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Service Leaders Are "COOL" Winners
A desire to serve both the College and the community while introducing incoming students to the benefits of service learning has earned two Washington College students a national award.
Senior Katie Preen and sophomore Gia Grier received an honorable mention from the Collective Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) for last fall's "Into the Streets" program, a large-scale service learning initiative held during freshman orientation. More than 300 students cleaned beaches, restored trails and shorelines, worked to preserve wetlands, served lunch to nursing home residents and learned about a broad spectrum of community organizations.
Preen and Grier received the award for their efforts in planning and executing their own version of "Into the Streets" after participating in the event during the 1999 COOL conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"I was really surprised, but happy," said Grier. "It was our first year doing 'Into the Streets,' and COOL is a really big conference, so for us to get an honorable mention really shows how together the program was."
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