Senior citizen volunteers feted with breakfast
Sixteen senior citizens who
volunteer their time and skills in the RCS schools were honored with a breakfast at
Applebee's in Glenmont on
Saturday.
The
STAR Intergen program hosted the breakfast
for the senior citizen volunteers and guests, as well as
faculty and staff and dozens of students who
benefit from their time and energy.
The breakfast
honored the senior citizens who volunteer
hundreds of hours each in the classrooms of A.W. Becker
and Pieter B. Coeymans elementary schools.
Teachers Shari Barasch, Ronnie Mitchell
and Lisa Saltis coordinated the entire event with
assistance from STARS volunteer and Board member Elaine
Richter.
Teachers Joanne Chase, April Pisciotta, Kerry Anderson,
Jamie Guntert, as well as Human Resources Administrator
Greg Chase and principals Claudia Verga and Betsy Smith
helped serve the breakfast.
STAR
-- Seniors Teaching and Reaching Out to Students --
places senior citizen volunteers in classrooms to help
teachers and their students in what ever way possible,
whether it's reading to the students, volunteering to
serve in grandparent role, teaching living history or
serving some other purpose.
Volunteers in the
innovative program have received commendations for their
efforts in the past from local land state leaders.
The STAR volunteers ate
for free while others attending the breakfast paid
$5, the majority of which was donated back to the STAR
program by Applebee's.
