Campus Service Groups
Best Buddies
Best Buddies is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with mental retardation by providing opportunities for one-on-one friendships and integrated employment. Best Buddies is an international organization. Washington College is proud to be involved with Best Buddies, helping to create friendships that would not have otherwise existed. College students are paired with individuals from the Kent Center. The members participate in monthly group activities, including pizza parties, bowling outings, picnics, game day, and other various one-on-one activities.
President: James Comotto
Email: jcomotto2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Rosemary Ford
Email: rford2@washcoll.edu
Colleges Against Cancer Club
President: Devin Reilly
Email: dreilly2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Mindy Reynolds
Email: mreynolds2@washcoll.edu
Ducks Unlimited
President: Brittany Hulbert
Email: bhulbert2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Donald Munson
Email: dmunson2@washcoll.edu
Enactus
WC Enactus is a student–run organization that creates projects incorporating different aspects of business involving students, faculty, and the community. WC Enactus provides leadership training, regional competitions and career fairs for thousands of college students throughout 33 countries. Working together we “Take Pride” in being not only a group of college students, but a group of people that reach out to the local communities, schools, and other organizations to teach and promote a better well being! “A head for business. A heart for the world.”
President: Dominic DiMarino
Email: ddimarino2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Professor Lansing Williams
Email: lwilliams3@washcoll.edu
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity joins together in the local area to build homes for the underprivileged.
President: Billie Ricketts ‘13
Email: bricketts2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Maria Hynson
Email: mhynson2@washcoll.edu
Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA)
Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) is a national student organization endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education and Health Science Education Division of ACTE. The mission statement of HOSA is to enhance the delivery of compassionate, quality health care by providing opportunities for knowledge, skill and leadership development of all health science technology education students, therefore, helping students to meet the needs of the health care community.
As the first post-secondary chapter in the state of Maryland, HOSA at Washington College is an organization focused on better preparing students for the graduate and various medical school admissions tests and to provide volunteer services to local health organizations. Our goals are to provide students with study groups, study materials, writing seminars, mock interviews, alumni guest speakers, practice exams, trips to medical schools, volunteering opportunities, connections with people in the health care field, and much more!
President: Eshan Patel
Email: epatel2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Aaron Amick
Email: aamick2@washcoll.edu
Relay for Life
Students, faculty, and staff team up to raise money for the American Cancer Society each spring. Learn more on their site.
Service Council
The Service Council organizes and hosts events that promote awareness and invovlement in a wide variety of service opportunities.
President: Kelsey Mills
Email: kmills3@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Beth Anne Langrell
Email: blangrell2@washcoll.edu
Student Environmental Alliance
The Student Environmental Alliance (SEA) isthe primary environmental club on campus. SEA works closely with the Center for Environment and Society to plan large campus and community wide events revolving around environmental issues. The main objective of SEA is to raise campus awareness of the environment.
Co-President: Amanda Anastasia
Email: aanastasia2@washcoll.edu
Co-President: Kathy Thornton
Email: kthornton2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Shane Brill ’03
Email: sbrill2@washcoll.edu
Students Helping Honduras
Students Helping Honduras, aka S.H.H. Our chapter is one of many that make up the non-profit organization. Our mission is to build a movement of young leaders in order to empower orphaned and vulnerable children in Honduras by running service trips to Honduras throughout the year including over winter and spring break.
President: Laura Kennedy
Email: lkennedy2@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Christine Wade
Email: cwade2@washcoll.edu
Students for Social Awareness (Sociology Club)
Students for Social Awareness is an active club on campus that promotes the awareness of a number of social issues that influence our society as well as our communities. Some of these social issues include: gender, age, and race which, stem to homelessness, poverty, and hunger. The club sponsors an array of different events throughout the year that contribute to the community, whether it is collecting Halloween costumes in October, collecting mittens in December, a Canned Food Drive in November and April or various other events pertaining to student involvement in the greater community.
President: Erics Riley
Email: eriley3@washcoll.edu
Advisor: Dr. Erin Anderson
Email: eanderson3@washcoll.edu
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Thursday, April 18 event to raise funds for the local Food Bank will be held at the Garfield Center for the Arts in downtown Chestertown starting at 5 p.m. -
Students, faculty, and staff from Washington College traveled to Albany, Americus, and Columbus, Georgia over Spring Break to help build three homes in a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and NeighborWorks Columbus. -
Washington College students and alumni explain the significance of volunteering for our communities on a personal, local, and global level. -
Students, faculty, and staff from Washington College traveled to Columbus, Georgia over Spring Break to help build a home in a partnership with NeighborWorks Columbus and Habitat for Humanity. -
The Center for Environment & Society and Friends of Eastern Neck hosted a shoreline cleanup to pick up trash and debris that accumulated over the winter months
