February 5 Newsletter

A snow-covered Grand Valley- Photo by Bo Anderson

Challenging Heights Bake Sale

Erin Erickson

Mr. ANCHOR Pageant

Sarah Thornton

ANCHOR is hosting a bake sale on February 25-27 in Henry Hall and in the Niemeyer lobby to raise money to sponsor a Challenging Heights student. Challenging Heights is an organization in Ghana that provides education for children who have been freed from forced child labor. The honors program sends a group of students to Ghana each year to work with this organization. The children are survivors of child trafficking; most of them do not have financial resources to pay for school. It costs $300 to sponsor one child for an entire year. As a sponsor, ANCHOR can keep one child safe from child trafficking while providing the child with an education and a safe, empowering environment.

For ANCHORs February program, there will be a pageant for the men of our community to participate in! It will take place at 7 pm on Friday, February 8 in the Cook-Dewitt Auditorium. The judges are Dr. J, Janaan Decker, and Erin Ash (GA from Laker Village) and they will be judging based on the following categories: GV wear, talent, Q & A, and lastly a Penny Wars benefitting Helen DeVos Fundraising Group. The contenders are Glenn Miller, Michael Hurley, Grant Price, Jacob Sackleh, Preston Purdue, Scott Hancox, and Jack Bontekoe. The winner will receive a gift certificate for the bookstore and a beautifully hand-crafted sash. GrooVe!, a coed a cappella group, will be performing and light refreshments will be served. Be sure to invite your friends to this exciting and unique event!

Trip to Ghana- Photo from Janaan Decker

Kids Food Basket

Erin Erickson

GVSU group helps at Challenging HeightsPhoto from Janaan Decker

On February 9 and March 16, the ANCHOR community service council will be taking a trip to Kids Food Basket in Grand Rapids to volunteer. Students will be packing and sorting lunches for the Sack Supper program, which provides meals to over 4,800 children daily. The purpose of Kids Food Basket is to end childhood hunger by providing sack meals for underprivileged children in the Grand Rapids area. Without the assistance of volunteers, it would be impossible to help this many children. To find out about more volunteer opportunities, come to an ANCHOR meeting on Wednesday nights at 9:30 pm in Honors 148!

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Alumna Spotlight: Kirstyn Wildey

Sarah Pale

Kirstyn Wildey

February Events
February 6-13Helen DeVos selling Candy Grams February 8Mr. ANCHOR Pageant February 9Kids Food Basket Volunteering February 25-27Challenging Heights Bake Sale February 28Helen DeVos Chili Cook Off

Kirstyn Wildey is a 2007 Graduate of Northville High School and a 2011 Graduate of GVSU and the Frederik Meijer Honors College, Magna Cum Laude with a B.B.A. in Human Resource Management and Marketing and a minor in Philosophy. While at GVSU, she volunteered by being an Honors student ambassador and an exam proctor and tour guide for scholarship competitions. Wildey was also a student assistant in the Honors College, and HR intern in ARAMARK/Campus Dining, vice president for the Society for Human Resource Management, and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma at GVSU. Since graduation, she has been employed as Human Resource Generalist for Lake Michigan Financial Corporation, and she is responsible for recruitment and selection, performance management, and employee relations. She said she likes her position because she gets to utilize what shes learned at GVSU. In addition to work, she is also pursuing her Juris Doctor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Grand Rapids, sits on the Membership Committee for Grand Rapids Helen DeVos Group Young Professionals (GRYP), is a Career Coach and Workshop Facilitator for Career Happenings Transitions Center of West Michigan, and Sarah Wilson volunteers at Kids Food Basket. In her (very limited) free time, she said To get into the Valentines Day spirit, she enjoys spending time with old and new the Helen DeVos fundraising group is friends, catching up on missed TV episodes of selling candy grams from February 6-13 her favorite shows, and eating as much Thai at the front desk of Niemeyer. It is an food as possible. easy way to be able to let someone know how special they are to you with Look for another Alumni Spotlight in the next a sweet treat. The candy grams are ANCHOR Newsletter! only $1 and all proceeds will go toward fundraising efforts for the Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital. Also, on February 28 from 8-10 pm in the multipurpose I have found that among its room, the group will be hosting a chili other benefits, giving cook off. All interested chefs can create their signature chili recipes to share liberates the soul of the with attendees. For a donation of $3 at the door, each attendee will have the giver. chance to vote for their favorite recipe, and the chef with the most votes will win a prize for their chili creation. -Maya Angelou Further details for the event will be coming soon as far as signing up to cook for the event.

Editor- Sarah Hillenbrand Writers- Sarah Wilson Erin Erickson Sarah Thornton Sarah Pale

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