Alpha Sigma Lambda, an adult student honor society and service organization at East Tennessee State University, will “adopt” Little Bucs Student Child Care Center next semester by raising funds to buy supplies for the center.
Karen Sullivan, assistant director of the Adult, Commuter and Transfer Services office at ETSU, said Little Bucs created a wish list of supplies and equipment.
“The focus for spring is to see what (ASL members) can come up with,” Sullivan said.
A specific fund-raising plan is not yet available, but Sullivan said ASL members may have some outside contacts they can utilize.
“(The ASL executive board) tells me they have a plan, and I don’t doubt it for a moment,” Sullivan said.
ASL recently distributed $500 to Safe Passage women’s shelter, Dawn of Hope, Meals on Wheels, Shepherd’s Inn of Elizabethton, and a scholarship for re-entering students at ETSU.
ASL will be locating students during the spring semester who are eligible for membership and inviting them to join.
Members pay a $50 fee to defray the cost of events throughout the semester, as well as an initiation dinner and cords for members to wear at their graduation ceremony.
The fee also helps pay for donations to the charities the members choose each semester.
“I think they take the service component to heart, and they want to help,” Sullivan said.
Members must attend one general membership meeting per semester and participate in at least two service projects, such as helping with orientations and honors convocations, per semester.
For more information on Alpha Sigma Lambda, call the ACTS office at 439-5641.

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