Eli Whitney’s National Honor Society and some additional members of the Junior class recently completed a service learning project designed to benefit the greater New Haven Community.  Special Education instructor, Pat Ripley received funding for the project through the Donors Choose organization.  This organization lists teacher’s projects and classroom needs on the web and allows donors to choose to fund a project of their choice.  Mrs. Ripley received enough fleece material to complete six blankets that will be distributed to children in local hospitals.

Students that participated earned credit for volunteer service.  Mrs. Ripley documented the project in photos.  Thank you letters were written by the participants and returned to DonorsChoose.org.  “All in all, it was an easy process to make something good happen for our students”,  Mrs. Ripley said.  She continued, “It gave students a safe place to do volunteer service, and taught them some new skills at the same time”.

 We at Eli Whitney would like to offer, our most sincere thanks to Mr. Parsons, who we don’t know in person, but who helped touch more peoples’ lives than he will ever know.