ALWAYS MEN FOR OTHERS
Cornell Boyd '24 speaks
with ABC Action News
about his 4-year service
plan for the Class of '24
Cornell Boyd jump-starts the
Class of ’24
Like Asher Heldfond ’22 and Mac
Carideo ’22 a few years before
him (see p. 16), the desire to
initiate a service project struck ����������������
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freshman year.
Boyd’s desire was to create
something his entire class could be
involved with each year, a new service
project for the Class of 2024 for each
of their four years at Jesuit.
He ran his plan by the school’s
administration and then got to work,
soliciting classmates to be a part of it.
Year 1 would be a toy drive at
Christmas.
“The Jesuit Class of 2024 Christmas
Toy Drive is a partnership with Johns
Hopkins (All Children’s Hospital) trying
to get gifts to kids who unfortunately
will not be home during the holiday
season,” Boyd said.
Children hospitalized during
Christmas would receive toys from
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the program. Boyd reached out to his all of
his classmates, and they collected a large
cache of toys and other gifts for children,
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coloring books, and dolls.
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classmates delivered the gifts to the
children at the hospital.
Boyd’s effort got the attention of a
local TV station, which came to Jesuit to
interview Boyd and aired a segment about
his initiative.
“The kids obviously need some joy in their
life at this time,” said Jesuit’s director of
community service,����������������������������. “Any
time a student goes above and beyond
and comes to us with an idea like this, it
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(of the school) and the message is getting
through to them, that we are ‘Men for
Others.’
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getting started. They’ve got three more
years of major service projects to come.
Jorel De
Guzman ’21
has a
passion
for service
Jorel De Guzman '21
with his parents, Maria
and Alan De Guzman
De Guzman in
his trademark
white suit