Doing Little Bits of Good
by Betty White, HS Service Learning Director
Community Service Day 2015 marked the 20th annual event for our high schoolers, as over 400 faculty and students moved into the community to strengthen relationships with each other and with our community.
Community Service Day 2015 marked the 20th annual event for our high schoolers, as over 400 faculty and students moved into the community to strengthen relationships with each other and with our community.
Carefully led and orchestrated by our CSD chairs, Emily Baker ’16, Sydney Robbins ’16, and Ellie Greenfield ’17, the day was beautiful from beginning to end. Opening speaker Ms. Nancy Crutcher, Director of Edgehill Ministries, “perfectly communicated the tone that we were trying to set, and I honestly believe that it gave much more meaning to the work that students did around the city,” according to Sydney Robbins.
Ms. Crutcher herself stated that she sees “USN as a model for every school; if every student in every school spent just one day in service like this, our community would be a much better place.”
Ms. Crutcher herself stated that she sees “USN as a model for every school; if every student in every school spent just one day in service like this, our community would be a much better place.”
CSD Chairs want everyone to remember that small acts of kindness and individual tasks matter, and that just 3 hours of work can create an enormous cumulative effect. As Ellie Greenfield said, quoting Desmond Tutu, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world,” encouraging her peers to go out into our community and make their marks.
Everyone seemed to take the messages to heart, jumping right into their missions of the day with enthusiasm and verve. Emily Baker said, “As we visited different sites, we observed that everyone was smiling, and the positive energy from the students was inspiring.” Numerous students have commented that they’d love to return to their sites, and students are already planning their next steps. Clearly, the planning and training of site leaders, organizing the afternoon activities and even ordering Ben and Jerry’s ice cream paid off as comments from students, faculty, and most of all, our community partners were highly complimentary.
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Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-321-8000
Fax: 615-321-0889
Email: info@usn.org
River Campus
1200 County Hospital Road
Nashville, TN 37218
2000 Edgehill Ave.
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-321-8000
Fax: 615-321-0889
Email: info@usn.org
River Campus
1200 County Hospital Road
Nashville, TN 37218
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University School of Nashville models the best educational practices. In an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of Metropolitan Nashville, USN fosters each student’s intellectual, artistic, and athletic potential, valuing and inspiring integrity, creative expression, a love of learning, and the pursuit of excellence.
University School of Nashville models the best educational practices. In an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of Metropolitan Nashville, USN fosters each student’s intellectual, artistic, and athletic potential, valuing and inspiring integrity, creative expression, a love of learning, and the pursuit of excellence.