Student's 'Smeal for Chile' effort raising funds for disaster relief
3/25/10
For more than a day after the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile on Feb. 27, Penn State student Phillip Jarpa and his wife, Veronica Barros, both from Chile, worked tirelessly to get in touch with their family there. Because of the earthquake's destruction, telephones and e-mail weren't working. In response, Jarpa, a student in the master of business administration (MBA) program in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, and his wife started "Smeal for Chile," an organization focused on raising money for the Chilean relief effort.