On Monday, January 19, to honor the life and work of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and to serve the greater New Orleans community, three dozen Brother Martin faculty members and students joined over 300 other high school students from around the archdiocese to engage in service work sponsored by the Archdiocesan Office of Black Catholic Ministry.
Nine juniors worked with students from Archbishop Rummel and spent the day painting a trailer which will next year contain classrooms for the senior class of G. W. Carver Prep School on the school’s temporary campus. Senator David Vitter and Representative Steven Scalise, the new House Majority Whip, came by Carver Prep in the morning and helped out with the painting.
Twenty-five Brother Martin students met students from Ursuline and Rummel at the City Park Volunteer Center on Harrison Avenue. The students spent the day planting cypress trees and mulching pathways in the thick woods of the Couturie Forest. Couturie Forest features New Orleans’s highest hill and is a bird-watching paradise.
