Twenty-two Elon students and three staff advisers spent Spring Break working on rebuilding efforts in the hurricane-damaged areas of Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Details...
This is the 8th Elon trip to the region.
The group worked on houses in Waveland, Bay Saint Louis, and Long Beach (building rooms, laying foundations, helping raise two houses on stilts, sheet rocking, and insulation). They also worked on preparing a building in Waveland to lodge volunteers by clearing out old materials and building bunkrooms and bunkbeds. During the week, they met with Father Tracey of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church and met with an Elon student parent in New Orleans who game them a tour of impacted areas of the city.
Students on the trip included the following:
Kristine Silvestri – co-leader
Lauren Fitzgerald – co-leader
Ulrich Markiewicz
Michael Deye
Andrew Youssef
Benjamin Zerbe
Addison Camp
Alexander Brooks
Kristin Cunningham
Matthew Gestaut
Sun Ah Lee
Kyle Cooper
Daniel Sharpe
Stuart Gowdy
Megan Dempsey
Alexander Heller
Kaitlin Carlin
Carly Fabrizio
Kimberlee Hultslander
Michael Hughes
Monet Thomas
Sara Pasquinelli
Advisers included Matthew Kutch, Lucas Langdon and Steve Anderson.