C.W. Post Volunteers Create Safe Play Area at Momma's
House
Members of the Newman Club, a Catholic student group at the C.W. Post
Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, as well as C.W. Post staff
and faculty volunteered their time to help clear a play area and install
a new fence at Momma's House, a home for single mothers in Brookville.
The project took place over a two-day period, May 15 and 16, 1998.
The volunteers removed dead vegetation and shrubs, trimmed trees and
bushes, and installed a cedar fence around the perimeter of the home's
backyard, which abuts Route 107.
Located on the grounds of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church on Route
107, Momma's House is a home for young single mothers and their children.
Director Pat Shea had longed to create a safe outdoor play area for the
two infants and two toddlers who live at the home. C.W. Post Chancellor
Theresa Mall Mullarkey, a parishioner at St. Paul's, suggested the volunteer
services of the C.W. students, and a plan was created to spruce-up the
backyard of the home.
In addition to the student volunteers, faculty and staff members quickly
offered to get involved in the project. "Community service is an important
part of our educational mission," said Chancellor Mullarkey, a resident
of Locust Valley. "Our student clubs and organizations volunteer more
than 2,000 hours of their time each year to help Long Island communities."
She added, "I'm proud that there has been so much interest and that
everyone was eager to lend a helping hand to the Momma's House playground
project."
Momma's House at St. Paul's R.C. Church is located on Route 107 in Brookville.
The C.W. Post Campus is located west of Route 107 on Northern Boulevard
(Route 25A) in Brookville.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
