Cheerful Volunteers Commit to a Day of Common Good

Video by Busra Eriz’17

On Saturday, Sept. 17, more than 500 students, staff, and faculty signed up to participate in Bowdoin’s annual Common Good Day. After the volunteers broke into small groups, they fanned out across Brunswick and beyond to help out at one of 55 organizations. The day starts with a celebration in Farley Field House, and lunch is catered by Bowdoin Dining.

Opening ceremony in Farley Field House
Heading out for the day
Merrymeeting Adult Education: Cleaning and washing tables and chairs. Using a machine cleaner to clean couches. Dust and clean student desks. Clean and weed two entrance gardens. Painting.
Bowdoin Organic Garden: Harvest vegetables, weeding, bed preparation, wood chips on paths
Volunteers of America: Assisting senior residents at the Westrum with cleaning projects that they have difficulty with. These include cleaning appliances, vacuuming or windows.
Volunteers of America: Assisting senior residents at the Westrum with cleaning projects that they have difficulty with. These include cleaning appliances, vacuuming or windows.
Tom Settlemire Community Garden: Planting Strawberries for the Common Good Garden (which grows food to donate to the Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program)
American Association of University Women, Growstown School, a living history center: Ceaning and preparing the 1849 schoolhouse for the fall opening, dusting, washing windows, sweeping, raking the yard, printing names on slates and blackboards
American Association of University Women, Growstown School, a living history center: Ceaning and preparing the 1849 schoolhouse for the fall opening, dusting, washing windows, sweeping, raking the yard, printing names on slates and blackboards
ArtVan: Organizing our storage of art supplies
Pejepscot Historical Society: We have two major projects that students can select from, or the group can split and do both. One is repainting the cast-iron fence in front of our building. The other project is moving a number of items in our basement in preparation for some work to the foundation.
Pejepscot Historical Society: We have two major projects that students can select from, or the group can split and do both. One is repainting the cast-iron fence in front of our building. The other project is moving a number of items in our basement in preparation for some work to the foundation.