Rescue Mission benefits from SUNY Oswego students' Miss-A-Meal event

More than 1,800 SUNY Oswego students gave up their dining center meals April 20, raising $5,695.96 to benefit the Rescue Mission and ensuring that homeless people will receive more than 2,500 meals through the statewide charitable alliance. From left are Ann Lloyd, Lakeside Dining Center cashier; Student Association Miss-A-Meal coordinator Alexander Melas, a freshman dual major in business administration and finance; Carolyn Hendrickson, Rescue Mission chief development officer; and Ruth Stevens, director of residential dining for SUNY Oswego's Auxiliary Services. Since at least the early 1960s, Oswego students have carried the tradition forward, skipping a meal each semester and donating what they would have spent to one or more charitable organizations.