Volume CXXXIII, Number 3 September 21, 2001 f

College, students further the common good

More than 300 Bowdoin College students, employees and alumni are expected to spend the afternoon of Saturday, September 22 doing community service projects in the greater Brunswick and Portland areas for the College's third annual Common Good Day.

Volunteers will be divided and teams that spend four hours working on 42 separate projects for non-profit and municipal organizations.

The jobs are as varied as cooking a meal at the Ronald McDonald House, visiting the elderly at Thornton Hall, landscaping on the Brunswick Mall, yard work for senior citizens through the 55 Plus Center, to running a "Choosing a College" workshop through the Tutoring Center at the Portland Housing Authority.

Common Good Day fosters collaboration among members of the Bowdoin community, its neighbors, and social service agencies. It began in 1999 as a means to further the College's founding mission.

Joseph McKeen, Bowdoin's first president, stated in his 1802 inaugural speech to eight students of the first entering class: "It ought always to be remembered that literary institutions are founded and endowed for the Common Good, and not for the private advantage of those who resort to them for education."

-Courtesy of the Bowdoin College Office of Communications