HEREABOUTS DIANA BLOWERS
Children are the center of Joanie Pollock’s life — her children, other people’s children, unborn children.
The Beavercreek resident volunteers, along with her husband, Brian, for most activities that their sons, Tyler and Zach, are involved in.
Tyler, a 2009 Beavercreek High School graduate, is a sophomore soccer player at Butler University. Zach, a BHS junior, is involved in many BHS activities including the Friends Show Choir.
Because she so enjoys her children, Pollock considers her job as a certified adoption assessor for Catholic Social Services to be a natural fit.
“I meet the neatest couples who want to be parents and I feel for them. My kids are my life,” said Pollock, who has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Illinois.
“I started in adoption in 1990, and have practiced in Georgia, Alaska and Ohio,” said Pollock.
Her husband, now a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base employee, was in the Air Force, with two tours in Alaska and two at WPAFB.
While she started out as a child welfare social worker, she eventually switched to adoption work “because I want to help grow families.”
Wherever they’ve lived, Pollock has actively supported her sons’ activities.
“I just volunteer where needed,” she said, noting that it has included volunteering at Beavercreek Community Theatre, where Zach has been in several productions, and the BHS Soccer Sidekicks, when Tyler was at BHS.
Where she has been needed most recently has been in BHS’ choral and drama departments, where Zach is very active.
She works concessions during show choir events, was ticket chair for the recent BHS Cabaret and the Midwest Classic Invitational and she is the chaperone chair for the choral department.
“I have supported the drama department at BHS for several years. I have also volunteered in the math programs and with DIRTT,” she said.
Her current volunteer effort is focused on the BHS After -Prom Committee, which is “working endlessly to support the kids by making a safe place for them to go hang out after the prom,” she said.
The May 14 event will take place from midnight until 4 a.m. at the Beavercreek Church of the Nazarene.
The committee is seeking donations of money, food and door prizes for the event that will offer an evening of music, games, rides, door prizes and food.
For more information, call (937) 286-5274 or contact the committee by mail at After Prom Committee 2011, P.O. Box 341484, Beavercreek, OH 45432.
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