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News & Events 2007-2008
Locke Residents Serve Community
By Brittany Small ’10
 What
does community service mean to you? Well, for Locke
Hall, it means having the opportunity to do things
for other people. Throughout this year, freshmen Maggie
Hoffman and Quinn McKay, along with sophomores Caitlin
Campbell, Becca Litvin and yours truly (Brittany
Small)
have worked on various projects ranging from information
about global warming to candy delivery to the girls’ mailboxes.
Even something as simple as a note and a piece of candy
can go a long way in students’ minds. Becca
Dewey ’11, newest member of the Ladies of Locke (LOL) steering
committee, commented: “I think that people really
appreciated being recognized for all that they do.
Even if it is as simple as getting a card for Halloween
or Valentine’s Day or as complex as organizing
a relay team for an upcoming cancer walk, it’s
nice to know that we are helping our community become
a better place.”
Another one of our projects was
sending cards to last year’s
prefects. Even though they had already graduated, we still
felt the need to do something for them, and making cards with
little messages seemed like the perfect idea. However, our
projects are not just limited to helping out Locke Hall. As
we all know, Mrs. Low works extremely hard taking photographs
of us playing our sports or reciting our lines in the season’s
play. Although she hears about a million ‘thank you’s,’ after
a while they seem to become mundane. One of the girls thought
of the idea to make a ‘yearbook’ for her and have
every girl in the dorm write a message stating how much she
really appreciates Mrs. Low’s efforts to accommodate
us all. Global warming, the rising issue at hand, was of additional
interest to the steering committee. By posting signs in the
dorm, we gave the girls insight into how to take action. We
explained that if every girl turned off her lights when she
left her room, it would all add up, save the school money and
help out the environment. Becca Litvin ’10 also suggested
that by adding an application to Facebook, we could reduce
our computers’ carbon outtake. Another recent project
was to make corsages for the lunch ladies. During the school
day, these women work very hard to take care of hungry students
and pick up after us. We felt that it was about time someone
showed appreciation for their efforts, and Maggie
Hoffman ’11 came up with the idea of making corsages. Certainly an original
idea, we all agreed. So, what can Locke Hall community service
do for you?
Posted 4/28/08
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