Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elmbrook Assistant Director Dwight Duncan '73 agrees with Miller's evaluation: "It's a lot of work, but students in previous years have felt that they got more out of [the project] than they...
...summer project's main focus is not religious and the student participants say that what they liked most about the program was interacting with the poor people they worked with...
Bruce S. Miller '90, one of four Harvard students who went on the service project last year, agrees. He says he found his stay in the Mexico City slum very disagreeable but in retrospect, he felt the project was a worthwhile experience...
...things in particular made the experience worthwhile, Miller says. First was the size of the task that the group undertook and completed. "It was a very ambitious project," he says. "Finishing it in a month was amazing. We turned a neighborhood that was going to the pots. We really did something for changing [the neighborhood's residents] lives." The other was giving up his summer for "being able to interact with these people. [In this sense,] I didn't give up the summer; I received as much as I gave," he says...
...construction, the project members were aided by local engineering graduate students who lived in the the student housing where they stayed, the Residencia Urbana Panamericana...