To honor them, the senior-serving nonprofit Avenidas and the Palo Alto Weekly will host a special garden party at a local home on Sunday, May 21, from 3-5 p.m. Tickets for this public event are $125, with proceeds benefiting Avenidas’ programs for older adults throughout the area. For tickets and more information, visit avenidas.org. Those who cannot attend, can make a gift in honor of one of this year’s honorees.
Read on for profiles of each honoree:
Lifetimes of Achievement honorees Peter Carpenter, right, and Jane Shaw, right, in Palo Alto on Feb. 6, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
This couple’s revolutionary work changed the pharmaceuticals industry
Peter Carpenter and Jane Shaw Carpenter have made significant contributions to the greater community through their pharmaceutical research and philanthropy work. That motion sickness patch people wear behind their ears is the invention of Jane Shaw Carpenter. And that informed consent form for patients that is now standard with many pharmaceuticals was a model developed by Peter Carpenter for the distribution of intrauterine devices.
Read Peter Carpenter and Jane Shaw Carpenter’s story.
Lifetimes of Achievement honoree Anne Warner Cribbs in Palo Alto on Feb. 6, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Former Olympian launched country’s first female basketball league
For Anne Warner Cribbs, everything comes down to one goal: Get to the finish line. Her identity as an Olympic swimmer and athlete shapes the lens with which she views most of her projects. Cribbs, a graduate of Stanford University, won a gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games and competed on the relay team that won a gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960. Over the decades, Cribbs’ contributions to Palo Alto and the greater community has extended well-beyond the Olympic pool. She’s been the driving force working behind the scenes to create many community traditions that residents now enjoy.
Read Anne Warner Cribbs’ story.
Lifetimes of Achievement honoree Loretta Green in Palo Alto on Feb. 6, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Raised in the segregated South, this journalist became ‘the voice’ of early Silicon Valley
For decades, Loretta Green was the voice of the community, writing human-interest columns that reflected the pulse of the Midpeninsula while working as a journalist, using her unique perspective as a wife, mother and Black female who grew up in segregation. Her contributions to Palo Alto, however go well beyond her career as a writer.
Read Loretta Green’s story.
Lifetimes of Achievement honoree Karen Ross in Palo Alto on Feb. 6, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Her love of cooking and science became the recipe for helping cardiac patients recover
Karen Ross admits she likes to read nutrition journals for fun. While a bit unconventional, her reading list might not be as unusual as one thinks: Ross has spent much of her life educating cardiac patients on heart-healthy eating.
Read Karen Ross’ story.
Lifetimes of Achievement honoree Roger Smith in Palo Alto on Feb. 6, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Former bank founder who shook up tech lending now helps victims navigate the court system
For five decades, Roger Smith has been making Palo Alto a better place. He has worked as founding president and CEO of a major bank, created multiple nonprofits, run for city council and volunteered to support numerous causes. Through his nonprofit Mothers Against Murder, he helps families of murder victims navigate the justice system and also get compensated for funeral and burial expenses.
Read Roger Smith’s story.
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