St. Clement’s to Collect Socks for Soldiers

Saint Clement School announced Tuesday that Taylor Laffey and her sister, Christine, will be at Saint Clement’s on Thursday, March 17, at 9:30 a.m. to talk to Saint Clement students, faculty and staff.

Taylor Laffey is a senior at Latin High School in Boston. Her older brother, Lance Corporal Scott Laffey, is serving in Afghanistan. She learned that many Marines and other service men and women deployed overseas are in desperate need of socks.

“He (Laffey’s brother]) means a lot to me. And from what I heard over there, socks become disposable. They are so soaking wet you can’t do anything with them afterwards. (The troops) are really complaining about the flash floods and please send socks,” Laffey said in an interview with WBZ-TV.

Laffey started a project called “Socks for Servicemen.”

“You buy a pair of socks, preferably white crew socks so they can be comfortably worn in boots, and place them in one of the drop-off boxes spread throughout Boston,” Laffey said.

Saint Clement’s will have a sock drop-off box and will be collecting donations of new, packaged white or gray, calf-length athletic socks. Donations can be dropped in boxes at both the elementary and junior/senior high schools, located at 589 Boston Avenue and 579 Boston Avenue in Medford.

– Information from Saint Clement’s and WBZ-TV