The Big Event for a Big Heart

            On Saturday April 21, the University of Oklahoma will put on the Big Event; a campus wide community service event that any student can participate in. But for OU sophomore Cale Curtain, Big Event means so much more.

            Curtain is on the Big Event executive community and is in charge of recruitment for the well-known event. This event isn’t the first time Curtain has been involved with big time community service. In the fall, he was co-philanthropy chair for a 5K-diabetes run that was put on by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

             “I was in charge of putting up flyers all around Norman, getting volunteers, putting out ads on the sports animal and just letting anyone and everyone know about the event we were putting on,” Curtain said.

            Big Event and the 5K are two of the bigger philanthropy events that are held at the University of Oklahoma and Curtain had a big hand in both of them. Curtain’s co chair for the diabetes run, Zane Simmons had a lot of good things to say about Curtain.

            “Cale is a very caring guy that is genuine about wanting to see peoples lives get better by helping them,” Simmons said.

            Curtain has been involved with community service since high school and plans on continuing to help other people for the rest of his life.

            “I had an interest in leadership in high school and kind of found my niche in community service,” Curtain said. “I found out that I was good at organizing events and organizing people and what made it better is that I was helping out people.”