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By: Deb Foley
President - WJ Denver Chapter When Linda Mahoney, manager of the Customers with Disabilities Center in Marlboro, Mass., asked the Framingham Club to provide a face painter for the center's annual summer carnival, the officers immediately thought of Kat Geary of the Providence Club. Kat was pleased to be asked and agreed to volunteer her time. She traveled more than 50 miles to be at the event and painted faces from the start of the event to the very end. The children were overjoyed and loved her artistic work. The Framingham Club received an email from Linda conveying her thanks to everyone for their support of this annual event. She was ecstatic about Kat's artistic work and was very pleased that she made the children feel so comfortable, as many times this does not happen. Thanks to Kat and the Framingham Club for "answering the call." |
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By: Ellie Dickerson
External Media Chair Upper Darby Council For the past several years, children from Belarus have been traveling to the United States to spend the summer away from the radiation contaminated fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. For every month these youngsters spend here, it adds two years to their lives. After a happy summer in the United States, 34 of these children boarded buses in the Philadelphia area that carried them to Newark, NJ, where they would get on planes to carry them back to Belarus. Liberty Bell Chapter's Upper Darby Council presented these youngsters with their very own heart pillows (for the girls) and hug-a-bears (for the boys) so they could snuggle up with them on the long trip home. Many of these children have lost close family members to radiation cancers as a result of the fallout. It makes us proud that we could help in our small way to enrich their lives. Indeed, we are answering the call of those in need and it now reaches across the sea. |
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Our Life Member Spotlight is on...
Joe Caruso of the Paumanok Chapter Joe has been an active Pioneer since 1966 and has held many chairs on the executive board of the Nesconset Life Member Club, including president. Currently, he is serving as fundraising chairperson for his club. Joe is one of the original team members who helped establish the Paumanok Chapter Telephone Museum, which opened in 1989 and still continues to run tours for students, clubs and the monthly Sunday open houses. In 1985, he established the first annual summer picnic of his life member club. Joe always has a smile and a kind word for everyone he meets. In the last three years, he has played a big part in the chapter's Living History Program - Freedom Isn't Free. He goes into local high schools and talks about his career in the Air Force during World War II. Joe works with his partner by his side and is still going strong at 85. He also continues to work with the Commack Volunteer Ambulance Corp, Northport Veterans Home and various senior citizens homes in his service area. He is constantly looking for innovative ideas to raise funds for his club. You can always count on him whenever called upon. |
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Liberty Bell's Northeast Council has joined the vast enterprise
of St. John's Food Bank. Based at St. John's Lutheran Church of
the Mayfair section of Philadelphia, the food cupboard serves
more than 600 families in the northeast. The council, in several
deliveries, has donated over $1,200 in non-perishable food in
the past year.
The delivery in the photo was made in late July of this year. The photo shows the three Pioneer representatives, President Bernie Allen, Mary Ann Murtha, Community Service chairperson Sue Daily, and St. John's pastor, Rev. Lee Miller. The children are: left top - Caitlin Friel, Bernie's niece; bottom - Colin Hirschman, Sue Daily's grandson; right - Benjamin Archie, Bernie's nephew. |
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Last year, Tennessee Pioneers created and executed October
Madness, TelecomPioneers' first online Project Connect
tournament, introducing Pioneers all over to a new approach in
using PC in the schools and communities. This award-winning
project proved to be a great success in promoting PC and
recruiting users! The success of this project led to the PC-16,
TelecomPioneers' first International online PC tournament, with
students in 13 states and three provinces invited to
participate.
This year TCP is combining the two projects to create two levels of a 2008 International Project Connect Tournament. In the first round (still called October Madness), students will compete on the state/province level to determine one state/provincial winner. The winning participants will advance to the International Tournament to represent their state/province and compete against all other state/provincial winners to find one International PC Tournament champion. For more information, please visit: www.octobermadness.net for brackets, rules, and general information. |
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The 29th Annual TelecomPioneer Family Day at Kings Dominion is
Sunday, October 12 for company employees, family and friends of
Verizon, AT&T and other telephone and communication companies!
Discount admission tickets are only $23.00 (ages 3 and above).
Children age 2 and under are free. For more information, click
www.verizonpioneers.org/Estore/KingsDominion2008. htm.
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Dear Mr. Kohn:
During the weekend of June 6, a group of seven from the Middletown Lions Club traveled to Lions Camp Badger in Spencer, NY, for the annual weekend of volunteering our help to get Camp Badger ready for its summer program. Our idea of volunteering may never be the same again! We met Midge Brandao and her "gang" of workers. Midge provided the direction and assigned the work site - not only for the Verizon Pioneers - but also for our small group of seven. What a pleasure it was to work with her and all the other volunteers of Verizon Pioneers. You can be proud of this group, Mr. Kohn! What commendable representatives for Verizon! Many of us in Middletown, NY, use the services of Verizon for our cell phones. Seeing members of your corporation volunteering their time to our Lions Camp Badger brought to light another perspective of your corporation and what big business can do in our local communities. Kudos to Verizon! You can be assured we intend to spread the word to our organizations of what members of Verizon Pioneers do in their "spare time." Sincerely, Albert M. Propeack President Middletown Lions Club Middletown, NY Steve Kohn is the vice president of the Verizon TelecomPioneers. Midge Brandao is the chapter manager of the Excelsior Chapter. |
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Join the L.H. Kinnard Pioneers for Pioneer Day at Dorney Park
Saturday, October 4 from noon until 11 p.m. Bring your friends,
family, and neighbors! Enjoy special Halloween events -- Trick
or Treat for the little ones and Camp Spooky for the older kids.
Tickets are $22.00 for adults and $19 for youth, plus $2.00
shipping per order. Learn more and order tickets at
www.verizonpioneers.org/Estore/DorneyPark2008.htm.
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Our Estore manager would like to hear your recommendations on new products. Please e-mail bruceyennie@verizon.net with your feedback.
Verizon TelecomPioneers
P.O. Box 4406 . Salem, MA 01970
email:
info@verizonpioneers.org
phone:
978.745.9600
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