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Volunteers Honored At St. Anthony Auxiliary Brunch

Photo: Award Winners for the 2019 Spring Award Banquet shown above include: Front row R-L: Sheryl Frehse, Susanne Brotherson, Marlene Wanniger, Mary Jo Steinkamp Back Row R-L:  Kaye Chambers, LeVan Eich, Kathy Luchtel, Mary Macke, Twilla Hoffman, Pat Sanders, Jan Potthoff, Bev Rolfes, Iola Hoogestraat

 

 

Two St. Anthony Regional Hospital Auxiliary volunteers were recently presented Lifetime Achievement awards and 364 others thanked for providing a total of 24,282 hours in 2018. Last week a brunch was held to celebrate the success of a year that saw 16 new members join and assist with manning the Auxiliary Coffee and Gift Shop, staffing the visitor and reception desk in the atrium and at the surgery center, providing clerical duties, coordinating community blood drives and presenting knitted and crocheted goods to new babies and other patients. Lifetime Achievement awards were given to Virginia Hagemann and Liz Snyder, who have each been active members for 25 years. The 2018 Volunteer of the Year award went to Pat Sanders. She was selected by her peers for the hours of service she has dedicated to the volunteer organization since 1988. She has donated her time to the nursing home, to Spiritual Care, the coffee shop, served as co-president for seven years and helped organize the annual Tour of Homes. Director of St. Anthony Development, Trish Roberts, addressed the auxiliary and thanked them all for the selfless giving they do each and every day. “Thank you to each volunteer for their service to St. Anthony and our community,” she said. “An accumulation of 445,442 volunteer hours, time and talent through 2018 shows the importance of each person who serves St. Anthony.”

 

Areas of volunteer service include:
Coffee and Gift Shop: 5,944 hours
Atrium Desk: 4,495 hours
Same Day Surgery Desk: 531 hours
Blood Bank Cookie Bakers: 142 hours
Bake Sales: 465 hours
Nursing Home: 701 hours
Hospice: 834 hours
Calling Committee: 148 hours
Silk Flower Arrangements/Gift Shop buyers: 267 hours
Mailings: 150 hours
Officers/Committee Meetings: 3,500 hours
Volunteers who knit or crochet blankets for newborns and prayer shawls, donated 13,568 hours of time to comfort patients and families at St. Anthony with handmade items.
Auxiliary Members receiving awards for cumulative hours of service:
100 Hours (patch): Susanne Brotherson, Susie Duncan, Sheryl Frehse, Gene Langel, Tricia Langel, Jeannine Muhlbauer, Dave Pederson, Alice Schenkelberg, Sylvia Schroeder, Bill Smith, Barb Snyder, Mary Jo Steinkamp, Dan Stoolman, Pat TanCreti,  Marlene Wanninger, Vern Weber, and Pat Zubrod
500 Hours (pin and bar): Kay Chambers, Shari Harrison, Katie Hoffman, Kathie Luchtel, and Marilyn Vonnahme
1,000 Hours (bar): Rosalyn Diers, Joe Gross, Katie Hoffman, Joanell Koster, Mary Macke, Marilou Topp, and Marilyn Vonnahme
2,000 Hours (bar): Dorothy Kanne, Judy Mayer, Deb Quandt, Verena Wittrock, and Catherine Wittry
3,000 Hours (bar): Wilma Boes and Twilla Hoffman
4,000 Hours (bar): Pat Sanders
5,000 Hours (bar): Jan Potthoff
6,000 Hours (bar): Bev Rolfes
7,000 & 8,000 Hours (bar); Betty Riesenberg
10,000 Hours (bar): Iola Hoogestraat
Lifetime Membership: Virginia Hagemann and Liz Snyder
Auxiliary officers recognized for their leadership were Past Presidents: Diane Hannasch, Pat Hill, Twilla Hoffman, Pat Louis, Mary Macke, Michele Phillips, Jan Potthoff, and Linda Wernimont, Carolyn Ehlers as Secretary and Judy Mayer as Treasurer.

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