Senior Awards Recipient of the Volunteer Service Award – John “Jack” Geary – Senior Resident, Sunnyslope Manor
John “Jack” Geary
John “Jack” Geary is amazing. He is a Korean era Veteran. A “Vietnam Era” Veteran is defined as any Veteran who served during the official time frame of the Vietnam War. He will be 84 in January.
Although Jack has very limited vision and hearing, he finds time to share his love of books with his friends and neighbors. The library at Sunnyslope Manor was in disarray. Very few residents used the library. Jack volunteered his time to organize the library. He gathered all the books in the library, put together carts of books to donate to charity, and arranged the remaining books by subject and author using a magnifying glass. He donated several of his own new books for his fellow residents to read.
The residents at Sunnyslope Manor now use the library and have expressed their gratitude to Jack for his outstanding work. Jack takes pride in maintaining the library in an orderly manner on a weekly basis to ensure all books are in their proper place.