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GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICEMaking a Difference Alumni bring the spirit of Meliora to their local communities.
serviceROCHESTER: Acoye Downer ’21 (foreground), Gabriel Guisado ’19, and Julia Norwood ’20 of the National Society of Black Engineers join alumni and others to ready the grounds for the change of seasons at the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. (Photo: Deron Berkhof for the University of Rochester)
serviceBALTIMORE: Genevieve Chawluk ’04 (left); Dino La Fiandra ’91; his daughter, Olivia; Lisa Corbett, the sister of Ruth Ann Scoles ’09; Jackie La Fiandra ’92; Elisabeth Mekosh ’11; and Scoles (back to the camera) assemble food packages at the Baltimore Hunger Project. The organization, which was founded by Lynne Kahn ’91, helps support children who don’t have adequate access to food by delivering supplies to families during the weekends, when kids are out of school. (Photo: J. Adam Fenster)
serviceSAN FRANCISCO: Arden Witheford ’12, Cara Kessler ’15, Kaitlin Carragher ’12, and Eva Hansen ’18 work with Friends of the Urban Forest, an organization that helps add and maintain greenery in neighborhoods in San Francisco. (Photo: Peter Barreras/AP Images for Rochester Review)
serviceNEW YORK CITY: Before fanning out to help deliver Meals on Wheels to home-bound seniors in the Bronx, alumni and friends mark the day with a photo: (back row, left to right) Tavrean Parker, Lee Burnley ’83, Elana Naimi ’17, Clara Choi ’17, David Bournas-Ney, Emily Hart ’12, Joshua McCough ’17, Jason Wang ’09, Alex Gifford ’13, and Micheleen Karnacewicz ’83; (front row) Samantha Lish ’16, Ellen Swanson, and Mavis Gifford ’13. (Photo: Charles Sykes/AP Images for Rochester Review)

More than 250 alumni, parents, and friends in 18 cities volunteered to help their home communities with gardening, tree planting, collecting and sorting food and supplies, and taking part in other service projects to mark Rochester’s second annual Global Day of Service in September. Modeled on Wilson Day, the University’s annual day of community service for first-year students, the day is organized by alumni volunteers who work with local community organizations and nonprofit agencies to marshal people to help with select projects.

Drawing inspiration from a famous saying of George Eastman’s—“What we do during our work hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines who we are”—volunteers shared the spirit of Meliora with communities in New York City, Baltimore, San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Rochester, Boston, and many others.

For more about the annual Day of Global Service, visit Rochester.edu/alumni/service.