L. Juline 1975
* Harrison F. Betts 1979
* H. Dale Jones 1982
Jan C. Mennig 1985
Ron Coombs 1991
Ken & Jozelle Smith 1995
Paul A. Netzel 1998
Sue Bowles 2005
Andy Weissman 2017
Mike Snell 2020
*Hubert L. Sundman 1938 S.E.
*T. S. Fisher 1949
*William J. Wright 1964
*E. H. Clark, Jr. 1966 Met
*James L. Stamps 1967
*Le Grande Coates, Jr. 1980
*William J. Zacker, Jr. 1981
*George/*Thelma Anderson 1982
*Jack E. Robinson 1985
*Rosemary Ferraro 1989
Ronald A. Kolar 1992
Jim Derry 1997
*Bob Armstrong 2000
Tod Corrin 2004
Edward Earl 2007
Steve Roberson 2020
*George J. Lund, M.D. 1934 SFV
*Herbert A. Ecclestone 1938 Camp
*Morris B. Pendleton 1956 Met
*Ralph J. Herrcke 1958
*Leo D. Gatlin 1958 Met
Herbert J. Powell 1960 Ca-Met
*Wallace P. Weirick 1971 S.Pas-SM
*L. LeRoy Crandall 1972 Met
* Darrell J. Bogardus 1974 Met
*Al S. Keller 1955 Camp
*Charles L. Blanchard 1965
*Russell F. Amrhein 1968
*George E. Doty, M.D. 1971
*Frederic M. Hoblit 1978
Greg Meyer 2017 Mid WV
*James H. Gates 1959
*Willis H. Merrill 1959 Ca-Wilc
*Thomas W. Mills 1964
*Roy E. Tracey 1968
*James J. Mueller 1971
*Lloyd H. Olson 1976 S.W.-CRN
*Henry Ishida 1979 Camp
Ray Harbold 1981
Sam Fujimoto 1984
*Brice Geisert 1990
Edmund J. Russ 1991
*William Ward 2001
Lindsay Olson 2004
*John P. Buckley, DDS 1934
*William H. Snyder 1934
*Charles H. Keck 1935
*Henry G. Lyman 1937
*M. Floyd Palmer 1937 Met
*T. Harwood Young 1950
Walter H. Yerkes 1955 S.W.
*Vernon D. Farquhar 1958 Camp
*E. J. Shurtz 1959 Met
*Kenton D. Keilholtz 1961
*Art Linkletter 1961
*Herbert A. Bailey 1962
*Harlan Palmer 1967
*Vernon P. Holmes 1968
*Floyd W. Lyman 1971
*Lenox C. Day 1972
*Ray M. Dewey 1976
*George M. Morgan 1977
*Hugh R. Foley 1981
*Fred & *Madeleine Arnold 1983
*Frank M. Weeks 1986
Frank Bator 2003
Keitha K. Scott, MD 2006
David Almaraz 2021
Hermanita Harris 2002
John B. Power 2001 Met
Paul H. Fieberg 2007 Met
Bruce DePriester 2015
*George J. Lund, M.D. 1934 DT
*G. Walter Monroe 1937
*Ross S. Burghardt 1958 Camp
*S. R. Mercer, Jr. 1964
*Robert S. Fuller 1966
*Harold E. White 1968
Dr. Robert J. Ellery 1971
*Darby H. Dreis 1974
Loy L. White 1977
Willis H. Daggs 1980 W-Val
Irene Slater 1980
*Mark A. Cruz 1987
Edward B. Kahlenberg 1989
* Mike Rubell 1994
*Flip Smith 2004
Eliseo Gauna 2009
Greg Meyer 2017
*Ralph J. Arey 1937
Elmer (Mac) Jesse 1969
*Joseph C. Freeland 1971
William L. Sprague, MD 1975
*John A. Gabriel 1977
*Cathy Hensel 1979
Stuart S. Rough 1982
Irene Lopez 1987
Philip Wagner 1993
*Elaine Kirchner 1998
Richard Adams 2002
Ralph & Carol Hansen 2008
* Ruth Aldaco 2010
*Asa C. Burbidge 1960
*John R. Schutte 1962
*James Barnet 1966
*John C. Holland 1967
*Robert Moffitt 1969
*Thomas C. Schumacher 1975 Hyd
