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Mary Kenney

In Memorial

Mary Kenney has selflessly dedicated herself to the community of Alameda for over 50 years.

While raising four children and working full-time, Mary has provided thousands of hours as a community volunteer and leader. Ranging from serving as a Girl Scout leader and PTA volunteer to President of multiple service organizations, service includes:

• President – Alameda Junior Women’s League
• Board President – Girls Inc. of the Island City
• Chair – Alameda Family Service League (AFSL).

Mary is currently President of the Alameda Welfare Council and board member of the Alameda Library Foundation. Mary has chaired innumerable committees including the AFSL Holiday Home Tour (multiple years) and held many other leadership positions.

Mary is an exemplar dedicated community servant, and most remarkably, has remained committed to her community service even when facing serious health challenges and adversity.

In addition to serving 28 years first as Associate, and then Senior Pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, he has also served in volunteer capacities in virtually every community and social service organization in the community.

He is currently Board Chair of the Alameda Point Collaborative, Co-chair of the Alameda Ministerial Association, on the Board of the Alameda Rotary Club, and the Alameda Boy Scouts Fundraising Committee. He serves on the Alameda’s Hate Incident Response Team (HIRT), the Alameda Disaster Council, the Police Chief’s Advisory Council, and he is volunteer Chaplain to the Alameda Police Department.

In 2000, he co-founded, and continues to co-chair, the Alameda Services Collaborative, a group of 30+ non-profit organizations serving low-income, disabled, seniors, and Alameda families with children.

He has been a bright, shining light for the many thousands of lives he has touched, an inspiration to most, and an unforgettably positive presence for all. His music and his passion for justice and truth have been legendary.

She is currently a member of the Alameda Youth Advisory Commission, and has served

on the Executive Team for Alternatives In Action . An avid writer, she is on this year’s

Alameda High School “Oak Leaf” newspaper staff, has been an Intern for the Alameda SUN since 2007, and has written for and served on the Editorial Board for the “OUT LOUD” teen magazine since it’s inception in 2006.

As a Red Cross Youth, she is the President of the Alameda High School Red Cross Club, one of only two youth to serve on the American Red Cross Bay Area Board of Directors, and she was selected to represent Bay Area Red Cross Youth at this year’s “National Red Cross Youth Institute” in Florida.

Anjuli is one of six Red Cross trained teen presenters that taught “Together We Prepare” to our elementary schools, and she has coordinated a number of Alameda Red Cross Youth projects over the past three years.

In addition, she has supported the Alameda Food Bank by sorting can goods, collected funds for UNICEF to help stamp out Measles and HIV AIDS and has coordinated setting up Toys for Tots for needy children. This year alone, she has put in more than 300 hours of community service.

William conceived of the idea in the First Grade and has taken sole responsibility for the effort each year. With the assistance of his teachers, he has made school wide announcements to publicize the effort and with other student volunteers, counts the donations by classroom before his parents assist in bringing the food to the Food Bank on each Friday of Lent.

He also organizes an opportunity for a Food Bank representative to come speak to the assembled school each year, which has in turn led to an entire classroom volunteering at the Food Bank as a field trip.

Over the 7 years, William has collected over 2 tons of food for his community and we hope we will see him for another 5 years before he is off to college.

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