Four Elon staff members will take service sabbaticals and numerous faculty will teach classes through Project Pericles, an initiative sponsored by the Eugene Lang Foundation. Details...
Project Pericles has challenged 10 colleges and universities, including Elon, to provide a learning experience that will “instill in students an abiding and active sense of social responsibility and civic concern.”
Four staff members-David Morton in computer support; Christopher Eyl in university relations; Ray Pruitt in automotive services; and Susan Patton in the registrar’s office-were chosen for service sabbaticals. Each proposed a service sabbatical project which is made possible through Project Pericles.
Morton will manage a project for the Alamance-Burlington school system titled “Casting a World Wide Web;” Eyl will bicycle across the United States to raise money for the Children’s Advocacy Center of CrossRoads Sexual Assault Response and Resource Center. Pruitt will work on repairs and updates to the buildings at his church; and Patton will research the possibility of area schools establishing an internship program with Room at the Inn of the Triad, a Christian ministry helping homeless, single, pregnant women before and after the birth of their children.
The following faculty and staff have received grants from Project Pericles for proposed courses:
- Mike Sanford
- Deborah Long
- Mark Rumley
- Bird Stasz
- Anthony Hatcher
- Betty Morgan
- Jay McMerty
- Tom Nelson
- Brian Lewis
- Kevin Boyle
- Glenda Crawford
- George Padgett
- Jon Metzger
- Kyndy Boyle
- George Sleek
- Cynthia Lewis
- Susan Chinworth
- Larry Vellani
- Jim Brown
- Carol Magee
- Paula Rosinski
- Jane Stephens
- Brian Digre
- Ken Hassell
- Heidi Glaesel
- Douglas Redington
- Peggy Gignoux
- Anne Bolin
- Kathy Lyday-Lee
- David Loomis
- Andy Angyal
- Anne Cassebaum
- Sandy Smith-Nonini
- Melinda Rice
- Toddie Peters
- Matt Clark
- Jane Wellford
- Russ Gill
- Iris Chapman
As part of Project Pericles, students will take courses and participate in projects that concentrate on civic engagement. Members of the Elon community are asked to submit any service activities they participate in during the academic year to ProjectPericles@elon.edu. Each year, Project Pericles will publish the “Pericles Report,” documenting volunteer service hours by all members of the community.
Some of the ways you can be included in the “Pericles Report” are participation on a city or county board, working with Hospice, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, or advising a student organization.
For more information, contact Tom Arcaro at 278-6442 or arcaro@elon.edu.