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Show utr" ,.,..y; H J j V-i ! 1 N " V Cr" --o., JrJ CAf.'CER DERBY 15 BETTY C FISHER IiBoka lot of volunteers to si year's Phone Derby B lit oncer crusade a suc-sstui suc-sstui kick-off lor the annual Erasing crusade which is filled beg'" on a door" -W basis this Saturday, onlL FOR TWO nights last week ofimmately 20 volunteers ith mght met at the elephone building in Bounds Boun-ds in contact a select group d businessmen and civic Sites in the south end of 3ii County for special jeiges of donations to the Checking lists and telephoning many individuals and businesses in the south end of Davis County asking for donations of $25 or more for the annual cancer crusade funds were these people from left : Mrs. Lucy Irvine, Karen Stevens, and Craig and Cauleen Tueller. They were just a' few of the more than 40 volunteers who aided in the success of the Davis County Unit of the American Cancer Society's annual two-day Phone Derby. cancer fund. The derby was headed by , Stanley M. Smedley, general chairman, with Ray Irvine serving as captain the first night and Rich Mavin serving as captain the second evening. even-ing. Through the efforts of these men, all of whom have served in this event several previous years, and the 40 other volunteers, more than 4,000 was raised or pledged by people who were willing to contribute at least $25 or more. THE remarkable aspect of this, is the fact that we were '" able to raise that much money, which is more than $600 more than we raised during last year's derby, and the volunteers worked for only two hours each night," Mr. Smedley beamed. Even Bountiful's mayor, Elmer Barlow, manned one of the phones assisted by several teenage girls who provided lists of names and phone numbers to be called and then mailed the pledge cards to those who pledged to contribute. con-tribute. Some of these young bookkeepers included Annette Ann-ette Turner, Angie Sadler, Ann Rohr, Connie Eggett and her mother, Dawn Eggett as well as several wives of the local businessmen who' manned the phones. "THIS WAS a great kick-off to the residential campaign which gets underway in the area from Farmington south to the Davis County line on Saturday," Ted Peterson, president of the Davis South Unit, said. "We'll have some 1,400 volunteers taking part in this year's crusade, according accord-ing to Mrs. Karen Stewart, crusade chairman," Mr. Peterson Pe-terson said. These funds, collected yearly, go for the education and research work in the fight against all the various forms of cancer. |
