Who would have thought that one of Treemont's best perks would be its student volunteer program?
Faced with a mountain of board meeting minutes and financial records that needed shredding, I signed up for help. I knew that it would be tedious to separate the papers from the covers and dividers and figured it would take at least a full day for me to do that, then put the papers through the shredder.
Yesterday morning three fine, clean-cut young men appeared at my door reporting for duty. They introduced themselves as Arthur, Lee and Peter (Lee and Peter on on right in photo) and said "Mrs. McCall, we are here to help you. What do you need?"With a minimum of instruction they set up a system with two of them preparing and one shredding, and in a little over an hour of concentration and cooperation the three of them disposed of what I know would have been at minimum a long, tiresome day's work for me.
These boys were polite and respectful, bright and capable, and friendly yet business-like in their approach. They are a credit to their homes, their Strake Jesuit school, and their generation. These are not the first student volunteers to be of real, tangible and significant help to me, nor the last, I hope. I just want to go on the record for all to know what a blessing they are to this senior citizen at Treemont.
Treemont Staff Notes: These Strake Jesuit volunteers have helped a number of Treemont residents includinig editing Al Chivers book, fixing computer glitches, teaching residents to use new cellphones, helping residents set up DVD players. Betsy Jennings was having banking issues and spent the whole morning on the phone with Chase Bank. These volunteers fixed the problem in a half-hour. See Betsy's email below.
They were just wonderful. Thanks to both of you. Betsy Jennings
Other tasks include delivering packages for the Front Desk to residents, carrying trays in the dining rooms for residents that use walkers, picking up boxes and getting things high off of bookshelves.
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