[Bookstoprisoners] Re: alternative holiday gift & library IDreceived

[Sandra Ahten]

Great! Bring them in and we'll definitely include them in the packages we 
send out.

Sandra

>From: Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com>
>To: Mary Winters-Meyer <mjwmeyer at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>CC: "bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net" 
><bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net>
>Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Re: alternative holiday gift & library 
>IDreceived
>Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:30:47 -0600
>
>Mary,
>
>(copying list)
>
>Thanks, I really like this idea! We have a number of volunteers who are
>artists that may be interested making some custom designs for our cards and
>some people like the idea of having them printed with pictures of us /our
>space in them etc. But the idea of being able to send them to our inmates 
>is
>great!
>
>What do others think of sending out some of these [free] Holiday cards to
>the inmates? I think, especially in the case of Pontiac, if we can get 30 
>or
>40 of them in a shoe box delivered all at once, or inside one of our big
>packages - there's no reason not to do something like this as these may be
>the only Christmas card most of these inmates get and it would take SO
>little effort on our part.
>
>- Jay
>
>On 11/18/05, Mary Winters-Meyer <mjwmeyer at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > I just received my library ID today, so thought I'd send a quick
> > message to let you know. I'm going to join the listserv, but was
> > glancing through the archives this morning and noticed the discussion
> > on the alternative holiday gift idea.
> >
> > You were all talking about making cards - would you like some donated
> > holiday cards? My mom is a lead coordinator for the fund raising
> > efforts of UNICEF, where they sell holiday cards, and every year she
> > always has some cards that don't sell. She usually buys them, and
> > then I end up getting a bunch as gifts. I have quite a few packages
> > of cards floating around the house, and have never quite known what
> > to do with them, since I never seem to get organized enough to send
> > out Christmas cards. I've thought of donating them to someone, but
> > wasn't sure who. The alternative holiday gift project seems like a
> > perfect place to donate these cards. There would be a bunch of
> > different designs, some religious, some not. If you would like these,
> > let me know and I'll dig around and find them all. I could also
> > possibly raid my mom's "stash" when I go up north over Thanksgiving.
> > I bet that even if these aren't used for the fund raiser, they could
> > be used when sending out letters to prisoners. One of the things I
> > like about the UNICEF cards is that the greetings are always written
> > in several languages - english, spanish, french, and I think 2
> > others, so they're very multicultural.
> >
> > Let me know what you think!
> > Mary
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > Mary J. Winters-Meyer mjwmeyer at uiuc.edu (217) 244-1769
> > Research Programmer, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> > _______________________
> > Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a
> > satellite picture.
> > -- Stephen Wright
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>Jay


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