Sodexho Marriott Services joins
forces with students to fight hunger
Staff Reports
Sodexho Marriott Services
joined forces with students and
faculty members as part of an
ongoing effort to fight hunger
in the community.
Through Sodexho
Marriott's "Caring Cans" pro
gram, students, faculty, and col
lege staff members who do
nated canned goods on Tues
day, December 5, 2000, the first
day of the can collection, re
ceived a free lunch at the col
lege dining facility.
Over 100 people partici
pated in the drive for cans.
"It is really cool how the
entire campus, including off
campus students, came to
gether for this project," said
Guilford sophomore Jill
Burchell. The food was col
lected at Founders Hall up to
December 15 and then donated
to Second Harvest Regional
Food Bank in Winston-Salem.
"Many American children
face hunger this holiday sea
son, but with the help from the
staff and students here at
Guilford College, we're hoping
to meet some of the need here
in our own community," said
Martin Woodward, Sodexho
Marriott Services general man
ager for dining services at
Guilford College. "The success
of the can collection is a trib
ute to the generosity of the
Guilford College community."
Fighting hunger is nothing
Record $3.4 million in cash gifts received
by Guilford College during December
Staff Reports
The most recent month of
December will be remembered
for more than a visit by jolly old
Saint Nick at Guilford College.
An all-time record of $3,434,093
in cash gifts was received by the
college during the month.
To put that in context, the
$3.4 million total received in
one month nearly reached the
$3.8 million that Guilford re
ceived during the entire 1999-
2000 academic year. And it
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Martin Woodward (left), Sodexho Marriott Services general manager for dining services at Guilford College,
and Heather Sherlock, district marketing representative, proudly display the cans of food donated during
their "Caring Cans" program last month.
new to Guilford College stu
dents. On November 20, 2000, 60
students joined Bonner Hunger
Fellows for a Global Reality Ban
quet to learn first-hand what it's
like to be hungry.
Students were split into
three groups to symbolize differ
ent socioeconomic levels. The
first group was served luxury
items, including steak and lob
more than tripled the $944,292
in cash gifts that came to
Guilford in December of 1999.
Guilford President Donald
W. McNemar was all smiles as he
talked about the record-break
ing month. "When I first heard
the December gift figures, it
seemed too good to be true," he
said. "But the figures are true,
and this is very exciting news for
Guilford College. The combina
tion of new donations and pay
ments on earlier pledges made to
the college make this the largest
sters, served on fine china. The
second group was fed all the rice
and beans it could eat. Finally,
the third group sat on the floor
with only a portion of rice to
eat, and were not provided with
utensils. The banquet took
place in the center of the main
dining hall during the dinner
hour so that other students
could watch and also learn
total of cash gifts in a single "The fact that we received
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about hunger.
"I really like that we're
making a difference. We are
forcing people to consider
these issues and the Global
Reality Banquet and Caring
Cans project lets them do
something about it," said Eliza
Bradley, a junior at Guilford
College and a Bonner Hunger
Fellow.