Lambda Chi Alphas Save Woman (U of Delaware)

[exlurker]

Kudos to the Lambda Chi Alphas who helped!
Good work, gentlemen.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...cal&id=6730550

“Some quick-thinking University of Delaware students are being hailed as heroes after helping a woman get out of her car just moments before it was demolished by a freight train. . . . “

[LucyKKG]

Aww that's cool! Way to go!

[AGDee]

Kudos to these young men who kept their heads and acted quickly. It would be very cool if they now did a philanthropy to get money to buy her a car since her insurance doesn't cover it, wouldn't it?

[Mooch279]

Wow,. AGDee i was thinking the same thing. My chapter is about 45 minutes away from UDel. I'll email our Alpha and see if maybe we could help in that.

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Kudos to these young men who kept their heads and acted quickly. It would be very cool if they now did a philanthropy to get money to buy her a car since her insurance doesn't cover it, wouldn't it?

All right, AGDee and Mooch. Here ya go:

article at

http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...WS03/904150351

Excerpts from ^:

Six University of Delaware students held a fundraiser Tuesday to help the woman they saved from an oncoming train, which totalled her car.

The purpose of the fundraiser . . . in Newark was to raise money to help Anne June Griffith get a new vehicle.

"The next day after she talked to her insurance company and we heard she was not going to be able to get a new car from her insurance, we thought this would be a good opportunity to help her out," said Alex Cresto, 20.

. . .
Cresto, four of his fraternity brothers from Lambda Chi Alpha, Beta Zeta chapter, and another friend teamed up with Grotto to raise money during Community Pizza Night. The fraternity will get 20 percent of the revenue generated by vouchers they gave out to all who purchased food Tuesday. That money and any money that they raise from the Paypal account they set up through their Web site will go toward fixing up a 1999 Volvo someone donated to them to give to Griffith.

"Everyone needs a set of wheels," said Eric Cirulli, 19, one of the students who helped her.

Cresto said that about a week after the incident a woman . . . heard their story on the news and got in touch with them. She wanted to give the car to them. The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, came to the fundraiser Tuesday and ate dinner with her family.

Lt. Gov. Matthew Denn stopped by to show the students a certificate that they will be given from the governors office for bravery and heroism. . . .