Gamma Beta Phi food-pantry drive themed to Super Bowl

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 Michael Lear-Olimpi teams, food pantry, Super Bowl, Gamma Beta Phi, Hannah Pasquarella, ATEC, personal items, commercials, food, Central Penn College

People can make donations on behalf of

their teams, commercials or halftime show

Smiling young blonde woman with freckles. Hannah Pasquarella

By Hannah Pasquarella

Knightly News Reporter

hannah.pasquarella@mymail.centralpenn.edu

Through February, Gamma Beta Phi, Central Penn College’s national honor and service society chapter, will collect most-needed items for the campus food pantry.

These items include toiletries, school supplies, food and cleaning supplies.

Gamma Beta Phi strives to provide opportunities for members to contribute time and resources to their community, according to the organization. This year will be the second time Gamma Beta Phi has held this event.

The drive began in Week 5 (Feb. 10-16). Four boxes were set out in the Advanced Technology Education Center (ATEC) lobby: one for each Super Bowl teams, one for commercials and one for the halftime show.

Photo of a brightly lighted lobby, walls painted yellow,m and a glass foyer leading to the outside, in the background. In the foreground, on each side of the lobby, are two boxes into which people can place food and other items for the Central Penn College Food Pantry. — Food-pantry donation-drive collection boxes, just inside the entrance area of the ATEC lobby, during Week 5 of winter term. Photo by Michael Lear-Olimpi

Faculty, staff and students can place donations in the box of the team they supported, in the commercials box or in the halftime show box.

During Weeks 5 and 6, Gamma Beta Phi members will collect and count the items from the boxes, and then put the boxes back in the ATEC lobby for a rematch.

Two large cardboard boxes in the Central Penn College ATEC lobby, for the food-pantry collection drive. They're themed to the Super Bowl. The box on the left has a poster for the Eagles and the box on the right is for the halftime show. — Two of the four donation boxes in the ATEC lobby during Week 5 of winter term.
It’s rematch time, post-Super Bowl.
Photo by Michael Lear-Olimpi

During Week 7 (Feb. 24-March 2), each day will present a new theme and a new item on the boxes for one of the pantry’s most needed items.

During Week 10, on March 11, West Shore Connections2sdays, with the West Shore Connect Program, will take place at 3 p.m., during which Gamma Beta Phi and West Shore Connect will organize all the donated products in the pantry.

West Shore Connections2sdays is held each term. During the event, West Shore Connect partners with a campus organization to learn more about the organization and what it does. West Shore Connect is a program of the West Shore School District who have graduated from high school and have intellectual disabilities or autism.

The Central Penn College Food Pantry supports not only on-campus but off-campus and commuting students, too. The pantry’s mission is to provide all Central Penn students with the daily essentials to maintain a healthy lifestyle while in college. Students in need of something from the pantry can use this link to request items.

Comment or story idea? Contact KnightlyEditors@CentralPenn.Edu.

Edited by Knightly News Club @ Central Penn College Media Club co-adviser and blog editor Professor Michael Lear-Olimpi.

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