Page 12-Thursday, November 15, 1979-The Michigan Daily KAPPA ALPHA PSI BRINGS THANKSGIVING TO THE NEEDY Fraternity goes door-to-door in ood collection By BONNIE JURAN Barbara, a housewife living in the North Campus Village Green apar- tinents, opened her door Tuesday night only to be greeted by the following monologue: "Hi! My name is James Blessman Jr. and I'm representing Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and we're having our annual Thanksgiving food drive and I want to know if you would like to, ah, donate some nion-perishable canned goods for the ah. . . , needy families of Ann Arbor so they can, um, have a happy Thanksgiving." "THAT'S QUITE a speech," respon- ded Barbara. "That is really very good." But, after recovering from the initial shock of this somewhat unusual greeting and after considering the fun- blimg, improvisational monologue that she had just heard, Barbara said, "Are you by any chance a speech major? No? Well, it's a good thing." Barbara then proceeded to her kit- chen and returned bearing four cans of assorted food to give to the fraternity member. THIS WAS just one example of the responses the brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi received when attem- pting to collect canned goods for lower income families in Ann Arbor. According to LSA Junior Rufus Reed, the 40-member fraternity's vice- polemarch who is in charge of all social and community service projects, the group has been involved in this charitable activity for the past five years. "It's a drive we're very proud of," Rufus said. "We like to be able to help people who are really in need at a time when everyone is with their families . . . we like to help people who aren't as fortunate as us'' THE FRATERNITY, whose mem- bers spend several hours a day going from door-to-door, will be collecting. food throughout this week. Next Monday and Tuesday the group will be distributing baskets of canned goods and Thanksgiving turkeys t6 13 needy families whose names were ob- tained from the Ann Arbor Community Center. The Center is a non-profit organization which provides counseling and recreational activities to lower in- come families in the immediate area. Some of the apartment dwellers that the group encountered at first were not willing to help the cause. Tim, a University senior, pointed to the left side of his opened cupboard, which was heavily stocked with food, and said, "This is my roommate's"; he then pointed to the empty right side of the cupboard and said, "And this is mine." But, after much persuasion by the fraternity members, he consented to donating two of his roommate's cans of corn. THE SOMEWHAT disorganized group trudged through the cold and PITCHER at 668-8411 flurrying snow in order to collect the cans. They jokingly asked each other "what'd you get" as if they were trick- or-treating on Halloween. One graduate student 4sked the group to wait a minute while he took a look in his kitchen. "I've got something in there that hasn't moved in a long time," he said. He returned with six cans of assorted foods and received cheers and thanks from all. MOST PEOPLE who said they didn't want to donate anything seemed to be a little uneasy about refusing. One man who initially declined to donate any food, later followed the group to another section of the apartment com- plex in order to give three cans. Some people were so bewildered by the brother's request that they looked into the bags of the previously-donated canned goods in order to get ideas of what they should give. The fraternity members collected between 200 and 300 cans of food on : Tuesday and they seemed pleased with their night's work. Another fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, is now engaged in a similar activity. The group is collecting canned food and money in front of the Alumni Room in the basement of the Michigan Union to donate to the Mother Wattles's missionary in Detroit. According to Engineering junior Michael Bradley, the fraternity's social action chairman, they have been involved in this activity for the past seven ybars. -Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM Kappa Alpa Psi fraternity membersJames Blessnan Jr., Ken Gardner, Greg Dawson, Philip Washington, and Raymond Johnson, plus helper Linda White unload canned goods they collected Tuesday night. The food will be distributed to needy families in Ann Arbor. Northeast Iranian, earthquake. kills 500, levels 18 00250 ~Quk A strong earthquake flattened at least 18 villages in northeast Iran early yesterday, killing at least 500- persons, rescue workers said. Scores were reported injured. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the nation's revolutionary leader, called the quake "tragic and frightening." 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