2016 Devil Pup Awards Night

2015 Graduates at Awards Night

Please remember our Devil Pup Awards Night program on Friday evening, September 23rd.  This year it will be held at the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins, where Col. Toole is currently residing.  We will have food catered by Brick Oven in the Multi-Purpose Room, where we will also have an award ceremony for Col. Toole as he retires from Devil Pups.  Rich Linsday, President of Devil Pups, Inc. and  Col. Ray Blum, Devil Pups trustee and past Encampment Commander, both long time friends of Col. Toole, will attend, as will Heather Ham, Devil Pups, Inc. coordinator.  We are looking forward to honoring our seven new graduates and celebrating Col. Toole’s nearly 40 years of volunteer service to the Devil Pup program.

Doors open at 6:00, food at 6:30, program to begin at 7:00.  Please be aware that Col. Toole has had a couple small strokes and is suffering from dementia.  He may be overwhelmed by this evening - a program that he’s poured his heart and soul into for so many years.  I will bring him to the event at 7:00 for the program.

Devil Pups:  Wear your Devil Pup uniform as above in the photo.

Please send me an e-mail if you plan to attend, letting me know how many will be in your party.  I want to make sure you don’t leave hungry.  Thanks to all of you - let me know if you have questions.

Donna Toole
SoUtah Devil Pup Coordinator
dtoole (at) sunrivertoday (dot) com (you know how to correct this)

St. George Devil Pups in the News

See the article, posted by Bill Fortune of the Marine Corps League, on St. George News.

NEWS ON DEVIL PUPS

More Photos from Devil Pup Graduation

Got this link from Devil Pups, Inc.  Hope you find someone you know here.

DEVIL PUP GRADUATION 2016

13 Saturday 2016 - MCL Breakfast Meeting

Devil Pups and Families:  Please let me know asap how many from each family will be attending the Marine Corps League breakfast, 0830 at the Elks Lodge.  The Commandant has asked for a count.  I have a few of you who have replied.  Please all do so again as I have been with my husband a lot at the Southern Utah Veterans Home and want to make sure I give as accurate a count as possible.

Thank you!  I am not sure yet if Col. Toole and I can make it.  We'll have to decide by tomorrow evening.  Hope we can make it happen!

Devil Pup uniform, big smiles and lots of thank you's!!!  Might want to flash your challenge coin a time or two.

 

13 Saturday 2016

Devil Pups and Families:  The Marine Corps League Detachment #1270 has invited all 2016 Devil Pup graduates and their families for breakfast at the monthly meeting of the Detachment on August 13, 2016 at 0830 for breakfast buffet.  The Marine Corps League Detachment makes a huge donation to the Southern Utah Devil Pup program and we want to thank them for their support.  They are eager to hear from the pups - if you could be prepared to say what you liked and didn't like about camp, that would be wonderful.  Don't hold back!!!!  Please remember to thank them if you are asked to speak, and thanking individuals as you talk with them would be very much appreciated.  The meeting will be held at the Elks Lodge, located at 630 W 1250 No, St. George.  Please wear your outfit - shirt, scarf and cap with your jeans. 

SAVE THE DATE! Sept. 23rd

Devil Pups, Friends and Family - SAVE THE DATE for 2016 Awards Night.  We will have a one-of-a-kind Awards Night on this date.  As many of you know, Lt. Col. William C. Toole, who brought the Devil Pup program to Southern Utah in 2007, has moved to the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins.  We will have a dinner/awards night in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Veterans Home on  Friday evening, September 23, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.  We want to congratulate and award our newest Devil Pup graduates on this evening.  Rich Linsday, President of Devil Pups, Inc. and Col. Ray Blum, a trustee, both long-time friends of Col. Toole will be here from California to honor him for his years of volunteer service to the Devil Pup organization.  Please be sure to clear your schedule for this special time.