Student Challenges Campus, Community to "Donate LIfe"

High Point University

HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 31, 2011 - Megan Kurtzman, a junior at High Point University, is challenging the HPU campus as well as the community to get involved in a cause that is very dear to her heart - the Donate Life Campus Challenge. A series of events will be held beginning today through Nov. 4.

Kurtzman, along with HPU, has teamed up with Carolina Donor Services to host an organ donation drive in honor of her childhood friend, Heather Ann Ricci, who lost her life 10 years ago in a car wreck. Ricci's parents were able to save five other lives by donating her heart, lung, liver and both kidneys.

The goal of the competition is to get as many people as possible to pledge to become organ donors in North Carolina and to become the school with the most registered organ donors. HPU will be competing against other N.C. schools.

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