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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1985)
jj 1 % Mnunm... Arose... for a nose University employees entered their most tenderly cared-for, home-grown roses Wednesday morning to be judged by the Eugene Rose Society at the Oregon Hall Fifth Annual Rose Show The Oregon Hall lobby filled with roses, rose judges, and rose lovers like Sue Rectus pic tured above, who sniffed and admired the wide variety of delicate blossoms Betty Nichols, a University collections secretary, took first prize for (he prettiest rase diplay. Entrants could submit a single display or an arrange ment at 50 cents for the first entry and 25 cents for each ad ditiuna! entry . Employees who didn’t place can start pruning their gardens now for next year’s rose contest. Photo by Karen StaJlwood Efforts against drunken driving grow MADD chapter lays permanent roots By Julie Howard Of the Emerald The Lane County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving will have a new home this month, and Barbara Stoeffler. the chapter’s founder and outgoing president, calls the move a sign of growth. Stoeffler said the step sym bolizes that “we are permanent, that we are established.” The Lane County MADD chapter cur rently operates out of Stoeffler’s home in Eugene. The office is set up in the bedroom of her son, Mark, who was kill ed by a.drunken driver in 1973. Later this month, the MADD office will move to a two-room suite at 364 E. Broadway. Stoeffler said the move will make the organization more accessible to the public and will give volunteers a chance to reach out to the community. “I’m thinking that there will be a whole new energy coming into our organization, many more people becom ing involved, which means that we will be able to reach out with many more pro grams and many more ideas,” Stoeffler said. The Lane County chapter’s latest pro ject is called “No Thanks, I’m Driving.” Twenty five drinking establishments are providing free soft drinks and coffee to the designated driver of groups of three or more. The project is co-sponsored i with Eugene/Springield broadcasters. University sororities and fraternities and Lane County Students Against Drunk Driving. MADD’s national objectives are to make drunken driving socially unaccep table, to increase public awareness of the problem and to educate the public toward individual responsible action. MADD chapters also help organize community anti-dnmken driving efforts, advocate reform in drunken-driving laws and the criminal justice system and con duct programs for drunken-driving victims. Some of the chapter’s outreach poten tial was realized last month when local MADD members voted to let Lane Coun ty SADD chapters use MADD office space for their meetings and the phone number for messages directed to SADD. Stoeffler said six local high schools have SADD chapters and the youth movement against drunk driving is growing. She estimates an average of 20 active SADD members each at North Eugene. South Eugene. Sheldon. Chur chill, Springfield and Cottage Grove high schools. “In order to make a change in society, you must reach youth,” said Stoeffler, whose son was almost 16 when he was struck from behind and killed while riding his bicycle. It took Stoeffler nine years to turn her •son's bedroom into the Lane County MADD office. “There’s something about, losing a child that totally destroys your goals in life," she said, Stoeffler was beginning to convert the bedroom into a sewing room when she heard of Candy Lightner, the woman who founded MADD in 1980. after her chapter office and composed a letter to her son. “Mark,” she wrote, “I wonder, if you . know whether we helped save someone in 1983. So many died it seems....! - wish you could tell me if we saved someone.” Stoeffler, a member of the Governor's Task Force on Driving Under the In: fluence of Intoxicants, has other con cerns as well. One is the chapter budget. / m thinking that then will be a whole new energy coming into our organization, many mon people . becoming involved, which means that we will be able to nacb out with many more programs and ideas, * — Barbara Stoeffler daughter was killed by a drunken driver. "Somehow or another. I stopped sew ing quilts and everything else. " Stoeffler said. She quit her job and started the Lane County chapter of MADD in 1983. Stoeffler became discouraged early last year, when figures for 1983 showed an increased national drunken-driving death-rate — after she had worked a full year for MADD. She sat down in the which will be affected by the move to the Broadway office. ‘‘Can we pay for it?” Stoeffler asked. "Will the budget be able to stand it? Can we maintain that budget?" She said it will probably mean some fund-raising. 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