The sock drive was a new project for the Auxiliary volunteers, who also host sales and events throughout the calendar year to raise funds to benefit the hospital. Collection boxes for Operation-Sock-It-To-Me were placed within the hospital for visitors and employees, as well as each of the four BCMH Family Care Clinic locations in Adrian, Butler and Rich Hill.
In October, a staff member from the Butler Senior Center requested a collection box so their visitors might contribute as well. Residents from Medicalodges also wanted to join the sock drive, and collected several bags worth to donate.
Auxiliary volunteers gathered on Wednesday, November 15 for their end of year luncheon meeting, and to pose for a photo with the collection of socks, a quantity that wouldn’t fit in the largest collection box. Several members stayed after the meeting to help organize the socks in preparation for delivery to schools.
BCMH Auxiliary volunteers wish to thank BCMH staff and the community for generously donating to the sock drive. They plan to repeat Operation Sock-It-To-Me in 2018.
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| BCMH Auxiliary volunteers pose with an overflowing box of socks, the result of their first annual Operation Sock-It-To-Me drive. Front row, from left: Charlotte Guss, Missie Good, Helen Hursh, Donna Huber, Kathy Bunch, Faye Hunt, Kathleen Eckert, Mildred Chenault. Second row: June Ray, Dorothy Kincaid, Sherry York, Mary Carpenter, Dee Hall, Gerry Ketron, Doris Null, Sharon Perkins, Liz Schlechty, Cheryl Shaw, Alvina Harrison-Wells, Pat Friederich. Back row: Beverly Wainwright, Paula Shaffer, Bob Johnson, Bob Thomas, Chaplain Mike Humphrey, Clayton Nichols, Leland Hursh, Chaplain Wendell Teagarden. |
