Volunteer ambassadors needed

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

(Stillwater, OK  March 24, 2009) -- Any Oklahoma State University student who is interested in promoting involvement and service to the university and the community is encouraged to become a Service-Learning Volunteer Center ambassador for 2009-10.

The ambassadors meet weekly with Joyce Montgomery, SLVC coordinator, to develop ideas and programs to highlight the importance of volunteerism within communities.

This year, the group has formed a team for the big Brothers/Big Sisters “Bowl for Kids sake,” will assist with cutting and delivering daffodils for the American Cancer Society, and assisted with the Simon Estes “Run for Education” in Tulsa.

Currently there are 17 ambassadors, and membership is limited to 20, according to Montgomery.

“Volunteering provides the chance for people who have the ability to help others to do so, and thus find a greater joy for themselves,” said member Kyle Klufa, Pilot Point, Texas, mechanical engineering junior.  “I volunteer because I have the means, the time and the desire to help people beyond what the social circumstances would normally allow.”

Students interested in becoming ambassadors next year, who want to learn more or to sign up, can call the SLVC at 744-5145.