Meal Packaging event feeds thousands

Director of Service Learning Anne Fowler '90 teamed up with a group of high school students to set up a school-wide event to help the community. Harvest Pack, a cooperation that helps host meal packaging events for companies and schools, aided Fowler and the students in transforming the lower school gym into a workshop.

With hundreds of pounds of oats, sugar, cinnamon, as well as some elbow grease, over 50,000 meals of fortified oats were packaged. Teachers and students from the lower, middle, and upper schools worked together to make this event happen. With a student-designed playlist and upper school "table leaders" to instruct groups of 1012 people, boxes were shipped out across the country, with some going to houses in Hammond's own neighborhood.

When not at work, students helped junior Anna Katherine Adams transform plastic bags into crochet beds and old t-shirts into dog toys. Some upper school students spent time on the playground, where kids from all grades bonded.