Incoming students will participate in a 5K walk through the town of Davidson to learn about the town's history, service opportunities, and each other. The theme for the walk this year is "Healthy People, Healthy Communites". In support of this theme, new students will be encouraged to raise money for each kilometer of the walk with the funds raised going to The Free Clinic of Our Towns, a local non-profit organization that provides free medical care to the uninsured in the Lake Norman community.
The annual service walk provides a first opporunity for the College's students to actively engage in a "life of leadership and service" as part of the Davidson Family. "The primary purpose of Davidon College is to assist students in developing humane instincts and disciplined and creative minds for lives of leadership and serivce." It is in this spirit that the first year students take this walk.
Over the four years they study, work and play at Davidson, ledership and service will be constantly lifted up to the students. By the time they graduate, in this case in 2013, they will have:
- created organizations,
- provided successful leadership for organizations
- delivered countless hours of service to the braoder community
- served the College in countless ways
and, most importantly, learned to walk the world with service as a prime value and leadership as a gift to use in addressing the challenges of the globe.
Lives of leadership and service grounded in a simple walk.