Fall Book Frenzy has record year
by Christie Laird & Melanie Block, Fall Book Frenzy co-chairs
Thousands of donated books and media are sold to benefit the Hassenfeld Library as well as donated to children in Tennessee and Texas.
Thousands of donated books and media are sold to benefit the Hassenfeld Library as well as donated to children in Tennessee and Texas.
Fall Book Frenzy had a record-setting year. We had the largest amount of items donated to the sale ever, and more importantly, we gave away an extraordinary amount of books and other items to communities and organizations who really need them.
Many of your donated items are going directly to children in Nashville who have never had a book to call their own, to children in Houston who lost so much in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and to start the first-ever library in a small town in Tennessee. Other donated items will comfort and distract a child as he waits in the Juvenile Justice Center, will help enrollees in the adult literacy program read to their child for the first time, and will help build up the library at nearby Carter-Lawrence Elementary School.
Lots of books are also headed to a local English as a Second Language classroom through the generosity of USN Middle School students. Fifth graders Madeline Chalos and Liv O’Hara pushed the number of books purchased by students to well over 100 books and Fall Book Frenzy added two more bags to the effort.
Fall Book Frenzy donated more than 50 bags of books to USN teachers and dozens more bags to teachers from USN's Educators' Cooperative and teachers and families with the Horizons summer enrichment camp program. Another 120 books were donated by Fall Book Frenzy for USN High Schoolers to give to their mentees in the community service project. And a large number of books were given away to USN students who won coupons as prizes at Fall Fest or who correctly answered questions from USN’s own bookworm, Cristina Monfardini.
Along the way, Fall Book Frenzy did make money for USN’s Hassenfeld Library, and we are so grateful to those who bought books, made donations, and bid on items in the Silent Auction. The beautiful Little Free Library was purchased by the Ward and Ragan-Martin family and is being generously donated to the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance for placement in a North Nashville neighborhood. The total money raised by the sale was also boosted once again by the proceeds of the craft sale run by students in the fourth and fifth grades.
Fall Book Frenzy would have never happened if not for the amazing volunteers who put in many hours to get the sale ready. The pallets, boxes, and overflowing bags did not daunt this group of dedicated volunteers. We are grateful for your time and your energy. The way these volunteers whipped the Cheek Gym back into shape with the fantastic help of Boy Scout Troop No. 92, and the USN Operations team was nothing less than impressive. Fall Book Frenzy is a labor of love, and we are thankful so many of you love and support this event year after year, especially parents of USN alumni.
Fall Book Frenzy is already looking forward to next year and thinking of ways in which we can further increase our efforts to share books with the greater Nashville community. If you’d like to be involved with this process or with the sale in general, please contact the USNA Office. Some of the groups who received donations of books and other items this year include: Meharry Medical College Community Day, Safe Haven, Horizons summer camp, Juvenile Justice Center, Books to Kids, The Word Wagon, Houston hurricane efforts, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Adult Literacy Council, Edgehill Family Resource Center, Educators' Cooperative, and the Greenbrier Library.
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Many of your donated items are going directly to children in Nashville who have never had a book to call their own, to children in Houston who lost so much in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and to start the first-ever library in a small town in Tennessee. Other donated items will comfort and distract a child as he waits in the Juvenile Justice Center, will help enrollees in the adult literacy program read to their child for the first time, and will help build up the library at nearby Carter-Lawrence Elementary School.
Lots of books are also headed to a local English as a Second Language classroom through the generosity of USN Middle School students. Fifth graders Madeline Chalos and Liv O’Hara pushed the number of books purchased by students to well over 100 books and Fall Book Frenzy added two more bags to the effort.
Fall Book Frenzy donated more than 50 bags of books to USN teachers and dozens more bags to teachers from USN's Educators' Cooperative and teachers and families with the Horizons summer enrichment camp program. Another 120 books were donated by Fall Book Frenzy for USN High Schoolers to give to their mentees in the community service project. And a large number of books were given away to USN students who won coupons as prizes at Fall Fest or who correctly answered questions from USN’s own bookworm, Cristina Monfardini.
Along the way, Fall Book Frenzy did make money for USN’s Hassenfeld Library, and we are so grateful to those who bought books, made donations, and bid on items in the Silent Auction. The beautiful Little Free Library was purchased by the Ward and Ragan-Martin family and is being generously donated to the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance for placement in a North Nashville neighborhood. The total money raised by the sale was also boosted once again by the proceeds of the craft sale run by students in the fourth and fifth grades.
Fall Book Frenzy would have never happened if not for the amazing volunteers who put in many hours to get the sale ready. The pallets, boxes, and overflowing bags did not daunt this group of dedicated volunteers. We are grateful for your time and your energy. The way these volunteers whipped the Cheek Gym back into shape with the fantastic help of Boy Scout Troop No. 92, and the USN Operations team was nothing less than impressive. Fall Book Frenzy is a labor of love, and we are thankful so many of you love and support this event year after year, especially parents of USN alumni.
Fall Book Frenzy is already looking forward to next year and thinking of ways in which we can further increase our efforts to share books with the greater Nashville community. If you’d like to be involved with this process or with the sale in general, please contact the USNA Office. Some of the groups who received donations of books and other items this year include: Meharry Medical College Community Day, Safe Haven, Horizons summer camp, Juvenile Justice Center, Books to Kids, The Word Wagon, Houston hurricane efforts, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Adult Literacy Council, Edgehill Family Resource Center, Educators' Cooperative, and the Greenbrier Library.
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