The club had a “rock-a-thon,” where members sat in rocking chairs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the main walkway next to The Charles V. Park Library.

The war in Uganda has been going on for more than 23 years. The war has involved child soldiers, an act condemned worldwide.

“(The event) is more dramatic in the cold; people are going to wonder what we are doing,” said Kelly Carter, secretary of the Invisible Children Club and Lansing sophomore.

Invisible Children is a national non-profit organization. It was started in 2003 when three college students went to Africa to film a documentary and ended up discovering the war and the children who were being used as soldiers. The film is now called “Invisible Children: Rough Cut.”

The Invisible Children Club at Central Michigan University was created in spring 2008.

“I saw the documentary in high school; once the credits started rolling I knew I had to do something,” said Emily Nuss, president of the Invisible Children Club and Lansing sophomore.

“When I came to CMU I wanted to see if there was an Invisible Children Club. If not I wanted to create one.”

Last year the club donated $800, and the Invisible Children organization matched it, for a total of $1,600. This year members hope to donate more, but that is not the main idea of their club.

“If we don’t make any money, that’s OK, as long as we bring awareness to people. Knowing is half the battle,” said Alex Citron, treasurer of the Invisible Children club and Southfield senior.

Citron first saw the film in 2006. Citron and Nuss created the club last year.

“Once the club was started people were really interested in seeing the film,” Citron said.

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Valerie Hemingway married Gregory Hemingway, the author’s youngest son, five years after Ernest Hemingway died.

Valerie Hemingway talked Monday night in a near-capacity Charles V. Park Library’s Auditorium about her time with Ernest Hemingway and the two years she spent as his personal secretary.

Valerie Hemmingway, Ernest Hemingway’s daughter-in-law, told stories of how she heard of him as a young girl, and then how many years later her writing career brought them together. She ended up as his personal secretary for two years.

She told her own story of the Hemingway she knew.

“I knew him, and others who knew him well also knew him, as a person who was intensely interested in other people,” she said.

She ended with a few questions from the audience, which turned into more stories from the “Hemingway dinner table.”

“Valerie brought wonderful insight. She brought a humanization to Hemingway that would not be possible without her stories. We hoped that students would be exposed and inspired by what she had to say,” said Frank Boles, director of the Clarke Historical Library.

The Clarke Historical Library sponsored the event, as it teamed up with The Michigan Hemingway Society.

Pickney senior Kelli King came because she is fascinated by Hemingway.

“I had an A.P. English teacher who loved Hemingway. I was interested to hear what people who actually knew him had to say,” said King, the president of Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honors society.

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