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Deputy Secretary Simon Announces Holiday Book Donation at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia (December 3, 2008)
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Deputy Secretary Ray Simon reads to kindergarten students at W.W. Ashurst Elementary School, located on Marine Corps Base Quantico.


Deputy Secretary Ray Simon thanks active duty Marines for their service at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, VA. Deputy Secretary Ray Simon talks with Lt. General Pete Osman, USMC (ret.), President and CEO of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and Staff Sergeant Rodrigo Guzman, local U.S. Marine Reserve Toys for Tots coordinator about the 2008 Holiday Book Donation benefiting the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.
Lt. General Pete Osman, USMC (ret.), President and CEO of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, thanks Deputy Secretary Ray Simon for the Department's donation of 12,000 books through the 2008 Holiday Book Donation. Staff Sergeant Rodrigo Guzman, local U.S. Marine Reserve Toys for Tots coordinator, takes Deputy Secretary Ray Simon on a tour of a Toys for Tots warehouse in Triangle, VA.
Jan Weiss, Principal of W.W. Ashurst Elementary School, located on Marine Corps Base Quantico, gives Deputy Secretary Ray Simon a tour of her school. Deputy Secretary Ray Simon reads to kindergarten students at W.W. Ashurst Elementary School, located on Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Jan Weiss, Principal of W.W. Ashurst Elementary School, introduces Deputy Secretary Ray Simon, Lt. General Pete Osman, USMC (ret.), President and CEO of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Dr. Elaine Beraza, Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools, DDESS District Superintendent Michael Gould and Colonel Charles Dallachie, Base Commander, Marine Corps base Quantico at an assembly to announce the 2008 Holiday Book Donation. Deputy Secretary Ray Simon addresses a school assembly to announce the 2008 Holiday Book Donation at W.W. Ashurst Elementary School, located on Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA.

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