Volunteer Sue Ralph works with Mary Jo Dunne, THP Director of Community Development, on organizing and displaying LCS greeting cards for upcoming THP events.
Although Sue Ralph claims she has never considered opening her own Hallmark store, she certainly has convinced the Rockford community and The Haitian Project that she is capable of doing just that! And it all started while writing a note to Elizabeth O’Connell on Holy Family School’s stationary, the cover of which was designed by Sue’s daughter Morgan.
“As I was writing a note to Elizabeth I thought, ‘Why can’t LCS do this?’ So in the note I included the idea and we went with it.” The idea Sue is referring to is the LCS Greeting Card program, which debuted at the annual THP Big Get Together in Rockford this year. Sue worked with Elizabeth O’Connell, former LCS volunteer and THP staff member, and THP Director of Community Development Mary Jo Dunne, who was an LCS volunteer at at that time. “Mary Jo worked with students at the school to come up with and draw the designs and then Elizabeth and I put the cards together,” Sue says of the program. “It was a great opportunity to let the students use their artistic talents to express their love of LCS and THP.”