*Dr. Richard J. Whiting 1982
*Bob Roberts 1985
Robert Wilson 1988
*Hardiman Fowler 1951
*David T. Ward 1962
Sam Vaccarello 1965
*Camillo A. Galieti 1976
Stanley Bryant, Jr. 1986
* Jean Sanesi 1989
Greig Smith 2002
*Sondra Frohlich 2008
Mike Terhar 2011
John Trent 2015
Robert J. Carlson 2018
*Telford Work 1972
*Mrs. Anna Lee May 1975
*James A. Mercer 1978
* Everett W. Maguire 1990
Robert Sawyer 1998
Michael Martini 2003
Chris Sherman 2012
*Ray Mitchell 1937
*Harry F. Phillips 1951
*A. W. Warnock, M.D. 1954
*Jesse L. Bloch, M.D. 1958
*Elton C. Spires, DDS 1960
*Roy J. Becker 1961
*William S. Baldwin 1965
*Donald H. Earl, M.D. 1967
*Gilbert C. Van Camp, Jr. 1971
Ralph & Dorothy Hollingsworth 1974
*Ted C. Springfield 1976
*Joanne R. Bezich 1978
*Eugene Voorhees 1979
Murray H. Hutchison 1984 Met
John R. Woodhull 1990 Met
* Alan Scharff 1994
* Bent Davies 1999
Jeff DuRocher 2005
Robert Trujillo 2010
Art McAllister 2014
Michele Bignardi 2018
John W. “Jack” Alden Jr. 2021
Phillip A. Johnson 1987
*John S. Fuller 1991
*David Prior 1994
John O’Connell 2017
*Herbert L. Sundman 1938 Do
*Fred J. Bluemle 1950
*Otto R. Benedict 1954
*Maurice J. Sopp 1960
*Verne C. Crowl, M.D. 1962
*Donald R. Morrison 1964
*Arthur W. Sandberg 1965
*William T. Fields 1966
*Lynn C. Layton 1966
*Wilbur A. Lunday 1967
*Harmon S. Wilkinson 1967 S.W.-Met
*Homer O. Cotton 1972
*Raymond P. Jackson 1977
*Alvin R. Pratt 1981
*Lester Jaycox, Jr. 1989
Harold G. Frentz 1993
Randy Sopp 1997
Jose R. Zepeda 2016
*Roy P. Crocker 1969 Met
*Wallace P. Weirick 1971 Do
*O. H. Oltmans 1972 Camp
*Frederic D. Blair 1975
*Herbert H. Stark, M.D. 1978
*Margaret A. Whitman 1988
Gary D. Penn 1996
Richard Durant 2004
*Albert H. Goering 2006
Scott Alexander 2013
*Rollin R. Smith, D.V.M. 1963
* Wing Y. Mar, M.D. 1968
Leonard F. Kane 1971
*Eugene E. Bourbonnais 1978
Wendell Harter 1980
Ronald F. Day 1982
David H. Mitchell 1985
Karl Walther 1988
Bill Applegate 1992
John McGee 1997
Arnold C. Plank 2000
Gerald J. Marcil 2008
Ray Frew 2012
Bill Oberholzer 2013
Heidi A. Ashcraft 2016
Tim McDonald 2019
*Albert Baumann 1935
*William Bowers 1935
*S. A. Coffin 1937
*L. G. Robinson 1937
*Lorenzo Bowdoin 1960
*Norman O. Houston 1963
*William R. Freeman 1966
*James H. Shackleford 1968
*William H. Bailey 1974
*Lee G. Lancaster 1976
*Kenneth Morris 1979
Andrew Smith 1980
*Ruth Washington 1984
Dove Pinkney 1993
Clifford L. Johnson 1994
Walter L. Burgess 1996
Gilbert R. Vasquez 1988 Met
* Frank J. Quevedo 1995
Bill Torres 2011
Gil Guzman 2014
*Walter L. Gunn 1934 Met
*Fred A. Nichols 1952 Cren
*Walter H. Yerkes 1955 Hyd
*F. Herman Mayer 1956
*Thomas M. Stacey 1964
*Archie H. Davison 1965
*Harmon S. Wilkinson 1967 S.E.
