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Monday, October 21, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- More than 30 Knox College alumni will participate in community service projects in Galesburg and Chicago on October 26, as part of National "Make a Difference Day."
The volunteer effort, coordinated by Carol Brown, assistant director of alumni affairs at Knox, will assemble Knox alumni at two locations in Galesburg — Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center, 1188 W. Main, and the Galesburg Rescue Mission, 435 E. Third St.; and two locations in Chicago — Christopher House, 2507 N. Greenview, and Saving a Child Foundation, 2516 W. Cortez.
"Knox alumni have indicated that they're interested in community service," Brown said. "This is a way for alumni to get together with each other and do something for their communities."
Eleven Galesburg-area Knox alumni are scheduled to assist, between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, at the Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center and the Galesburg Rescue Mission, helping organize donations of food and clothing for distribution.
At Christopher House, a social service agency, 14 Knox alumni are scheduled to help with games and other activities at the agency's Fall Festival.
At Saving a Childhood Foundation, an educational and community service organization, eleven Knox alumni are scheduled to assemble gift baskets and assist in preparations for a fund-raising auction in November.
Helping coordinate the activities in Chicago is Thad Kind, a Galesburg native and 1995 Knox graduate who currently works as an editor for Encyclopedia Britannica.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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