By Jonathan W. Gipson
Magazine Schools Media Relations
MAGAZINE – Magazine Schools proudly supports its military families, and as the first Purple Star Designated School in Logan County, it has committed to serving its students and families connected to our nation’s armed forces.
Magazine Schools recently announced its participation in the Operation Paperback program. Operation Paperback is a national, non-profit organization, whose volunteers collect gently-used books and send them to American troops overseas, as well as veterans and military families here at home. Since 1999, it has shipped over 2.9 million books to countries all over the world.
Operation Paperback provides books to wounded warrior programs and veterans hospitals located within the United States, as well as USO centers at US Airport transit points.
In addition, past projects include providing books from military Professional Reading Lists to support servicemember professional development goals, supporting chaplains as they counsel troops, both before redeployment and after reunification, with a variety of specifically requested titles, supplying books for the annual book giveaway at NSA Souda Bay in Crete, Greece for service members and their families and supplying children’s books to deployed soldiers who read to their children via webcam or on DVDs.
“As part of this project, we will be able to send books directly to our American troops deployed overseas and to veterans and VA hospitals within the United States,” Magazine Schools District Administrator for Federal Programs and Curriculum and Military Family Liaison Karen Gipson said.
The most popular genres requested are bestsellers, action and spy novels, murder mysteries, fantasy and science fiction. There are also many requests for business and investing books, classics, history (especially military history) and current event-oriented non-fiction.
If you are interested in joining Magazine Schools in this project by donating new or gently used books, please drop off your donation at the Magazine Schools Administration Building located at 485 East Priddy Street in Magazine or if you would like to arrange pick up, please contact Gipson at [email protected] or 1-866-900-2001.
