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Virginia T.
RSVP Volunteer
Virginia T. is a RSVP volunteer at WISE Senior Services who works with our Fraud Fighters in providing education and outreach to elderly victims of economic fraud crimes, helps organize participants for our large community action fairs, and contributes over 30 hours each week at Felicia Mahood Multipurpose Senior Center. At Felicia Mahood she has done fund raising and coordinates day trips, refreshments and just about anything others won't or can't do. She has involved herself 100 percent with seniors. Virginia says her volunteering has "provided me a rare opportunity to serve, care for and enrich others".
"Volunteering has provided me a rare opportunity
to serve, care for and enrich others"
One of seven children raised in Sacramento, Virginia spent several years of her childhood in a relocation camp in Klamath Falls. After the war ended, the family returned to Sacramento and was encouraged to return to the house they had lived in only to learn that it had been ransacked. The family moved to a friend's farm. Her mother started a vegetable garden and a co-op; it kept the family from starving. After graduation from high school, Virginia and her sister moved to Los Angeles to attend college. Virginia became a Director/Teacher working with autistic, schizophrenic and cerebral palsy children. She worked with psychology students from Cal State Northridge and Santa Monica College. She provided feedback to Mattel on new toys before they went to market. After retiring from teaching, Virginia embarked on a second career in merchandizing and worked at the Broadway Department Store in Century City for 23 years before retiring as a Department Assistant Manager.
In May 2004, Virginia was recognized by The Los Angeles County Commission on Aging for her dedicated community service at the annual "Older Americans Month" Luncheon.
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