MTC Awards

 

David Tannehill Special Transportation Employee Award

Awarded 1979-present

2012 • Chloe Cook, Director of Volunteer Programming, West Marin Senior Services

2010 • Alec Melkonians (posthumously), Supervising Transportation Engineer, Caltrans District 4

2008 • Deanna Vilcheck, Area Construction Manager, Caltrans District 4

2006 • Jaimie Levin, Director of Alternative Fuels Policy and Marketing, AC Transit

2004 • Sherrie Barnes, San Francisco Muni's Accessible Services Program

2004 • Annette Williams, Durham School Services special education driver

2002 • Steve Fiala, East Bay Regional Park District

2000 • Stan Hull, Bus Operator, Central Contra Costa Transit Authority

1999 • Douglas La Vallee, a Caltrans Tunnels and Tubes operator, rescued an elderly woman whose car was on fire in the Caldecott Tunnel in February 1996. He also worked to improve safety and training practices in the tunnel crews.

1998 • Grover Robinson is one of the most appreciated Freeway Service Patrol drivers. On the freeway he remains sharp and he likes providing service "just to get a smile."

1997 • Al Finch, Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority customer service representative

1996 • Ed Borkowski, Benicia Dial-a-Ride driver

1995 • Kevin Correria and Frank Smith, Sonoma County Transit

1994 • George L. Gatewood, Muni operator

1993 • Sharon Banks, AC Transit General Manager

1992 • John S. Whitt, Caltrans Structural Steel Painter for the Bay Bridge, talked a suicidal man out of jumping

1991 • Award presented posthumously to Joseph McElvane, a paratransit van driver for Vantastic of Berkeley who was found murdered in his home

1990 • Frank Zichichi, BART mechanic

1989 • Chris Duarte, retired Sonoma County Transit bus driver

1988 • Billy J. Givens, Muni driver tragically killed in the line of duty

1987 • Alan Brown, SF Muni bus driver

1986 • Kathryn Wakefield, paratransit driver

1986 • Mark West, paratransit driver

1985 • Ray McCann and Charles Gerstbacher, gripman and brakeman on the S.F. Muni cable car that was struck head-on by a suicide driver in August 1984. The two, who were injured by the accident, were still able to avert catastrophe by pulling the brake while the car was careening out of control, thereby saving the lives of the 70 people on board.

1984 • Tom Jordan, Elderly & Handicapped Coordinator for San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

1983 • Robert H. Rossington, BART transit vehicle mechanic

1982 • Bill Bishop, AC Transit community outreach person

1982 • August J. Gouig, Antioch Seniors’ Bus driver

1981 • Robert L. Janack, Muni driver

1981 • Jaunita Magdaleno, project coordinator of the Paratransit call-cab program

1980 • Zada Malinak, 34 years with AC Transit