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| Walker attends to a student who ordered a blueberry muffin |
If you passed by the Cafeteria entrance between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, you had an opportunity to see the incredible exhibit of lots of odds and ends displayed on tables. And if you stopped to ask, you would have known that the American Association of Women in Community Colleges’ (AAWCC) Pink Elephant (PE) sale was taking place.
The items on sale included beads, house wares, purses, dresses, belts, shoes, home wall arts, three-rings binders, and other bits and pieces. Food items such as cupcakes, cookies and blueberry muffin also were also on sale.
The prices of the varied items also ranged from 25 cents to upward of six dollars, and the terms of payment were limited to cash only.
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| Sarah Yankey, last year's AAWCC scholarship recipient, stops by the PE Sale |
Teresa Walker of the Human Resources Department, Felicity Murray from the Registrar’s Office and Joanne Kalnitz, an Associate Professor in the Communications Department, stood behind spectacular arrangements of six tables put end-to-end, to attend to the many students and staff who bought the stuff.
The aim of the PE sale was according to Murray “to raise money for scholarships,” for Truman female students and the scholarships will “help students to pay for tuition, to purchase books, food or (even) transportation,” said Walker
It’s interesting for me to learn that all the things sold at the fundraiser event was donated by different groups who wanted to support AAWCC.
Even though the fundraiser was ongoing and the funds realized then was not made available to me at the time of my visit, the organizers, however, told me similar fund drives in the past raised not more than $ 400, and other college-based scholarships chipped in some cash to support the benefit. Six female students received AAWCC scholarship awards last year.
Although AAWCC is a 37-year old organization, Truman Chapter is, however, about 20 years old.
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