CSU Stanislaus students, faculty, and staff responded generously to the club’s fourth annual gift campaign, providing presents and contributions that filled 413 shoeboxes wrapped for the holidays. The gifts, designated for children 12 and under, were presented to a number of regional programs, including the Salvation Army and Merced Human Services Agency.
Gift donors selected children’s descriptions from a Christmas tree set up in the Bizzini Hall lobby in mid-November and filled shoeboxes with gifts according to the youngsters’ ages.
Sociology Club Advisor Cathy Wong of the Sociology Department faculty said gift contributions have increased dramatically since the first drive four years ago that filled 65 shoeboxes. That number more than doubled each of the next two years, and the club’s 30 members gathered to wrap the 413 shoeboxes before delivering them to the selected organizations.
For more information, contact Cathy Wong by e-mail at CWong@csustan.edu.