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The Dolphin Awards

Karen and I would like to thank all of you who submitted nominations for this year’s Dolphin Awards (see A1 for the 2009 winners). As happens every year, we receive many more nominations than we have openings.

Several people have asked me how we decide between so many qualified candidates, so I’ll take a shot at trying to describe what is a bit of an idiosyncratic process.

First, we try to choose people from many different categories of activity. We want to recognize Malibu people involved in charity work, education, the environment, youth activities, business, the cultural world, government service, volunteer activities and more. For some it’s been a particular activity or two and for others it’s a lifetime of service.

Some years there has been a major disaster, like fire or flood, and we try to recognize those who rose to the challenge and performed extraordinarily, whether they are individuals or a government entity.

Other years, the nature of the awards is more benign and we can take the time to recognize less emergency-driven activities like the arts, and music and such. Usually, we begin by asking The Malibu Times staff who they think would be most deserving. Then we revisit some of the nominees from previous years who didn’t quite make it before but might be right for it this year.

It helps immeasurably if we have a well-written, detailed nomination letter from a few people for a candidate. Although we may know many of the people nominated, we often don’t know the scope and depth of their activity and it’s very helpful if you tell us.

Most of all we look to you, our readers to assist us in the search. You all know your community best, and Malibu has many interesting and involved people who help to give our community its character.

In recent years we’ve had to cut back a bit on the number of Dolphins we give out each year, and that is a result of a practical problem. This year’s awards will mark the 20th year we have give out the Dolphins. We now have a couple hundred former Dolphins and they’re all invited to each year’s awards event. Finding a venue that’s large enough, and that we can afford, to give our annual awards presentation is getting a little dicier. This year, the awards event will probably have 150 attendees, which rules out most of the Malibu restaurants. The awards event will take place at the spectacular oceanfront Malibu West Swim Club in Trancas to whom we are deeply grateful. Sadly, we only have room for former Dolphin winners, this year’s winner and the guests of the new winners.

So if you nominated someone who didn’t make it this year, don’t give up. There is always next year, and we all should be grateful that there are so many people in this town who give so much of themselves, their time and their money to help to keep this town a place where we all want to live. 

Dolphin Winners of the past

1990

Caggiano, Mike

Keller, Walt

Merrick, Judge John

Sheridan, Monsignor John

Van Horn, Carolyn

Wan, Larry & Sara

Zeitsoff, Missy

Mauro, Capt. Don

Cairns, Pat

Edmiston, Joe

Harris, Dr. Jeff

Reynolds, Dr. Susan

Vogler, Maggie

1991

Bloomfield, Ron

Fulton, Ann

Hope, Bob

Jennings, Jeff

Pepperdine Volunteers

Radefield, Paul

Russell, Sandy

Templeman, Reeves & Reta

1992

Banducci, Sandi

Baskin, Harvey

Bateman, Dr. Scott

Benatar, Pat

Blackwood, Mary Lou

Chesterfield, Richard

Crummer, Roy

Demby, Beryl

Frampton, Mary

Keller, Lucile

L.A. Co. Lifeguards

L.A. Co. Fire

L.A. Co. Sheriffs

Weisman, Fred R.

Wolpert, Russ

1993

Barrett, Diane

Brosnan, Pierce

Cooper, Marty

Goldman, Ron

Kouba, Matt

Lemond, Rob

Schlossberg, Carl

Shapiro, Renny

Taki, Beverly

Worth, Rev. David

York, Arnold & Karen

1994

Cameron, Barbara

Charlie Brown’s Malibu Sea Lion

D’Angelo, Maria

Dobyns, Tom

Friends of the Malibu Library

Hove, Faye

Kamath, Mary Kaye

Moore, Lt. Mike

Ryan, Pat

Wagner, Wende

1995

Willson, Shirley

Pierson, Lt. Jim

Spanier, Howard

O’Brien, Doug

Kennedy, Ben

Drobnick, Lou

Hays, Gretchen

Herson, Rabbi Benjamin

Kilday, Ruth Taylor

Loo, Mona

1996

Fakehany, Tom

Foster, David

Jarvis, JoAnna

Kramer, Jeff

Matthews, Mike

Payne, Anne

Stevens, Agnes

Konheim, Lyn

Perenchio, John

1997

Cott, Phil

Glass, Betty

Grisanti, Sara

Yarnell, Kathryn

O’Connor, Terry

Soloway, Natalie

Dmytryk, Rebecca

Marowitz, Charles

Coatsworth, Honey

Ford, Lee

Hayes, Ronn

Peacock, Rev. Larry

1998

Baldwin, Diane

Ball, Mark

Harlow, John

Maginnis, Jeanette

Stotsenberg, Ed & Dorothy

Sunderland, Maud-Ann

Stern, Laure

Spooner, Paul

Swerman, Jannis

Goldschneider, Alan

1999

Barsocchini, Barbara

Curtis, Lisa & Bill

Hammond, Beverly

Himmelfarb, Doug

Ravaglioli, Steven

Lockrem, Bonnie

Reynolds, Kristin

Schultz, Jack

Winger, Nidra

Zakian, Michael

2000

Barovsky, Harry

Brown, Leland, Fire Capt.

Estill, Wayne & Beverly

Fogg, Jo

Hoffman, Ann

Roney, Deirdre

Sills, Laureen

Malibu Association of Contractors

2001

Armstrong, Bill & Virginia

Cornucopia Farms

Cox, Shelley

Hart, Robert (Bob)

Hasse, Tom

Meckler, Zane

Zahn Rosenthal, Laura

Stoker, Dermot

Yorkin, Peg

2002

Emerson, Allen, Arson Watch

Baylin, Sherman

Furguson, Ann

Katz, David, Malibu Film Festival

Legaspi III, David

Matlow, Marlene

Silna, Ozzie

Volunteers/Docents-Adamson House / Lagoon Museum

2003

Dillon, Carol

Eisenberg, Helene

Greenwood, Pat

Lawrence, Lilly

Malibu Kiwanis Club

Robinson, Scott

St. John’s Hospital

Seymour, Jane

Wisnicki, Kathy

2004

Bridgeman, Jacqueline

Davis, Rich

House, Joan

Johnson, Lea and Leon

Leoni, Téa

Randall, Carol

Walraven, Wes

Ettenger and Welch Families

2005

DeJoria, John Paul and Eloise

Gabbard, Kay

Giese, Jo

Latta, Shari

Lyons, David and Tallal, Scott

Malibu Legacy Park Project

Solis, Dede

Soboroff, Steve and Koss, Green, Richard and Michael

2006

Anthony, Peter and Elizabeth, & La Gorce Kramer, Deborah

Bowen, Candace

Brosnan Shaye, Keely

Kim, Chi

Kmiec, Carol & Duke Mitze, Marnie

Klein, Bob

Linke, Cindy

Reiss, Bonnie

Shraibati, Tarek

2007

Devin , Judi

Duff, Susie

Greene, Francine

Haines, Matt

Kearsley, Ken

KNX 1070 Radio

News Team

Landworth, Aaron

Optimist Club of Malibu

Ravaglioli, Raquel

First Responders

2008

Adler, Alexis Deutch Caraway, Debrah

Cortazzo, Chris

Drescher, Fran

Friedman, Jonathan

Gray, Rebecca

Hosfeld, Scott and Newman, Maria

Kagan, David