February 21, 2008
Owner of lost cell phone thanks finder
On Feb. 14, I lost my cell phone while on campus to give a lecture at a colleague’s class. By the time I walked home, I had a message on my home phone from a student who had found my phone, and was leaving it at the Mansfield Lost & Found for me to pick up.
I have no way to contact the kind person who cared enough to return my phone instead of keeping or selling it, so I’m sending this letter to The Kaimin to thank both her and the University community for future acts of random kindness. They are no more than we have come to expect from Missoula and the University. We’re University area homeowners by choice, and moved back home to Montana 11 years ago in hopes of finding just this kind of community, which cares for all its members, even strangers. We’ve found the University, its students, even the wall-to-wall parking in front of our house on Griz game days, to be exciting and rewarding.
My deepest thanks,
Jana Staton
Missoula resident
