News Release

March 10, 2005
Central Tech Students Help
Tsunami Survivors With Donations

Health Careers Certifications students at Central Technology Center , Drumright, are helping Tsunami survivors with kits containing many of life's basic healthcare necessities. Twenty-five Tsunami Relief Kits were prepared containing hand towels, wash clothes, combs, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and nail clippers in cooperation with the Church World Service. CWS will combine the tech student's gifts with others nationwide and distribute them to survivors in the areas affected by the recent natural disaster. The HCC students and their peers in the school's Cosmetology program also donated $75 in cash to help ship the kits to Indonesia . Some of the supplies in the kits were donated to the program by Wal-Mart and Escotts supermarket in Cushing.



Ron Nofziger, Hillcrest Healthcare System Chaplain, (standing center) is surrounded by healthcare
students at Central Tech who are participating in relief efforts for Tsunami survivors. With Nofziger are:
(seated) Cortney Strain, Olive; Jackie Maxwell, Olive; Tiffany Lechtenberg, Drumright; (standing) Olivia Wood, Olive; Lexi Stuart, Bristow; Ashley Jones, Oilton; Robert Borel, Cushing; Nofziger; Tricia Day, Cushing; Tammy Silkwood, instructor; Misty Walker, Cleveland; and Paisley Gurley, Cleveland.