The Philadelphia Award

Award given to citizens of Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Award

Awarded for| Given each year to a citizen of the Philadelphia region who, during the preceding year, acted and served on behalf of the best interests of the community.
Presented by|

* Edward William Bok (1921-1930)
* Board of Trustees of The Philadelphia Award (1930–current)

First award| 1921 (1921) to Leopold Stokowski
Currently held by| Estelle B. Richman
Website| www.philadelphiaaward.org

The Philadelphia Award is an annual prize given to a Philadelphia resident for community service.

## Winners

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* 2024 - Estelle B. Richman
* 2023 - Sharmain Matlock-Turner
* 2021 - Margaux Murphy
* 2020 - Ala Stanford
* 2020 - Brian L. Roberts
* 2019 - Rev. Luis Cortés, Jr.
* 2019 - Nicole Kligerman
* 2019 - Amy J. Goldberg
* 2018 - Sylvester Mobley
* 2017 - Mel Heifetz
* 2016 - Charles L. Blockson[1]
* 2015 - Marsha Levick
* 2014 - Kenneth Gamble
* 2014 - Suzanne & Ralph Roberts
* 2013 - Leigh & John Middleton
* 2012 - Carl H. June, MD
* 2011 - Aileen K. Roberts & Joseph Neubauer
* 2010 - Alice S. Bast
* 2009 - Joan Myers Brown
* 2008 - H. Fitzgerald Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest
* 2007 - Marciene Mattleman
* 2006 - Leonore Annenberg
* 2005 - Paul R. Levy
* 2004 - Gloria Guard
* 2003 - Judith Rodin
* 2002 - Lorene Cary
* 2001 - Bernard C. Watson
* 2000 - Ernesta D. Ballard
* 1999 - Cecilia Moy Yep
* 1998 - Graham S. Finney
* 1997 - Anne d'Harnoncourt
* 1997 - Jane Golden
* 1996 - Arlin Adams
* 1995 - Edward G. Rendell
* 1995 - John F. Street
* 1994 - Jeremy Nowak
* 1993 - The Hon. Walter H. Annenberg
* 1992 - Denise Scott-Brown & Robert Venturi
* 1991 - Sr. Mary Scullion, RSM
* 1990 - Herman Mattleman
* 1989 - Hilary Koprowsky
* 1988 - G. Stockton Strawbridge
* 1987 - Elaine Brown
* 1986 - Willard G. Rouse III
* 1985 - Rev. Paul M. Washington
* 1984 - Jennifer A. Allcock
* 1983 - Edmund N. Bacon
* 1982 - Carolyn L. Johnson
* 1981 - Edwin Wolf II
* 1980 - William M. Sample
* 1979 - Robert Austrian
* 1978 - Michael J. Sherman & Stephen Shutt
* 1977 - R. Stewart Rauch
* 1976 - Jonathan E. Rhoads
* 1975 - Robert W. Crawford
* 1975 - Perry C. Fennell, Jr.
* 1975 - Melvin Floyd
* 1975 - John C. Haas
* 1975 - Ruth W. Hayre
* 1975 - Floyd L. Logan
* 1975 - Sol Schoenbach
* 1975 - Irving W. Shandler
* 1974 - William Henry Hastie
* 1973 - Ruth Patrick
* 1972 - J. Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
* 1971 - Franklin C. Watkins
* 1970 - Louis I. Kahn
* 1969 - Eugene Ormandy
* 1968 - Marcus Albert Foster
* 1967 - Richardson Dilworth
* 1966 - Lessing J. Rosenwald
* 1965 - Rev. Leon H. Sullivan
* 1964 - Gaylord P. Harnwell
* 1963 - John H. Gibbon, Jr.
* 1962 - George W. Taylor
* 1961 - Edwin O. Lewis
* 1960 - Allston Jenkins
* 1959 - Harry A. Batten
* 1958 - Helen C. Bailey
* 1957 - Catherine Drinker Bowen
* 1956 - Isidor S. Ravdin
* 1955 - Joseph S. Clark, Jr.
* 1954 - Esmond R. Long
* 1953 - George Wharton Pepper
* 1952 - Francis Bosworth
* 1951 - Franklin H. Price
* 1950 - Fiske Kimball
* 1949 - Frederick H. Allen[2]
* 1947 - Samuel S. Fels
* 1946 - Maurice B. Fagan & Marjorie Penney
* 1945 - Owen J. Roberts
* 1944 - William Draper Lewis
* 1943 - James M. Skinner
* 1942 - William Loren Batt
* 1940 - Marian Anderson
* 1939 - Thomas Sovereign Gates
* 1938 - Rufus M. Jones & Clarence Pickett
* 1937 - Alfred Newton Richards
* 1936 - George W. Wilkins
* 1935 - Francis Fisher Kane
* 1934 - Charles M.B. Cadwalader
* 1933 - Lucy Langdon Wilson
* 1932 - Earl D. Bond
* 1931 - The Unknown Citizen
* 1930 - Paul Philippe Cret
* 1929 - Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack)
* 1928 - Eli Kirk Price
* 1927 - W. Herbert Burk
* 1926 - Chevalier Jackson
* 1925 - Samuel Yellin
* 1924 - Charles C. Harrison
* 1923 - Samuel S. Fleisher
* 1922 - Russell H. Conwell
* 1921 - Leopold Stokowski

## References

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1. ^ "Scholar Charles Blockson receives 2016 Philadelphia Award". 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
2. ^ "FREDERICK ALLEN, PHYSICIAN, 73, DIES; Child Psychiatrist Once Led Philadelphia Guidance Clinic". New York Times. January 17, 1964. Retrieved January 17, 2021.

## External links

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* Official website