Local Alumni Chapter to Hike for Hearing

Contact Stephanie Palmer (stephanie.palmer@umit.maine.edu)

ORONO — The University of Maine’s Delta Zeta sorority Dirigo Alumni Chapter will hold its second annual Hike For Hearing on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 11 a.m.  The purpose of this hike is to raise money and awareness for speech and hearing related illnesses.  All proceeds from the hike will go to benefit the Warren Center, a Bangor speech and audiology facility.

A similar event in 2009 raised more than $400 for the Warren Center.

“We want to make the event bigger this year,” says Stephanie Palmer, alumni chapter member, “We’re hoping to get more involvement from the community.”

The hike will be held at two locations.  The first location is at Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal and the second location is at the Bangor City Forests on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor.  All hikers are asked to arrive at 10:45 a.m. to register.  A minimum donation of $10 is required to participate in the hike.  For more information regarding the Hike For Hearing or to help sponsor the hike, please email hikeforhearing@gmail.com.

The Dirigo Alumni Chapter was founded in 2007 as an alumni chapter of the Delta Zeta Sorority.  The Delta Zeta Sorority was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1902.  Today, the sorority enriches the lives of over 200,000 alumni and collegiate members across the U.S and Canada.