Dudley Hollenbeck (Hamburg, New York)  After graduating from Miami University, Dudley spent 35 years teaching social studies in the Buffalo Public Schools. The first 23 years he taught in several inner-city high schools. His strong point was motivating unmotivated students. The last third of his career, he taught economics, law and government at The Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts, a magnet school with very motivated students, most of whom went on to college.

When he retired in 1999, he expected to devote most of his time to woodworking, genealogy, reading and travel. However, volunteering found him. He now delivers for Meals on Wheels and has been an officer (Trustee and Deacon) for the past fifteen years at Hamburg Presbyterian Church. His most rewarding efforts have been a variety of mission trips. He coordinated and led four trips to do relief work after hurricane Katrina. Yearly, he spends a week doing home rebuilding in some of the poorest parts of rural Maine. Also, yearly he organizes and coordinates 100 to 150 volunteers for a habitat for humanity type project in the city of Buffalo. Twice a month he volunteers at a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter. In January, his wife and he spent a week in Haiti doing medical mission work. Retirement has been very good to him.

Joanne and Dudley have been married since 1965. She is an accomplished musician who has been a church Director of Music for more than 30 years. A year ago she went into semi-retirement and now does just keyboard on the piano and organ.

They have two children and four wonderful grandchildren.  Their daughter is a social worker in central New York. She does family counseling and teaches a course in anger management. She and her husband Chris, who is an optical engineer, have two sons aged nine and ten. Their son Dave and his wife Candice live in north Georgia.  He is a general manager for an integrated systems company and she teaches at the University of Georgia.  They have two children aged one and two.