Students and staff of Central Technology Centers in Drumright and Sapulpa joined forces to spread good cheer to less fortunate students and families in surrounding communities for the holidays. Drumright housed an angel tree sponsored by the Ambassador's Leadership Class representing 14 families and 34 angels. Through class activities and individual participation, each angel's need of clothing and toys were met. The Ambassador's were also able to add a large box of food to accompany each family through their canned food drive and Angel Food Ministries.
In addition to these services, the Health Careers Certification classes, under the direction of instructors Lori Todd, Kathy Caruthers and Tammy Silkwood, collected donations for an entertainment basket with the proceeds of over $300 going to Alzheimer's Research.
The HCC classes also held two canned food drives where over 1,000 cans and $500 were donated to Feed the Children. The second canned food drive brought in over 600 pounds of food to aid the Oak Grove Baptist Church in Cushing with their monthly Food Pantry.
The Drumright campus Business and Computers class, taught by Athena Frank, collected and delivered items to the Ronald McDonald House and St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, while the Cosmetology class, led by instructor Monica Frick, took on the task of adopting the Drumright Pre-K and Head Start children. Frick's students purchased Christmas gifts for all forty children and hand delivered their items with the help of Santa Claus to the warm smiling faces.
In Sapulpa Brian Babcock's Network Security Administration classes raised $280 for the Sapulpa Salvation Army angel tree and the Administrative Assistant Medical and Legal classes, taught by Susann Shanahan, sponsored a raffle, with the help of Jim Norton Toyota, to raise money for the Salvation Army. They also gave a baby shower for a single mother in the medical class and adopted a family through the Salvation Army in the legal class.
Mark American Horse helped his class of Criminal Justice students lend a hand for Toys for Tots by assisting the Marine Corp. Reserve of Oklahoma City in collecting toys and running the station for two days.
Many of the Sapulpa staff, along with the Health Careers Certification classes taught by Katy Gregory, collected toys for victims of domestic violence and Sonya Hendrix's Business Information Technology students jumped in and helped with the Jim Giles Channel 6 and Yale Cleaners winter coat drive. The BIT classes also rose over $300 to help children on the Mounds Chamber of Commerce Angel tree. Throughout the school six more children were adopted from the Mounds angel tree and many rang the bell for the Salvation Army. |
