Picture This
‘Send a Soldier a Smile’ Campaign Moves to Columbus Park
Following their very successful on-campus fundraising campaign to provide U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq with much-needed dental healthcare products, City Tech Department of Dental Hygiene students and their counterparts in the Student Veterans Club took their effort to the public in May in Columbus Park outside Brooklyn Borough Hall.
In a two-hour period, hundreds of passersby purchased toothbrushes or made cash donations to the campaign. Moreover, scores of Downtown Brooklyn office workers took the time to write “thank you” notes to the troops for the job they doing. Military personnel on bases across both Iraq and Afghanistan soon will be receiving more than 40 cartons of toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss and mouthwash courtesy of the thousands of people at City Tech and throughout the larger Brooklyn community who contributed to the effort.
The “Send a Soldier a Smile” campaign, which the students want to continue until all of our troops come home, was coordinated by Dental Hygiene Professors Gwen Cohen-Brown, Marilyn Cortell and Shantel Childs-Williams, assisted by department administrative assistant Francine Brown and other staff. Support also was provided by the Counseling Office’s Paul Schwartz, LCSW, MA, faculty advisor to the Student Veterans Club, club officers and other members.
Pictured here, from left, in Columbus Park are dental hygiene students Carol Lok, Yenifer Hernandez, Loida Sotomayor, Orquidea Urena and Kesha Lucien with Francine Brown, behind donation box.
06/26/07
