Year Honored: 2022

A recognized leader in the Delaware non-profit sector as an expert and passionate advocate for older adults, Carolyn has been actively involved with the Modern Maturity Center since 1972. She began her career as a volunteer making home visits to shut ins. A year later she was hired as the coordinator of social services for the nutrition program. In 1981 she became Deputy Director and in 2001, she was selected to become the Executive Director.

Carolyn is active in the community and has served on the Boards of the Schwartz Center for the Arts, Clearchannel Productions, DANA (Delaware Association of Non-Profit Agencies) and Calvary Wesleyan Church in Harrington where she served as the choir director for more than 12 years. In addition to her duties as executive director at the Modern Maturity Center, she also directs two intergenerational dinner theater productions a year as fundraisers for the Center.

During her tenure as executive director, she has overseen three capital campaigns for major building expansions which include the medical arts building, a new adult day services facility and a kitchen expansion. With a reputation for judicious use of resources and the ability to transform her vision into concrete and attainable outcomes, she has been instrumental in transforming the Modern Maturity Center into a multi-million-dollar corporation that is one of the leading providers of aging services in the state. Even during the recent economic downturn and pandemic, her leadership helped the Center weather the storm with not only no reduction in services, but also with the expansion and development of new programs.

Carolyn was a music education major at the University of Maryland and also studied psychology at the University of Delaware. She is the proud mother of three sons and five grandchildren.