Catholic Community Services of Utah will present its 1989 Community Service Awards to Utah Jazz president Frank Layden and historian and author Helen Zeese Papanikolas Tuesday, Nov. 14, at an awards dinner at the Red Lion Hotel in Salt Lake City.
CCS president Andrew J. Marushack said the two Utahns will be honored for their generous gift of time and talents toward the quality of life in Utah.The $50 a plate fund-raising dinner will start at 7:30 p.m., following a reception at 6:30 p.m. Marushack said proceeds will be used for CCS communitywide programs, which include care and feeding of the homeless, aid for troubled teenagers, family counseling, aid for immigrants and child adoption activities.
Tickets are available from CCS board members and at the CCS office, 333 E. South Temple.
Layden, who became general manager of the Jazz basketball team in 1979, was its coach from December 1981 to December 1988. He was named National Basketball Association Coach of the Year in 1984.
Papanikolas, who has chronicled the history of ethnic groups in Utah, especially the Greek community, has served on the board of editors of the Utah Historical Quarterly, the Utah Board of State History and the Utah Committee for the Endowment for Humanities and is coordinator of the Greek archives and special collections at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah.