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Houses adopt community service projects
Sep 26, 2001 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Instigating student community service is one of the ways in which Darlington School perpetuates the School’s mission. Community service is a Darlington student body tradition and ranges from Darlington Christmas, a holiday celebration with local daycare children, through the “Y” Cabinet to recycling and tutoring programs through the after school activities program.
This year, in an effort to advance the program and include more student volunteers, school-wide projects have been added and each House is adopting community service projects on local, national, and global levels.
School-wide community service projects include blood drives (one is scheduled for November 6) and local area clean ups. In September Bob McGraw, community service adviser, took a group of students to the Marshall Forest in Rome to clean up the area. Also, in September, Upper School faculty member, Jeff Allen, led a group of clean up volunteers to remove graffiti from the Sand-Rock area.
Barnes House plans continue their work with Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring, Ga. “We will meet with them hopefully and have a picnic and play games. Hopefully they will be able to come here to enjoy our new athletic facility,” Community Service Prefect Whit Remer, junior explained. “We are also working with local churches and planning Habitat for Humanity projects. In conjunction with other Houses we plan to have fund raising events at least three times this year.” Gibbons House community service focuses include the MISS Foundation (national foundation for Women), Lookout Mountain Animal Rescue Association, and the Rome Humane Society.
This year, in an effort to advance the program and include more student volunteers, school-wide projects have been added and each House is adopting community service projects on local, national, and global levels.
School-wide community service projects include blood drives (one is scheduled for November 6) and local area clean ups. In September Bob McGraw, community service adviser, took a group of students to the Marshall Forest in Rome to clean up the area. Also, in September, Upper School faculty member, Jeff Allen, led a group of clean up volunteers to remove graffiti from the Sand-Rock area.
Barnes House plans continue their work with Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring, Ga. “We will meet with them hopefully and have a picnic and play games. Hopefully they will be able to come here to enjoy our new athletic facility,” Community Service Prefect Whit Remer, junior explained. “We are also working with local churches and planning Habitat for Humanity projects. In conjunction with other Houses we plan to have fund raising events at least three times this year.” Gibbons House community service focuses include the MISS Foundation (national foundation for Women), Lookout Mountain Animal Rescue Association, and the Rome Humane Society.
