Well in March the Shipping Department really caught up. We provided a 486-66 to Sister Utisha Martin at the Oark Arkansas Glory Land Church, to be used in the church office, three 486s and six 386 laptops to the Belize Bible and Trade School in Belize (Central America) for use in the school, two printers and ten 386s to the Church of God in Claremore for use with the Sunday School and Primary School, a 286, a 386, and two 486s to the Sapulpa VoTech for use in training in their hardware class, a 486 to be sent to a church in Chile, South America, two monitors and a fax machine to the Church of God of Prophecy in Supulpa, a 486 to Bethesda Boys Ranch for use in their AE program, a Pentium 90 with a CD for a Unix Server, plus a 486 Novell Server, 386 boards, and parts to the Sapulpa Central VoTech, two 486s with printers for the Church of God of Prophecy in Kiev (in the Ukraine), and a 486 with CD Rom for the Gilchrist Museum here in Tulsa.

Now that we are in our new facilities, we are much more spread out than we used to be, and it was difficult to make do with one or two sets of the master disks we work with all of the time, so I bought some floppy disks and proceeded to make five extra copies (a master set to be kept at my house, another master to be kept elsewhere at Bethesda Boys Ranch, and three working sets to be used at the various work stations). It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I forgot to ask if the master set I was copying from had been checked for viruses, and I made five copies of a Clone Disk with the FORM.A virus. Fortunately that is a virus that does not do a lot of damage, and even more fortunately one of the first systems we used it on had virus protection software installed on it, so we caught it before it got spread too far.

We also got a chance to see how one of the machines we had donated earlier was being used. Melynda Stone, P.A.L. Program Coordinator, sent us some photos, plus a quarterly newsletter and program brochure on the P.A.L. (Positive Adult Leadership) mentoring program sponsored by the Rogers County Volunteers for Youth (http://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/palprog.htm) to whom we donated a computer and printer in March (http://www.tcs.org/ioport/mar00/refurb.htm). Through the use of this computer, all of PAL's program forms are now computerized and easily accessible, as well as data on mentor matches. Future plans include setting up an accounting system for the program as well.

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