Honorees-2026
2026 HONOREES to the Maryland Senior Citizens Hall of Fame
Each year the Selection Committee evaluates all the nominations received and identifies eligible nominees to be presented to the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors approved the individuals listed below for induction as honorees into the 2026 Hall of Fame. From these honorees, four were judged to have performed extraordinary volunteer service and were selected to receive the GERI Award.
The names of all honorees and summaries of their volunteer service are inscribed into the 2026 Blue Book. A copy is presented to each inductee and one is filed in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Baltimore Langsdale Library.
THE HONOREES OF 2026
| Gloria Forstner Byrd | Baltimore County |
| Muhammad Tufail Chaudhry | Howard County |
| Barbara J. Dixon | Carroll County |
| George R. Drake | Carroll County (GERI Award) |
| Jeanne Dussault, Ph.D. | Carroll County |
| Nancy S. Elson | Baltimore County |
| Joseph and Margaret Fessler | Frederick County |
| Josephine Frasier | Baltimore County |
| Stacey Guthrie | Kent County |
| Richard T. Jones | Baltimore County |
| Elizabeth O. Knupp | Anne Arundel County |
| Brian Korzec | Baltimore County (GERI Award) |
| Stephen P. Lippy | Baltimore County |
| John R. Lorenz | Baltimore County |
| Lorita Martin | Baltimore County |
| Dr. Judith Mazza | Montgomery County |
| Margaret Myers | Baltimore County |
| Dwight M. and Marilyn M. Phillips | Carroll County (GERI Award) |
| Harry Quinn | Baltimore County |
| Barbara J. Ratliffe | Baltimore County |
| Patricia Richardson | Baltimore County |
| Walter Seymour | Howard County |
| Vinod Kumar Verma | Baltimore County |
| Jacqueline Brown Woody | Prince George’s County |