Current Currents

Just a few quick updates:

1. Wow, we're almost running out of books! Please continue donating, and get others involved! We especially are focusing on children's books right now. Also, we'll take good quality magazines, like old National Geographics, for libraries.
2. This morning we delivered 3 bags of 30 books each to the Roswell Senior Center. The center manager, Sandra Hanson, was kind enough to agree to transport 2 of the bags to the other North Fulton centers in Alpharetta and Sandy Springs. Thanks so much!
   
   
   Kathy N. and Ms. Hanson
   
   
   
3. Another clinic contacted us for books! Here are the e-mails of the 4 people representing 5 clinics:
   

We would greatly appreciate any books you donate to us.
We see children ages 0 -17 in my clinic but we see patients of all ages.
I am the only full time pediatrician and we have 7 full (or part-time) family physicians.
I can be reached via email or my clinic [#].

Jennifer Fowlkes-Callins MD

Our Reach Out and Read Program would love your donations. Our children love receiving books year round. My office telephone number is [#] or you can e-mail me. I hope we can discuss delivery. I will be on vacation next week.
Thanks,

Tiquette White, MD

My name is Ashley Lauria and I am the current Program Coordinator for the Reach Out and Read programs at the International Medical Center and Lindbergh Women and Children's Health Center. I received your emails about the donation offer and we would be more than grateful to receive the donations for both sites. Our ROR programs are constantly in need of books to supply our reading program and to stock the waiting rooms, so they will definitely be put to good use. Please let me know at your earliest convenience how we coordinate either delivering or picking up the books.
Thank you!

+Ashley Lauria
Emory University c/o 2010
Reach Out and Read Program Coordinator (Grady Hospital-IMC & Lindbergh Clinic)
Kappa Kappa Gamma- Assistant to the Philanthropy Chair

Thanks for finding us; we could use some used books, but our clinic is a little small (2 pediatricians) and storage is limited. Are the books appropriate for ages 1 to 5? If so, I'd say we could store about 200 books. You can reach me at [#] (or [#]) at the clinic.

Our local/regional ROR coordinator might know where to place the other books;her name is Renee Ross, at [#]. Also, you might contact some of the other Grady neighborhood clinics; Dekalb Grady (Dr.Karen Duncan--[#]), North Dekalb (Dr.Dawn Swaby-Ellis--[#]), or North Fulton (Dr. Munoz-[#]) or Lindberg Clinic ([#]).

Thank you for your encouragement of book-reading to children; it is a passion I share.

B.J. Steele MD