This story was originally published on May 21, 2015 Wayne Kaufman may be receiving the Unsung Hero Award but it’s really his late brother Ralph in whose memory much of his work is being done. “His passion was helping people in general, mainly...

In this technologically advanced world, it’s refreshing to know that one man, with age-old communications savvy, can still make a difference. Don Roth, retired after 40 years in sales, is such a man.For more than 20 years, he’s met weekly with 8-...

Hungry to help heal the world, 190 volunteers welcome clients, take deliveries and sort, package and stock groceries at the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry Monday through Friday so that individuals and families going through hard times have food for...

For Unsung Hero Tali Stadler, it wasn’t difficult to become a part of Jewish St. Louis. “I was always somebody who was very involved so it was easy for me,” said Stadler. “It was very natural.”It’s also been very rewarding – both for her...

For Mark Rodgers, it’s all about water. He canoes, he kayaks, he fishes and his career goal is to become a marine biologist. Now Mark is being honored as an Unsung Hero because he has spent time – a lot of time – in a local pool, helping a 12-year-old...

Sherri Goldman is apprehensive. Fidgeting in her chair, she casts about for the right words.Goldman isn’t used to the spotlight. In all of her many volunteer endeavors she has only reluctantly taken the titles of leadership, but given many hundreds...

As someone who taught Flynn Park Elementary School’s youngest students for nearly two decades, Dorothy Meyerson is quick with a joke about her lengthy tenure.“It took me a long time to get out of kindergarten,” she laughed.Even today at age 86,...

Amy Fenster Brown’s reaction when she learned she was to be honored as an Unsung Hero was this: “Who would be delusional enough to nominate me?”She found out soon enough: Jennifer Deutsch, Fenster Brown’s best friend since first grade, and Jenny...

Charlie Chaplin Caplin likely is the best source for information about Debbie Caplin’s years of volunteer work with Support Dogs, Inc., a nonprofit agency that uses trained assistance dogs to improve the quality of life for people with special needs...

Helping others, something he learned early on by observing his father, is now just part of who Harvey Wallace is.“My dad, who ran the warehouse for Sands Drug, a chain of retail drugstores, was a volunteer fireman in University City and a member of...