Community Service Awards Recipients Announced

Pleasanton has named Greg Thome, JoAnn Weser, Bill Rudolph and the Alan Hu Foundation as its 2026 Juanita Haugen Community Service Awards recipients. (patch.com) The awards luncheon is scheduled for May 13, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at Veterans Hall in Pleasanton, where the Community of Character Collaborative will also recognize student scholarship winners. (pleasantonchamber.com) The Juanita Haugen awards began in 2008 and honor Pleasanton residents and organizations that model six civic values: responsibility, compassion, self-discipline, honesty, respect and integrity. (communityofcharacter.org) Those values remain visible across the city in classroom programs, a plaque in the City Council chamber and banners that hang on public buildings and under the Pleasanton Arch on Main Street. (hacienda.org) The awards are named for Juanita Haugen, a longtime Pleasanton school board member and public schools advocate who helped found the Community of Character effort before her death in 2007. (hacienda.org) The Collaborative describes itself as a volunteer group that works with the City of Pleasanton, Pleasanton Unified School District, the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce and Pleasanton Police to promote those character traits. (hacienda.org) This year’s ceremony also lands as the group expands its student scholarship program: Pleasanton Unified said 14 seniors were selected for 2026 Juanita Haugen Memorial Scholarships, up from nine scholarships awarded in 2025. (pleasantonusd.net; hacienda.org) One of the four honorees, the Alan Hu Foundation, is a Pleasanton-based nonprofit focused on mental health education, stigma reduction and research support, with free public webinars and student scholarships among its programs. (alanhufoundation.org; hacienda.org) Greg Thome has been recognized before for Pleasanton service, including more than 30 years of community involvement and decades with Catholic Youth Organization basketball and track programs in the city. (pleasantonweekly.com) The May 13 luncheon is the public moment when Pleasanton turns those long-running volunteer efforts into a civic roll call — one more year in a program that has been naming local service since 2008. (pleasantonchamber.com; communityofcharacter.org)