ADRIAN, MICH.- Siena Heights University (SHU) Annual Food Drive will begin Monday, November 17, and run through Friday, November 21. All donations go to The Daily Bread pantry and soup kitchen in Adrian.
The Siena Heights Food Drive represents the single largest donation of food that The Daily Bread receives all year.
“The food we provide them helps to stock their pantry shelves for between four to six months,” Jeff Lindstrom, Associate Professor of Psychology and head of SHU’s food drive, said.
The Food Drive was started by Jeff Lindstrom and his students in 2004. Jeff Lindstrom stated that his faculty colleague and mentor, Linda Easley, has been involved in an approach to teaching called academic service learning. Essentially, you extend the classroom into the community as an integral part of the class. She had been doing some very creative things in her classes and it made him wonder whether he might be able to adapt some of those same ideas into his courses as well.
Eventually, he decided that doing a Food Drive in the social psychology class would allow us to use a lot of the theory and ideas the students were learning in his classes and apply them to try to do some good in the community.
“The first food drive (2004) had 12 students in the class and our food drive was one day. For the past several years the class has been full (25-30 students) and the food drive is a full week with a hunger game and other related events,” Lindstrom stated. “I love-truly love-that the campus community has so embraced the Food Drive.”