What is SSSSH All About?
The basis of SSSSH is giving to total
strangers anonymously. Creating more goodness in the world just for the sake of
creating more goodness, that’s what SSSSH is all about – giving to strangers
while partaking in little adventures, giving without stroking our egos. SSSSH
members call this ego-free compassion.
Hal Reichle was a Hiram College
graduate '86 who made a habit of secretly doing anonymous good deeds for
strangers. Hal was killed in a helicopter crash in the 1991 Gulf War, and to
continue the wonderful and unique tradition of this loving man and to perpetuate
his legacy, SSSSH (Secret Society of Serendipitous Service to Hal) was formed in
March of 2003.
We are all
surrounded by a selfish materialistic world. SSSSH can reward us with the
benefits of giving anonymously emphasizing that performing good deeds without
rewards can be a special experience. This is an especially wonderful and
enlightening experience for our children. See our
School Programs and our
Children's Page.
SSSSH is designed to promote a healthy, peaceful
society that will welcome and celebrate diversity, embrace all humanity,
and through acts of kindness, instill in ourselves and others compassion,
creativity, imagination, and sacrifice - the true values of being human.
What are Some Examples of Anonymous Good Deeds?
All over the world people are finding bags of groceries
on their door step, finding their driveway shoveled free from snow on a winter
morning, having a waiter tell them their meal was mysteriously paid for by an
anonymous stranger, returning home discovering their grass has been mowed,
finding their car in a shopping-center parking lot freshly washed, being
informed at a highway or bridge toll booth that someone has already paid their
toll - the list goes on forever!
These and many other examples of anonymous good deeds
formed the basis for SSSSH, an organization created in March of 2003.
See our Good-Deed Ideas Page. We are now
spreading around the world to promote the goodness and honor of a fallen soldier
with a heart of gold, Hal Reichle - so please join us. You are in for an
adventure and experience like none other, and you will sleep each night with a
warm smile on your face. Learn the true meaning of being human! Join
SSSSH! It's free!
How is an Anonymous SSSSH Act of
Kindness Performed?
A "SSSSH" card is given to or left
behind for the recipient of the good deed. For example, if you were to notice a
car parked next to an expired parking meter, a SSSSH card would be placed under
the car's wiper blades after you deposited money into the meter.
What is SSSSH All About?
The basis of SSSSH is giving to total
strangers anonymously. Creating more goodness in the world just for the sake of
creating more goodness, that’s what SSSSH is all about – giving to strangers
while partaking in little adventures, giving without stroking our egos. SSSSH
members call this ego-free compassion.
We are all
surrounded by a selfish materialistic world. SSSSH can reward us with the
benefits of giving anonymously emphasizing that performing good deeds without
rewards can be a special experience. This is an especially wonderful and
enlightening experience for our children. See our
School Programs and our
Children's Page.
SSSSH is designed to promote a healthy, peaceful
society that will welcome and celebrate diversity, embrace all humanity,
and through acts of kindness, instill in ourselves and others compassion,
creativity, imagination, and sacrifice - the true values of being human.
What are Some Examples of Anonymous Good Deeds?
All over the world people are finding bags of groceries
on their door step, finding their driveway shoveled free from snow on a winter
morning, having a waiter tell them their meal was mysteriously paid for by an
anonymous stranger, returning home discovering their grass has been mowed,
finding their car in a shopping-center parking lot freshly washed, being
informed at a highway or bridge toll booth that someone has already paid their
toll - the list goes on forever!
These and many other examples of anonymous good deeds
formed the basis for SSSSH, an organization created in March of 2003.
See our Good-Deed Ideas Page. We are now
spreading around the world to promote the goodness and honor of a fallen soldier
with a heart of gold, Hal Reichle - so please join us. You are in for an
adventure and experience like none other, and you will sleep each night with a
warm smile on your face. Learn the true meaning of being human! Join
SSSSH! It's free!
How is an Anonymous SSSSH Act of
Kindness Performed?
A "SSSSH" card is given to or left
behind for the recipient of the good deed. For example, if you were to notice a
car parked next to an expired parking meter, a SSSSH card would be placed under
the car's wiper blades after you deposited money into the meter.
On the front of the card
there is a blank line. "Put money in meter" could be written on this line so the
recipient would understand what type of anonymous good deed he/she has received.
| FRONT OF
CARD |
BACK OF
CARD |
An act of kindness,
__________________, has been covertly given to you by a total
stranger, being a member of SSSSH, (Secret Society of Serendipitous
Service to Hal).
Go to www.hiram.edu/hal to learn more about SSSSH
or
write: SSSSH PO Box 375 Hiram, OH 44234.
(over) |
You are the recipient of
an anonymous good deed done in the name of Hal Reichle, an individual
who performed anonymous acts of kindness for strangers. A
graduate of Hiram College, Hal was killed in the 1991 Gulf
War. We are carrying on his anonymous-giving traditions. Have a nice day. (over) |
SSSSH cards in 10 different languages
can be downloaded and printed from our
SSSSH Card
Page.
If you wanted to pay for the meal of a stranger in a
restaurant, instruct the waiter to bring you the stranger's bill and hand the
waiter a SSSSH card to be given to the recipient. Make sure the waiter does not
reveal your identity. Even better, you should be gone from the restaurant before
the waiter delivers the card. No, you won't see the recipient's happy or
mystified reaction, but remember, this is ego-free compassion, a rather high
level of giving.
This is how members of SSSSH perform anonymous acts of
kindness enriching thousands of people’s lives all over the world every year. To
read about other's anonymous good deeds, see or
SSSSH
Letters Page.
How is the Organization SSSSH
Structured?
SSSSH is
special and secret society that has quietly woven its members into the
very fiber anonymous goodness. The distinctive members of our clandestine league
are among you, everywhere, secretly and quietly performing serendipitous acts of
kindness throughout our communities - world wide!
SSSSH is one of the most unique organizations in
the world – for we are intangible, yet everywhere, structured by pure spirit and
governed only by benevolent goodness. SSSSH
exists solely in the compassionate spirits of our anonymous members, for we have
no address, headquarters, telephone, bank account, employees, or membership
cards. Our assets are the incentive, resources, imagination, and generosity of
our colleagues and our future growth is bound only by the limits of imagination
and love in our members’ hearts. Our main point of contact is this Website
floating around in Cyberspace. Our only bylaws are anonymity and our only
requirement for membership is an unsigned letter or email with no return address
describing an anonymous good deed - preferably for a total stranger. Thus, we
have an estimated 40,000 members, but we do not know their names or addresses.
We thrive on adventure and carry serendipity around on our shoulder. Join SSSSH
now!
Important Related Links
to Our Activities
The Hiram College Home Page
Sparrow Village - the World-Famous
Hospice for AIDS Children
The Rotary Club of Aurora, Ohio Home Page
The Tuskegee Airmen Home Page -
North Coast Chapter
It's Never Your Fault
- a Website for kids who have been traumatized by abuse
