Rochester Freshmen Meet the City during Service Days

Margaret Mead once said to "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." With this in mind, more than 1,000 freshmen at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music ventured into the city and suburbs to volunteer at nearly 60 of Rochester's nonprofit organizations during the 2nd annual George Eastman Day of Service on Friday, Aug. 26, and the 23rd annual Wilson Day on Monday, Aug. 29.

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  Freshmen Jiyoon Park of Cupertino, Calif., Pooja Suresh of Bangalore, India, Cari Guida of Buffalo, N.Y., and Jordan Greenberg of Bloomfield, Conn., pose for a photo while spreading compost on a produce bed at Freshwise Farms in Penfield during Wilson Day.
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  Freshwise Farms provides locally grown produce to schools and food banks. Freshman Rohini Bhatia of Ellicott City, Md., Alison Patrick of Munson, Penn., and Jordan Greenberg of Bloomfield, Conn., tend to the lettuc beds.
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  Freshmen Emily Friedline of Pittsburgh and Gabrielle Ansani of Chicago add flourishes to a bulletin board at Rochester City School District School #19.
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  Twenty volunteers helped prepare the school for the start of the new year by cleaning the outdoor school grounds and gardens.
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  President Joel Seligman meets RCSD School #19 principal Eva Thomas.
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  Sorcha Dundas of Rutland, Vt., Sara Lewis of Cleveland, Carolyn Marthens of Pittsburgh, and Sarah Jaffe of Washington, D.C., spruce up the ground outside RCSD School #19.
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  Eastman School of Music freshmen Shengming Liang of Tianjin, China, Heather Anderson of Minneapolis, and Chenyu Wang of Shanghai sort food donations at Foodlink during George Eastman Day of Caring.
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  Foodlink is a regional food bank that rescues and redistributes over 11 million pounds of food annually in central and western New York. Katie Weber of Dewitt, N.Y., sorts through food donations.
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  Wilson Day volunteers at Freshwise Farms.