Severely handicapped class arrives - The Lowell

Thr LmrU. May 2. 1936. Fop S
.NEWS
Lowellites aid victims-- Chen, Kuo win
scholarships
Bjr Andre* Lev
The Red Crou Club, in conjunction
with the Board of Schttol and
CcnuiMintty Services (BSCSj. raised
uvrr $700 in donations from Lowclt
student* last month, in its t*»-wccklonf
fund drive in Kelp Northern
California fkxxl victim*.
The funds ratted at Lowell will he
donated to the San Fratcbco charter
of the American Red Cross for
-f*.4iibu:ion lo the victim* of the
flooding that occurred after the
unusually heavy raim thai hate
already catued millions of dollars of
damage since the tun of the >ear.
TnU Hood vktlm relief drive
follow* the recent Lowell fundraisfag
eHon to help victims of last year's
Mexico City earthquake, another
drive that was also sponsored in pan
by th^BSCS.
Despite the approumately SI.000
ratsal in the Mexican earthquake
its "k;w-le>" jppnKK-h, hot felt "...
in this school. thcM: drives could fce
more successful."
"We don't gcncraic cnuph enthusiasm
and concern." Kornip
aryucd. "Some students here should
Ctfmklcr returning Hxnc of *hat they
revcivr to the less fortunate ... we
should he able to ra»c at fcast a dolUr
a pc.-M«i here."
v >'hcn a*keit to compare the flood
relief fund, as *cll ai the money
donucd lo Cal ifomia's (1«*1 vktirm.
neither program ha* lived completely
up to cipccUtions. poviibly
nccauvc of a lacl. of publicity ur
because of a lack of sufficient studcr
interest for a student body as large »
Lowell*.
BSCS sponsor Carl Kocnlj
characterucd :*K flood relief rund effort
as reasonably successful despite
relief drite tc the earlier caithquakc
relief drive. Kocmy staled, "Lnoling
at dolL-r figure*, the earthquake
dr**c wa* n>irc successful." l*j| add-
(X* "will, ihc fkxO relief drive was
T700 wjcccwful .. that's obvN