Helping Hands (and Hearts)

SERVICE TO OTHERS RINGS TRUE FOR BREWSTER

In addition to their academic workload and their athletics, arts, and club pursuits, Brewster students performed 3,654 hours of community service in the 2022-23 school year. That’s more than 152 full days of lending a helping hand. Their projects included working with nonprofits like End 68 Hours of Hunger and Wolfeboro Serves, tutoring Brewster peers and students from neighboring schools on campus and off, teaching our local retirement community residents how to use their hi-tech gadgets, supporting inclusion of all kinds and raising cultural awareness, pitching in on environmental causes, hosting holiday parties and games for campus “Littles” (AKA the children of faculty and staff), gaining new friends through Unified Sports, and so many more we don’t have room to mention here. To a person, these student volunteers report their experiences are as fulfilling for them as for the people they are helping. Plus, it’s a lot of fun! Shout out to Director of Community Service Maria Found who organizes all these efforts.

Faculty and staff get into the spirit of the day, too, wearing gear from their own alma maters (yes, that’s Dean of College Counseling Laura Duffy behind Aaron sporting her Tufts University jersey!)