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Alumna teaches service learning to Northfield students

By Tom Vogel
December 28, 2006

Sarah Swan McDonald '91, a social studies instructor at Northfield High School, is teaching her students how to help their community. Thanks to funding from the Northfield charity 5th Bridge, 20 students under Swan McDonald's tutelage are creating their own service projects as part of a new service learning class. Students visit retirees at Three Links senior care center, help immigrant students with cultural integration and raise money to assist two Oles visiting orphanages around the world. According to a recent article in the Star Tribune, after seven years as a church youth director in Chicago and Red Wing, as well as working in the Lutheran Volunteer Corps and a Chicago homeless and runaway youth shelter, Swan McDonald returned to Northfield to teach, where she has advocated starting the service program for several years.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.