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| Recent alum Samantha Wolf makes good on a promise she made to donate her first paycheck to Oakland University. The money will go toward an Oakland Center expansion project she worked on as a student. Photo courtesy of Tim Thompson/The Oakland Press |
“Once I get my first real world job, and the paycheck that follows, I hope to be able to donate it to Oakland University to benefit students that need a little help from others,” she said. “I would like to donate my money to start a fund to expand the student union building, the Oakland Center.”
Wolf, a former Honors College student, thanked the donors who established her scholarships. “1,422 days,” she said. “That is equivalent to 3 years, 10 months, and 23 days. That is the amount of times that I have been a Golden Grizzly. 1,422 days is also the amount of days that I would not have received if it was not for your generous contributions to Oakland University.”
Through the Donna and Walt Young Study Abroad Endowed Scholarship Fund, Wolf was able to spend 70 days in the Semester At Sea Shipboard program for global study in Morocco, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta, France, Spain, Portugal and England. The Donald Hildum Endowed Scholarship in Communication and the numerous alumni scholarships “allowed me to not only devote my time to the community but also to my University.”
On campus, Wolf was an orientation group leader, a member of the Summer Student Campus Corps, travel director on the Student Program Board, student representative on the Student Life Lecture Board, president of the Student Congress and Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees. Off campus, she was an AmeriCorps representative in the Pontiac Schools, working with children at Michigan School for the Arts.
Being president of Student Congress in her junior year and working on the Oakland Center expansion project stood out among Wolf’s campus experiences.
“OU prepared me for anything and everything,” Wolf said. “My time at the University may have been short compared to the time that is in front of me -- and I owe everything that is in front of me to OU.”