McMaster kicks off 2004 Community Campaign

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/dickday3.jpg” caption=”Richard Day”]The 2004 Community Campaign will soon be coming to mailboxes and desktops across campus, Hamilton, and beyond. If you are a faculty or staff member, or a retiree, watch for your package to arrive around October 1. If you have already donated this year, please accept a heartfelt thank you.

McMaster University has benefited immensely from a strong tradition of charitable giving. Generous individuals have been responsible for funding buildings, purchasing updated equipment, creating scholarships and bursaries, and a multitude of other important initiatives. Support from within McMaster's own ranks is strong and tremendously important. Who better to attest to the University's excellence than the people who spend a large part of their lives working to achieve continuing success?

It is true that faculty, staff and retirees support the University in many ways - through paid work, committees and volunteering, and simply offering directions to lost students. The Community Campaign provides one more opportunity for people to show their pride in being members of the McMaster community.

Two individuals who are extremely proud of McMaster are playing strong leadership roles in the 2004 Community Campaign. Many thanks to Richard Day who has focused his efforts on our faculty and staff, and to Alvin Lee, who is working with McMaster's retirees.

Day offers this message: “Having worked closely with so many staff and faculty members over the years, I know that our sense of shared commitment and mutual support will show itself yet again in the upcoming Community Campaign.”

Lee, just returned from Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic, says that it is good to be back at McMaster, with its wealth of human talents and activities. He extends greetings to all retirees and encourages them to help the 2004 Community Campaign be even more successful than last year's.