Christine Hodge was honored with the Rotary Club of Madison’s 2015 Manfred Swarsensky Humanitarian Service Award on November 11 at its weekly meeting at the Inn on the Park. Hodge was nominated by Dawn Crim.
Hodge came to Madison from Arkansas in 1971, a single mother with her three children. The people of the historically black Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Madison’s south side quickly embraced her and her family — a gesture that she reciprocated later in life.