Six Saint Michael's College students from the Cause for Paws service program joined the St. Albans Maple Festival parade Sunday, April 26, to promote animal protection. Their work was in support of the Northern Greyhound Adoption program. The group is part of a Saint Michael's service project focused on animal awareness called Cause for Paws. They usually go several times a week to work with rescued dogs.
Sponsored by the Saint Michael's MOVE program (Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts), that is part of the Edmundite Campus Ministry Office, Cause for Paws works with both greyhound rescue and the Humane Society of Chittenden County.
The work with Northern Greyhound Adoption helps place rescued greyhounds from race tracks into "forever homes," through walking the dogs and socializing them to be ready for adoption.
Participants Sunday included (pictured left to right in the photo above) Peter Hanson of Andover, Mass., Michelle Quinn of Norton, Vt., Kelly Huettner of Atkinson, N.H., Caitlin Wilkins of Westminster Station, Vt., Rachael Richardson of Keene, N.H., and a St. Albans youngster. Not pictured was Katelynn Page of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.