*NEWS*XEROX:HOLIDAY GREETINGS FOR TROOPS

Xerox Helping Deliver Holiday Greetings to Troops
Gerogia National Guard, Xerox rally Atlanta to print, sign and send cards to more than 4,000 troops overseas.
ROCHESTER,
NY, Nov.  2005 – Xerox Corporation is working with the Georgia Army
National Guard’s Family Readiness Group, a military-operated support
group for the families of the soldiers, on a holiday card drive that
will put thousands of custom-designed greeting cards in the hands of
troops overseas.
Let’s Say Thanks
The “Let’s Say Thanks” card
drive is designed to give people back home an easy way to print, sign
and send one of three distinct greeting cards to the more than 4,000
men and women of the Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team serving in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
The card designs were drawn by several
children with relatives serving overseas and selected for use by
representatives from the American Institute of Graphic Arts Atlanta
Chapter and the Savannah College of Art and Design. The children, ages
6 to 13, were asked to draw pictures that symbolized their gratitude
and expressed how the soldiers are being missed this holiday season.
“All
of the soldiers want to come home really soon and my picture represents
warmth with your family,” said Sarah Wahlen, age 12 of St. John, Ind.,
and a greeting card design winner whose cousin is in the 48th Brigade
Combat Team. Her drawing is of two children sitting on the floor in
front of a fireplace during the holidays. The children’s mother sits in
a chair beside them, while a second chair is empty.
Card Pavilion in Atlanta
Xerox
will set up a card pavilion on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 in Central Park in
Atlanta’s Atlantic Station retail district. Well-wishers will be able
to choose from cards already printed on Xerox’s iGen3® Digital
Production Press or ones that are printed on-demand using Xerox’s
Phaser® 8550 color printers. Following the two-day event, Xerox will
ship the cards overseas to arrive at 48th BCT bases by Dec. 20.
The
48th BCT is made up of men and women from the Northwest, Midwest,
Southeast and Puerto Rico, but the majority is from Georgia.
“The
holidays can be particularly difficult for our troops who are used to
spending that time with their friends and family,” said Captain William
Arp, Georgia Family Readiness Program director. “Receiving a simple
message of support from the citizens of Atlanta will be an enormous
boost to them.”
“Helping the community express gratitude to the men
and women who put themselves in harm’s way is a way for Xerox to give
back during the holidays,” said Emerson Fullwood, chief of staff and
marketing, Xerox North America. “Hopefully the sight of thousands of
messages of support from home will remind the soldiers how much
Americans appreciate their service.”