Honorees from left to right: Betsy Gifford, Steve Player, Eliane Neukermans, Armand Neukermans, Fran Codispoti, Gay Krause, Bill Krause, Alma Phillips, and Jim Phillips.

Join Us for a Virtual Celebration!
Due to increased COVID concerns, Avenidas presented the 2021 Lifetimes of Achievement virtually through Zoom this year. Watch our event highlight video.
Conference Details
As always, we will celebrate with music, good friends, outstanding honorees, and even food and wine!
We will be providing treat boxes filled with an array of freshly made, delicious savory snacks, a decadent dessert, and wine, to guests requesting this option. (Delivered locally.)
Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County Supervisor, will be our Emcee for the event, and you’ll get to meet our new President and CEO, Amy Yotopoulos. Then you’ll learn about our impressive roster of honorees and their contributions to our community!
We are looking forward to you joining us at this safe, fun, memorable, virtual event!
This event is open to the public, and ticket sales go toward supporting all the Avenidas programs that help re-invent aging.
Meet the 2021 Honorees
The 2021 Lifetimes of Achievement honorees are Fran Codispoti, Betsy Gifford, Gay & Bill Krause, Eliane & Armand Neukermans, Alma & Jim Phillips and Steve Player. Click on each honoree’s name to read a summary of accomplishments–or read this great piece in Palo Alto Weekly profiling the winners.
Click the cover image to download the PDF.
About the Award
Since 1998, Avenidas has been honoring a group of older adults for the contributions they make to the community with the Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement Awards.
Each year’s honorees are announced in January and celebrated during our annual fundraising event.
With Thanks to Our Sponsors
Community Champion
- Thoits Bros. Inc
- Association for Senior Day Health
- Bill Reller
Community Pillar
- Anonymous
- Barbara and Bill Binder
- Gary and Jeffrey Dunker
- Shirley Ely
- The Floyd Family Foundation
- Hank Massey and Amie Chang
- Paula and Mike Rantz
- Jeanne and Leo Ware
Community Star
- Lynn and James Gibbons
- Nancy and Rick Goldcamp
- Paula and William Powar
- Michelle and Roxy Rapp
Media Partner
- Palo Alto Weekly News
- Palo Alto Online