The Philadelphia Award Explained

The Philadelphia Award
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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.
Year:	to Leopold Stokowski
Holder:	Marsha Levick

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

Notes and References

Web site: Scholar Charles Blockson receives 2016 Philadelphia Award. 4 April 2017 . 4 April 2017.
News: FREDERICK ALLEN, PHYSICIAN, 73, DIES; Child Psychiatrist Once Led Philadelphia Guidance Clinic . . January 17, 1964 . January 17, 2021.