Bush Points Out Shining Volunteer Work

ANAHEIM —  Former President George Bush presented annual Points of Light awards at the Disneyland Hotel Thursday to six corporations for their employees’ volunteer work.

The award-winners were:

* AT&T; Wireless Services, for a broad program of volunteer and philanthropic activities that included management.

* AXA, a French-based insurance and asset-management firm in partnership with The Equitable Companies, which became the first foreign-based corporation to receive a Point of Light. AXA was cited for the breadth of its program, which includes 7,000 employees in 11 countries.

* Chase Manhattan, for its “Partners in the Community,” an international network of workers and retirees coordinated through a core network of 125 volunteers.

* Gap Inc., which has endorsed volunteer involvement since the company’s founding in 1969. About 70% of the company’s 60,000 employees volunteer.

* UGI Utilities, Inc., where employees help improve literacy among youngsters and prepare high school students for careers.

* Unitrode Corp., for programs that began in 1995 but quickly involved more than one-quarter of its domestic work force.

Officials of each winning corporations were presented with a glass trophy and a certificate.

In addition to the national award winners, more than 60 Orange County businesses received special citations for participating in the county Corporate Committed Volunteer Project over the past 13 years.