Page 18 - Clearwater Christian College 1992

he Cougar Trot, our jog-a-

thon fund-raiser, got off to a

slow start; however, once the

L campus family caught the

spirit, the mailers went out

and the donations came in.

Dr. James Munro was the perfect coach for

lighting a fire beneath his team. With the help

of Craig Little Enterprises, Inc., he developed

some incentives such as a cash machine similar

Our “mystery” jogger
to an ATM machine. Participants were given

Mrs. Adella Hitchins

cards with magnetic strips which, when passed begins her laps with

through the machine, activated a voice re­ the aid of Mr. Art Olsen

in one of the mainte­
sponse letting them know how much money nance vehicles. She

they won. Joggers received a prescribed num­ was the perfect choice

to be the substitution
ber of cards depending on how many response

runner for those who

mailers they sent to potential donors. Some could not participate;

students received over one hundred dollars. she turns 92 in ’92.

That spurred more to send out their mailers.

The day chosen for the jog-a-thon was rainy Brian Grete, Billy Gos-

and cool, but the persistent walkers, runners, selin, Mrs. Laurie Den­

nis, and Mr. Bob Sweet
and joggers faithfully completed their laps. The distribute Jog-a-thon

time limit was thirty minutes. To some, it packets to students.

Money was inserted
seemed like an eternity; for others like Greg

into some of the pack­

Bonnell, it was a good workout. Faculty and ets as an incentive for

staff also put in laps to raise money. Mrs. students to pick up

their materials imme­
Adella Hitchins was the mystery jogger. When diately following chap­

making her speech in chapel she commented el.

humbly, “I just want to represent the school.”

She surely did as did many others. We have a

new van painted in school colors as a result of

their efforts in the race against time.