Jack Brennan, an Annapolis, MD, retail associate, was named an honorary graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy last month.
“Nobody has touched more lives at the academy than Mr. Brennan,” Ensign Bryan Cevallos, president of the graduating class, said to cheers at the academy’s May commencement ceremony.
“He did a job above and beyond — memorizing names of every midshipman that sent and received letters and parcels. … Leadership is about people, and Mr. Brennan has modeled that for us.”
It was not the first time Brennan was treated to an outpouring of support at the military institution. A few weeks before, he was invited to dine at the military academy’s King Hall, where thousands of midshipmen eat at the same time.
To Brennan’s surprise, they made a similarly laudatory announcement, and the hall echoed with cheers.
“People came up to me and said they never heard the place so loud. I guess whatever I’m doing is working,” he said.
Emergency interventions
Postal Inspectors Brendan Donahue and Mike Ercolano found themselves on an unexpected assignment to render first aid during this year’s National Postal Forum in Phoenix.
Donahue, deputy chief postal inspector, was at the forum to moderate a session on “Delivering Trust: Protecting People, Mail, and Packages in a Connected World” and to give a presentation on Election Mail. Ercolano, a trained emergency medical technician, was at the event as a member of Postmaster General David Steiner’s protection detail.
During the postmaster general’s keynote address, two attendees had medical emergencies. While Ercolano and Donahue provided emergency care to one attendee, they were alerted to another person in distress.
Together, the two inspectors helped the second attendee leave out of the convention center ballroom and stayed with the attendee until paramedics arrived.
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