In summer 2013, Michele Ramsey and I visited Kenya with the Feed the Hunger mission organization, and we saw that schoolchildren had only their bare hands with which to drink water. In fall 2013, with the help of family, friends, and the Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity, we began collecting thousands of stadium cups after each Virginia Tech home football game. The cups were sent to schools in Kenya and around the world—continuing what my father, Paul Torgersen, the university's 14th president, said to his students: "Enjoy your blessings and be thankful. If across the world, individuals and their blessings were arranged from the most to the least, everyone in this class would be in the top 1 percent. You have an obligation to help the less fortunate." This summer, we traveled with Feed the Hunger to Haiti, visiting many orphanages and schools that the organization supports. Much to our surprise, the children in Haiti were using the same Hokie cups that we had collected two years earlier.

Janis Torgersen (management, housing, and family development '80)

Oxford, North Carolina