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Holiday tree aims to help 650 kids

Annual GS charity drive now underway

Eileen Sconyers Smith, who co-founded the Holiday Helper Tree program in 1994, helps launch the 2024 drive Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, inside the Russell Union Rotunda at Georgia Southern University. (JIM HEALY/staff)

Holiday Helper Tree — Eileen Sconyers Smith, who co-founded the Holiday Helper Tree program in 1994, helps launch the 2024 drive Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, inside the Russell Union Rotunda at Georgia Southern University. (JIM HEALY/staff)

In 1994, Georgia Southern’s first Holiday Helper Tree program was introduced to assist three area agencies create some Christmas cheer for about 250 local children.

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