Knight Writer

A shout out to Steph

by Debbie | November 4, 2009

A few months ago, I wrote about how impressed I was with fellow blogger, sophomore Steph Hammerman - and that was before the Disability Awareness Month activities even began. So, let me say that I’m even more impressed with the way she pulled off this extremely successful initiative. From the Disabilities Forum, to the Different Abilities Dinner, to the World with Wheels to the Matt Glowacki presentations, and all the while raising funds for Bubba, it all seemed to go off so well and so seamlessly. Even President Ross acknowledged her outstanding efforts during his State of the University address.

But beneath the surface we know the amount of work, dedication and passion that went into it all. And believe me, after just a mere week of my own awareness event – myLynn Awareness week – I know keeping up the planning, organization and pace for an entire month of major events had to be extremely stressful and exhausting.

Steph said in her recent blog post: “I would have never imagined last year at this time that I was truly capable of putting together an entire month of events and having them go as well as they did.” Well, Steph, imagine no more. You did it!