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Community Service
Students in the National Honor Society and the new Community Service Club are leading the way in volunteer activities this year. By January, students had contacted about 20 local agencies for indi- vidual projects. Through the new club, groups of students raised funds and served food to the needy. The traditional activities made available through chapel, middle and high school are as popular as ever. Faculty are evaluating the curricular aspects of community service efforts this spring and new guidelines may be forthcoming in the fall.
Students talk about their projects:
The program was originally called ‘big kids helping little kids.’ They depend on the older dancers to help the younger ones put on their show.
Anne Mecham, volunteer with the Palo Alto YWCA dance program
It’s a 1940’s barracks, still in its original condition but really deteriorated. I’m on a volun- teer list to help scrape floors and put up drywall....
Ian Kotchian, volunteer at U.S. Forest Service’s Ft. Cronkite
I like to try out different situations. I’ve volunteered at a Boys and Girls Club party, St. Anthony’sDiningRoom,theAdoptaFamilyprogram.... MarkLewis
In my sophomore year, we all did our community service work alone, and it was hard to do. With the club, we work as a group, we’re better organized...
Gladys Martin, founder of WPS Community Service Club.
We served about 50 families and single people, poor people....We are aware that this sort of poverty exists in the real world but I had never actually seen it. Now I think I have a more realistic
understanding.
Dan Lee, volunteer at St. Agnes soup kitchen.
Oops — a package bound for Daybreak Shelter for teens nearly got away. Middle School students bought and wrapped gifts, each chosen specially to fill the wish of an individual teen.
Middle school students from Priory Singers entertained at Allied Arts Guild restaurant, which benefits Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Members of the choir or instrumental groups are invited in the spring.
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