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Hope House is committed to raising awareness not only about cancer itself, but how imperative it is that we all do our part, in and around the Geneva community. Hope is something you cannot touch or see, you cannot purchase a pack of it at the store or order it online and find it at your doorstep within 5 to 7 business days. You cannot pick it off a tree branch or dig it up from the ground, and you certainly cannot barter or trade for it. Hope just is. It is a feeling that thrives in all of us, and only those who are brave enough will push vulnerability aside and step forward to declare their wish. Hope is what links us, what strengthens us, what gives us reason to believe in a cure.
With a band of motivated women behind us, the inspiration to make a difference, and a dose of hope, we founded the Hope House in the fall of 2009 and created a movement on the HWS campus that we are so very proud of. We are incredibly lucky to be regarded as members of this cause and to work with such inspiraV O L U M E 1 I S S U E 1
Emily Rogowski ‘12 (Co-House Manager with Caroline Dosky ’12 who is abroad in Argentina)
HWS Domestic Violence Awareness House strives to raise awareness and educate students and members of the Geneva community about domestic violence. As visionaries, we have always been advocates for the men and women who have been victims of domestic violence. In high school we were either leaders or participants in various events that were held to promote awareness about domestic violence. In our efforts to raise awareness we have coordinated several events, such as the Midnight BBQ, the White Ribbon Campaign fundraiser, and Build-A-Safe-Bear for a child victim of domestic violence. From events such as those mentioned earlier we hope to engage the HWS Campus, Geneva Community, as well as neighboring communities to join our efforts in the fight against domestic violence.
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Shane Samuel ‘13 House Manager
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It is from these grounds that we created the Hope House of Hobart and William Smith Colleges beginning in the academic year of 2009-2010. With the idea of hope in mind, we have shaped an agenda to do our part to educate students, staff, and faculty on the importance of fighting back. We have organized fundraising events such as, the first annual Penguin Plunge where students and faculty paid $5 to jump in Seneca Lake for Embrace Your Sisters, a local breast cancer organization for which we raised $2,300! We have created crafts and activities for the holiday parties at Gilda’s Club which is a children’s cancer center unit out of Rochester, NY and we have participated in Making Strides which is a walk for breast cancer in Waterloo, NY at the very beginning of October as well as the Colleges’ annual Relay for Life in the spring. On campus we have headed up fundraisers such as Kiss Away Cancer where we sold bunches of Hershey’s Kisses for Valentine’s Day which raised $220 in honor of Lisa Fleming, a Sodexo staff member who passed away from breast cancer last winter. The Hope House has also assumed the responsibility of Daffodil Days where students, parents, and faculty can send bunches of daffodils to each other as part of a Relay for Life fundraiser through the American Cancer Society.
tional people who feel just as passionate as we do. Cancer is bigger than all of us, but with our work in and around the Geneva community, we are willing to minimize its hold over us and create opportunities for others to see the importance of fighting back and creating ‘Hope’ for the future.
Kyli Archibald ‘11 Community Coordinator Rees Hall & Potter Hall
"The best part of being a Community Coordinator is having the opportunity to work closely with the incoming First-Year students and share my experiences at HWS with them. I like to think that they can learn things from me and that I'm an important part of them becoming an active member (and future leader) within our campus community."