More than 50 percent of the Mount’s 2,700 students volunteer
through service clubs or in the field as a requirement of
coursework.
Throughout the spring semester of 2011, students have been hard
at work organizing, fundraising, preparing and sending care
packages, and re-building a home. Here are some of their
projects.
Preparing care packages for our troops
Mount Saint Mary College’s chapter of Habitat for
Humanity acquired donations and organized Mount students to package
and mail annual care packages for the troops.Students prepared
about 120 packages, containing nonperishable snacks, playing cards,
and toiletries, on February 23, 2011 for U.S. troops stationed
overseas
Building a home with Habitat for Humanity
Instead of basking on the beach during spring break, 14 students
from Mount Saint Mary College’s Habitat for Humanity club traveled
to Cookeville, Tenn., where they helped build a home for a single
mom and her children. The students were aided by volunteers
from Habitat for Humanity and the sweat equity of the
homeowners-to-be.
Relay for Life raises money for the American Cancer
Society
Members of the Mount Saint Mary College community, and more than
28 teams, put in 12 hours on the track to raise funds for the
American Cancer Society from 4 pm Friday, April 1 to 4 am on
Saturday, April 2. Opening ceremonies at the Relay for Life
include a Survivor Lap and the lighting of luminaries all around
the Kaplan Gym in memory of those lost to cancer.
To make a donation online to Relay for Life,
visit www.relayforlife.org/mtstmary
Relief 9.0: The Mount Reaches Out
Mount students formed an organization called Relief 9.0:
The Mount Reaches Out, to help aid in Japan relief efforts
after the earthquakes and tsunami. Relief 9.0 hosted
the Cause for Japan, a two-hour Zumba
fitness session at Kaplan Gym on Saturday, April 9, 2011 from 4 - 6
pm with eight Zumba fitness specialists. Proceeds from this event
went to UNICEF.
Students visit Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC to present
donation to Dubin Breast Center
Ten Mount student leaders presented Eva Dubin and the Mount Sinai
Medical Center with a check in the amount of $5,000 for the new
Dubin Breast Center, which will officially open on April 6,
2011.
During a tour of this extraordinary new center, Dr. Eva Dubin (a
breast cancer survivor herself) told us with great conviction that
"Our goal for the center is to bring together the best minds in
radiology, medical oncology, surgery, radiation oncology,
pathology, clinical genetics, psychosocial support and clinical
translational research under one roof, to provide patients with
seamless care and access to research studies."
Students met the Center's Director Dr. George Raptis (a
world-class medical oncologist) who told Harry Steinway, vice
president of student affairs, how impressed he was by the Mount
students' interest, commitment, and generosity in giving the
proceeds of their spring concert to this important project.