The Philadelphia Award

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 awarded	1921 (1921) to Leopold Stokowski
Currently held by	Marsha Levick
Website	www.philadelphiaaward.org

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

Winners

• 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

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

• Official website