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The annual push lawn mower tune-up, sponsored by Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and the Society of Automotive Engineers and held April 12-14, was deemed a record-setting success.
Andrew Edward Z. Short, a senior majoring in entomology and a national director of Alpha Gamma Rho, said volunteers “tuned a record 405 mowers, shattering our old record of 365.”
Short said the volunteers worked more than 500 man-hours, with 34 during the peak lawn mower arrival times when 258 machines were received in a five-hour period.
The volunteers, working in the engineering shop behind Townsend and Worrilow halls on South College Avenue, used 12 cans of starter fluid and had an inventory of 800 sparks plugs.
Members of the community saved an estimated total of more than $13,000 by using the tune-up service.
April 17, 2002
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