During the Month of October, residents of Hart Hall collected socks for the poor from its local residents. The event went on from Oct. 4 to 18 and proved to be successful as 335 individual pairs of socks were collected.
Megan Wagner, resident RA for the third floor, short hall, created and hosted the event with assistance from her fellow RA’s and RD. Wagner commented on why an event such as this is important.
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“I think it is very important to do what we can for our community,” Wagner stated. “There are many homeless people right here in Johnson City and there are small things we can do that can make a big impact.”
Being modeled after a standard donation drive, this event’s origins came from Wagner’s home city of Cincinnati. Other similar events occurred in the city and Wagner believed it would prove fruitful to bring it to campus and help to exercise the practice of student leadership.
The donation complied with pandemic safety protocol. Physical contact was discouraged and the procedures even extended as far to the products themselves. Wagner commented on the situation.
“We had everyone donate socks that they bought from the store,” said Wagner. “They were all packaged and each person just left their donations in a box on their hall so there was no contact.”
Wagner hopes to see the event return to campus next year to become an annual tradition.
Headline photo: Hart Hall hosted the charitable event where its residents proved to be generous during this Halloween season. Photo courtesy of Milligan website.