Faculty Lend Their Hands for Habitat

Five Blair faculty spent their Thanksgiving break building houses with Habitat for Humanity in hurricane-devastated regions of New Orleans. Jason Beck, Quint Clarke ’87, Josh Markey, and Andrew and Kate Sykes used their construction “expertise” to frame and side a new house in New Orleans’ musicians’ village. Each faculty member spent four full days on the construction site. Other highlights of the trip included nights out in the French Quarter and a delicious, home-cooked, New Orleans-style meal hosted by the family of Catherine Marcus ’10.

The work for Habitat was rewarding and desperately needed by the many families that remain homeless. There is still much to be done in the communities ravaged by floods; interested persons may obtain more information at http://www.habitat-nola.org/.

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Posted 11/27/06

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