Medical center honors volunteers Published June 25, 2009 By Steve Pivnick 81st Medical Group Public Affairs KEESER AIR FORCE BASE, BILOXI, MISS. -- Keesler Medical Center recognized 54 people at its annual volunteer services awards luncheon June 12 at the Dragon's Lair. Cumulatively, they contributed more than 740 years of assistance to the medical center. Certificates were given to: One year or less -- David Clark, Charlotte Costine, Bonnie and Scott Cotman, Joyce and Thomas Louisiana, Julie Stelly and Carmen and Chester Urbati. Two years -- Jessie Coker. Three years -- Mary King. Four years -- Patricia Barnes. Five years -- Nathaniel Perry. Six years -- Gilbert Camburn and Ruth Taylor. Seven years -- Helen Bieda. Eight years -- Clifford Dye. Nine years -- Helen Bristol. 10 years -- Frank Barnes (posthumous; accepted by his widow Elsie) and Richard Dunlap. 11 years -- Rudy Paoli, Christiane Sharp and Thomas Varble. 12 years -- Seconda Baker, Harry Crawford and Vernon Shaffer. 13 years -- Dean Huffer and Kim Shanahan. 14 years -- Robert Holgate, Raymond Lindsey and Robert Meleady. 15 years -- Faye Hagan and Robert Virgil. 16 years -- Leo Auger, Victor Chiolak and Marjorie Gray. 17 years -- Lydia Gelet, Thomas McLain and Shirley Paoli. 18 years -- Grover Stuart. 19 years -- Robert Acosta. 20 years -- Ellen Turner. 21 years -- Margarite Edwards and Rosalina Jackson. 22 years -- Marjorie Pendleton. 23 years -- Joseph LaFrance. 24 years -- Emily Herrington and Frankie Petty. 28 years -- Theresia Brown and Usa Jones . 29 years -- Dean Todd. 30 years -- Ernest Brant. 37 years -- Louise Turpel. 43 years -- Emily Shelton.