Holy sockamole! During our Socktober House Challenge at MED, the school collected a whopping 2,098 pairs of socks for people in local shelters! Socks are the most needed but least donated items in shelters, so our students and their families brought in socks for big feet, little feet, and all the feet in between! These socks went to the First Reformed Church of Hudson’s Blanche Hotaling Memorial Mission, the St. Paul’s Center in Rensselaer, and the Elizabeth Freeman Center in Pittsfield. These charitable organizations were all very grateful to receive these much needed items.
House totals were:
Red: 598
Purple: 557
Green: 489
Blue: 449
As a surprise, each house enjoyed various activities the morning of November 1 to celebrate their massive haul. As the house that socked away the most, Red House won the coveted pizza party!
Pictured above, superintendent Andrew Kourt, third grade teacher Courtney Rudat (whose idea this was), St. Paul's Center development manager Andrew Barnes, and MED principal Kristen Reno with socks headed to the St. Paul's Center.
Pictured below are Mrs. Rudat, MED student Clayton Colarusso (he and his family donated nearly 300 pairs of socks!) Pastor Dan Herrick, and dean of students John Roloson with boxes of socks headed to the warming center at the Blanch Hotaling Memorial Mission.
