The YMCA of Greater Montgomery presented their 73rd Person of the Year Banquet at Trinity Presbyterian Church on December 10. The YMCA Person of the Year Leadership Committee is comprised of students from various local high schools acting in the Youth in Government Clubs from the Montgomery area. The Person of the Year Leadership Committee was co-led by Montgomery Catholic Preparatory Schools seniors Anna Lathram, Isabell Shin, and Bebe Neeley, who also served as the event emcee.
Each of the Montgomery YMCA locations and several high school Youth in Government Clubs nominate local individuals each fall who have given of their time and talent to youth development and community service in the River Region. Nominees for the Person of the Year award are scored according to their exceptional service to youth, level of YMCA Board and committee work, the originality of their service, church leadership, and professional leadership. Pairs of students from the Person of the Year Leadership Committee present each nominee for Person of the Year at the annual banquet.
Montgomery Catholic students presented three of the 15 nominees for this prestigious award. Representing Montgomery Catholic’s Youth in Government Club, Anna Rose Schwarz and Molly Turner presented Mr. Terry Barber. On behalf of the Cleveland Avenue YMCA Branch, Madelyn Stringer and Hannah Grace Zaworski presented Dwayne Farrior, and representing the Kershaw YMCA Branch, Mary Eden Rall and Claire Aaron presented Carmen Moore-Zeigler as a nominee for the 2024 Person of the Year.
The YMCA of Greater Montgomery’s 2024 Person of the Year was awarded to Mr. Hank Hutchinson, nominated by YMCA Camp Chandler, for his decades-long faithful service to the YMCA of Greater Montgomery and its many programs.
Pictured: YMCA Person of the Year Banquet Co-Chairpersons and Montgomery Catholic seniors Isabella Shin, Anna Lathram, and Bebe Neeley with Mr. Hank Hutchinson 2024 YMCA Person of the Year. Photo credit: YMCA of Greater Montgomery
