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Josie Pritchard, a retired 70-year-old Division Public Affairs
Manager for GTE in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and member of the
Verizon West Chapter, has eschewed a rocking chair in favor of
roaming the world to lend a hand after natural disasters. Josie
retired in 1993, ran a home renovation business for three years,
then signed on with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
in 1996. She began with a flexible schedule working as a local
hire in Harrisburg before joining the public affairs cadre in
September of that year.
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Our Life Member Spotlight is on... Shirley Hiltz of the
Maryland Chapter. Shirley Hiltz is currently the Assistant Life
Member Rep and the Chapter Administrator. Since the chapter lost
its Pioneer Administrator in the '90s, Shirley has taken up the
slack as a volunteer. The office is open three days a week from
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The staff of volunteers that she supervises is
responsible for receiving incoming mail, fielding telephone
calls, retrieving and responding to calls received when the
office is not staffed, and assisting with the Book 'em, Students
Under Construction and Vial of Life projects. They put together
packets for those attending the annual meeting in Ocean City,
including making name tags for each attendee. They send out
flyers for our many events, including our upcoming Life Member
Holiday party for which they will again be making nearly 200
name tags. One of the larger projects they work on is sending
out more than 15,000 tickets for our various fundraisers, one of
which is Hersheypark Day. In addition to the Pioneer Office
detail, Shirley is an active member of the TelecomPioneers, and
along with her husband, Don, also a life member, participates in
many projects that take place outside the office.
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The Washington DC Metro Chapter of the Verizon Consortium of
Information and Telecommunications Executives (CITE) recognized
the Montgomery Council of the AGB Chapter for its partnership on
several projects and for allowing CITE to use its office for
temporary storage. The certificate was presented to Sharon
Shields, Montgomery Council’s liaison with CITE, by Gilbert
Armstrong and Angela Simmons, Vice Chair and Chair of the
Community Action Committee.
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The L.H. Kinnard Chapter participated in the “Pennsylvania’s
Treasures” parade, sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the state capitol
building, on September 30, 2006.
The Kinnard Chapter decided to tie its educational Dictionary
and Lingo projects with Verizon’s FiOS service with a float
representing both. The design for the float was the idea of
Pioneer and Verizon employee, Keith Smith, Section Manager for
NDNC Performance Assurance & Administration/Managed Network
Infrastructure. Over 400 volunteer hours of work was put into
building the float!
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The Verizon Literacy Campus (VLC) is pleased to announce the
launch of several new VLC online courses. They are: Creating
Community Linkages, Using the Newspaper in Adult Literacy and
ESL Instructions, and Reducing Student Waiting Lists. In
addition, the "Using Learner Stories for Language and Literacy
Outcomes" resource is now available in the
VLC Library in the English Language Learner section.
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The filing period for the 2007 TelecomPioneers Scholarship
Program opens Nov. 15, 2006 and runs through February 28, 2007.
Applications and background information will be posted to the
Association
website on Oct. 16. The TelecomPioneers Scholarship Program
is designed to help further the organization’s education focus
and its efforts to build healthy communities through individual
and family involvement in community service.
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To ensure consistency, we updated all the Verizon TelecomPioneer
chapter website addresses so they would contain the words
"Verizon" and "Pioneers." Through August of 2007, you'll be able
to log onto your chapter website using the former and the new
domain names. Following are the domain names:
AGB -
www.verizonagbpioneers.org
Excelsior - www.verizonexcelsiorpioneers.org Fort Pitt - www.verizonfortpittpioneers.org HG McCully Down - www.verizonmccullydownstatepioneers.org HG McCully Up - www.verizonmccullyupstatepioneers.org Jasper Keller - www.verizonjaspernkellerpioneers.org Kinnard - www.verizonkinnardpioneers.org Liberty Bell - www.verizonlibertybellpioneers.org Maryland - www.verizonmarylandpioneers.org Mountain Valley Empire - www.verizonmvempirepioneers.org Nova Five - www.verizonnova5pioneers.org Old Dominion - www.verizonolddominionpioneers.org Paumanok - www.verizonpaumanokpioneers.org Thomas Sherwin - www.verizonsherwinpioneers.org Verizon West - www.verizonwestpioneers.org West Virginia - www.verizonwvapioneers.org W.J. Denver - www.verizonwjdenverpioneers.org |
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Our Estore manager would like to hear your recommendations on new products. Please e-mail him with your feedback. Verizon TelecomPioneers
P.O. Box 4406 . Salem, MA 01940
email:
info@verizonpioneers.org
phone:
978.745.9600
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