Seniors
work campus for class gift donations
by Emily D. Johnson
“I’ve put on an Easter Bunny before, I know how it works,”
said senior Katie Schellinger as she volunteered to don the notoriously
sweat-producing Clawed costume to drum up financial support for the
senior class gift.
Schellinger spent last Thursday as Clawed, supporting a Bon Appetit
promotion that donates three dollars to the senior class gift for
every student-donated meal block. The gift committee hopes that many,
many meal blocks are donated to help meet the $60,000 gift target.
The class of 2004’s ambitious goal will earmark $50,000 for a
face-lift of the Letts-Anderson Quadrangle that will replace the asphalt
with bluestone and concrete pavers and add light fixtures, stonework,
benches, and planting beds, and donate another $10,000 to the Eagle
Endowment for Community Service. Seniors chose the class gift from
four options through an on-line poll last fall; the quad renovation
garnered 53 percent of the vote.
Now it is the job of the gift committee, made up of the senior class
officers and committee cochairs Melissa Chin and Brie DeFelice, to
generate enough funds to make the renovation a reality. Each week
they include a plea to the class of 2004 to donate $20.04 in a senior
class e-mail blast. They meet every Monday to take tallies and develop
new fund-raising ideas. Last week, for instance, the committee discussed
visiting campus student groups to deliver donation envelopes and a
personal appeal for their cause. Eitan Naftali, senior class vice
president, discussed progress on posters with his slogan “Feed
the Facelift,” and his fund-raising negotiations with his AU
capella group, Dime a Dozen. In an effort to reach the entire AU community,
the committee plans to send a letter about the class gift to class
of ’04 parents and to make personal requests to AU faculty and
staff. “Parents, AU administration, alumni, are all encouraged
to donate, as $50,000 is a lot of money and we cannot do it alone,”
said Chin. Plans are available at
www.auclassof2004.com/gift.htm.
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