DOWD and HRO Staffers Present Christmas Check
To Family Support Foundation

Warrant Officer 1, T. Larry Dawson presents a $2,000 check to Lt. Col Jay Peno, president of the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation. The check presentation was made on behalf of DOWD and HRO staffers at the departments annual Christmas party.

In  keeping with the holiday spirit that it’s better to give than receive, members of the Georgia Department of Defense Directorate of Workforce Development and Human Resource Office in early December 2006 added to the coffers of the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation.

More than $2,000, a 150 percent increase over last year’s contribution, was raised, said Warrant Officer 1, T. Larry Dawson, a human resources development specialist. The funds came from the purchases of donated items auctioned off during the DOWD and HRO Christmas party, Dawson said.

It’s the second time that such an event to help the foundation has been held, he added. “And we certainly look forward to doing it every year.”

Dawson said the check was presented to Lt. Col. Jay Peno, the foundation’s president the day following, said Dawson.

“We thank the folks at DOWD and HRO for their efforts to support the foundation, but more importantly, those efforts provide support to some of our most important Guard assets, the families who remain when their Soldiers are deployed,” Peno explained.

Dawson said he’d like to see other organizations with the Georgia Guard take up the cause and support the foundation. If they take notice of what DOWD and HRO are doing, he said, maybe they’ll “jump on the band wagon and join us.”