On Tuesday, March 2, the atrium of Alter Hall was transformed into a silk-screening factory that produced T-shirts, tote bags and proceeds for a cause close to home for Fox School of Business students and faculty.

The Entrepreneurial Student Association (ESA), a program of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at the Fox School, hosted its second live silk-screening event to benefit the Chris Pavlides Scholarship Fund, named for the Fox entrepreneurship professor who died in a November 2009 car crash. 

At a December memorial tribute to Pavlides, the ESA sold more than 100 T-shirts under the company name ILM – for In Loving Memory. 

“So far, we donated $1,000 from our last event,” said senior marketing major and entrepreneurship minor Linda Loi, co-founder of ILM and president of the ESA for the past two years. Loi founded ILM with senior entrepreneurship majors Arne Morin and Tim Nesmith. 

ILM Live Silk Screening is a student-run, event services company that offers real-time silk-screening services. ILM allows customers to choose their design, watch as it is printed and walk away with the final product in minutes.

This time around, ILM accepted design submissions incorporating owls, which held meaning to Pavlides not only because the bird is Temple’s mascot, but also because it is a symbol associated with his native Greece: Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war in Greek mythology, is often depicted with an owl nearby.

ILM received 16 design submissions and let students vote for the finalists in the atrium of Alter Hall and on ILM’s Web site, www.ilmphilly.com. After receiving more than 300 votes, four final designs were chosen.

By mid-afternoon on March 2, ILM had already sold 75 T-shirts and totes featuring the new designs.

Senior marketing student Melissa Calcagni bought a shirt as a way to support student enterprises similar to her own.

“I’m in an entrepreneurial marketing class and for a project my group is auctioning off some of Pavlides’ owl collection to raise money,” she said, adding that a few of her group members had Pavlides as a professor. “We like to team up with other entrepreneurial initiatives for a good cause.”

Anyone interested in contributing to the Pavlides scholarship fund may contact Mollie Repetto at molliere@temple.edu