UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 32, Page 12
May 18, 1995
Students' public service recognized by Jaycees

     A student and a campus organization were given Main Street
Jaycees Volunteer Service Awards in recognition of their community
service at a presentation May 12 in the office of Roland M. Smith,
vice president for student life.
     Joseph Paul Quig from Wilmington, a senior majoring in criminal
justice and political science, and Impact, a special interest
community at Ray Street Residence Hall, each received a citation and
$125  for  volunteer activities.
     Quig has been a volunteer with the Probation Office in Wilmington
and is involved with the Fraternal Order of Police Delaware Lodge 14.
He also is the president of the University of Delaware chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union. A member of the College Democrats,
Quig worked on Charles Oberly's campaign for the Senate last fall.
     He is a member of the Phi Sigma Pi national honor fraternity and
Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology/criminal justice honor society.
     Impact, a campus service organization, received the Jaycees award
for its many volunteer activities.
     On campus, members helped freshmen and their parents during
Moving-In Day and worked with the Student Connection program, pairing
up with incoming freshmen in the University Honors Program to ease
their transition to campus life. During the year, members volunteered
to eat with and provide homework help to a quadraplegic student on
campus.
     In the community, members volunteered at the Grace Episcopal
Church soup kitchen once a month, created a Halloween haunted house
for underprivileged children, and regularly visited Newark Manor
Nursing Home. They also helped organize and recruit 100 donors for the
Blood Bank of Delaware.
     Through its various activities, Impact raised money for Emmanuel
Dining Room in Wilmington, for AIDS research, for the Deborah Heart
and Lung Center in New Jersey and for the Delaware Hospice.
     The campus organization also collected food for a local family
after a fire in their home and held a food drive at Thanksgiving.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure