We want to honor him or her! The America's Outstanding Oldest Worker recognition is part of a national effort to raise awareness of the contributions older individuals make in today's workplace and inspire other older workers seeking employment. The effort is sponsored by Experience Works, the nation's largest organization serving older workers through the Senior Community Service Employment Program.Press release
Nominees must be at least 100 years old and working at least 20 hours each week in paid employment. NOMINATE HERE!
The 2011 winners were Hedda Bolgar Bekker, 102, and Mazerine Wingate, 101. Bekker cofounded both the Wright Institute of Los Angeles, a nonprofit mental health training and service center, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. She sees patients 16 to 20 hours a week and gives lectures, appears in videos, and writes. When Wingate began his job as a custodian 40 years ago at the U.S. Post Office in Lexington Park, Maryland, he was at the age when most Americans are ready to retire. He still drives to work, where he spends four hours a day, six days a week.
Experience Works is a national, charitable, community-based organization that helps older adults get the training they need to find good jobs in their communities. For more than 45 years we have devoted ourselves to helping people break out of poverty and reclaim their lives and dignity through work.
