The St. Louis College of Pharmacy hosted a telephone fundraising campaign in early October. Our special thanks go to Dean Wendy Duncan for the invitation to host the event on-campus. Spearheaded by Zachary Stacy, ACCP Liaison, and Terry Seaton, Board of Regents, the event had more than 20 student participants. The student group of ACCP students, led by Kyle Amelung and Paras Vakharia, created a training slideshow for the students. The event lasted 6 hours, during which several thousand dollars in new donations were received. In exchange for its efforts, the St. Louis College of Pharmacy received a small portion of the donations to be earmarked for student ACCP-related activities.

The students involved in the phone drive were as follows: Kyle Amelung, Paras Vakharia, Puja Patel, John Miller, Kristin Hagan, Candace Dunn, Alexis Bylina, Jennie George, Yervand Simonyan, Jessica Drury, Stuart Greaser, Micah Howell, Kayley Will, Lauren Dillman, Kelli Fitterling, Kathleen Tran, Jincy Philip, Bethany Heckert, Zaneta Thomas, Megan Van Berkel, Allison High, Eric McLain, and Joshua Boudeman.

According to Stuart Haines, chair of the Frontiers Fund Committee,

It’s terrific to see so many pharmacy students getting involved and supporting ACCP’s research mission! Whether or not you received a call from a student asking for a donation, I hope we can count on your annual gift to the Frontiers Fund to support the important work of the Research Institute.

Thanks to all who made this event a real success.