Clifford Brownmiller

Clifford BrownmillerDivision Manager, Aircraft MaintenanceUnited Parcel Service (UPS)

Cliff Brownmiller, left, dug a post hole with John Gallagher during a wheelchair-ramp building project.
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Being honored this month in a third annual rite for Metro United Way are Stephanie Bateman of Jeffersontown, Cliff Brownmiller of Prospect, Jerry and Patricia Burdin of the Wyandotte neighborhood, Cliff Kirkpatrick of Windy Hills, Savannah Mattingly of Mount Washington, Eleanor Maddox of the Highlands and Kent Oyler of Rolling Fields.
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Cliff Brownmiller, 60, has for six years helped elderly and disabled homeowners maintain safe living conditions by volunteering at New Directions Housing Corp.'s Repair Affair, a home-repair and weatherization program for low-income people.

An aircraft-maintenance executive at United Parcel Service, Brownmiller joins hundreds of other volunteers from that company who also work in Repair Affair.
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In the last two years alone, Brownmiller and UPS' "Brown Army" of 300 other volunteers have logged more than 3,000 donated hours at 106 homes, she added.

Cliff Brownmiller, an airplane maintenance worker who retired from United Parcel Service and now owns the UPS store on East Broadway, has been volunteering for Repair Affair for 11 years.

He has fixed floors, windows and roofs and built wheelchair ramps.

Brownmiller said that in addition to helping homeowners, the experience is good for companies.

"You get all layers of employers from upper management to middle management all working shoulder to shoulder equally," he said.

"And we begin to find there's a lot of gifts and talents that we all have."

Brownmiller said the people aided by Repair Affair do not have the income for expensive repairs.Helping them, he said, is gratifying.

"Their smiles and their thanks are all the things we need to keep us going," he said.