Saipan Rotary Club president Glen Perez presented the letters to the Rotarians during their meeting at the Hyatt on Tuesday.
“We are very humbled by the stream of letters of thanks and appreciation that have kept coming through the past weeks,” Perez said.
Among the letters that arrived last week were from Nancy E. Babcock, chief of Voluntary Service of the VA Medical Center in Battle Creek., Michigan who appreciated the Saipan Rotary Club’s thoughtfulness and compassion for the veterans; director of the VA Medical Center in Los Angeles Marianne Davis who said they could not have provided the smaller necessities that makes hospitalization for the veterans more bearable; San Francisco VA Medical Center director Lawrence H. Carroll; Voluntary Service chief Jack W. Barrows of the VA Medical Center in Fargo, ND; Voluntary Service chief Ann Drown of the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center in Mountain Home, Tennessee; Voluntary Service chief Christopher H. Shipp on behalf of the Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System; Voluntary Service chief Ralph Marche on behalf of the Boston Healthcare System who said that donations such as the DVDs make a significant difference in the lives of the veterans; Nancy B. Perry on behalf of the VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina; William R. Browning of the John D. Dingle Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan; Bob Frasier on behalf of the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana; and Earl S. Johnson for the VA Medical Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania who appreciated the Rotary Club’s willing desire to “give something back” to the hospitalized veterans.
Last December, the Saipan Rotary Club through the initiative of Rotarian Mike Tripp collected a thousand DVD donations that they sent to DVDs4VETs, an organization that receives and distributes new and used DVDs to over 1,500 veteran facilities across the country since 2006. For more information, visit www.dvds4vets.org.
