The Philadelphia Award

Award given to citizens of Philadelphia

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