Peyton Baker served as the Volunteer Chairman of the Homecoming Committee in the fall of 2011. He was responsible for organizing the volunteer effort for all homecoming activities on behalf of the Student Alumni Association. These activities included Make a Difference Day, the Homecoming Blood Drive, and the Campus Beautification Project. In the weeks leading up to Homecoming Peyton was responsible for coordinating with the Volunteer Action Center, American Red Cross and Associated Student Government in order to successfully give students all across campus an opportunity to volunteer their time in the spirit of homecoming.
Currently Peyton is working with SAA again to put on the Derby Days blood drive which is sponsored by Sigma Chi Fraternity, Student Alumni Association, B Unlimited and Community Blood Center of the Ozarks. Along with the other CBCO officers, he had been planning a way for SAA to produce a large scale philanthropy event that could help represent SAA in the Spring semester, just as the Homecoming blood drive in the fall is a major philanthropy event for SAA. Peyton is very excited to help SAA and CBCO make this trial run at a large spring drive and hopes it will one day compare to the magnitude of the Fall Homecoming Blood Drive, which raised 1300+ units of blood in 2011.
For all his help during Homecoming last Fall, and the Derby Days Blood Drive this Spring, Peyton Baker has been selected as this quarter’s Outstanding Volunteer. Do you have what it takes to be featured in next quarter’s newsletter?
