Senior Services of Alexandria’s Generation to Generation Gala — highlighting families in Alexandria whose dedication and passion for giving back to the community are passed down from generation to generation — will take place on Saturday, March 29 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. This year’s honorees — Patty and Kate Moran and Lonnie Rich, Marcia Call and Sara Rich — have had significant impact in every sector of the Alexandria community including city government, business, education and cultural enrichment.

“This year’s honorees exemplify the spirit of service and caring that makes our city such a wonderful place for all generations,” said SSA’s Executive Director Mary Lee Anderson.

Patty and Kate Moran both have a heartfelt dedication to the Del Ray Community, T.C. Williams High School and the children of Alexandria. Patty, now administrative assistant to T.C. Williams Principal Suzanne Maxey is well-known for her annual volunteer work with Alexandria events such as the Turkey Trot, the Titan Expo, the Alexandria Scholarship Fund, Art on the Avenue, and the newly created Relay for Life. She has also been active in Community Partners for Children, the Warwick Village Citizens Association and Volunteer Alexandria.

Kate Moran began volunteering with her mother, Patty, and her aunt, Nancy Dunning. The founder of the Kate Moran Band and the kids’ band Rainbow Roc, employed during the day by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education, Kate donates her time and expertise to the community through coordinating events and fundraising — and especially through donating her musical talents — in support of the arts, music, kids, pets, staying fit, and helping those dealing with disabilities and fighting debilitating illness. Among her many local accomplishments, she co-founded the Del Ray Music Festival.

The Rich/Call family also has a deep commitment to Alexandria, civic affairs, and education. This dedication has spread as far as Brooklyn, N.Y., Africa and now Belgium. For over 30 years, Lonnie Rich, a partner with Rich Rosenthal Brincefield Manitta Dzubin & Kroeger, LLP, has been heavily involved in the political, civic and community affairs of the city. In addition to serving three terms as a member of City Council, he served as chairman of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce and the Campagna Center. Lonnie has been active in many Alexandria civic organizations and commissions working on issues from economics and planning to human rights and women’s rights.

Profiting from the examples set by her parents (Lonnie Rich and Sally Reams), Sara Rich began her civic activism in middle school and has continued in a career of giving back ever since. After college, Sara began teaching at The American School of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While teaching in Kinshasa, she decided to pursue her interest in connecting international teachers with Congolese educators. She then moved to Goma in North Kivu, DRC, where she learned Swahili in order to explore the potential of collaboration between international and local teachers. After a year working with a few schools in Goma, Sara left the Congo and co-founded EduCorps with her stepmother Marcia Call and Murutamanga Kabahita. Sara currently teaches history in Belgium.

Marcia Call, CEO of the corporate recruiting firm TalentFront, is passionate about the power of individuals to make a difference. For two years in the early ‘80s, Marcia served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, now the DRC, working as a public health volunteer. She lived in a village where she taught basic hygiene and nutrition in Swahili to a rural population of about 10,000. For the next 30 years, Marcia’s spent her time in nonprofit and for-profit business management, spending the last 15 years in human capital management. As president/CEO of EduCorps, Marcia recently traveled to Rwanda and Congo to develop the infrastructure for a series of programs to launch in August of 2014.

Senior Services is pleased to honor the Moran and Rich/Call families and to have Jen Walker — the Realtor for Del Ray and beyond as the presenting sponsor of this year’s gala.

If you would like more information or to sponsor the event, please call 703-836-4414, ext. 14 or go to www.seniorservicesalex.org. Tickets will go on sale in mid-February.

Senior Services of Alexandria provides services and programs that help foster Alexandria seniors’ independence and self-sufficiency, enabling them to age with dignity.