Wall of Volunteers – Mask Distribution and Recipients
Our volunteers have diligently distributed over 4,900 masks throughout the community. Police/fire departments, medical centers, doctors' offices, and group/assisted living homes are just a few of the locations where these masks are making a difference in our community!
Click on the photos below for additional information about the distribution locations and the volunteers making the deliveries, along with grateful mask recipients from all over the state, modeling their hand sewn masks!
Aaron Carpenter, Outreach Coordinator, Outreach Global, has been volunteering his time making deliveries to various locations that have requested face masks. Some of the locations that Aaron has delivered to includes: EAMC Cancer Center, Oak Park Nursing Home, Monarch Estates, Interim Homecare, Encompass Home Health, and Lee County Youth Development Center.
Dr. Elizabeth Essamuah-Quansah, Director of Outreach Global, has been integral in coordinating the delivery and distribution of completed face masks throughout the community.
Mask Recipient: Ayden Bailey – Ayden will graduate from Auburn High School this spring and matriculate to AU in pre-nursing this fall. She works at The Clinic on Sixth in Opelika, where she and her colleagues have all received masks from this project. Her dad, Chad Bailey, is volunteering with the production process, running the laser cutter that is cutting the fabric used in our mask kits.
Mask Recipient: James (Jimmy) W. Rane, Auburn University Board of Trustees, District 3
Mac-Jane Crayton, Graduate Assistant, Outreach Global, has been volunteering her time making deliveries to various locations that have requested face masks. Here, she is pictured delivering masks to Aspire Health Clinic.
Mask Recipient: Dr. Megan Good, Director, Academic Quality and Improvement, Office of the Provost, Auburn University
Mask Recipient: Mike Kensler, Director, Office of Sustainability; President's Cabinet Member, Auburn University
Mask Recipient: Steve Pelham, Associate Vice President for Economic Development, Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development, Auburn University
Mask Recipient: Jacob Dane (wearing a face mask sewn by his wife, OLLI sewist, Fenny Dane)
Mask Recipients: Amedisys Home Health Care
Mask Recipients: Arbor Springs Health and Rehab Center
Mask Recipients: The Diabetes and Nutrition Center at East Alabama Medical Center – Some masks sewn and donated by Fiona Macleod
Mask Recipient: Gary Lemme, Director, Alabama Cooperative Extension System – Gary gave everyone a laugh by showcasing his mounted hog wearing his custom AU mask!
Mask Recipient: Governor Kay Ivey - Governor Ivey was thrilled to take part in this initiative and to show support as well. The Governor sends her best regards, and encourages all to stay safe and continue to practice social distancing.
Mask Recipients: Opelika Retirement Home
Mask Recipients: Auburn University President's Cabinet
Mask Recipients: Mercy Medical – Medical Director, Dr. Dell Crosby (pictured)
Mask Recipients: The Clinic on Sixth; Brandy McCulloch, Nurse Practitioner (left), Ayden Bailey, COS Staff (middle), and Julie Johnson, COS Staff (right)
The Church of the Highlands (COTH) Neighborhood Outreach group has been volunteering their time making deliveries to senior citizens and families in need of face masks. COTH volunteer, Michelle Pegues-Washington works at Auburn University in the Entomology and Plant Pathology department. Whitney Lee, formerly of the Office of Public Service, University Outreach, now working in Auburn Alumni's Office of Gift Planning, is also volunteering with COTH's Neighborhood Outreach group distributing masks to those in need.
Mask Recipients: Internal Medicine, East Alabama Medical Center
Mask Recipients: Lee-Russel Council of Government (LRCOG) – LRCOG received face masks to distribute along with home delivered meals for senior citizens.
Mask Recipients: Morningside Assisted Living
Mask Recipients: Rivertown Psychiatry
Mask Recipients: Timothy Manor Apartments
Mask Recipients: Village Friends Village Values - A Network for Senior Independence
Woodland United Methodist Church in Pike Road, AL, has been distributing face masks to those in need in their community. Pictured below: The Woodland food pantry food boxes - 100 masks distributed through food boxes; Mt. Meigs Volunteer Fire Department; the Pike Road Post Office; and the Pike Road Fire Department.
Mask Recipients: Sterile Processing Division at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital
Dr. Venus Hewing, Outreach Partnerships and Initiatives Coordinator, Center for Educational Outreach and Engagement (CEOE), has been volunteering her time making deliveries for the face mask initiative. She is shown below making a delivery of face masks to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
Mask Recipients: AU Student Counseling & Psychological Services – Priscilla Little made and distributed Outreach masks to the office staff at AU Student Counseling & Psychological Services. Below is a photo of one of their therapy dogs, Dr. Moose, modeling a face mask.
Mask Recipients: East Alabama Mental Health Center