The Margaret Tietz Center has an amazing volunteer core. Dedicated and compassionate people from all walks of life and ages help make Margaret Tietz home to the many residents in our care. Trudy Schwarz, a past board member, has been volunteering at Margaret Tietz for 30 years since her mother was a resident in our care. Trudy selflessly gives up her time and energy in a very unique manner and has been recognized and written about in McKnights Long Term Care Publication and given a special award by Queens Interagency Council on Aging this past April in conjunction with National Volunteer Week. Trudy is here on a weekly basis to fill the shopping requests of all residents that would like something special that they have no way of obtaining. She takes orders ranging from special creams, cookies, chocolates, chips, and much more. Trudy spends a good portion of her week shopping for all these items where she can get the best price. There is no profit made on any of these items and this affords the residents the ability to pay for these given their limited funds. Everyone looks forward to Trudy’s visit to them personally with her traveling cart. After a full day of affording our residents the ability to make these purchases she then continues into the evening making 1-to-1 visits. Trudy has more energy, stamina and patience than most 25 year olds I know. She is 96 years of age. She is an inspiration to everyone here at Margaret Tietz. Trudy is retiring from this facility in June. The residents will miss her and the wonderful service she provided for all these years. We are looking for someone that will help us with this special service for our residents. Please contact Linda Spiegel at 718-298-7838 if you or anyone you know would be interested in this opportunity. Click here to read the interview in McKnight’s publication highlighting Trudy’s service.