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DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
Great Bend High School student Jeremy Zigler loads food items into his pickup Friday afternoon after the GBHS National Honor Society finished its first-ever food drive for the Barton County Food Bank. Over 6,600 items were collected.
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GBHS food drive nets over 6,000 items for Barton County food bank
By DALE HOGG
November 16, 2009 @ 10:32pmFriday the 13th was not unlucky for the Barton County Food Bank, thanks to the Great Bend High School National Honor Society.
The society held its first-ever food drive as a competition between the four classes at GBHS, and collected over 6.600 items. The results were announced Friday afternoon with the junior class taking first by bringing in 2,186 items. Second went to seniors with 1,499, third to the staff with 1,356, fourth to the freshmen with 858 and fifth to the sophomores with 753.
“That’s more than we’ve ever had from any one food drive,” said Food Bank Director Jean Smith. “Our shelves are overflowing.”
Those shelves were starting to look rather bare. “This came in really handy,” Smith said.
“We want to start a tradition of GBHS being a caring community,” said Crystal Cross, NHS sponsor and GBHS English teacher.
Smith said they are off to a good start. “Some of them (the students) even stayed around to help put things away.”
The food was collected during the second week of this month (Nov. 9-13). Items were turned in before school started in the GBHS Jack Kilby Commons. There were four bins – one for each of the four classes. Teachers had lists of what the Food Bank needed posted in their classrooms.
“Collection was be carefully monitored,” Cross said. At noon each day, the society posted and announced the total count of items brought by each class.
Teachers could put items into whichever class bin they want to support, or bring four and cover all of the classes. The staff also competed as a team.
The society will sponsor a “caring or giving” project in the fall and, if all goes as planned, one in the spring. Each time the “giving” will be set up as a class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) competition. NHS is buying a trophy that will be on display in the Commons. This trophy will have a plate with the winning class will be engraved on it. The junior class will be the first, engraved for the fall of 2009.
“We would really like to do a Spring campaign as well,” Cross said. She is also seeking other ideas as well. “We, of course, can always do the food bank drive. After all, a big spring one would help stock their shelves.”
