Community Server The Community Server (or C-Server ) is a student publication that explores issues and events that involve the Community Service and Service-Learning Program.
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Server 1996:
As the premiere issue of the Community Server, this issue serves to express the original vision of Ethical Culture's founder, Felix Adler, and how this vision is interpreted at Fieldston today. It chronicles the birth of the community service program at Fieldston, and contains descriptions and reflections on several projects created by Fieldston service-learning students, including the Fieldston Lower Lunch Program, the Fairfield Nursing Home, and the Ardsley Welfare Hotel Program. Articles also discuss projects that service-learning classes have taken part in, including work at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, the Creative Arts Workshop, and the Yorkville Common Pantry. The issue contains a few personal reflections on individual service projects at the Special Needs Clinic and the Safe Haven Basketball League, and thanks psychotherapist Nancy Eisner and baker Phillippe Flory, who have both made priceless contributions to community service at Fieldston.
Server 1997:
The second issue of the Server serves as a follow-up to the first, charting the progress of several programs and they problems they have been faced with. The frontispiece of the issue is a letter written by a Server editor to the President, and Clinton's subsequent reply, which stresses the importance of service. The next page opens on to an article describing Clinton's recently-passed Welfare Bill, reminding us that issues essential to Fieldston's mission are present at a national level as well. The Service-Learning section of the Server includes an overview of what the Ardsley Welfare Hotel Program meant to the students who participated in it, from its inception to its abrupt end at its unfortunate closing. Also, this section includes accounts of one student's decision to become a member of a service-learning class, that class's day of volunteer work at Van Cortlandt Park, Fieldston's food drive to help Yorkville Common Pantry's Thanksgiving food deliveries, and a reflection on involvement in the Very Special Arts Fair run by Columbia University. The Community Service Program News section is filled with a diverse mix of personal experiences, from one student's participation in the Summerbridge teaching program, to another's memories of volunteer work at the Katherine Engle Center's soup kitchen. The Making a Difference section acknowledges the contributions of John Gatzonis, owner of the Acroplolis Meat Market in Astoria, Queens, and the Amdur family, owners of ALEX Art Supplies.
Server 1998:
As a follow-up to the past issues' descripitions of the community service program at Fieldston, the third and most recent issue of the
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