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Freshmen at Austin College gained an early perspective on the College’s emphasis on volunteer service during New Student Conference Sunday afternoon with “First We Serve.”
The new students gathered in Sid Richardson Center of Mason Complex with the goal of packaging 10,000 meals in one hour for the non-profit organization Send Hope, which will transport the meals to needy individuals in Honduras.
An assembly line production resulted in surpassing that goal, completing 16,000 meals that include rice, soy, dried vegetables, and vitamin and mineral powders. Each bag provides six meals.
"We want to help these students understand that they are gifted students, and what gifted students do is act gifted and act in ways that are good for other people,” said College chaplain John Williams, adding that it was not a required activity, but one in which students were invited and encouraged to participate.
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Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original charter and name, the College is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges That Change Lives.