Mrs. Louise Thomas Every year the Junior League is proud to honor a sustainer as its Volunteer Extraordinaire.  She exemplifies the purpose of the Junior League — that of voluntarism.  The Volunteer Extraordinaire has translated her volunteer training and education into community commitment and involvement.  It is a privilege to recognize Louise Thomas as… Read More

  Mrs. Amanda Ochse Every year the Junior League is proud to honor a sustainer as its Volunteer Extraordinaire.  She exemplifies the purpose of the League-voluntarism, and has translated her volunteer training and education into community commitment and involvement.  This year it is a privilege to recognize Amanda Ochse as our Volunteer Extraordinaire 1986. At… Read More

  Mrs. Patricia Galt Steves Volunteer-(noun)-one who enters into any service or undertakes anything of his own free will. Extraordinary – (adjective)-beyond an ordinary order; exceeding a common degree or measure; remarkable; special; sent for a special purpose. After spending an all too short morning with Patsy Steves, I almost expected to find her name… Read More

  Mrs. Dela White Making Music For Those Who  Listen “The earth has music for those who listen.”  This inspiring sentence, the motto of San Antonio’s Sunshine Cottage for the Deaf, is also a fitting motto for the life of the school’s founder, Dela White.  This Volunteer Extraordinaire for 1988 has spent her volunteer career making sound… Read More

  Mrs. Candes Chumney Candes Chumney personifies all that the Junior League can develop in a person.  By nature an entrepreneur, an initiator, and an innovator, Candes learned that devotion to an ideal can result in success. This extraordinary volunteer’s long list of community activities is impressive and varied.  A quick glance at her resume… Read More

  Mrs. Margie Rust It is easy to look at someone as capable and committed as Margie and assume that she was born that way, but Margie denies this.  She gives much of the credit for her voluntarism to her mother, Sustainer Margaret Cape:  “Mother showed me what community spirit is all about.  She was,… Read More

  Mrs. Betty Osborn Biedenharn Warmth, enthusiasm, kindness, sense of humor, love of life and of people – these are words that are universally used in describing Betty Osborn Biedenharn.  A central figure in the life of San Antonio for years, Betty and her family moved to San Antonio when she was 13.  She attended… Read More

  Mrs. Agnes Harwood Fitting Tribute for a Spirit of Giving Hats off to Agnes Harwood, 1992 Volunteer Extraordinaire! Agnes, a sustainer who is mother to two Junior League sustainers, exemplifies the spirit of voluntarism through her interest in the community and concern for others. In past years, Agnes has accepted numerous leadership positions. Having… Read More

  Mrs. Phyllis Louis Vaughan Phyllis Louis Vaughan has achieved the highest leadership positions in all of her volunteer associations. However, what is more impressive is that she continues to actively participate in these organizations after the terms of these high offices have expired.  It is results and not the glory that matter most to… Read More

  Mrs. Winifred Winter Cocke Winifred’s Still Piloting the Cocke Pit Winifred Winter Cocke is an old fashioned girl who lives in a contemporary house nestled away on a street so hidden, that even lifelong residents of Alamo Heights can’t find it.  She loves God, redheads, books like “Anguished English” and the Bible, regional ceramics… Read More