Corning Rotary Awards Honorary Paul Harris Fellow
For Extraordinary Community Service to Nancy Doutt
The Corning Rotary Club awarded a Paul Harris Fellow to community member Nancy Doutt at a recent club meeting. The award was presented to Nancy by Rotarian Pauline Emery.Nancy was honored for her community service work stretching more than 40 years. Her efforts target a variety of community needs and issues. Her efforts to promote literacy and education, target food insecurity, the arts and senior needs personify the issues about which she is eternally passionate.
A member of the Friends of the Library since 1982, Nancy Doutt has served as board member, vice president and president. She coordinated the twice yearly book sale for the library for many years and continues to this day. Support from the Friends of the Library book sale allows the library to provide quality programming for adults, teens and children and much more. These programs serve thousands of community members each year. The Friends Book Sale has provided well over $1,000,000 since the library’s reopening in 2000. Nancy has volunteered at the library since it reopened as the Southeast Steuben County Library in 2000. Nancy is in the library every week doing work to preserve local history.
Nancy has been a stalwart volunteer for over 40 years with Hospice of the Southern Tier (now Care First), Corning Meals on Wheels and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art. In 2007, Nancy received the Jefferson Award for Public Service. Of the five award recipients, she was selected to represent the Southern Tier of NY at the National Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C.Congratulations to Nancy with our sincere appreciation for her commitment to volunteering, exemplifying service above self within our community.