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Volunteer Mobilization Day - August 22, 2008
The School of Public Health and the Berkeley Mayor's Office hosted the fourth annual Volunteer Mobilization Day, which gives incoming public health graduate students the opportunity to be involved directly with the community by volunteering their time at designated sites throughout Berkeley.
Student volunteers enjoy a buffet breakfast before the Opening Ceremony.
Dean Stephen Shortell (right) hands the microphone to Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates.
Student organizers of Volunteer Mobilization Day pose with the deans and the mayor. Left to right: Associate Dean Denise Herd, Danielle Le, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, Karen Ben-Moshe, and Dean Stephen Shortell.
Danielle Le (left) and Karen Ben-Moshe go over site information with Andrew Slocombe.
Volunteers head off to their work sites.
A resident of Chaparral House looks over a song sheet with volunteer Hyukjoon (Howard) Lee.
Volunteer Caroline Martinez shares a song sheet with a resident of Chaparral House.
At Schoolhouse Creek Common, volunteers loosen soil around the native grasses so that new plugs of grass can later be planted.
A student volunteer works at Schoolhouse Creek Common.
At the Black Repertory Group, Joseph Griffin, Sheila Baxter, and Sunhye (Sunny) Bai paint the "green room" green.
In the dressing room at the Black Repertory Group, Sheila Baxter and Sunhye (Sunny) Bai receive instructions from the site supervisor.
Volunteers clean up the Children's Learning Center at Ursula Sherman Village, a residential campus for homeless families and individuals, operated by Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS).
Photographer: Peg Skorpinski