FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 18, 2009
Contact: Robert Preston, Jr.,
912.260.4276
robert.preston@sgc.edu
SGC helps families, children during Christmas
This Christmas season, South Georgia College faculty, staff
and students participated in several projects to help children and families
across the area have a merry Christmas.
Members of the Student Government Association (SGA) and other student groups
raised $320 in support of the Hope Center in Coffee County. The goal was to
sponsor Christmas gifts for at least two children at $100 each by offering
tickets for a drawing for each $1 donated. Two drawings of $100 each were
held – one for currently enrolled SGC students and another for staff. SGA
member and nursing student Dale Ricks sold 160 tickets, one of which went to
fellow nursing student Haley Bozeman. Haley had said that if she won, she
would contribute the winnings to this worthwhile effort. She won the $100
award, and made good on her promise by donating the prize back to the
project.
Phi Theta Kappa member and Lady Tigers softball player Cecily DeMarco sold a
winning ticket to her father, Tom DeMarco. Her efforts and those of her
fellow students will help bring needed assistance to children and youth in
the area.
South Georgia College also collected toys for two other worthy
organizations. The campus-wide toy drive benefited Magnolia House, a shelter
for battered women, in Waycross, and the Coffee County School System. Amanda
Hayes of Douglas, a member of the Magnolia House Board of Directors, picked
up toys on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Maria Brown, who works with the school
system’s Special Services department, also picked up toys that same morning.
Photo 1:
Haley Bozeman, a
nursing student at SGC, recently won $100 in raffle to benefit the Hope
Center. She had said that if she won, she would donate the prize to the Hope
Center. She ended up winning, and she is pictured with Dale Ricks, a fellow
nursing student who sold her the winning ticket, as she returns her prize.
Photo 2:
Amanda Hayes of
Douglas, a member of the Magnolia House Board of Directors, is pictured with
Autumn Williams and Walda Kight, both of SGC, as she picked up toys
Wednesday afternoon.
Photo 3:
Maria Brown, who
works with the school system’s Special Services department, is pictured with
Josey Cameron, Walda Kight, Annette Lewis and Amy Hancock, as she collects
toys for the school system.
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About South Georgia College
South Georgia College (www.sgc.edu)
was founded in 1906 and is a two-year institution in the University System
of Georgia. Located in Douglas, Ga., the college's environment gives
students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close
collaboration with faculty.
