University of Virginia Library

News-In-Brief

United Fund Begins University Drive

The United Fund Givers
Campaign will kick off
tomorrow afternoon at 2 in
Newcomb Hall Ballroom.
President Edgar F. Shannon
will explain the University's
role in this community project,
and Thomas Kelly, this year's
United Way Campaign
Chairman, will address the
University's campaign workers.

John J. Becker of the
Physics Department will lead
the University Division of the
fund raising drive, and Hospital
Director John F. Harlan will
head the campaign in the
Medical Center.

Mr. Becker and Mr. Harlan
have organized a group of over
100 workers to solicit
contributions from faculty and
staff members in each school,
department and administrative
unit of the University.

Fraternity Co-Educates

Theta Chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega, the University's only
service fraternity, voted
yesterday to co-educate its
membership. The fraternity,
the nation's largest, will hold
its first open rush tonight at 7
p.m. at the Wesley Foundation,
1908 Lewis Mountain Road.

All interested women as
well as men are invited to
attend.

Project FIND

The Volunteer Community
Service Office of Madison Hall
has been asked to act as the
campus representative for
Project FIND, a national effort
to make food assistance
programs (food stamps)
available to elderly people.

Students, faculty and
community volunteers are
needed to give one three-hour
session during the month of
October. During this time they
will work with the local
American Red Cross Chapter in
locating elderly persons in
Charlottesville who are eligible
to receive food stamps. The
American Red Cross is acting as
a liaison group between the
Social Security and Welfare
Agencies in this effort.

The workers will aid the
elderly in filling out their
applications dealing with the
requirements for receiving food
assistance. During a three-hour
period, a pair of workers may
help up to 10 persons with
their applications; 160 visits
have to be made, and the
program ends November 1.

Council Allocation

The Student Council has
been allocated $4,78650 from
the Student Activities Fund.

Any student wishing to
appeal the above allocation
must notify Vice-President D.
Allen Williams, Chairman of
the Student Activities
Committee, by noon, Tuesday,
October 10.

Poetry Readings

A series of Tuesday evening
poetry readings will begin
tomorrow at 8p.m. at the
Prism on Rugby Road. They
will feature University students
from Diane Wakowski's English
class.

Mary North, Rick
Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth
Ryder will present their own
original contemporary writings.

Everyone is invited to
attend these free readings.