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League Staff Aids Iraqi Schoolchildren
 Lt Niles Motschenbacher sits in with an elementary school
class in Mosul. He was moved by the need of the kids for adequate school
supplies and asked his family to help out. |
NEWINGTON, CT, May 7, 2004--Fourteen large boxes filled
with school supplies, books and toys are on their way to needy schoolchildren
in Northern Iraq, thanks to the generous spirit of ARRL Headquarters staff
members.
Packages of pencils, paper, pens, crayons and other school
supplies were shipped out of the ARRL Warehouse, paid for with a private
anonymous donation. ARRL Sales and Marketing Manager Dennis Motschenbacher,
K7BV, spearheaded the Headquarters effort. His nephew, 2nd Lt Niles
Motschenbacher, is serving with a US Army unit near the city of Mosul.
Niles Motschenbacher's Stryker battalion group works with
local officials to stabilize area services, Dennis Motschenbacher said. "The
battalion has been tasked with working with local groups such as fire
departments, schools and hospitals. One of Niles' jobs is regularly touring the
schools," he said. "He said he was shocked the first time he went into a school
building and found 100 kids in a single room, sitting on the floor and sharing
a few pencils."
 ARRL Sales and Marketing Manager Dennis Motschenbacher,
K7BV, sent out the word to ARRL staff regarding his nephew's request. The result:
a mountain of supplies and toys for the schoolchildren of Mosul, Iraq.
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Niles has a background of working with school kids. His
mother is an elementary school teacher in Alaska and both Niles and his sister
Anna would regularly stop in to their mother's classroom after their own junior
high or high school classes were over. Niles wrote to Anna and asked if she
could put the word out to their family to gather up a few school supplies and
send them to him in Iraq.
"When I got Anna's note, I thought of the people here at
ARRL Headquarters and how generous they are. I put up a few flyers on bulletin
boards and set up a donation box in the employee lunchroom. I was stunned to
see all of the things that came in. And people were not looking for
recognition--they just anonymously dropped things in at the beginning of the
day, much of it new materials. It's all very moving to see the response."
Picking up the theme, ARRL Administrative Assistant to the
CEO Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ, donated a small mountain of toys to the shipment.
"It's important for children to have time for other things beside school
books," she said. "Toys let kids be kids, no matter where they are in the
world."
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