SODALITAS, The Walker School’s chapter of the GJCL, has banded together with Walker’s Student Service Organization to promote this year’s Salvation Army Canned Food Drive. To encourage donations from the student body, SODALITAS has been sending reminders to the delegation and even hosting competitions to keep the cans coming in. While doing this, the club is also leaving their mark by labeling each can collected with a memorable Latin phrase.
At SODALITAS’ most recent meeting, the club congregated for donuts and a friendly competition: a member’s name was entered into a drawing for each can brought in. At the end of the meeting, the winner, Christine Adkins, was drawn. She won a $10 iTunes gift card for her contributions.
Members also competed in a canned food game in the style of The Price is Right. By arranging five cans from the least to most expensive (and answering a few other random tit-breakers), Christine Adkins
again came out the big winner and received another $10 iTunes gift card.
The drive stands out to both long-time and new members of the club. A first-year member of SODALITAS, sophomore Lindsey Riley, revealed, “I think it’s a good idea because it gives us as a community the opportunity to help those who are less fortunate. I think SODALITAS’ involvement is great because it encourages even more people to pitch in.”
Senior Landi White, who has now been in SODALITAS for four years, added that the club takes a unique approach, saying, “It’s like coming at something from a different angle. As a whole, the school is encouraging bringing cans at a more broad and general level, but SODALITAS is really able to get at it on a more personal front, offering incentives and making it a fun community activity.”
SODALITAS hopes to increase participation even more before the drive ends. The group’s determination to help out their community has inspired the delegation and beyond, and it will continue to do so as the effort carries on.
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