Helping Those In Need

After being handed a diploma, many Rollins graduates start their first full-time job, wait for graduate school to start or frantically search for employment. Instead of following the normal pursuits, only two weeks after graduation, Lindsay Clark (Class of 2011) continued to embrace Rollins’ mission when she hopped in her car and drove five hours to help with the relief efforts in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

On April 27, 2011, a series of thunderstorms, strong winds, and tornadoes slammed into four Southern states. Tuscaloosa was flattened by an estimated mile-wide tornado. After seeing the benefit concert for the Tuscaloosa Tornado on CMT, Clark was so “taken back by the stories shared and painful images shown that I wanted to do something to help.”

After she arrived in Tuscaloosa, she went to the Volunteer Reception Center, turned in paper work she had printed off of givetuscaloosa.com, and was given two maps with directions toward a warehouse, where she spent six days sorting donations.

To read more about Lindsay, click here.