Skidmore First Years Help Gulf Coast Families

Thirty-eight first-year Skidmore students traveled to New Orleans and Waveland, Miss., during the 2008-09 academic year to serve families that continue to be affected by Hurricane Katrina. The First-Year Experience aims to connect students with the liberal arts, of course, but also themselves and the real world. For its summer reading assignment, the Class of 2012 was assigned Terence Blanchard's CD "A Tale of God's Will (a requiem for Katrina)." The recording is a haunting and impassioned song-cycle about the physical and emotional damage wreaked by Katrina in 2005. Hence, the tie-in with the service trips to the Gulf Coast region.

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• Skidmore
• Skidmore College
• First-Year Experience
• First Year Experience
• FYE
• liberal arts