Gephardt Stories & Voices on Service

Alwyn Loh ’09

“Community service isn’t about padding one’s resume, it isn’t about doing things so that one might be proud and arrogant about it. But it is the dawning realization of to the greater understanding our humanity, our fragility and a greater appreciation of the great lives that so many of us lead and deem to be “normal”– when it pretty much is extraordinary in its own respect relative to many other individuals around the world.”