As pens hit paper with words of love and encouragement, students gathered to write letters to patients currently in hospice care at the Student Activities Board’s Words of Warmth event on Sept. 19.
Hosted on the first floor of the Student Union Building, the event invited students to write a letter or decorate gift bags with uplifting words as a part of the SAB’s Service Week, a period of time in which the organization holds community service-focused volunteer events.
After writing a letter and handing it to SAB members to be filed for delivery, Jose Mejia, a first-year mechanical engineering major from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, said a simple gesture can have a large effect on a person…