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CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- Hudson Valley Hospital Center Pastoral Care Office installed seven new volunteers as lay chaplains Thursday morning during a ceremony in the hospitals Wagner Conference Room.
The lay chaplains visit with patients at the hospital center and help area clergy cater to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their families.
The seven new volunteers are:
Janet Angelillo of Yorktown, is an educator who teaches religious education at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Shrub Oak and has done prison ministry work. Angelillo has an interest in the work of prayer and in the religions of the world and feels drawn to hospital ministry.
John Beck of Cortlandt Manor, who attends the Church of the Holy Spirit. He is retired from careers at IBM and Good Counsel Homes for women. Beck volunteers at Holy Spirit and St. Patricks Yorktown and is involved in the Cursillo and Tres Dias retreat programs.
Philena Bolden of Montrose, who attends Peekskill Presbyterian Church and is President of Hudson Valley Friends of Mental Health. She is a volunteer at Hudson Valley Hospital Center and the Field Library Book Store and local thrift shops.
Marilyn Bucher, who has lived in Mohegan Lake for 40 years where she and her husband raised their three children. Bucher belongs to the United Methodist Church at Shrub Oak where she volunteers in the Sunday school. She enjoys volunteer work and hopes to start visiting nursing homes with a service dog in 2012.
Sister Sheila Kelly, a Sister of the Good Shepherd, who serves children and families at Good Shepherd Services in the Bronx and is now living at Mt. St. Francis in Peekskill.
Roxanne Robson, who has lived in Yorktown Heights for 35 years where she and her husband Bruce raised four children and now have four grandchildren. Robson serves as a Eucharistic Minister St. Mary's in Mohegan Lake and ushers with her husband. She is busy with weekly bible study groups and the Episcopal Cursillo movement.
Donna Sangi-Vallario of Shrub Oak, who is a catechist at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Sangi-Vallario is the director of life guidance at Atria Senior Living, specializing in geriatrics and dementia and will be an asset to ministering to elderly patients.
For more information on the lay chaplain program or how to become a volunteer, call the hospital's volunteer office at (914) 734-3244 or visit www.HVHC.org.
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