Cookies for the incoming and outgoing troops will continue to be picked up every week (Wednesdays) and throughout the summer also, so feel free to drop them off at the Superintendent's Office.

 

 

 

Last week, Georgetown ISD students and families sent over 70 dozen cookies and many arrival cards to the families of soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division arriving back at Ft. Hood after deployment in Iraq.

 

The program was made possible with the help of Superintendent Joe Dan Lee and Georgetown veteran Ron Lockhart, who delivered the cookies and cards. Mr. Lockhart reported: "Several hundred troops landed and arrived at the gym. Preceding their arrival, I had passed out all of the arrival cards made by the kids from GISD. They went to the families of the arriving soldiers so that they could greet them with the cards as well as all the other goodies that they brought. It made a special day even more special and all the family members expressed thanks. It was a great day and that was just the first plane in for the day."

 

Mr. Lockhart will continue to make deliveries to Ft. Hood each Thursday. Cards and cookies need to be at Central Office by 2 pm on Wednesday. Students can make cards wishing soldiers well on their deployments or welcoming them home on their arrival. Soldiers like the students to put their name and school address on the cards so they may write to them. Parents are also encouraged to bake cookies or brownies for the soldiers.

 

Between now and end of year there will be 12,000 deployments and 10,000 arrivals through Ft. Hood. If you chose to participate, please separate the cards for deployment and arrivals. Thank you to all of the principals, teachers, students and parents for supporting the Georgetown connection to Ft. Hood.