The Gallery of Honor highlights the outstanding achievements of members of the San Francisco Bay Area community in the fight against AIDS. The fifty-four honorees represent the many people associated with local AIDS service organizations, including staff members and volunteers, who have had an influence on research, education, and advocacy efforts worldwide.

To assemble the Gallery of Honor, the Exploratorium invited Bay Area AIDS organizations to nominate one outstanding individual. All submissions are on display. Please join us in honoring these outstanding individuals:


Donald Abrams, M.D.
Honored by Community Consortium

Celi Adams, R.N., O.N.C.
Honored by Home Care Companions

Wayne April
Honored by Dolores Street Community Services

Charles J. Arnold
Honored by Project Open Hand

Geri Brooks, Ph.D.
Honored by Sunburst Projects

Pamela Campion
Honored by Dublin Unified School District

Larry Casas
Honored by the AIDS Project of Contra Costa

Sylvia Chappell
Honored by the East Bay AIDS Center

Brian H. Cheu
Honored by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission

Mary Correro
Honored by the San Mateo County AIDS Program

Bruce L. Cronander
Honored by Continuum HIV Day Services

Douglas DeBeni
Honored by Sonoma County AIDS Foundation

Ed Decker
Honored by the New Conservatory Theatre Center

Martin Delany
Honored by Project Inform

Thomas Lee Eades
Honored by the Institute for Community Health Outreach

Jeff Friedman
Honored by the Legacy Oral History Project

Jeanne Gallyot
Honored by Sonoma County People for Economic Opportunity

Jeff Getty
Honored by ACT UP/East Bay

Dr. Gene Gowdey
Honored by the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry

Deborah Greenspan, B.D.S., D.S.C.
Honored by the Oral AIDS Center, Department of Stomatology, University of California at San Francisco

Anna Halprin
Honored by the Tamalpa Institute

Dr. Harry Hollander
Honored by the University of California at San Francisco

John Iversen
Honored by Katharine Gale

Mike Kemmerer
Honored by Tri-City Health Center

Gary Levinson
Honored by the Support Center for Nonprofit Management

Sederia Lewis
Honored by the City of Berkeley Public Health Clinic

Gloria J. Lockett
Honored by the California Prevention and Education Project

Catherine Lyons, R.N., N.P.
Honored by the University of California at San Francisco AIDS Program, San Francisco General Hospital

John McGrann
Honored by KAIROS Support for Caregivers

John P. Maguire
Honored by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Edwin Mah
Honored by the Living Well Project, Asian and Pacific Islander AIDS Service

Gail Maurer
Honored by Healthy Kids Resource Center

Naomi Mayer, R.N., C.N.M., M.A.
Honored by Hospice by the Bay

Carole Migden
Honored by the office of San Francisco County Supervisor Carole Migden

Helen M. Miramontes, M.S., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Honored by the University of California at San Francisco School of Nursing, Community Health Systems Department

Melanie Ng
Honored by the Asian Health Services AIDS Project

Lisa O'Connor
Honored by Walden House, Inc.

Dino Offenhauser
Honored by AIDS Legal Services, a program of the Santa Clara County Bar Association Law Foundation

Margo Rila, Ed.D.
Honored by the San Francisco Sex Information Hotline

Fr. Paul Rossi
Honored by the Marin AIDS Interfaith Network

Donna Saffioti
Honored by Horizons Unlimited of San Francisco, Inc.

Amy Sims-Candida
Honored by Valley Community Health Center

Solano Teen Outreach Project
Honored by Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo

Irene Smith
Honored by Service Through Touch

Brenda Storey
Honored by HIV Services, Mission Neighborhood Health Center

Jim Topping
Honored by KGO-TV

Joann Walker
Honored by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Rev. Robert Dale Walter
Honored by Sojourn Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital

Terry Wheeler
Honored by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate

Linda White, M.S.W.
Honored by the Center for Special Problems

Chris Wilder, M.P.H.
Honored by Santa Clara County AIDS Health Services

Tice Wilkins, R.N.
Honored by Fremont Mission: AIDS

Clifton Charles Wilson
Honored by the Alameda County Office of AIDS Administration

Shirley Yu
Honored by the Asian AIDS Project