{"id":71070,"date":"2016-02-23T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=71070"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:19:24","slug":"ucf-student-act-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-student-act-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Student Act of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring acts of kindness and caring do to not go unnoticed as did not the kindhearted gesture of UCF student Joshua Gicker who presented UCF shuttle driver Maurice Mosby gift cards for his birthday. Mosby drives the shuttle from Gicker\u2019s off-campus apartment community residence, Plaza on University, to the UCF campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaurice greets everyone who enters the bus,\u201d said Gicker who rides the shuttle daily. \u201cI got on the bus like it was any other day. Maurice was being his normal outgoing self . . . the thought dawned on me, when was his birthday? I originally wanted to get him a Christmas gift but that fell through. It was only moments later, Maurice casually announced over the intercom, \u2018My birthday is on Valentine\u2019s Day.\u2019 It was a sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thirty minutes later, he posted on the Plaza on University\u2019s private Facebook page asking for money to give Mosby for his birthday. Mosby\u2019s friendly personality to greet everyone who enters the shuttle and to converse with students has left an impression. Within a very short time, Gicker got 70-80 comments on his post.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McCarthy assisted by setting up a group account page with Tilt, a website where a group can raise funds quickly. Within four days, Gicker led students to raise $451 worth of gift cards to present to Mosby. Gicker was surprising overwhelmed by the response of students who wanted to contribute. Mosby was humbly surprised when he was presented the gift cards. Gicker tributes his thoughtfulness to his parents, and the way he was raised.<\/p>\n<p>Gicker, a junior studying Cinema Studies, came to UCF in August 2015. His home town is Bradenton, Florida. His goals are to make music videos and eventually get into the motion picture industry.<\/p>\n<p>The UCF Shuttle Driver Birthday Surprise video is available on YouTube at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUgS_0WK5p0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUgS_0WK5p0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Shuttle Driver Gets a Birthday Surprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":71071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,27],"tags":[],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-71070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-student-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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