Charles "Chuck" Hammaker Receives Alumni Community Service Award from McDaniel College

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WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Charles "Chuck" Hammaker of Fort Belvoir, Va., receives the alumni community service award from McDaniel College. He is a 1952 alumnus of Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the alumni community service award is presented to a graduate who has performed outstanding voluntary service to their community beyond normal business or professional obligations.

Chuck Hammaker began serving his community early in his 30-year career in the U.S. Army. He served as founder and president of the H1-12 Masonic Organization and was active in the Riverside Estates neighborhood, as well as the Deercreek Country Club homeowners. Hammaker was a board member and instructor for the Northeast Florida Safety Council and the Financial Committee chairman and a member of the church choir at the Arlington Congregational Church.

After relocating to Texas, he continued his community service in the Greatwood Neighborhood Representatives, Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Ft. Bend Human Needs Ministry.

Currently residing in Fort Belvoir, Va., he is active at The Fairfax Retirement Community, serving in leadership positions in various committees and choirs. He has been honored for his service to Deercreek Country Club, the Northeast Florida Safety Council, the Human Needs Ministry in Fort Bend, Texas, and Memorial Hermann Hospital in Texas.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.