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Vol. 2, No.4
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Penn State University, Brandywine
Summer 2008
SESTAK RECOGNIZES DR. GUERTIN
FOR 40 ACTS OF KINDNESS
son should try.”
After receiving the honor, Dr.
Guertin said, “Thank you for the
award but you're not done hear-
ing about the great things our
Brandywine campus will do.”
Dr. Guertin went on to say that
without the help of the students
and other faculty the 40 Acts of
Kindness could not have been
as successful as they could have
been.
Dr. Guertin also expressed
that as a community we need to
continue volunteering and have
more people step into leader-
ship roles. Her overall goal is
Congressman Joesph Sestak recognizes Dr. Laura Guertin for ;
her involvement with The 40 Act of Kindness
By Brittany Neimeth
Managing Photo Editor
ban5018@psu.edu
Joe Sestak, Congressional Representative of the
7th District of Pennsylvania, came to Penn State Bran-
dywine on April 28th to recognize Dr. Laura Guertin,
Associate Professor of Earth and Mineral Sciences, for
her spirit and activism with the 40 Acts of Kindness on
campus.
The 40 Acts of Kindness were instituted this
year because of the campuses 40th Anniversary; The acts
of kindness included collecting canned foods, donating
security blankets to local hospitals, a sneaker drive and
much more.
Quoting John F. Kennedy, Congressman Sestak
said, “One person can make a difference and every per-
to create sustained
solutions; not just
getting canned
goods, but solving
the hunger problem
of Philadelphia and
not just cleaning up a
river but preventing
the trash from get-
ting there in the first
place.
Dr. Guertin
is the coordinator and
co-chair of the Civic
and Community
Engagement minor,
go beyond volunteering by thinking of ways to enlist
change on a local to global level.
In conjunction with the students working towards the
Civic and Community Engagement minor, Dr. Guertin
has kept the 40 Acts of Kindness going on campus.
Alyce DilLauro, a student working towards the
Civic and Community Engagement minor said, “Both
Dr. Guertin and Dr. Goldschmidt, who teach my civic
engagement course, have such a strong passion to create
public scholarship in so many ways on our campus. This
award is much deserved.”
After presenting Dr. Guertin with her award,
Congressman Sestak spoke briefly about his feelings on
the presidential candidates. Speaking extremely demo-
cratically he called McCain an American hero and said
that though he prefers Senator Clinton, he still would not
be averse to having Senator Obama as the president.
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