KO students make food drive challenge to benefit food pantry

West Hartford–Following a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assembly about economic injustice, students at Kingswood Oxford School decided to do something about the prevalence of hunger among children just blocks away in Hartford.
The students in Nancy Solomon's advisee group started a food drive in response to the MLK Day Assembly, and challenged another advisee group, led by history teacher David Baker '04, to see who could bring in more contributions.
By the end, no one seemed to notice who won, because the real winner was the West Hartford Food Pantry, which received 160 food items.
"David and I feel that it's important to keep the KO mission and core values in the forefront with our advisees, and we try every day to live up to those tenets," said Nancy Solomon, the KO librarian. "Our food drive challenge demonstrated our commitment to 'care beyond self,' one of KO's core values, and we're both very proud of these 18 students."

CAPTION: Two Kingswood Oxford advisee groups collected 160 items for the West Hartford Food Pantry in response to a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assembly about economic injustice.