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Before taking their first class, 22 first-year students at Lafayette are making an early arrival on campus for pre-orientation community service programs that will take place next week. Thirteen current Lafayette students will lead them in volunteer activities from Sunday through Wednesday through the College’s Landis Community Outreach Center.
Thirteen first-year students will serve as counselors for an estimated 80 local children ages seven through 15 through Lafayette’s Kids in Community (KIC) program, which will provide a day camp on campus with activities such as arts and crafts, recreation, and field trips. The children will come from the communities served by KIC throughout the school year and from the Boys and Girls Club of Easton. The pre-orientation KIC focus this year will be on tolerance.
Nine first-year students will participate in volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity and other projects in the Easton area. Students serve with the Lehigh Valley and Warren County chapters of Habitat for Humanities during the school year. They assist in all aspects of home construction, from putting up drywall to installing interior framing.
The student leaders include Spanish major Eric Imhof ’05 (Palmyra, Pa.) and psychology and Spanish double major Kristen Cahill ’04 (Erwinna, Pa.), KIC program directors; mathematics major Elisabeth Edwards ’04 (Belle Mead, N.J.), KIC Camp director; computer science and economics & business double major Issac Esseku ’05 (Accra, Ghana), Habitat for Humanity program director; and Angela Boyd ’06 (Red Lion, Pa.), assistant Habitat for Humanity program director.
For more information, contact Char Gray, director of the Landis Community Outreach Center, at 610-330-5653.