Thursday, March 11, 2010

newsBriefs

Free coffee at library
The Patient and Post Library in Bldg. 1, Rm. D-110, is offering free coffee to anyone who shows their library card today between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Those who do not have a library card can sign up for one.

Education Fair
The Education Services Division hosts an education fair Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Karen Wagner Sports Center at Walter Reed. Approximately 30 colleges, universities and educational organizations are expected to participate. Guest speaker is slated to be Brig. Gen. Richard P. Mustion, Army adjutant general.

Healing through canine friends
The Walter Reed Traumatic Brain Injury Service and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center host speaker and author retired Marine Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman at the Mologne House March 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. Kopelman will talk about readjusting to civilian life post-deployment with help from a puppy his unit rescued in Badgdad. For more information, call Katie Brazaitis at (202) 356-1012 ext. 41786.

Diversity Book Club
The U.S. Army Garrison-Walter Reed Equal Opportunity (EO) Diversity Book Club meets March 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Doss Memorial Hall (Bldg. 17). Books are available for check out in the post library located in the old hospital (Bldg. 1), Rm. D-110. This month’s session, focusing on Women’s History Month, will be sponsored by the EO Office, the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club, and the post library. For more information and the book that club members will discuss, call Sgt. 1st Class Tiffany Reid at (202) 782-3266, Sgt. 1st Class Robert Skaret at (202) 782-5080, or Eileen Hauser, the librarian, at (202) 782-6315.

Social Work Month events
Walter Reed Department of Social Work celebrates Professional Social Work Month during March with two events which participants may earn continuing education units. The first, March 19, is a six-hour ethics conference, ‘‘Social Work Ethics and the Law,” beginning at 8:30 a.m. in Joel Auditorium. The second event is March 24 at 1 p.m. in Joel Auditorium, when the film ‘‘The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”, a true story of a social worker who rescued 2,500 children from the Holocaust in Poland during World War II, will be shown. For more information, call Dr. Dean M. Rueckert, at (202) 356-1012, Ext. 2-5871.

Command recognition ceremony
The Medical Center Brigade’s next Welcome Home and Command Recognition Ceremony is scheduled for April 2 at 1:30 p.m. in Heaton Pavilion’s Joel Auditorium.

Easter Sunrise Service
Walter Reed’s 84th Annual Easter Sunrise Service is April 4 at 6:30 a.m. in the Rose Garden. Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Cecil R. Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, is scheduled to be the guest speaker. A continental breakfast in the Wagner Sports Center will follow the service. In case of inclement weather, the service will move inside Wagner.

Family Child Care Training
Family Child Care Training is April 19-23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day at Forest Glen, Bldg. 130 (Child and Youth School Services Training Room). For more information, call Cynthia Archer at (301) 295-7555.

ROCKS events
The ROCKS, Inc. will host its bi-annual National Leadership and Training Conference April 1-3, at Fort Belvoir, Va. This year’s theme is ‘‘Making A Difference: Mentoring and Inspiring the Next Generation of World-Class Leaders.” The conference includes presentations by senior military and Department of Defense leaders, leadership panels, and small group discussions. Conference details are available at www.rocksinc.org and by calling (301) 856-9319 or toll-free at (888) 762-5747. Also, on April 3, ROCKS, Inc., hosts its 36th Annual Spring Gala at the Fort Belvoir Officers’ Club. For more information about the gala, people can visit The ROCKS Web site.