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Cabrini Student A Leader in Service

"I'm doing things I love every day," says Lindsay Anderson.

senior Lindsay Anderson is about to walk in her graduation exercises and step out into the “real world.”

But Anderson, a West Chester native, has already seen plenty of the “real world” by working with people who live in poverty, who have no food or who have been forgotten.

In addition to dedicating her college life to studying Exercise Science and Health Promotion, Anderson has become a service leader on campus.

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‘Another Great Honor’

Just last week Anderson found out that she won the school’s Leader of the Year award.

It is “another great honor,” she said.

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She is President of the Community Service and Outreach Club at Cabrini. The club was founded when she was a freshman and she has been involved ever since.

She has travelled to both Ecuador and Appalachia for service projects, but has also volunteered extensively here at home.

In Ecuador, she found people who “gave everything even though they have nothing.”

The mission of the program was to apply what they learned abroad back on Radnor’s leafy campus.

“It’s so easy...to go back into that everyday routine. When got home, I tried to make it a goal and take what I learned and apply it to my life on campus and at home,” she said.

Locally, Anderson has worked on food drives, distributed Halloween costumes in Norristown, and made Valentines for the residents of Regina Nursing Center.

She has written thank you cards for U.S. troops, tutored at the Police Athletic League, and volunteered at Martin Luther King Day service events. 

In 2010 Anderson was given the Cabrini College Emerging Leader Award. The following year she was honored with the Cabrini College Core Values Leadership Award.

Imprint

Anderson said she can’t choose what her favorite service activity has been.

“Every little bit of what I have been involved in…formed me into who I am today,” she said.

“I’m doing things I love every day.”

But her college life is coming to an end. She is looking for a part-time job and looking for a graduate school program for public health.

“I’ve always had a passion for health and I really want to help people,” Anderson said.

But will she be able to continue her volunteerism in “the real world?”

“I want to definitely continue because I love what Cabrini has given to me and I feel I’ll be able to apply Cabrini’s mission when I graduate,” she said. “It has left an imprint on me.”


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