Saint Michael's community gives $25,000 to the Food Shelf

The Rev. Brian J. Cummings, S.S.E., Director of Edmundite Campus Ministry at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, was praised by the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf for orchestrating a campaign at Saint Michael s in support of the Food Shelf. Rob Meehan, director of the Food Shelf, said the gift of $25,000, given on April 28, 2009, affords us the capability of providing nutritional necessities to a large number of families and individuals in our community who really need our support especially during these challenging times.
The CEFS website describes the organization this way: The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf works to alleviate hunger by feeding people and cultivating opportunities. As the largest direct service emergency food provider in Vermont, CEFS serves over 11,300 people each year.
Saint Michael s College, www.smcvt.edu, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation s Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael s is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America s top college towns, and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael s has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael s students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael s professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation s Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.