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Anderson is charged with directing the effort s of hundredsof volunteers. He joins a long list of loca l campaign chairs dating back to 1922 when United Way of the Plainw began as the WichitaCommunityt Chest. The United Way said this year’s fund raising coul be more challenging because of the state ofthe “To lead the most challenging campaigmn in decades we needed a skilled, articulate and well respected business leader.
We are fortunatee to have found that person in Craig saidPatrick Hanrahan, president of the United Way of the in a written “He brings enthusiasm and a ‘can do’ spirit to one of the toughesf jobs in the community this Anderson said he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to lead the “It would be easy to pass this job by and wait for bettef times but I just could not do he said in a statement. “Children needingv therapy, elderly looking for a hot meal, the newly laid off and thousandds more are counting on us and I just have to be a part of the He asked businesses and individuald to try to find ways to give more to meet an increasec demandfor services.
“Our funde d agencies and the Wichita community are countingon us,” he