UPT SIFE TEAM FALL UPDATE

Plans Business Career Day, Arranges Series of Fundraisers for Hurricane Victims

and Organizes Care Packages for Our Troops

TITUSVILLE, Oct. 21 - The University of Pittsburgh at Titusville SIFE Team has been busy planning several events for the Fall 2005 semester.  They will host the seventh Annual Business Career Day for area high schools from the northwest Pennsylvania region on Friday, October 28, from 8:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Business Career Day provides an opportunity for high school students to learn about the many careers in business through a variety of presentations and planned activities.  In addition, the students learn how to select a future career, secure and maintain a good credit record, and investigate small business ownership.

SIFE has also been busy conducting a series of fundraisers this fall to aid the victims of the hurricanes, as well as to raise funds for SIFE competitions and events.  The Team will sell Bon Ton Care-to-Share coupon booklets on Saturday, November 12, that offer store discounts, and they also will conduct a canned food drive and a pin-drive in November.

On another project this fall, the SIFE Team is working with the UPT Cares Program to collect supplies to send to former Pitt students currently serving in the United States Armed Forces abroad.  Two former UPT students are serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, Sgt. Amanda Jackson and Spc. Cindy Jamieson.  If other former UPT students are serving abroad, the SIFE Team would like to be contacted, so they may include them in their care package efforts.

SIFE is a nonprofit international organization with active teams on over 1,500 college campuses in 40 countries around the world.  For more information, call SIFE World Headquarters at 1-800-677-SIFE, visit their website at www.sife.org, or contact Melanie Anderson, Sam Walton Fellow and UPT SIFE Advisor at 814-827-4415.

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