Making a difference
Crocheting for the community
Archived article from Feb 15, 2002
During the fall semester, on any Tuesday during lunchtime, if you entered Room D in the Douglass College Center you would have seen 16 staff members unwinding. Unwinding yarn, that is, and crocheting.
The women, who were participating in a community service project sponsored by the Douglass College Staff Development Team, met each week to crochet lap robes. Their efforts yielded 19 completed blankets, which were delivered in January to the residents of the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home on Easton Avenue. The long-term-care facility is home to Betty Durham, a 1922 graduate of the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College) and one of the college's oldest living alumnae.
The crocheting project was conceived as a way of encouraging employees from various Douglass departments to interact with one another in a relaxed setting while doing something beneficial for the community.
Participants included Suzan Armstrong-West, Linda Ballan, Pat Bongiovi, Jocelyn Briddell, Dee Buchanan, Nancy Cahill, Narda Duff, S. Beth Howard, Crystal Hunter, Joan Apple Lemoine, Jennifer O'Neill, Emmie O'Such, Rebecca Reynolds, Michelle Shostack, Betty Spaulding and Nora Stryker.
-- Michelle Shostack
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