When I volunteer, I feel like I am part of the community.” —JAMIE PARK ’27
arts and crafts activity booth run by the Cushing Art Club. And every spring, in a beloved tradition, the entire Academy turns out for the Tony Fisher Day of Service to Others, where students and faculty fan out across the region to serve in whatever ways the community needs. Individual students are driving initiatives of their own. Jamie Park ’27 founded Cushing’s Community Service Club during her sophomore year. Last fall the group organized a beach cleanup in Cohasset. Ten students from seven different countries boarded a bus at 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning to participate. “When I volunteer, I feel like I am part of the community,” Park says. “I belong here.” Another student, Kai Fadel ’27, recently completed his Eagle Scout project, developing a bluebird habitat on unused campus acreage. The rewards of service run in both directions. On Saturday mornings in the winter, and again in the spring, a core group of students willingly forgoes a chunk of their weekend sleep to spend an hour in Watkins Field House with Special Olympics athletes, ages four through eleven, who travel from across the region to play soccer, run obstacle courses, and be celebrated. History and social science teacher Christine Monahan P’24, ’26, who coordinates the program through the campus Kindness Club, says the bonds between the Cushing students and the children run deep. “I think we get much more than we give,” she says. For Stone, it all points to the same thing: “It’s important for our students to understand we’re not just an island here in the middle of Massachusetts. We’re part of a larger community, and the larger community has needs that we can become involved in.”
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