Welcoming service
Although Greer Gardner and Juliet Spies-Gans won’t move into Lowell House until next year, the two Harvard College freshmen have already done their new campus home proud. Gardner and Spies-Gans gave up a gorgeous spring afternoon to join other rising Lowellians at the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) on April 20, where they helped fill boxes with beans, pasta, coffee, and other goods for delivery to pantries that feed hungry families in eastern Massachusetts. “A couple hours out of our lives will help hundreds of families feel a little better, a little safer in the world,” said Spies-Gans. “It was also a lot of fun getting to know some of the Lowellians that I had never met before and becoming better friends with those that I did know. I don’t know many things that could have been better uses of that time.” Gardner, Spies-Gans, and dozens of their classmates are connecting with...