Following retirement from an extensive career in nursing, Carolyn became involved with New York Says Thank You as a volunteer for the Anniversary Build at Little Sioux Scout Ranch in 2009. When Jeff Parness asked her husband, Denny, to oversee flag protocol for the National 9/11 Flag restoration, she offered to help create a procedure for stitching patches made of ready-to-be retired flags to repair the 20’ by 30’ Flag. The goal was to have the Flag completed by the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. After a year of intense planning, coordination of resources, extensive travel, and successful execution and completion, she found herself bored with inactivity. Carolyn has served as the Director of Finance and Administration for NYSTY since 2011.