North Shore Santa Delivers Books to Inner City School Children
Gary Moriello has been dressing up as Santa Claus and delivering books to school children in Chicago for more than 20 years. He calls it Operation Santa Claus.
Gary Moriello, 64, a retired school principal and member of the Northbrook Youth Commission has worn a Santa Claus costume every year since 1991. He says the suit gets hot, but it doesn't seem to affect his upbeat and quirky personality. It's part of Operation Santa Claus, a program Moriello developed while he was principal of Gladstone Elementary in Chicago. For the first few years, Moriello would help collect toys, which he then delivered to kids at the school. But when Gladstone students' reading performance started to wane, Operation Santa Claus switched the toys for books. "I had lots of people opposed to that," Moriello said. "They thought the books would be scattered during recess." He went through with it anyway and says reading …
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