Shinerama volunteers a ‘veritable bundle of energy and enthusiasm’
Students volunteering with Shinerama, a national fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Society, took to the streets of Hamilton Saturday. One resident and McMaster alumna wrote about her interaction with the students in The Hamilton Spectator.
McMaster alumna Linda Paradis has nothing but praise for the students who approached her car Saturday, collecting donations in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Society.
In fact, Paradis had so much to say about the Shinerama volunteers that she put pen to paper and sent a letter to The Hamilton Spectator, which published it Tuesday.
“I was initially a little dismayed to see several young men come up to my car asking for money while I was stopped at a red light in front of the university, until I realized who they were and what they were doing,” wrote Paradis, who earned a degree in English from McMaster. “I encountered other students again at the Centre Mall and at Eastgate. They were singing, clapping, dancing, chanting, playing guitar (and in pouring rain for some of it) — a veritable bundle of energy and enthusiasm.”
The full letter, signed by “a proud McMaster alumna,” can be read here.
