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Annual Reports: 2000: People
"As one of my lifetime
participations, Colonial Williamsburg would rank in
importance only with my service on the Supreme Court
of the United States."
-Lewis
Powell, former Supreme Court justice and former chairman
of Colonial Williamsburg December 13, 1993
 At
Colonial Williamsburg, the Silver Bowl is more than a token of appreciation
and recognition of twenty-five years of service to Colonial Williamsburg;
it is a symbol of the value of an employee’s work for Colonial
Williamsburg and the contributions employees make during an extended
period of their lives in support of the Foundation’s mission.
Forty-nine employees achieved twenty-five years of service
to Colonial Williamsburg during 2000. Their collective employment
represents more than 1000 years of work-truly remarkable in
an age when loyalty to a single employer often is fleeting.
The tradition of the Silver Bowl dates to 1952, when Colonial Williamsburg
President Kenneth Chorley received a Silver Bowl for a quarter century
of service to Colonial Williamsburg. The proposal to award a Silver
Bowl-instead of the traditional gold watch or medallion-to all future
employees with twenty-five years of service originated with John
Graham and Eleanor Duncan in the Department of Collections.
Twenty-Five Year Silver Bowl recipients January 10, 2001, front row
(L-R) Dennis Cotner, Jean Hancock, Ida Richardson, Reba
Minns, Colin Campbell, Pam Phelps, Larry Heath, Novella
Palmer, Robert Walker; second row, Maurice West, Evelyn
Coleman, George Cloyed, Barbara Gardner, Sara Howard, Nancy
Gulden, Daryle Combs, Carrie Wallace, Preston Jones, Henry
Gosha; third row, Helen Phillips, Kathy Whitehead, Nancy
Plummer, Dolores Coleman, Jacqueline Jones, Velva Henegar,
Gwendolyn Reid, David Salisbury, Carolyn Randall, Juanita
Mason, Clarence Robinson; fourth row, Martha Gill, Robert
Rowe, Thomas Brown, fifth row, Roy Condrey, Jim Shipley,
John Hill, Margie Weiler, Clyde Kestner, Scott Spence, Danny
McDaniel, Robert Albergotti, Jr., Jarvis Pressey, Peggy
Howells, and Isaiah Frazier.
They proposed an eighteenth-century design, commonly known
as the Revere Bowl, as historically appropriate. The original
was crafted by Paul Revere and presented to members of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1768. On June 30
of that year, ninety-two members of the Bay Colony’s
legislature stood firm in protest against King George III,
even though they knew resistance would spell dissolution of
their assembly. Revere, a Boston silversmith, was engaged
by the Sons of Liberty to fashion a silver bowl, engraved
with various patriotic emblems, to commemorate the lawmakers’
defiance of the crown.
Volunteers at Colonial Williamsburg contributed more than
103,000 hours of work in departments throughout the Foundation
in 2000. The current volunteer workforce comprises some 900
adults and 125 youths, who perform myriad tasks that reflect
the spectrum of work done at Colonial Williamsburg and rank
Colonial Williamsburg’s volunteer program as one of the
largest in the nation.
Volunteer duties range from preparing mailings to prospective
donors and the news media, to assisting hotel guests at the
concierge desks, leading orientation walks for visitors in
the Historic Area and tours in the museums, greeting patrons
at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library and assisting with
their research, helping the coach and livestock crew care
for animals, and greeting and helping guests in the Historic
Area and at the Visitor Center.
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