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by Tara Beverly
Eat cereal? Bake bread or
cakes? Do you drink pop or juice from aluminum cans? If you do
anything of these things, you can help local area schools and a
national charity organization raise money. The Class of 2007 is
sponsoring the Box Tops for Education campaign for the second
year, and the Family Practice Club (FPC)/Student Association of
the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, in
conjunction with Mary Bonar, Class of 2008 president, and
the Presidents Committee will be collecting pop-can tabs to
support the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Box tops are a part of dozens
of participating General Mills products sold in grocery stores.
The box tops that medical students collect will be given to a
local Athens elementary school. Each box top is worth 10 cents
for the school. Last year, more than 300 box tops were collected
and given to River Valley Middle School. This year students are
aiming to double that number. Gwyn Frambach, president of
the Class of 2007, is very excited about the campaign.
“As I was campaigning for class
president, I wanted to promote more community involvement by our
class. I thought collecting box tops would be a great
opportunity for our class to become involved in helping the
community, as well as to promote our school and its connections
with the community,” says Frambach.
“For me, osteopathic medicine
is not about just helping patients in an office but also about
benefiting the community at large.”
Box Tops for Education offers
an easy way for people to earn cash for schools while buying
groceries, shopping online or making purchases with a credit
card. Those who participate in the program can help schools
receive thousands of dollars each year. More than 82,000 K-8
schools are enrolled in the program.
At the college, clipped box
tops can be placed in the yellow box in the Learning Resource
Center in Grosvenor Hall. The campaign will run through spring
quarter. Frambach is hoping everyone at OU-COM gets involved.
Last year, as an incentive, she promoted a bit of friendly
competition among students by offering to write a letter of
commendation for the file of the student who collected the most
box tops. The winner collected 100 box tops. This year Frambach
plans to do the same thing.
While Frambach and her team are
working to collect box tops, Bonar and the SAACOFP Chapter
Presidents Committee will be collecting pop-can tabs to support
the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Their effort is part of
“Bones of Still,” a SAACOFP national service project.
Bonar was elected as president
of her class in November and as a philanthropic project, she
thought her class could help the Ronald McDonald House by
collecting pop-can tabs. Bonar says that it seemed like a nice
project, especially since students and staff drink a lot of pop
at various events. Bonar has been a volunteer at the Ronald
McDonald House in Columbus for the past four years.
Ronald McDonald House Charities create, find and support
programs that directly improve the health and well being of
children in order to better the lives of children and their
families around the world. There are four main programs within
the McDonald charities: The Ronald McDonald House, Ronald
McDonald Care Mobile program, Ronald McDonald Family Rooms and
the Ronald McDonald House Charities Scholarship Programs.
Ronald McDonald House also provides a “home-away-from-home” for
families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment
at nearby hospitals.
According to Bonar it is very simple to support the charities’
mission.
“We are asking that students
and staff put their pop-can tabs in the miniature Ronald
McDonald Houses we have placed in Grosvenor, Irvine and the
Learning Resource Center instead of disposing of them in the
trash. The pop-can tabs will be given to the Columbus Ronald
McDonald House,” says Bonar.
“When Tyree Winters, FPC
president, heard about what we were doing, he asked if the club
could be involved as well. We are in it together until this
spring.”
The Ronald McDonald House in
Columbus usually raises about $600 worth of aluminum tabs each
month.
“Our goal is to help make the
community a better place. We are confident that with the support
of students and staff at the college, we will make this
community service project a success.”
For more information on the
Box Tops for Education visit
http://www.boxtops4education.com/pdfs/products.pdf;
and for more information on the Ronald McDonald House Charities,
please visit
www.rmhc.com.
Students from these
organizations urge you to participate. You can make a
difference!
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