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updated November 9, 2009
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Rose-Hulman Students Celebrate ‘Day of Service,’ Extend
Helping Hands to Community Organizations
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More than 200 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students joined faculty
and staff members in participating in the college’s Rose-Hulman Day of
Service event on November 7. Teams provided
helping hands to 25 organizations throughout Terre Haute during this special
day of community service.
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| Humane Society
Helpers: Residents of the Speed residence
hall designed and built a cover for an
outdoor dog run site near the Terre Haute
Humane Society's office. |
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The Day of Service was sponsored by Rincon Research Corporation and
organized by the Student Activities Office.
Rose-Hulman was cited by the Corporation for National and Community Service
on the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for
exemplary service efforts and service to their communities. The honor roll
is the highest federal recognition a college can achieve for its commitment
to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen
based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of
service projects and percentage of student participation in service
activities.
Projects completed during this year's Rose-Hulman Service Day
included:
- Terre Haute Humane Society -- Residents of Speed residence hall designed
and built a cover for a dog run site behind the humane society's office.
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| Happy Volunteers:
Members of the Society of Women Engineers
and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity
joined staff members in assisting Terre
Haute's Community Alliance & Services for
Young Children in organizing a Crop & Craft
fundraising event. |
- Light House Mission Ministries -- Leaders of the Residence Hall Association
repaired fences, outdoor light fixtures and a cracked
foundation; installed a new dryer; and cleared brush to improve safety at a shelter home for
teenage girls.
- Hospice of the Wabash Valley -- Members of the Delta Sigma Phi and Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternities, and Blue Key National Honor Society completed a long
list of fall home improvement projects for five local families.
- American Cancer Society -- Members of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority
worked with ACS staff to paint the interior of the organization's Terre Haute
office to help create a professional, but comfortable, setting for visiting
cancer patients and family members.
- Community Alliance & Services for Young Children -- Members of the Society
of Women Engineers and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity assisted at
CASY's Crop & Craft fundraising event, helping persons complete crafts,
distributing supplies, handling event registration and organizing lunch.
- Trees Inc. -- Rose-Hulman's Efficient Vehicles team members removed tree
stakes and growth guiding wires from trees that have been planted throughout
the city over the past three years by Trees Inc.
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| Clearing
Honeysuckle: A student helps remove
honeysuckle from Vigo County's Hawthorn Park
near Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. |
- Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity -- Triangle fraternity members
helped
construct a new residential home for a local family.
- Dobbs Park -- Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members spread mulch at sites
throughout the city park.
- St. Ann Medical Clinic -- The Student Alumni Association completed fall
house cleaning projects at the medical clinic.
- United Campus Ministries -- Residents of Deming residence hall
did a
variety of fall clean up chores at the UCM Center.
- Boys Scouts of America -- The Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry fraternity helped
local Boy Scouts take steps toward earning the chemistry and science merit
badges.
- Trinity Lutheran Church -- Students assisted church members with fall
cleanup projects.
- Hawthorn Park -- Students removed honeysuckle from several locations
throughout the county park.
Rincon Research Corporation sponsored box lunches for all volunteers.
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