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July 26, 2008
Fundraisers aid children's shelter
Jason Prevelige of Fairfield, left, Cindy Lord of Cheshire, director of the Quinnipiac University physician assistant program; Janice Dadio of North Haven, the secretary for the program; Kathleen Swift of Geneseo, N.Y.; and Andrew Turczak of Shelton. Prevelige, Swift and Turczak are all students in the program.
The Quinnipiac University Physician Assistant Student Society raised $10,000 for the Children’s Shelter of San Antonio, Texas, during its Ninth Annual Run for Your Life: 5K Road Race, 10th Annual Cow Chip Bingo and Second Annual Kids’ Fun Run on April 12 at Quinnipiac.
The fundraisers were part of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Host City Prevention Campaign, which promotes childhood literacy. The Quinnipiac students will attend this year’s AAPA conference, which will take place in San Antonio in May.
More than 150 runners competed in the 5K Road Race.
Following the race, three Holstein cows took to the “bingo board,” which, in actuality, was a field at Quinnipiac. With 1,000 squares lined on the field, students sold tickets for $10 per bingo square. The first cow to drop chips on a given square on the field earned the winner $1,500, with the second prize $1,000, and a third prize of $500.
Posted by Bustraan on July 26, 2008 6:54 PM
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