From Home to Heroes—What’s in a Name?
June 21, 2011 at 10:38 pm Ryan Jones Leave a comment
Our May/June issue featured a profile of of Jess Exum, a Penn State junior and founder of Letters from Home, a student organization that sends care packages to troops deployed overseas. Exum started the club just last December, but it’s been an eventful half year—not least because she’s already had to change the name. Turns out there was already an organization by that name doing pretty much the same thing, so she came up with The Dear Hero Program instead.
By any name, the club’s first six months were productive: The Dear Hero Program has sent out 42 care packages, and she says they’ve started hearing back from some of the homesick troops whose days they’ve made. Exum says she also heard from her eighth grade science teacher, Sharon Brandt ’71 MS Sci, who saw the story in our last issue and proceeded to brag about her to everyone at Oyster Bay (NY) High School, her alma mater.
Ryan Jones, senior editor
Entry filed under: Penn State students. Tags: Dear Hero Program, Jess Exum, Letters From Home, Sharon Brandt.
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