Food Relief Drive Goes Over Top As Donations Push Total to $11,051

Passing its $10,000 goal Wednesday night, the food drive yesterday reached $11,051.00 as checks in the mail and returns from the Widener Library desk continued to swell the totals, Chairman Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 announced last night.

Campbell named Scott B. Elledge, instructor in English, as "responsible more than anyone else for the success of the campaign" because of his efforts in organizing the Committee and in publishing its work, and he expressed thanks to Joel Dorius and Beverly J. Laymen, both of the Faculty, for publishing the folder and contacting Faculty members, and Clemens Heller 3G for serving the Committee in an advisory capacity.

Students who contributed most to the drive, according to Campbell, are William Sharpe, Jr. '43 and his 70 assistants, who made all solicitations in the College Houses; Richard Angell 2G and Wallace Craig, of the Faculty, who contacted all Graduate students; Thomas Killifer 3L and Daniel P. S. Paul 1L, who directed the Law School drive; Joseph Beck 1GB, who solicited the Business School; Albert R. Childs '49, who contacted all non-resident undergraduates and organized the Comittee desk in Widener; and Mathilda Mortimer, who organized the campaign at Radcliffe.

$500 Check in Mail

Final impetus to put the drive over the top was received from a $500,00 check in the faculty mail and recent collections at the Widener desk. This latter sum was made possible through the efforts of an anonymous young woman who called Campbell by phone to ask "if there was anything she could do." She was subsequently put to work in Widener, where she collected $300.00.

Schoenhof's Foreign Books Inc. donated $5.00 to the drive and the Fanny Farmer Candy Co. contributed a large shipment of candy.

One typewriter was contributed to the campaign in response to a telegram from the Christian Science Monitor editor in Poland containing a plea for a typewriter so that a Polish student could complete his Ph.D. thesis.