community service

Faculty/Staff Help Needed for Helpings!

There are many open dates for bringing or serving food at Second Helpings on Mondays this summer. If you can bring the food from the Dining Hall to St. James Church in Greenfield (3:15) the open dates are: July 15, 22 and 29; August 5, 12, 19 and 26; September 2. If you can help [...]

Roundup of Winter Special Olympics

Every Sunday of the winter term, volunteers from Deerfield helped the Special Olympics Floor Hockey team (the North Field Valley Bears) train for their big tournament at the end of winter. After training hard, the Special Olympics team beat the Manhattan team and won the goal medal at their tournament. It was a great experience [...]

Community Service at the Nursery School!

As you heard in School Meeting… The Old Deerfield Nursery School would love to have DA students volunteer during the day to spend time with the children! Please sign up online. Who can do this: You! When: 8:30am – 12:45pm Mondays through Fridays (during your free periods and faculty break on Thursdays) Where: Old Deerfield [...]

Sunday Special Olympics

It’s the season for giving!  On Sunday morning, from 9-11am, there will be floor hockey and ice skating with the special olympics team. Floor hockey will be in the Main Gym (where varsity basketball practices) and ice skating will be in the hockey/ice rink. Come ready and dressed to play, you do not need to [...]

Hi-Chew Candy Sale

As college letters begin to mail, the Community Service Board thought the campus needed a sugar boost. We’ll be selling Hi-Chew Candy during walkthrough meals on Wednesday and Thursday. The funds will be going towards Franklin County Meals. Over 1,200 Hi-Chew Sticks are headed our way so make sure to bring your Greer Cards!

Season of Giving

During this holiday season on campus, two community service projects are going on: A drive for the literacy project is an effort to collect school supplies to benefit people who are taking classes in Greenfield. It is necessary that our community takes part in helping those who don’t have the means to have the basic [...]

DA in the Cemetery

Boys Varsity Soccer cleared a lot of leaves last week up in Pine Hill Cemetery. Apparently they also had time for a little art …

Climbing for Chris

Three years ago, Chris Waddell ’87 accomplished something incredible: he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa at 19,341 feet. What makes his feat even more incredible is that Mr. Waddell is paralyzed from the waist down, and he completed his climb unassisted, using an All-Terrain handcycle. Inspired by Mr. Waddell’s story, this summer [...]

Cambiando Vidas

Jose Abreu, director of Cambiando Vidas, a housebuilding project in the Dominican Republic, will be on campus this Sunday, October 2, from 2-3.  Come to the Garonzik to find out more about the opportunity to build Deerfield’s 4th house in the DR June 9-16, 2012.  Of course, Jose can’t wait to see all CV alums [...]

Uruguay Group to Sell Croissants MLK Day

The group that went to Uruguay summer ’09 will sell croissants during the morning break of our MLK celebration. All proceeds will benefit the orphanage where they did community service while there.  Come help the children!


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