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WU Voices on Service
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For brief quotes on service from the WU community please read our quotes section.
Students

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"“Why do college students do community service?” asked a confused freshman who found her way into the Community Service Program office."
- Hillary Saxon, Class of 2004

"Sometimes the time that we devote willingly and activities that we join of our own accord reflect our true passions. Service is one window to help us see if these passions might translate into a career."
- Aimee Wittman, The Career Center

"Service is an everyday process of evolution, an unending search for a better way, a better world."
- Tabitha Knerr, Class of 2003

"... my concept of community service has evolved into a lifestyle choice, a commitment to support the community with everyday choices most people take for granted."
- Libby Rolwing, Class of 2004

"Asking why I incorporate community service into my teaching is a little like asking why I incorporate breathing into living..."
- Bob Hansman, Associate Professor

"One of the most significant parts of my college career was my work on Saturday nights as a volunteer in the Cambridge City Hospital emergency room. I remember many of those nights more clearly than I remember a lot of my course work."
- Jim Davis, Professor, Political Science

"It is about actually becoming part of the community you are helping. By becoming involved in community service, and by helping a community, you are not only helping that community, but you are also helping yourself more than you will ever know."
- David Shepard, Class of 2008

"The lines separating the servers and the recipients have long been blurred in my mind, as I often walk away from community service projects feeling like a greater beneficiary than those who have been technically deemed recipients."
- Jessica Stein, Class of 2005

 

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spacerbracket"Get involved! Just give community service a chance. You might stumble onto something you're really passionate about. And that's worth everything. Just give it a chance."
-Cindy Zhang, '06
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