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Be a part of the heritage of St. Norbert College by going on a TRIP…
Norbertine Legacy
• Community living
• Hospitality and outreach
Catholic Legacy
• Respect the dignity of All
• Charity and justice
St. Norbert College Legacy
• Service is a transformative experience for the promotion of social justice and the common good
• Respond to needs of people throughout the world through learning, prayer, and service.
TRIPS Legacy
• 1978 - Sr. Mary McGlone leads first of three Spring Break service trips to the Catholic Worker House in St. Louis. (Currently she is the executive director for Fuvirese USA, an SNC partnership with an Ecuador non-profit supporting people with disabilities.)
• 1986 – Julie (Donovan) Massey participates in the first SNC to DC trip (during Holy Week) inspired by a poverty awareness event that included speakers Dick Gregory, Francis Moore-Lappe and Mitch Snyder (who was in the midst of a hunger fast for homeless policy change). [Snyder is co-founder of CCNV, the nation’s largest homeless shelter and our DC trip’s housing site.] The trip’s purpose was to raise awareness, collect resources and serve in shelters, demonstrate and lobby the senate. Dr. Karina O’Malley advised this group, and other D.C. trips, which later established the Next Step, which later established Room at the Inn and the NEW Community Shelter.
• 1988 – Dan Lunney participates in the “Good News” sponsored trip to St. Lucia. He is so moved by his trip experience that he creates an endowment to help future students afford this once in a lifetime experience. (Currently Dan is an active leader nationally in AIDS ministry.)
• 1995 – Shelly Stern attends the Cuernavaca trip. Upon return she organizes the first SOA protest/trip and subsequently joins the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. (Currently she runs a Catholic Worker house that she founded in West Virginia.)
• 1996 – Staff member Linda Clay attends the Cuernavaca trip. Subsequently she takes a year leave of absence to serve in Zambia. Upon return, she works with a MMM group to establish the Zambia project. (As of 2006, they raised over $100,000 to support Zambia Open Community Schools.)
• 1998 – Danielle (Gilbertson) Lillge attends Breakaway training. Upon return, she organizes a group of trip leaders who develop the current TRIPS program. (Currently she teaches high school English and incorporates service learning in her classes.)
• 1999 – Natalie Berken, trip leader, is blow drying her hair (upside down) and suddenly coins the TRIPS acronym – Turning Responsibility Into Powerful Service. Other new acronyms that emerge from this planning group include: GOAT (go on a trip), CATS (come along to serve) and COW (come on a weekend). And the first annual 100 Men Who Cook dinner and silent auction is held.
• 2002-03 – TRIPS interns Heidi Krull and Angela Tangeman develop the TRIPS assessment plan which includes a writing/reflection component during the trip.
• 2004 – Chicago trip leaders Ashley Vander Zanden and Jason Brinkner host the first “Trading Spaces” fundraiser. Their post trip fundraiser included collecting money and donated instruments for the school where they volunteered and eventually returned to and delivered their “gift of music.”
• 2005- First annual alumni service trip led by Danielle Lillge to Appalachia.
• 2006 - 100 Men Who Cook has raised more than $25,000 for TRIPS over the years!
• 2008 - The TRIPS program set records by sending 163 participants on 17 service trips by raising over $29,000 !
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