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On the Roadwith Rachel Hendrickson * For the second straight year, NEA higher education members participated in an intergenerational community service activity at an NEA Representative Assembly. Once again this year, the activity was an NEA Student program-sponsored school rehabilitation project, this time in Orlando. Ann Shadwick of the California Faculty Association and some students rehabilitated bulletin boards with NEA-Retired members. Other students painted red any support posts they could find in the courtyards, while 50 of us planted 250 shrubs in a garden in the front of the school and cleaned up a courtyard sanctuary in the back. Despite 98 degree muggy weather, work went fast. I tackled the mulch pile with a college student from Indiana who shoveled two scoops to my one. Since we worked over the weekend, we wouldn't see the reaction of the students when they returned to their "new" school. The kids left on Friday with a promise that there'd be a surprise on Monday. New gardens and trees, colorful bulletin boards, repainted and carpeted classrooms-brought to them by members of NEA---would be the surprise, and, I expect, a delight to witness. *Rachel Hendrickson coordinates NEA higher ed activities. |
