PVM Closes in on Goal for Purdue United Way Campaign - Purdue University

Friday, November 11, 2022

Purdue Veterinary Medicine module and unit are coming unneurotic to enactment Purdue University’s publication to the United Way of Greater Lafayette, arsenic the run comes down the location stretch.  Purdue present has reached 75% of the $725,000 goal, and successful the College of Veterinary Medicine, much than $18,000 has been raised with a run information complaint nearing 25%. The run ends November 16. 

Purdue Veterinary Medicine Chair Angela Pickett, enforcement adjunct to the Dean, gives a outcry retired to her run squad of Jamie Richards, vice chair; Terri Donald, representing the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital; Makayla Espinosa of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences; Liane Shaw, RVT, representing the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences; and Megan Lintner from the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.  In particular, Angela noted the ongoing efforts of Terri to assistance successful aggregate ways, including assisting with emails and dreaming up the thought of the famed Dark Coffee Basket that was a fashionable point successful the Purdue United Way Campaign online Silent Auction. 

The Silent Auction, which wrapped-up Friday, October 28, raised a full of $4,475.  Congratulations to Kevin Doerr, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, who submitted the precocious bid for the Dark Coffee Basket.  “I felt similar idiosyncratic seemed to cognize astir my emotion of acheronian roast coffee, truthful I couldn’t walk up an accidental to bid for that item,” Kevin said.  “I was honored to yet person submitted the precocious bid.  It genuinely is simply a treasure trove for a acheronian roast java fan!” Other palmy PVM bidders successful the Silent Auction included Dr. Sarah Waxman, objective adjunct prof successful the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and Colleen Maguire Jackson, therapist/counselor successful the Department of Veterinary Administration, who submitted the precocious bid for the Happy Harvest/Halloween Package that featured specified items arsenic a Halloween doorway cover, Thanksgiving partition and doorway décor and a pumpkin angiosperm halfway piece.

There inactive are aggregate ways to enactment the Purdue United Way Campaign effort.  “Thank you each truthful overmuch for the hard enactment you person been putting into this year’s campaign,” Angela said. 

With little than a week near successful the campaign, Megan Eberly, Purdue United Way director, encourages Purdue employees who person not yet pledged to bash truthful earlier the run wraps up. Pledges are not automatically renewed from twelvemonth to year, truthful employees request to log connected to the Purdue United Way website to renew their pledge for this year.

“We privation to convey everyone that has helped determination this run successful a guardant absorption this twelvemonth aft a challenging mates of years owed to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Eberly says. “One happening we proceed to larn is that the needs are greater than ever post-COVID, and that is wherefore we are truthful grateful to everyone who has donated, volunteered and helped enactment the Purdue 2022 United Way campaign. Purdue continues to bash what Boilermakers person ever done, and that is assistance our community. The enactment that is being done with truthful galore departments and colleges wrong the Purdue assemblage is truly inspiring to ticker arsenic it supports truthful overmuch of the enactment that United Way does.”

Linda Mason, dean of the Graduate School, is this year’s run chair, and Beth McNeil, dean of Libraries and School of Information Studies, is the vice chair.

The Purdue United Way run volition wrapper up astatine the United Way of Greater Lafayette’s run triumph solemnisation November 17 astatine The Outpost successful Lafayette, and members of the field assemblage are invited to be the solemnisation (register astatine www.uwlafayette.org/victory22).

Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu