570 thank you notes collected at Veteran's Day service project

by Aubrie Waldron

On Thursday, as part of Utah State's College of Education and Human Services week, the CEHS council held a Veteran's Day service project where students and faculty wrote thank you notes to local veterans. Tables were set up at the Quad, Merrill-Cazier library, Taggart Student Center and education buildings.

One of the college's objectives, as written in its mission statement, is "to increase the effectiveness of services for individuals, families, communities, schools, and organizations." This service project aided in fulfilling that goal as 570 thank you notes were collected, according to public relations specialist JoLynne Lyon.

Shelby Clayson, Education and Human Services senator, said that the CEHS council members worked with the ROTC in able to distribute the notes to local veterans "in hopes to help support our community directly."

A USU professor, Ryan Whitby had his class take a few minutes to write a note before he began lecture.

"If nothing else it was successful because it made people think about it," Whitby said. "Some of the students decided that rather than just writing a generic note, they took what they wrote home to give it to a veteran that they knew."

Clayson believes that the project largely affected the goals that she and the other council members had for the week.

"As a whole, our college goal is to serve the people, whether that be at Utah State or in the community," Clayson said. "We want to help serve in any way that we can, and that was the least we could do for the amazing sacrifices that the veterans in the country and in Cache Valley have made."