GAYLE DOYLE
Gayle Doyle, who works as a TH Instructional Support Assistant in the Speech, Language and Hearing Department, began volunteering in 2005 for the Patchogue Neighbor鈥檚 Inn church group. It all started when she was informed that the soup kitchen was short-staffed and needed help. Together with her daughter, sister and mother, Gayle has been volunteering at the soup kitchen one Sunday each month for almost 10 years. At first they would cook and serve 120 dinners and clean up. For the past year and a half, Gail served as captain and took over the first Sunday of the month. As captain, Gayle not only cooks and plans the meals; she does all the shopping for the food.鈥淲e have so much and it鈥檚 good to give back,鈥 Gayle said. 鈥淚 enjoy it. There have been some people who have been coming here to eat the whole time I鈥檝e been doing this鈥
鈥淚 wish there wasn鈥檛 a need for it, but it is rewarding to know that you鈥檙e helping in some small, small fashion,鈥 Gayle said.