FORT SILL, Okla. (Nov. 27, 2014) -- Several students, alumni and staff from Webster University performed a day of volunteering as part of their annual Webster Works Worldwide a community service day.
The volunteers worked at the Air Defense Association, Bldg. 758 Callaway Hall, Nov. 21 where they cleaned, set up cabinets and performed office work.
The ADA Association is a one-person shop so everything the volunteers did was greatly appreciated, said David Christensen, Fires Center of Excellence ADA command historian. Webster has partnered with the ADA for the last five years where its volunteers have set up museum displays, landscaped and moved furniture.
Capt. Rashaun Warren, ADA Captains Career Course senior instructor, and Webster management and leadership student, was busy outside cleaning windows at Callaway Hall.
"The guys at Webster are very supportive of us, so I wanted to give back, plus I'm part of the ADA Association," said Warren, who will graduate next semester.
Sandra Kunz, Webster University Southwest regional director, was another volunteer. She said it was important for her and the students to invest in their community.
"It matters when you roll up your sleeves and give to your community. We feel very privileged serving our installation and community," Kunz said. "We've been working with the ADA since they moved here from Fort Bliss (Texas)."
At Fort Sill there are over 300 students enrolled in Webster's four graduate on-site programs: master's of business administration, master's of arts in management and leadership, human resources management, and information technologies management.
The volunteers helped set up cabinets that will display ADA merchandise, said Lusica Hankins, ADA Association executive secretary.
"Because I am a one-person show here, the volunteers setting up the displays allows me to dwell on other things, like setting up the Saint Barbara Day awards," she said. "We are very grateful that they came and it has helped tremendously."
Webster alumna and volunteer Tia Gordon, who works on post at the Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate as its Concepts Development administrator, kept busy assisting Hankins.
She described volunteering as selfless service and as an opportunity to help people.
"I love to volunteer, and have been doing it for three years with Webster," said Gordon, who graduated in 2013 from the management and leadership program.
This is Webster's centennial, and it implemented WWW day in 1995, under then-President Dr. Richard Meyers. Since then, over 26,000 Webster volunteers have donated more than 113,000 hours of community service.
The ADA Association is a community of air defenders for air defenders. It is open to any individual, or business that wants to support the air defense artillery community. The association's main hub worldwide is at Fort Sill, and has a Facebook site.
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