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Connecting students, kids, campus, community, teddy bears, police. . .
Cassie Suring asked, and Jake Landrum responded — with an end result
of more than 775 unicorns, frogs, leopards, bears, and of course, teddy
bears.
Suring, a UW-Green Bay student who is serious about promoting community
service projects on campus, asked her adviser John Landrum of Student
Life about working with local law enforcement agencies on a Teddy Bear
Drive program. The officers use stuffed animals to comfort children who
have been involved in car accidents.
Landrum did more than say yes, he put his son Jake to the task. Jake asked
his friends to bring stuffed animals for the cause rather than gifts to
his birthday party. The 25 he collected were just the start. He then turned
to his Baird schoolmates. Asking permission for daily announcements, he
even convinced the principal to give students an extra recess if they
met their goal.
The Baird kids ended up with more than 300. UW-Green Bay faculty, staff
and students added another 400-plus, including a “mystery donor”
who dropped off 233 Beanie Babies (with tags still intact). The grand
total was 775.
Shown above at a special Baird school gathering are, from left to right,
John Landrum; Doug Wichman, Green Bay Police; Michael Borkovec, State
Patrol; Cassie Suring; Jake Landrum; and Bill Morgan, Brown County Sheriff’s
Department.
The Teddy Bear Drive is the first of many such service
projects (mitten and food drives, and various fund-raisers) that UW-Green
Bay student groups sponsor through the holiday months.
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'Mrs.
Governor' hails Phuture Phoenix
Education advocate Jessica Doyle, wife of Wisconsin’s governor,
was mobbed by young autograph seekers after appearing as special guest
at Phuture Phoenix Day on campus last week. More than 600 fifth-graders
from Green Bay area schools got campus tours, souvenir t-shirts and the
message that college is possible. Doyle offered high praise for event
organizers including Cyndie Shepard (in background).
Forum a tribute
to the late Gary Weidner
“International Social Justice, Its Forms and Philosophy” is
organized as a tribute to the late Gary Weidner, who died in January 2003.
The prominent Green Bay attorney, UW-Green Bay supporter and son of Founding
Chancellor Edward Weidner helped represent a defendant before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in 2002. For
more on the Dec. 8 event, see this space next issue.
"Alumnifest
(in October) was a wonderful way to see all of the awesome changes and
additions to the campus. Instead of being part of a campus that has had
over a century of tradition, we get to be part of the beginning of the
tradition. It's great to see it expanding!"
Janine (Walch) Krajnik, '95, Social Work and Human Development
Social Worker, Green Bay Southwest High School
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