Recycling for Anna
by Claire Wallendjack, excerpted from The Critograph
Still making history
Julianne Mayes ’11 launched a new recycling initiative on campus in memory of Anna Wright, who died last summer in a single-vehicle car accident. The “Be the Change” pro- gram aims to re- duce the amount of waste that students produce while raising money in conjunction with Sports Outreach Institute and the lcWomen’s Soccer team. Anna was the starting goalkeeper for the women’s
soccer team and was named Honorable Mention All-odac in 2009. After her death on July 7, her friends dedicated themselves to making sure that Anna’s memory will live on at lc. Duke Fede ’11, a “Be the Change” volunteer
and friend of Anna’s, said, “It’s so unfair that she was taken so quickly, and as her friends, we feel that it’s our job to let people know who this amaz- ing girl was and do something positive to keep her memory alive.”
Julianne is hoping students will raise enough
money to send her family to Uganda to see a well that will be dug there in her memory. In lieu of flowers at Anna’s memorial service, friends and family donated money to the Sports Out- reach Institute to build the well, overseen by Dr. Todd Olsen, the women’s head soccer coach. With the assistance of Venice Paliangayan
’12, friends and lc faculty, Julianne has enlisted sixty-five Southside residences to commit to the aluminum recycling program.
“Every single house we have approached so far has
agreed to the program, and the support of the ad- ministration on campus has been overwhelming,” she said. Each recycling bin has the initials “amw” in memory of Anna, along with the recycling slogan
“Be the Change.” Julianne said she came up with the idea for the
program when she saw the amount of aluminum that students discarded on weekends. “I thought about a positive change that was also reasonable,” she said.
Editor’s note: Students collected 818 pounds of aluminum cans in six pickups and raised $430.
Spring 2011 LC MAGAZINE 11
Two senior history majors, both from Lynchburg, have been se- lected as 2010-11 George C. Marshall Undergraduate Scholars, which comes with a $250 schol- arship and the opportunity to use primary resources from the George C. Marshall Research Li- brary in Lexington, Virginia. The scholars must write a paper con- cerning a subject involving diplo- matic and military history or political affairs from 1898 to 1960, the approximate dates of Marshall’s public service. Saman- tha Marie Bryant’s research paper focuses on the United States’ decision to recognize the state of Israel officially in 1948. Christopher Michael Edwards is exploring the debates regard- ing the fate of displaced persons after World War II that took place within the American occupation government in Germany. Bryant and Edward are among only twenty-four students chosen for this award.
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