Day of Service 2022

NEWS FROM CAMPUS

ALL-SCHOOL DAY OF SERVICE RETURNS AFTER PANDEMIC HIATUS

The Holy Cross community inaugurated an All-School Day of Service in 2018 as part of the school’s 150th anniversary celebration. The event was repeated in 2019 with the intention of holding a Day of Service in the spring of each year. The event was canceled due to the pandemic in 2020 but returned as an oncampus event in 2021. This year, the community was excited to again travel to agencies and organizations around the area to serve. Students, faculty and staff spent the 2022 Day of Service in April at 29 different locations serving in numerous ways.

Director of Social Justice Maika Walker ’07 coordinated the event with help from student Peer Ministers and Director of Campus Ministry Linda Ruszkowski. This year’s logo for the theme “Blessings on Blessings” was designed by Kaylee Ruleman ’24 and was displayed on the t-shirts worn for the day. Each class and the faculty/staff had their own color. The day before the service day, the community gathered for the monthly all-school Mass with service groups sitting together. During the service day, groups worked cleaning, planting, weeding, harvesting, painting, organizing and sorting donations, visiting residents of assisted living facilities, delivering and packaging meals, disassembling bicycles, and generally helping in any way requested.