Dixon Myers: A New Way to Reach Out?

            As Spring Break dawns, once again Sewanee Outreach spreads it’s humanitarian fingers around the globe, sending students to Ecuador, Costa Rica, Haiti, as well as several cities within the States. An exciting new proposal from front-man Dixon Myers though promises big things right here at home. Says Myers, “I was thinking about how best to spend the student’s time during their Spring Break, and then I looked at my car and saw how dirty it was. I thought, Well damn! I could just get those college kids to do it!” Currently, Dixon has allotted 6 student volunteers, one from each Outreach trip, to stay on the mountain to help with this monster project. Dixon reports that there is a fair amount of dirty-smudgy stuff on the left part of the front windshield that he hopes to get to on the first few days with his crew. “Then, I think we’ll move on to really scrubbing down the muddy parts near the tires. There are two spots where I think a bird may have pooped – that’s gonna be a big project for these kids.”

            Myer’s enthusiasm has caught on, and the Common Source caught up with one of the students ready to embark on this newest Outreach Trip. Says Malcolm Brown, C’34, “This will be my first real experience with community outreach, and I’m really excited. Dixon’s car is pretty gross right now, so it’s easy to see why we need to spend a lot of time on it. It’s just a really important issue in the community right now.” Senior Mary Ottley had this to say about the new move: “I think it’s great that Dixon is finally starting to focus on some real issues. All that Jamaica stuff was really starting to get old, you know?” Callie Sadler, Dixon’s protégé, sees possibilities for expansion in years to come. “I can really see some opportunities here. Especially if we cut some of the more superfluous trips (New York, Haiti, Costa Rica) than we could really have the financial support to maybe even start on Dixon’s house – he told me that the roof may need minor repairs and that the squirrels keep hiding nuts and berries in his favorite hydrangea bushes.” Dixon says that by the time students return to campus, he hopes to have a squeaky-clean vehicle to drive around campus and show to people. “If not, I’m cutting the entire Outreach budget for the 2015-16 school year.”