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The VA Medical Center in Northampton has urgently appealed to the musicians in the Hampshire community to come and play in their clinics and wards. Their need for music that calms souls and raises spirits is immediate.

The VA Medical Center in Northampton has urgently appealed to the musicians in the Hampshire community to come and play in their clinics and wards. Their need for music that calms souls and raises spirits is immediate. Even an hour or two will mean a great deal and will be deeply appreciate. Whatever time you give, performing and traveling, will contribute to fulfilling the DIV II community service requirement.

This request is only part of a more extensive new collaboration between Hampshire College and the Veterans Administration complex on the edge of Northampton. To find out more about this project, and the many ways to become involved in it, go to this link:

https://hampedia.org/wiki/Hampshire_College_Veterans_Administration_Volunteer_Corps

Anyone in the Hampshire Community is welcome to participate in this important service work, but it is designed especially for students, offering them a deeply meaningful and rewarding form of both local and national service, while fulfilling their college Community Service or, beginning next year, their new Community Engaged Learning (CEL) requirements (DIV I and DIV II). Transportation can be worked out. At the very least there is a PVTA bus leaving from Northampton that takes you into the VA medical campus and to the front door of their administration building.

Please sign up on the wiki page linked to the information link above and/or email Bob Meagher, Professor of Humanities (HACU) at rmeagher@hampshire.edu

Thank you for considering this appeal and for spreading the word!