ExCEL Award

Congratulations to Mathew Shepard, Mark Campbell, Abby Rimel, Caitlin Wise, Mortar Board Homecoming ExCEL finalists, and Tonia Salas, ExCEL Award Winner! We were so proud to see so much representation from Mortar Board!

Harvesters District Service Day

On October 3rd, our district met for a district wide service project in Kansas City. We helped fill bags for the BackSnack Program at Harvesters. We made over 2500 BackSnack bags that will be sent home with children so that they may have nutritious food over the weekend. The BackSnack program serves 13,000 children every week. Not only did we help fill bags, but we also toured the building. It is truly incredible what Harvesters is doing for the area and truly generous of the companies, restaurants, stores, manufacturers, and everyday people that are helping to supply the food. One of the stories our H

arvesters Ambassador told us was that Fruit Loops made a large batch missing one color of the loops. Harvesters received tons of boxes of Fruit Loops instead of it going to waste. The most amazing statistic that he shared with us however, is that Harvesters uses 97% of money raised to directly benefit the hungry. Thanks for all that you do for the hungry, Harvesters!

A group picture of all the schools volunteering at Harvesters.

The bags that we filled for the BackSnack Program

Clare Prohaska and some of the girls from William Jewell College working on the assembly line.

Megan Burgardt adding chocolate milk to the BackSnacks.

Christine Laskowski adding fruit to the BackSnacks.

Chris Chaffee adding the white milk.

Andrea Olsen and Abby Rimel starting the assembly line.

Traffic on I70 was so bad, we took a little detour to get home. We snapped this pic out the window on the beautiful day-we should have gotten out and walked, we might have gotten home faster. We are glad all of you that had to travel farther made it back safe and sound! Thanks for serving with us!

Friends of the Library Book Sale

At the beginning of October, KU Mortar Board helped the Friends of the Library with their annual book sale. We helped set up the INCREDIBLE number of books, CDs, DVDs, VHS, and audio books. Thank you to the Friends of the Library and all of the amazing Lawrence donors for promoting literacy! If you would like more information about the Friends of the Library, please click here.

Ben Burge unloading books

Elizabeth Cristiano unloading CDs from her cart.

Jimmy Allen curling book boxes.

Clare Prohaska with many books.

2010-2011

Let me introduce myself as the new KU Mortar Board blogger. My name is Becca Braun and I will be serving as the new Historian for the 2010-2011 class of Mortar Board initiates. I hope to interact with the readers of this blog (KU Mortar Board Alums? Members from other universities? Parents? Former exec members?) by asking questions and searching for your input.

If you would like, leave a hello in the comments with your connection to Mortar Board at KU. Maybe the year you were initiated or the university at which you were initiated?

We held our first executive board meeting tonight. It looks as though Mathew has us off to a great start for the year and we are looking forward to the alumni dinner in September. Here's to a great year.

Alumni Dinner 03.22.2010

Alumni Dinner 03.22.2010

Mortar Board Recognizes 2009 Outstanding Educators --Ceremony November, 15, 2009

Outstanding educator chairs, Emily Baird and Kaleigh Braun.

Pictured from Left to Right: John Kennedy, associate professor of political science; Robert Dunn, professor of chemistry; Ann Rowland, associate professor of English, Alee Phillips, lecturer in business; Michael Detamore, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering