Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Students from each division helped to unload, sort and reload supplies for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Rosie O’Donnell’s foundation, For All Kids, coordinated with vendors to send merchandise to Episcopal, which was to be the staging area for volunteers to work.

As truckloads of paper, flip-flops, notebooks, shirts, pencils, toy trucks, art sets, baby dolls, and more arrived the students couldn’t wait to help. Even the smallest children helped to unload boxes from the tractor, the golf cart and hand trucks into the Greer Center.

The JV and ninth grade school volleyball team members and coaches, some middle school computer classes, and most of the lower school students then sorted the supplies and filled booksacks. When it was time to reload smaller delivery vehicles, the lower school students and teachers were there again to help.

Lower school staff, Alumni from the Class of 85, and community volunteers delivered the goods to schools, shelters and churches to help in the enormous effort to help Katrina victims.