Shelby Jobe
  • American Sign Language Interpreting
  • Class of 2014
  • Russellville, MO

Shelby Jobe Helps Raise Money for Animal Shelter

2013 May 19

Donate $2 and you can vote for your favorite charity and wear jeans to work. That was the ploy used by the junior class at William Woods University to raise money that was donated to the Garrett Animal Shelter in Fulton.

Junior class representatives, including Shelby Jobe of Russellville, Mo.. recently presented the $100 donation to Tina Barnes, animal control supervisor.

The money was raised during CourtWarming earlier this spring. Faculty and staff were given the opportunity to choose between the animal shelter, Faith Maternity Center and SERVE. The charity getting the most votes then received all the money collected.

"The junior class plans CourtWarming, and we wanted to get the faculty and staff involved," Amy Gibson, junior class president, said. "We decided this would be an incentive for them because they would decide where they wanted the money to go-and they would get to wear jeans for a day."

Junior class officers selected the three organizations because they were diverse.

"The votes were pretty close," Gibson said.

Garrett Animal Shelter is a city-funded shelter that deals only with dogs and cats. The shelter has room for about 20 dogs and 10 cats, but a campaign is under way to build a larger facility.