We were so sad to say goodbye to Claire and Mary who have
been stupendous VISTA volunteers at TRIP for the past year. Their one year of service ended in
November when they both moved on to other things. Mary has moved to NYC (Queens) where she is currently
interning at an arts gallery on the Lower East Side called Lu Magnus (www.lumagnus.com) and looking for paid
employment as well. Claire has
remained with her family in Troy temporarily and is doing retail work until she
moves to Philadelphia in the near future.
Many of you met
Claire at various neighborhood meetings and community events in her role as
TRIP’s community outreach worker. She
was an enthusiastic cheerleader among groups even while keeping them focused on
the tasks at hand. Mary was
TRIP’s Program Support Worker where her organizational skills were welcomed and
put to use streamlining systems and orchestrating progress on various
projects. They both
had strong arts backgrounds and so were key in shepherding School 2’s “Paint
the Boards” project with sixth graders.
(See http://triponline.org/news_and_events/PainttheBoards2012.html
for terrific photos from this project).
Their graphics and social media skills will be long remembered through
their artistic legacy at TRIP:
they created many of our photoboards, HomeOwnership Center palmcards,
TRIP banner, revised TNAC brochure, TroyTalk editions, Facebook and website
postings, and more.
More than that, they both brought great spirits into the
office every day. We appreciate
and miss their interest in and support of TRIP’s work, their ability to take on
any job thrown at them and do it with good cheer, their collaboration in
helping out any staff member and customer, and their fresh eyes and
recommendations for improvements.
They made TRIP better every day and we will miss them for that. We wish them well and know that these
two terrific young women will go far in life.
Please see article here about Mary’s musings on being a VISTAvolunteer.
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