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from the issue of September 9, 2004
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Service to Our State - UNL unites to help storm victims
The week after the Lancaster County town of Hallam was leveled by a tornado in May, UNL employees pitched in to help.
| | UNL employees Roger Simonsen of NET, left, and Bob Crisler of University Communications, right, help a volunteer carry an organ on May 26 from the site of the Hallam United Methodist Church, which was destroyed by a tornado.
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More than 400 employees, according to UNL estimates, worked for any or all of May 26-28 on clean-up crews or in the nearby town of Princeton to coordinate volunteers or serve food. Many volunteers picked up tree limbs, debris, personal items and anything else deposited by the storm. Others on campus donated items to the Red Cross for the town's residents or made drinks or snacks for those heading to work in the Hallam area. Crews from several UNL departments who were well-equipped for the help that was needed, including Landscape Services and Utility Services, arrived in Hallam shortly after the storm to clear streets, driveways and sidewalks so other trucks and clean-up crews could get into the town.
In addition, the University of Nebraska's Public Policy Center and the Nebraska Health and Human Services System received a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency's disaster aid program to assist victims of the Hallam tornados and other spring storms in Nebraska. The grant provides $73,000 for the CARING Communities Program, which offers counseling, outreach and education.
GO TO: ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 9
NEWS HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 9
Year in Review 2003-2004
Looking to the Future: New People, New Facilities - Construction brightens landscape and buildings
Research and Discovery - Biological center studies vaccines for botulinum, Valley Fever
Service to Our State - UNL unites to help storm victims
Student Successes - 12 earn the nation's biggest academic honors
Teaching Faculty & Program Successes - Grant funds Fosse study, leads to D.C.
Teaching, Faculty & Program Successes - New college focuses on families, education
The University from a National View - UNL
100 years of Extension
2 honored for research, creativity
Academy praises film
Architecture chapter is best in the country
Broadcasting senior claims 2nd forensics title
Center assists food companies for 20 years
Company helps track mad cow disease
Conference tackles water, law conflicts
Duo looks into social impacts of infertility
Feedlot has room to grow
Future lawyers win national contest
Graduate earns 1st degree in culinology
Hanson gains USDA teaching award
Helping parents prepare for school
J.D. Edwards students create cattle-tracking software
Nebraska Lectures return
Now on NET: HDTV
NU gains a new president, other leaders for new year
Program creates tests to fight food allergens
Ritchie's work earns NU honors
Savory joins Academy
Scientists' beef research earns international prize
Statistics expands
Tularemia examined as a bioterror threat
UNL continues to climb various U.S. rankings
UNL is a home for all things Lewis and Clark
Work studies our unique Sandhills
Zeng's discoveries lead to fellowship
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