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Wave of serviceApril 22, 2014 11:45 AMNew Wave staff [email protected]
Editor's Note: Staff members from the publications office joined others from across the universityfor the annual Wave of Green Day of Service. Mary Ann Travis, senior editor, accompanied seniorphotographer Paula Burch-Celentano to gather information for this story, while photographer SallyAsher also took photos for New Wave and for the Tulane University Facebook page.
Shovels and rakes in hand, volunteers for the Wave of Green Day of Service wrap up their day'swork at lots on Saratoga Street. Three hundred and fifty Tulane employees participated in theservice day on Monday (April 21). The volunteers were transported in eight chartered buses to ninesites around New Orleans. “The day went extremely well,” said Katie Houck, assistant director ofoutreach and leadership development for the Tulane Center for Public Service, who helpedcoordinate the volunteer effort.
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During the Tulane Wave of Green Day of Service, Matt Segraves of the Cowen Institute for PublicEducation wheels away leaves and debris collected along the fence at Tad Gormley Stadium. “It's afun day,” said Segraves, of the service day that brings together Tulane employees from all cornersof the university to help out in the community. Approximately 30 volunteers spruced up the stadiumentrance in City Park.
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Jane Johnson, director of public interest externships at Tulane Law School, and Louis Crispino,senior programmer for Technology Services, push wheelbarrows to deliver mulch to paths in theCouterie Forest in City Park. Johnson said that she liked the work because “you get to see results”right away. The volunteers spread the mulch to improve the walking and biking paths in the urbanforest.
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Olanike Orie, associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of the interdisciplinary programin linguistics, lifts a pitchfork of mulch to fill a wheelbarrow in the Couterie Forest in City Park.Orie said, “It's wonderful to be outside working with colleagues.” She also said that she's happy tocontribute hours to the Cowen Service Challenge as a way to say thank you to President ScottCowen for his leadership. Public service at Tulane is “testimony to the fact that working together,we can survive � and make progress,” said Orie.
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Discarded tires are among the junk cleared from an overgrown lot in the 2100 block of JacksonAvenue during the Wave of Green Day of Service. Neighbor James Watson, far left, in blue shirt,lives in a house across the street from the derelict lot. Watson, who has repeatedly asked the city toclean up the site, said that he was “very pleased” with the volunteer efforts coordinated by thecommunity organization United Saints. By the end of the day, the lot was cleared of weeds anddiscarded items and the adjacent abandoned building boarded up with colored, cheerful panels.
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Rachel Hiller, associate director of NCAA compliance in Tulane Athletics; Susan Welch, assistantdirector of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety; and Marian Herbert-Bruno, seniorgraphic designer at the Newcomb College Institute, paint a clown-filled mural to be used to boardup an abandoned building on Jackson Avenue. Brightly colored boards deter vagrants, according tothe community organizers with United Saints, the group that coordinated the cleanup of the site.
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Sarah Berger, senior program coordinator for internships and international programs at the TulaneCenter for Public Service, paints a ceiling at a Youth Rebuilding New Orleans house on 10th Streetin New Orleans. In the corner is Liz Davey, director of the Tulane Office of Sustainability. BothBerger and Davey said that they like volunteering for the Wave of Green Dave of Service because itallows them to meet other people who work at Tulane and do good in the community.
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Brandon MacNeill does finish work on Sheetrock at a Youth Rebuilding New Orleans house onSouth Salcedo Street in New Orleans. He is executive associate athletic director. Youth RebuildingNew Orleans is led by Tulane alumnus William Stoudt, the organization's executive director, whowas a dedicated community volunteer while a student.
Three other Tulane campuses also participated in the service day. Five staff members from theMississippi Coast Campus in Biloxi volunteered with Back Bay Mission. One staff memberworked at the mission's Micah Center that provides laundry and shower facilities for the homeless,while four other Tulane employees assisted with an electrical wiring project for a home that themission is renovating for an elderly resident.
Also in Mississippi, the Madison Campus held a food drive from April 1�17 in honor of theservice day event. The MadCaap Center's food pantry benefitted from food items donated by 150 ofMadison's faculty, staff and students. The nonprofit center provides assistance to those in theMadison area who struggle due to poverty.
On the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, employees from the Tulane National PrimateResearch Center volunteered at a Barbecue and Fun Day for young students and adults withspecial needs at the STARC West Adult Facility and Noah's ARC Child Development Center inMandeville, La.
