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Credit: Photo by Nick Romanenko
Karen Kavanagh, executive vice president
of administrative affairs, with
Dominique Speed, kindergartner at the
McKinley School, New Brunswick.
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Karen Kavanagh, Rutgers executive vice president of administrative affairs, places a new backpack filled with school supplies on the shoulders of Dominique Speed, a kindergartner at the McKinley School in New Brunswick.
“The Backpack Project,” a volunteer initiative by Rutgers staff members, distributed 40 backpacks to city schoolchildren in 2002 – the first year of the project – and 210 last year.
Additional donations this year enabled volunteers to supply all the city’s kindergartners – an estimated 750 children. Supplies included 9,000 pencils, 750 coloring books, notebooks, crayon boxes, pocket folders and glue sticks.
Gayle Stein, associate director for strategic planning at Rutgers Office of Information Technology, started the project to “instill a love of learning” in young children.
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