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By ASU News Service
Students in the family and consumer
science program at Appalachian State University participated
in a food drive competition with their counterparts
at Western Carolina University. While they collected
18 boxes of food to benefit the Watauga Hunger and Health
Coalition, they lost the competition to WCU. As a result,
they will display a WCU pennant for the remainder of
the semester in their classroom. Pictured are Dr. Mary
Dean Coleman-Kelly, left, freshman Emily Boland, senior
Maegan Eichinger, freshman Melanie Klaus, senior Darren
Deyton and Dr. Marty Root.
Photo submitted
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There really were no losers in this competition. Students in
health and nutrition courses at Appalachian State University
and Western Carolina University participated in a food drive
known as the Western/Appalachian Food Fight.
Students from each class collected food items for local food
banks for one month with the class collecting the most items
per student declared the winner.
Students from Appalachian collected 639 total items or four
items per student while the WCU class collected 2,271 items
or 52 items per person. The loser displays the other school’s
pennant in their classroom for the rest of the semester.
The food collected by the Appalachian students will benefit
the Watauga Hunger and Health Coalition.
“Even though both our total collection and our collection
per student was less than WCU, we still have a huge pile of
good food here — about 15 boxes — and it will help
a lot of people in need,” said Marty Root, assistant professor
in the family and consumer science program at Appalachian.
“I’m very glad that we did the competition. We have
done a good thing for our community and for the understanding
of our students of the nutritional problems all around them.”
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