Seniors Cassandra Cowell, Helen Way, and Marissa Petrucci
TREE-PLENISH: Seniors lead service project to benefit the environment by Tegan Greene ’22, Communications Intern
It goes without saying that Ursuline’s motto of Serviam is central to student life. Seniors Cassandra Cowell, Marissa Petrucci, and Helen Way exemplified Ursuline students’ drive to live out this motto in their recent partnership with the Tree-Plenish organization. Cowell brought “Tree-Plenish” to the Ursuline community back in April through coordinating, with the help of two of her classmates, a service opportunity for students. Tree-Plenish is a non-profit organization that strives to replenish the environment by planting trees in accordance with the paper usage at schools, creating more sustainable schools. She reflected on the experience, saying “Tree-Plenish was an amazing opportunity for me to recognize how much our community wants to help make the world a more renewable place for us to live in and purchase trees to restore the amount of paper that is used during a school year. The main thing I loved about this experience was that we were able to involve our classmates in this service opportunity, which gave our community a chance to come together and work with each other to make the planet a better place!”
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