FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dec. 19, 2002
FY03-04
ORAU Business Operations Shares the Christmas Spirit
OAK RIDGE, TENN — Once again Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Business Operations (BusOps) played Santa Claus for three area families at Christmas time. During their annual holiday party, BusOps staff members contributed over 35 gifts from a wish list and raised almost $800 through cash donations and a silent auction to make this Christmas a merry one for the families they sponsored through the YWCA Battered Women's Shelter. These families are currently staying at the shelter or are in transition to living on their own but still in need of assistance.
Pictured here are —(left to right) Carla Phillips, ORAU; Chris Scriver, YWCA Domestic Violence Program Manager; Jackie Jackson, YWCA Executive Director; and Jody Shumpert, ORAU—along with the donated gifts for just one of the families sponsored this year.