Monday, March 8, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
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Event participants to roll up their sleeves for Red Cross service
Charity issues 'unusual' dare
By T.J. Johnson
johnson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
If you buy groceries tomorrow at Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway, and think your sacker seems a little familiar, you're right: it might be Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams. And could that be Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Athletics Director Bob Frederick selling lemonade in front of Strong Hall?
Famous and not-so-famous people in Lawrence will be doing embarrassing or unusual things for money this week to raise money and awareness for the Douglas County Red Cross.
"The Red Cross Challenge," which runs from today to March 19, will dare people to do something out of the ordinary to let others know about the services and needs of the Red Cross.
"Most campaign events are built to raise money, but this one is different because we are trying to raise awareness," she said. "This brings a lot of awareness for the cause we are working for."
Betsy Farley of the Douglas County Red Cross said the challenge was more about promoting the Red Cross than raising funds for the organization.
Farley said the Red Cross provided many services to the community, including first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and lifeguard classes as well as disaster services. Farley said the charity relied on volunteer help.
"We need to have enough people to be able to handle any situation," she said. "When a disaster strikes, it is already too late."
The campaign was begun by the Douglas County Red Cross as a fun way to get people involved in the organization and to make them aware of these services.
Farley said many people were unaware that the Red Cross was a charity, not a government organization. As a charity, the Red Cross does not receive federal funding
and relies on community support.
About 25 people are participating in the campaign so far, including many prominent KU figures, said Farley. She said the Red Cross still was hoping to have more people volunteer to do something unusual to help the campaign.
Ideas for unusual or interesting things include: wearing a costume to work, saying "I love you" to everyone you meet for one day, wearing a bathing suit to lunch and kissing for an hour in public.
"Its a fun way to raise money for a good cause," Sutherland said.
Todd Sutherland, president of University National Bank, is one of the people who decided to take the challenge and do something unusual to help out the Red Cross. He will be shining shoes in the bank lobby, 1400 Kasold Drive, on Thursday.
Sutherland said he felt the challenge was a good way for people to get involved in helping others.
Farley said anyone who was interested in volunteering could visit the Red Cross Challenge's information booth in Milton's Coffee and Wine, 920 Massachusetts St.
Edited by Juan H. Heath
KU notables to change jobs for cause
Susan Romine, Maryville, Mo., junior, bags a customer's groceries at Hy-Vee,
3504 Clinton Parkway. As a part of the Red Cross Challenge fund-raiser, Roy Williams will bag groceries at the store tomorrow. Photo by Matt J.
Doughty/KANSAN
By Dan Curry
dcurry@kansan.com
dcurry stt writer
Adam Mersmann pours coffee for a living. Steve Lacoss waits tables. Neither KU student said he considered his job to be embarrassing or unusual.
But the Douglas County Red Cross hopes people will chuckle when KU football coach Terry Allen and former KU football All-American John Hadl put on aprons and pick up a thermos March 18 at Milton's Coffee & Wine, 920 Massachusetts.
Allen and Hadl will take part in the Red Cross Challenge, a fundraising drive that places well-known community members in embarrassing circumstances in the name of fun and funding, said Betsy Farley, co-chair of the challenge.
Schools, companies, groups and families are invited to participate.
Farley said people can stop by Milton's until March 18 to make donations or to sign up to participate in an embarrassing or unusual event.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Athletic Director Bob Frederick will serve lemonade in front of Strong Hall March 15. Men's basketball coach Roy Williams will bag groceries at Hy-Hee, 3504 Clinton Parkway, tomorrow.
Besides Allen and Hadl, other notable KU figures also have jumped on the bandwagon for the Red Cross.
Not everyone, though, agrees that these are unusual or embarrassing
events.
"If they want to do something embarrassing, go out and be embarrassing," Lacoss said, in between clearing tables and seating customers at Milton's.
Mersmann, shooting steam into a metal pitcher of milk, also saw nothing inherently unusual or embarrassing about serving coffee.
"If [Allen] doesn't know what he's doing, it probably will be because he'll have to stand there with some one telling him what to do like he's a 2-year-old." Mersmann said.
Allen, who said he waited tables to pay for college, agreed with Mersmann.
"I think what's funny about it is
how out-of-place we'll be," Allen said. "I'll probably screw some things up."
Farley said many of the job-related stunts were unusual rather than embarrassing, and the Red Cross Challenge did not wish to demean any occupation.
She said the humor would be in seeing people out of their typical element.
"It would be like a Milton's waiter coaching a football team for a day," Farley said.
Lacoss said he was not bothered by the Red Cross's drive.
"I'd be insulted if I didn't know it was for a good cause," he said.
Edited by Juan H. Heath
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