All hands on deck

Day-long service projects, organized by the University’s Community Service Center and photographed here by Lloyd DeGrane, bring students, faculty, and staff together to help surrounding communities.

At Woodlawn’s Fiske Elementary School, undergrads get their hands dirty.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane

Alpha Omicron Pi sisters Caitlin Fisher, ’09, Willa Vail, ’10; and Nina Trumbo, ’11, tape stairs before painting.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane

Meanwhile Bart McAllister, ’11 (in black), and French exchange student Catherine Warin fold clothes for the needy with a parish child.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane

Bob Chen and Hannah Fine, both ’12, measure and bag pasta at the Greater Chicago Food Depository in Archer Heights.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane

Second-year Lauren Greubel helps a fourth-grader drill a hole for a new bookshelf.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane

At Englewood’s St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, UChicago Tech staff member and Dodd Mead House head Thelma Tennant, PhD’03 (with ladle), and classics graduate student Tim McGovern, AB’99, AM’01, carve a turkey for free lunch.

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By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane


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