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ATLANTA-- Deirdre Holler received the DeKalb County Board of Healths
outstanding volunteer award for her 13 years of dedicated service to the board
of healths East DeKalb and South DeKalb Health Centers.
At a recognition program held April 20 at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
in Atlanta, board members thanked Holler, a parishioner at Sts. Peter and Paul
Church in Decatur, and over 600 other individuals who volunteered a total of
9,000 hours last year. They also recognized the dozens of organizations that
support the agencys efforts to improve the health of DeKalb County
residents.
Patrick Bohan, son of the late board of health director for whom the
volunteer award is named, presented a plaque to Holler as recipient of the 1999
Dr. Gunar N. Bohan Memorial Award for outstanding volunteer service.
Serving at least 100 hours a year for the past 13 years, Holler has
coordinated the collection of donated items for infants, which are used as
incentives for the centers prenatal patients to practice good prenatal
care. She is married to Buster Holler and is the mother of six and has six
grandchildren.
For more information on DeKalb County Board of Healths volunteer
opportunities call (404) 294-3792.
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