Reid Hospital Volunteers
Honored teacher wins Volunteer honor
November’s Volunteer of the Month at Reid Hospital & Health Care Services draws on a 37-year teaching career in helping out in the Education Department and library.
Harold (Hal) Hanes, a Richmond area resident, has been a Reid Volunteer since August 2004.
“Hal’s so nice and personable,” noted one nominator. “He has a gentle air about himself and is very effective in helping those who get lost in the building.”
“He really enjoys what he does, and he is conscientious in all the details of his work,” his citation says.
Hanes’s teaching career was spent as professor of mathematics and computer science at Earlham College, and his laurels include the Doan Award for Distinguished Teaching, a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship and the Distinguished Teacher Award presented by the Mathematic Association of America.
A member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Hanes’s hobbies include gardening, crossword puzzles, cryptography and collecting cryptographic materials. He admits to being a compulsive reader.
He and Ann, his wife of 50 years, have a son in Georgia, a daughter in CaIifornia and four grandchildren.
Hanes graduated from high school in occupied Germany; his father was an auditor for the Army.