The Alpha Tau Omegas at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln helped make one little boy’s summer dreams come true. The eight-year-old with special needs had entered a contest to win a bicycle adapted to his needs. He didn’t win the contest. When the Alpha Tau Omegas heard the story, it was too late in the semester to do a fundraiser so the chapter members passed the hat, reached into their own pockets and collected enough to buy him the bike. View the news report at: http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Fraternity-Surprises-Boy-With-Special-Needs-Bike-261307751.html?ref=751&device=phone.
Jackson on the bicycle that the ATOs at UNL gave to him (photo courtesy of WOWT).
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“The face that launched a billion spoons” is how someone described the charcoal sketch of Ann Turner Cook which appears on Gerber Baby Food products. The sketch was done by Dorothy Hope Smith who had been a neighbor of the Turner family when they lived in Connecticut. CBS Sunday Morning recently did a feature story on the Southern Methodist University Pi Beta Phi who is known as the “Gerber Baby Food baby.” See the interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgULURH39E4&feature=youtu.be.
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When the men of the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter of Ohio University lost one of their members last year, they knew they had to do something to honor their friend. David Spyke died due to a skateboarding accident. The chapter participated in the Brain Trauma Foundation’s Ohio’s Race for a Reason in his memory. Particpants raise money by competing in their choice of event, 3K, 5K, mud run or triathalon. More than $3,400 was raised by chapter members. See the Sig Ep Blog post at: http://www.sigep.org/blog/ohio-xi-turns-grief-into-service-after-losing-a-chapter-brother.html
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