*Raymond Vandruff 1969
*Lloyd H. Olson 1976 Cr-Gar
*Lula Hutchison 1992
*Fuller Glover 1993
John Sanders 1999
Keith Eaton 2010
*Molly B. Baker, M.D. 1962
*Charles E. Cleminshaw 1965
*Jerry Fine 1967
*Charles E. Bemis, M.D. 1969
*Arthur F. Gardner 1974 Met
*Bill Baker 1976
*Hugo A. Francis 1977
* Kenneth Westlake 1981
*Clyde U. Grant, Jr. 1983
*Dr. George F. Smith 1985
Martha Choi 1987
*Shirley Pfeil 1991
*Dr. James Horst 1992
*Robert Dillen 1995
*Robert Neece 1999
*Alan & Mary Ellen Cassman 2001
*Robert Prather 2003
Mike Arias 2012
Robert Abernethy 2019
*Hugh MacLean, M.D. 1949
*Claude A. Wayne 1956
*Milo B. Brooks, M.D. 1961
*Cyril A. Elliot, DDS 1961
James A. Collins 1977 Met
Robert C. Evans 1983
*Lewis R. Stroh 1984
Terry R. White 1990
W. Edgar Jessup, Jr. 1998
Donn B. Conner 2006
Todd Katz 2009
Cathy Hession 2012
Don Park 2014
Dana Perel Katz 2016
Mee Semcken 2018
William H. Grant 1964
Ray Metcalf 1966
*Harrison W. Gralow 1974 El Cam
William C. Richie 1974
*Michael G. Titus 1976
*Robert L. Eichelberger 1978
Willis H. Daggs 1980 M-Val
*Joseph D. Gottwald 1980 Met/Camp
Richard J. Halpin 1983
Frederick A. Vincent 1986
Ray Morser 1996
*James Johnson 2000
Greg Meyer 2017
Ralph Drengson 2021
*Frode B. Kilstofte 1958 Camp
*Willis H. Merrill 1959 Camp-Ga
*Robert J. Doran 1968
*John D. McLaren 1975
Lucia Moreno-Linares 2015
Cecilia Moreno 2020
*Joseph A. Hartley 1937 Met
*J. B. Doan 1947 Met
*Harold F. Whittle 1948 Met
*E. Llewellyn Overholt 1951 Met
*Anson H. Rees 1956
*John M. Fernald, M.D. 1966
* Max L. Green, Jr. 1969 Met
Bert Lane 1977
* Stuart M. Ketchum 1978 Met
*Dawne P. Goodwin 1981
*David G. Overholt 1984
*Franklin F. Moulton 1985
*Frank E. Eckhart 1934
*Walter L. Gunn 1934 S.W.
*C.I.D. Moore 1934
*James G. Warren 1934
*Joseph A. Hartley 1937 Wils
*M. Floyd Palmer 1937 Hyd
*Curtis S. Albro 1938
*J. B. Doan 1947 Wils
*Arch W. Anderson 1948
*George Pepperdine 1948
*Paul Shoup 1948
*Harold F. Whittle 1948 Wils
*Ernest F. Bent 1949
*Clifford C. Hine 1951
*E. Llewellyn Overholt 1951 Wils
*William S. Porter 1952
*James A. Brogdon 1953
*A. J. Gock 1954
*George Hjelte 1954
*Warren H. Crowell 1955
*Morris B. Pendelton 1956 Dtn
*Leo D. Gatlin 1958 Dtn
*E. J. Shurtz 1959 Hyd
*Clair L. Peck, Jnr. 1960
*Herbert J. Powell 1960 Camp-Dtn
*Art Linkletter 1961 Hyd
*John C. Cosgrove 1963
*Prentis C. Hale 1963
*Paul W. Easton 1964
*C. C. Gabrielson 1964 Camp
*Harrison Chandler 1965
*J. S. Fluor 1965
*E. H. Clark, Jr. 1966 Downey
*Waller Taylor, II 1966
*Harold A. Wagner 1966
*Harmon S. Wilkinson 1967
*Roy P. Crocker 1969 S.Pas-SM
*Max L. Green, Jr. 1969 Wils
*L. B. Harbour, Jr. 1969 Camp
*Richard C. Simpson 1972 Camp
*Glenn E. Wallichs 1972
*L. LeRoy Crandall 1972 Dtn
*Darrell J. Bogardus, Jr. 1974 Dtn
*Charles F. Edwards 1974
* Arthur
*Dudley E. Browne 1975
*Lorne W. Bell 1975
*Rodgers Donaldson 1976
*Michael G. Titus 1976 W-Val
James A. Collins 1977 WSide
Stuart M. Ketchum 1978 Wils
*Charles W. Jacobson 1978
Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. 1979
*Joseph D. Gottwald 1980 Camp/W-Val
*William R. Craig 1984
Murray H. Hutchison 1984 San Pedro
*Lewis R. Stroh 1984 WSide
Gilbert R. Vasquez 1988 East LA
John R. Woodhull 1990 San Pedro
*Morgan Adams, Jr. 1993
John G. Ouellet 1994
*John E. Anderson 1995
*Frederick Llewellyn 1995
*Leonard H. Straus 1996
*Nancy B. Munger 1997
John B. Power 2001 Ketchum
Dick Poladian 2005
Robert J. Lowe 2009
Larry M. Rosen 2010
W. J. Ellison 2013
*Franklin Ulf 2016
John Llewellyn 2018
Cristina Rose 2019
* Deceased
