Successful "Fill a wish" !

A big THANK YOU!!!

Our "Fill a wish" action to collect items for Oasis Women Center in Alton was a success!

I delivered the many donated items five (5) times:

November 29th, 2007
December 5th, 2007
December 6th, 2007
December 7th, 2007
December 11th, 2007

There were many individual donations, and we had some offices that adopted this
time our action.

Among those offices who adopted us there are:
- Early Childhood Center
- Bursar's Office
- Provost Office
- SIUE Foundation Office
- and anonymous offices who left donations for us

Also thank you to all individuals who dropped items and mailed donations at our
locations from:
- Peck Hall
- Alumni Hall
- Engineering Building

This shows that SIUE is a caring family for those who need us.

Have a great end of semester, also a wonderful winter break!

Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year 2008!
Happy Holidays! - for all holidays you may celebrate at the end of this year
2007!

"Fill a wish" - in action

Just a quick note to let you know how we are doing with "Fill a wish" Oasis Women Center in Alton donations.

I took today - Dec. 5th - the second load. The first I loaded and delivered on November 29th.
There pretty good amount of donations in Peck Hall location (half of my trunk filled, then Susan Morgan had some from her kids (almost filled my trunk), and picked up some from the Early Childhood.

Last night I was at the International Women Organization meeting, and they donated many nice things, my car got so filled that I could use only the driver's side mirror. I was kind of afraid even driving to Alton, not being able to see too much of the road behind me and I felt like a truck driver :-)

There are more donations to come from Registrar's Office Holiday party - they gather for us their winter drive.
Early Childhood still has more to come, and I have to pick some more today from Engineering building (Susan said she had someone drop items there as well).
In my department, there are two boxes with donations, and Andrea Reaka in Pharmacy will load me today with more.

It really seems we had a overwhelming response which is really wonderful especially when we questioned to do the collection or not this year. I think people like that we offer this opportunity.

Please bring your donations till the end of this week or no later than next Monday -Tuesday December 10th (11th), to give me time to take them to Alton. I have grading and exams to keep too :-)