Dear Diary,"God...Country...Notre Dame"
That is phrase on the Red T-shirts volunteers wore to collect money for Hurricane Victims. We collected money by passing buckets through the rows during the Michigan State game on Saturday Sept. 17th. I enjoyed it but the collection did not go as planned. Perhaps next time we should have the audience attend the mandatory "rehearsal."
On more than one occasion I had to go running through the stands to retrieve my bucket of money. One excited fan simply put the bucket on the ground and resumed cheering. Then well-meaning people would simply pass my bucket a few rows back to anyone waving money in the air. While that was appreciated, we had been assigned specific rows to cover but no one except us knew that.
So I was just very thankful that while the collection process did not go quite as rehearsed, it was effective, all the same. We reportedly raised $197,871 for Hurricane Katrina victims and that is what it was all about. http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/paper660/news/2005/09/21/News/Community.Collects.Over.240000.For.Victims-992386.shtml
