Letter-Writing Day to Pay Tribute to U.S. Troops @ your library^®

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Food for Thought @ your library ^®

November 2005
Food for Thought! Letter-Writing Day to Pay Tribute to U.S. Troops @ your library^®

Event:   Letter-Writing Day to Pay Tribute to U.S. Troops!

Sponsors:  RBC Library , RBC Young Democrats, RBC Young Republicans

Date:  Friday, November 18 (all day)

Location:   Library

What’s Happening:    As the ITS Department moves across campus, Internet services will be suspended on Friday, November 18.   Since research-capabilities and computer use will be severely restricted on Friday 11/18, this seemed like the perfect day to devote to community service! The RBC Library Staff, Young Democrats and Young Republicans will sponsor a letter-writing day in an effort to send thank you notes and letters to troops in the US and overseas! The focus of this event is on supporting individual personnel in the U.S. military and is not intended to serve as an endorsement of the war in Iraq.

How Does This Work?   Students and RBC staff can spend time in the library drafting long letters and/or short notes as well as creating decorative thank you cards for soldiers overseas.  The library, Young Democrats and Young Republicans will supply refreshments and paper/pens/markers/stickers, etc!  We’ve even designed a label for each card/note which reads:

This note to you was crafted by a student or employee at Richard Bland College of The College of William & Mary in Petersburg, Virginia.

Who Actually Mails the Letters?   The letters and cards that RBC staff and students create will be sent to a nationally recognized, non-profit organization known as A Million Thanks : http://www.amillionthanks.org .  A Million Thanks will then distribute our mail to U.S. Troops!  (The Library Staff will bundle and ship the letters.)

100 Letters were written by RBC students and staff!

Letter-writing supplies

Telyta Brewington, Joell Christodonte and Amy Shay off to an early start!

Katie O'Daire

Margo Sommer (Professor and Cosponsor of the RBC Young Democrats)

Circulation Desk Specialist Amy Shay with student Shantal Phillips

Student Lauren Wickline with boyfriend (a soldier who had spent time overseas)

Students pick up refreshments and writing supplies

Students during their Activity Period

Dr. Virginia Cherry, Library Director

Professors and Cosponsors of the RBC Young Republicans Kay Snavely and Carole Summerville with students

The Library staff would like to thank the following professors for their support of this event: Dr. LeAnn Binger, Charlotte Rhodes, Kay Snavely, Margo Sommer and Carole Summerville.

In the news...

An article about the event appeared in the November 19, 2005 issue of The Progress-Index.

Also, the December 2005 issue of the Virginia Library Association newsletter included an article about the event.

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