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Student collects phones for myeloma fund-raiser 4:31 p.m., May 17, 2006--When Victor Giardini, an instructor in the Lerner College of Business and Economics, mentioned in class that he was collecting old cell phones as a fund-raiser for the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), he said he expected a token response from a few of his students. The phones are sent to IMF, which sells them to an organization that retools them and makes them available to those who cannot afford cell phones for emergency calls to 911. However, Graham Worrall, AS '06, a student in Giardini's introduction to business class and a member of Circle K, the Kiwanis Club student service organization on campus, did more than donate an old phone--he launched a cell phone drive. Because the district Circle K awareness project this year was cancer, and because a former president of Kiwanis International had died of the myeloma, the group decided to organize a phone drive. The group recently attended a district convention of college Circle K chapters in Virginia, and the students organized a booth with posters about the phone drive and information about IMF. Their efforts on and off campus, netted more than 50 cell phones for the organization. “I was diagnosed with multiple myleloma, cancer of the bone marrow, myself in 2002,” Giardini said, “so this is an important cause to me. The proceeds of the phone drive go to IMF, which shares some of the funds with our local support group, with members from Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “Not only did Worrall and the other students conduct a drive to collect cell phones, they raised awareness of multiple myeloma and IMF. Personally, I was touched by their generosity and initiative,” Giardini said. Article by Sue Moncure |
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