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John Colatch, director of religious life and College chaplain, sent this message today to the campus community:
An Agency Fund account has been established to receive all funds raised for Hurricane Katrina relief. The funds deposited in this account will be distributed equally to the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army. All monies raised during the campus-wide effort should be directed to John Colatch, financial manager for the account, in the Office of Religious Life, 101 Hogg Hall. Checks should be made out to Lafayette College and earmarked for Hurricane Katrina.
President Dan Weiss has asked that an on-going committee be established to coordinate fund-raising and educational activities related to Hurricane Katrina and disaster relief. The committee will convene for the first time Tuesday, Sept. 13. The committee includes:
— administrators Rosemary Bader, associate treasurer; Gary Carney, director of development; Arlina DeNardo, director of financial aid; Jim Krivoski, vice president for student affairs, dean of students, acting executive assistant to the president, and acting administrative secretary to the board of trustees; and Amber Zuber, coordinator of the Landis Community Outreach Center;
— faculty members David Johnson, associate provost and professor of English; and Robert Weiner, Jones Professor of History and Jewish chaplain; and
— students Megan Gagliardi ’08, Alex Meis ’08, Margaret Lapsanski ’06, Jamie Papageorgiou ’06, and Richard Simon ’07.
I will serve as chair of the committee, and Darlene Frank of the Office of Religious Life will serve as secretary.
Carol Rowlands, director of admissions, reports that the process of exploring how Lafayette may provide access to students whose education has been disrupted has been completed with five students, four from Tulane University and one from Loyola University, enrolling at Lafayette as visiting students for the semester.