Wooster Scots in Service

  • By: Karen Skubik
  • September 30, 2013
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All across the country alumni, students, parents, employees, and friends of The College of Wooster took time away from their usual Saturday activities to make a difference in the lives of others during the annual Scots in Service Day. With approximately 700 volunteers gathering from coast to coast, communities benefitted from the 13th annual college tradition. Matt Long ’05 provided a little history about the volunteer effort while he prepared to work at Wooster Hope Center’s Food Distribution Center, one of three sites chosen to benefit from the 2013 effort. Long explained, “In 2001, the first year for Scots in Service, local volunteers’ energy went towards making improvements in the (City of Wooster) parks. Over time, instead of focusing on one big project, we volunteered at 5 or 6 smaller sites including The Wayne County Humane Society, Every Women’s House, school systems, The Arts Center, etc.” From year to year, the group shuffles between these local organizations and the three that were chosen this year to benefit Wayne County residents. Assistant Director of Alumni Volunteers, Landre Kiser McCloud ’05, listed the non-profits receiving assistance on September 28th: People to People Food and Clothing Drive held at the Gault Alumni Center, The American Red Cross Blood Drive at The Wayne County Chapter House, and Wooster Hope Center’s monthly county-wide food distribution at the fairgrounds. Kiser volunteered her time at the largest event where approximately 300 county residents who fall in the 200% poverty level started lining up at 7:30 am (three hours early) to receive food that is distributed through a collaborative effort between the Wooster Hope Center and the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank. Before the doors to fairground’s FFA building opened at 10:30 am to those in need, Pastor Richard Frazier provided instructions and inspiration to well-over 60 volunteers including about 30 associated with the college. Frazier’s Day Break Community Church outreach ministry focuses on The Wooster Hope Center’s programs housed in their Nold Ave. location except for the fourth Saturday of the month large scale food distribution at the county fairgrounds. Taking part in apportioning the food staples were Stephanie Casey ’07 and her mother Delores Anderson. Casey said she likes to participate in the annual Scots in Service because she “feels it is important to give back and the event is a good bonding experience with students and alumni”. Anderson added, “Attending the College of Wooster is a great privilege so it is nice to help others” during a designated day when the Scots make a difference in their community.


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