Haverford School Students Honor Memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

The following was submitted for publication by the Haverford School.

Haverford School Lower School students and their families celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of working together as a community to support each other by coming to school on Jan. 20 to participate in a morning of service projects to benefit local agencies and soldiers serving overseas.

The day began with a performance by the second-grade choral group, Coro Primo, in the Lower School Multipurpose Room, followed by a morning filled with hands-on service projects in the Dining Hall.

Service projects included decorating placemats for the mothers and children of St. Barnabas Mission and children at CHOP; coloring flags for U.S. troops serving in the military; stuffing huggable heart-shaped pillows for the patients in the Cardiac Care Unit of Bryn Mawr Hospital and CHOP; decorating “Special Place to Rest Your Head” pillowcases for homeless shelters in Upper Darby; and sorting items from a clothing drive for the Life Center of Eastern Delaware County and other local agencies. Additionally, the students collected gently used books to be distributed to Philadelphia inner city schools. Fifth-graders packaged dinners for PALM (Positive Aging in Lower Merion) and a number of area programs that serve the hungry. Proceeds from the Snack Shack benefitted Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Pediatric Cancer.