2008 Woodie Awards
Weekly service adds seven sites
Kate MacNair '08
Issue date: 9/19/07 Section: News
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Last week, Campus Ministry student service coordinators could be found on University grounds recruiting volunteers for weekly service projects. With seven new sites available, volunteers are finding they have more options this semester. The sign-ups generate a great deal of interest and pull in about 200 students each semester.
The objective of all weekly service programs is to encourage students to give back to our local community by living out the Jesuit tradition and being men and women for others.
Beth Ford, Campus Minister of Community Service, said, "Students often find that they receive so much more than they give."
Ford said she is amazed by the transformation that students undergo over the 10-week programs by forming relationships with community members.
New sites have been added in order to cover the wide range of interest displayed by volunteers. Megan Cebulski, '09, is the student service leader of the Lamberton Elementary program, which promotes literacy in third grade students. Through pre-planned lessons each week, volunteers help their pupils to develop a book throughout the semester. The end result is that the children learn additional reading skills and leave with confidence, a new friendship, and a creation all their own.
A Special Olympics program, lead by Andrew Capite, '09, involves working with the disabled by coaching them in volleyball and swimming. The goals are to raise money for T-shirts and to qualify for an all-expenses paid trip to Penn State where the team competes in the Special Olympics during the summer.
Summerbridge of Greater Philadelphia, lead by Peter Wisniewski, '10, is a tutoring program with 40 seventh and eighth graders from public middle schools. The children meet at Episcopal Academy and one to two volunteers teach a classroom of about 8 to 12 students. The program is during after-school hours with a concentration on reading and math, giving the students who strive for excellence an extra edge.
The objective of all weekly service programs is to encourage students to give back to our local community by living out the Jesuit tradition and being men and women for others.
Beth Ford, Campus Minister of Community Service, said, "Students often find that they receive so much more than they give."
Ford said she is amazed by the transformation that students undergo over the 10-week programs by forming relationships with community members.
New sites have been added in order to cover the wide range of interest displayed by volunteers. Megan Cebulski, '09, is the student service leader of the Lamberton Elementary program, which promotes literacy in third grade students. Through pre-planned lessons each week, volunteers help their pupils to develop a book throughout the semester. The end result is that the children learn additional reading skills and leave with confidence, a new friendship, and a creation all their own.
A Special Olympics program, lead by Andrew Capite, '09, involves working with the disabled by coaching them in volleyball and swimming. The goals are to raise money for T-shirts and to qualify for an all-expenses paid trip to Penn State where the team competes in the Special Olympics during the summer.
Summerbridge of Greater Philadelphia, lead by Peter Wisniewski, '10, is a tutoring program with 40 seventh and eighth graders from public middle schools. The children meet at Episcopal Academy and one to two volunteers teach a classroom of about 8 to 12 students. The program is during after-school hours with a concentration on reading and math, giving the students who strive for excellence an extra edge.
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