The Albany Academies To Hold Spring Community Service Day On April 25

ALBANY, NY (04/22/2008)(readMedia)-- (Albany) – The Albany Academies will hold its Spring Community Service Day on Friday, April 25, as more than 500 Academies students and faculty will participate in the community by working with a variety of nonprofit organizations in an effort to give back to those less fortunate.

As part of the program, students and faculty will work with individuals from organizations such as the Albany Pine Bush, Camp Chingachgook, Camp Nassau, Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes Senior Center, Habitat for Humanity, the Langan School of the Center for Disability Services, Mohawk-Hudson Humane Society, National Little League, Parson’s Child and Family Center and Ronald McDonald House.

The student volunteers will visit the nonprofit organizations from 9-11:30 a.m., and media opportunities are available at a number of sites, including Habitat for Humanity, where students will work on improving several houses on Odell Street in south Albany; the Langan School (located on Hackett Boulevard in Albany), where 5th grade boys and girls will spend the morning at Langan School working with its students and staff to finish the processing and shelving of books – part of the Academies’ Build-A-Library project at the Langan School (the 2007 Tulip Queen, Amisha Gomes, and her court will be at the Langan School from 9-10 a.m. as well to help out with the project); and Ronald McDonald House (139 South Lake Avenue in Albany), where the students will be baking cookies, playing with children at the Ronald McDonald House, and doing other activities.

This is the third year of the “Community Service Day” program, and the first year that the program has involved both male and female students from the Academies.

The Albany Academies is home to the two campuses of The Albany Academy (West Campus) and Albany Academy for Girls (East Campus), which share a nearly 200-year-old tradition of outstanding single-gender independent school education. Both campuses bring with them deeply treasured values of community, tradition, and purpose to the newly formed school known as The Albany Academies.

The Albany Academies is committed to developing the potential of the whole individual by building a community that fosters scholarship, leadership, character, service and creativity.

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