OT: Iowa Wave recreated in the snow
No football games? No problem.
One of the pediatric nurses at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Marcia Knepp, RN, had a great idea to help our patients and families enjoy the snow, even though they may not be able to go outside.
Marcia is as assistant nurse manager on Level 9, the first level in the children’s hospital that overlooks Kinnick stadium. After several days of winter weather, the stadium had filled with snow.
“I thought it would be neat if someone could write a message in the snow to the kids,” she says. She shared the idea with Child Life manager Gwen Senio—whose son Tony happens to be the Kinnick field manager for UI Athletics. Tony loved the idea and gathered his crew, as well as the crew from the UI golf courses, and even lined up a survey company to help design the message.
On Feb. 15, it all came together. “We thought this was a great idea,” Tony says. “We loved being able to do this.”
Links to local articles that includes video of the process:
http://www.ktiv.com/story/37517476/2018/02/Thursday/kinnick-crew-creates-wave-in-the-snow
Oh...and FTK stands for #ForTheKids
February 16th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
That is awesome.
February 16th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^
And I am glad I saw the bottom of the post... FTK, that was not sitting well with me for some reason. Hats off to the hospital staff and field manager's staff.
February 16th, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
Is it possible that the folks from Iowa came over to East Lansing and stole all of their love for children and took it back to Iowa?
February 16th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^
Ok, who took a joy ride over the snow wave? Was it you Ferentz? Tell the truth!!!
February 16th, 2018 at 1:21 PM ^
Which Ferentz are you asking? They have about 17 of them on staff...
February 16th, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
It could be, although it would be virtually impossible to show which Ferentz did the deed, but I bet that the intersection of the tracks is where he most definitely punted ....again.... still..... forever, in fact.
February 16th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
when trying to figure out what FTK meant, "for the korn" popped in my head before "for the kids" did. I guess my brain doesnt work well on Fridays
Edit: I should't lie to myself, its an every day thing.
February 16th, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^
I would have thought that they'd use yellow snow at a minimum. They could have peed the wave into the snow.
February 16th, 2018 at 2:19 PM ^
it has to be seen 12 stories up....do you know how many big gulps they'd have had to drink to be able to pee that much?
February 16th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
What else are they going to do for fun?
February 16th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^
Tons of stuff. Late night pitch n putt. Go to the livestock auction and cruise the 4-h babes. Throw stuff off the bridge
February 16th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
are free pie night at Village Inn restaurant too....that's always a hoot.
February 16th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
February 16th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
to be able to participate in the wave when my college team practiced at Kinnick the day before one of our overnight trips in Iowa. It was just us, but we could see the kids waving back and it was an incredibly cool moment.
February 16th, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
have a soft spot for those folks.