RE community supports Thanksgiving drives
Ransom Everglades reimagined its traditional Thanksgiving food drives and the RE community responded with generous donations and active participation. The upper school community collected seven frozen turkeys, filled four bins with groceries and donated cash gifts of more than $500 for its annual Pack the Pantry food drive for Miami Rescue Mission. Middle schoolers donated some $5,000 in grocery gift cards for the Rolle Community Center, and also collected additional funds that will be shared with the annual winter toy drive.
The upper school drive, organized by faculty member Astrid Dalins, took place over two days instead of two weeks (with spaces socially distanced, there was little room to store items), but still generated active participation from students, faculty and staff.
RE freshmen donated canned vegetables and paper goods; sophomores brought corn bread mix and cooking oil; juniors collected cranberry sauce and rice; and seniors provided instant potatoes and stuffing mix. Many contributed checks or gift cards and some donated frozen turkeys. Students loaded items directly on the Miami Rescue Mission truck on the morning of November 18.
Middle school students, meanwhile, brought in grocery gift cards through their advisories to support Coconut Grove families with ties to the Rolle Community Center.
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RE freshmen donated canned vegetables and paper goods; sophomores brought corn bread mix and cooking oil; juniors collected cranberry sauce and rice; and seniors provided instant potatoes and stuffing mix. Many contributed checks or gift cards and some donated frozen turkeys. Students loaded items directly on the Miami Rescue Mission truck on the morning of November 18.
Middle school students, meanwhile, brought in grocery gift cards through their advisories to support Coconut Grove families with ties to the Rolle Community Center.
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.