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Habitat for Humanity
March 7-15, 2009
During the Spring Break week, Washington College, Belmont University of Nashville, Tennessee and carpenters from NeighborWorks Columbus built a house at 717 Winston Road in Columbus, Georgia. The team consisted of 24 students, carpenters, staff and faculty in a project organized by the Columbus, GA Habitat for Humanity affiliate. In one week thirteen colleges (265 students) built nine houses, which was the largest group build in the country for 2009. Washington College students not only forged new friendships and enjoyed a great sense of community, they made a major impact on the lives of the family who will be occupying the house. Read article "College students in Columbus to help Habitat for Humanity."
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Front Row: Maria Rose Hynson (Dean's Office), Todd Bullard, Stanley Bullard, Joshua Vaughn and Macho, Coley Johnson (all of NeighborWorks Columbus). Second Row: David Wharton (Department of Economics), Lindsay Sechser (Belmont University), Erin McMichael '10, Alyssa Velazquez '12, Sarah Milligan '10, Audrey Huddleston (Belmont University), Camille McNeal '12, Sonya Alexander '09, Latoya Gatewood-Young '11. Kneeling: David Harrison (NeighborWorks Columbus) and Jessica Kelley '12. Back Row: Kristina Kelley '11, Steven Stranahan '12, David Dudek (Miller Library), Col. James Cook (Belmont University), Anna Green '09, Lauren Seeley '11, Daniel Wingo (Belmont University).
The 13 WAC community members and the family who will be moving into the house in September.
The Johnson family made a banner with the WAC and Belmont students' names.
WAC students ate dinner during the H4H orientation.
Steve Stranahan '12 Tells a joke for the Clean Joke Competition "How many WAC students does it take to come up with a clean joke? Apparently more than 13!"
Hammer time! Putting up wall frames.
Sara Milligan '10, Alyssa Valazquez '12, Jess Kelley '12 and Lauren Seeley '11 show some muscle after lifting the wall.
Maria Hynson passes some wood to workers in the house to build wall frames.
Sonja Alexander '09 hammers some nails into the frame.
Alyssa Valazquez '12 puts some nails into the supports.
Columbus elementary school students put painted handprints on some pieces of wood used to build the house. Two houses out of the nine were chosen to have the handprints, one being the house WAC students worked on.
Dave Harrison shows students how to hammer correctly.
Construction worker Todd Bullard lines up wood for a wall piece.
Erin McMichael '09 helps Todd lay a wall.
Creating walls by hammering plywood to frame.
Sara Milligan '10 puts the WAC banner on the entrance of the house.
Lauren Seeley '11 admires the work accomplished.
Dan Wingo of Belmont University helps to hammer the walls.
Melissa, who will be moving into the house, gives a hand in hammering the walls.
The crew! Washington College, Belmont University and NeighborWorks Columbus.
Erin McMichael '09 and Jess Kelley '12 begin to build the scaffolding behind the house.
Todd Bullard carries support beams for the roof overtop of the house.
Sara Milligan '10 steps up to the roof to nail in the support beams.
Steve Stranahan '12 lifts plywood to Latoya Gatewood-Young '11 and Alyssa Velazquez '12 for the roofing.
Jess Kelley '12 begins to hammer support beams.
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