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Volunteering Benefits All


                                                  -Jenny Winkler
         The  opportunities for  of the  political campaigns.  AI-  could obtain one elective credit  and they also sent  members to
    volunteering  in  the  community   though  the  10  hours  were  re-  for  every  15  hours  of  service.   work at the other  volunteer op-
    were  significant  for  students.   quired, schools around the  na-  Students involved in this helped  portunities. The objective of the
    Whether  it was  through  Civics   tion  were  moving  that  number  out at Henry Doorly Zoo, Chalco  club was to  involve students in
    class , the  independent commu-  up  to  75  or 125  total  hours for  Hills , Clarkson Hospital, Outdoor  the community to experience the
    nity  service  class, or the Volun-  the  four  years  of  high  school.   Ed. , and elementary school tu-  joys of  helping  others  through
    teer  club ,  volunteering  was  a   Social Studies teacher and  vol-  taring.  For many students the   volunteer work.
    common  occurrence among stu-  unteer coordinator Bev  John-  reward  of  helping  others  was   Each  student who  vol-
    dents.                      son  said , "I did  not believe that  greater than that of getting credit  unteered had  many  opportuni-
          Each  senior was  re-  the high  national requirements  for the service.          ties  to  discover more  about
    quired  to serve  10 hours for Civ-  were  right  because they  were   The Volunteer club also   themselves  and  explore  pos-
    ics/Consumerism.   Many  stu-  asking organizations to take kids   did  many things to  benefit the   sible career choices. However,
    dents  worked  in  food  pantries,   who  did  not  really  want  to  be   community. They were respon-  Johnson  said,  "The  most  im-
    helped  at  the  Corporate  Cup   there in  the first place."   sible for a clothing drive to ben-  portant  aspect of  volunteering
    Run , gift  wrapped  at  Oak View   Johnson was  also  the   efit  people  in  Nicaragua,  they   was that it allowed people to see
    Mall , went door to door on Honey   advisor for the new Community  helped at  the  Siena/Francis   something bigger  than  them-
    Sunday , and  worked on  several   Service course in which students  House and Open Door Mission,   selves."
                                                                                        Thurston, Geren
                                                                                        Tichauer, Cory
                                                                                        Tramontozzi, Karen
                                                                                        Troia, Carrie
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                                                                                        Tully, Jennifer
                                                                                        Uden, Wendy
                                                                                        Urban, Angela
                                                                                        VanDerWerff, Kimberly
                                                                                        Vanis, Craig






                                                                                         VanMoorleghem, Richard
                                                                                         Vannoy, Bryan
                                                                                         VanWinkle, Kari
                                                                                         Vint, Timothy
                                                                                         Vogel, Jason







                                                                                         Vogel, John
                                                                                         VonSeggern, Jon
                                                                                         Wakefield, Jolene
                                                                                         Waller, Jonathan
                                                                                         Wandel, Rebecca
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