The day dawned bright and clear — tailor-made for mustering up one's energy and channeling it into several hours of labor.  As the sun rose in the sky to the "9 o'clock" position, five chapter members rendezvoused at the Hills and Dales Park, in Oakwood, to help clear several acres of scrub and brush. 

Under the direction of Service Project Leader Marguerite Sharp, Bill Ashbaugh, Mark Dowd, Bob Gehman, and Kris Singer donned their "Penn State is No.1 in Service , too" t-shirts, grabbed handsaws furnished by Metro-Parks, and headed into the woods.  Three hours and many ounces of sweat later they emerged, triumphant in the knowledge of a job well done. 

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Follow along as we chronicle their shrub-clearing adventures in living color . . .

Straw Boss Marguerite proudly shows off her service project t-shirt.

Kris Singer and Mark Dowd "get dressed" for the job at hand.

The Work Gang:  Bob Gehman, Mark Dowd, Marguerite Sharpe, Kris Singer, and Bill Ashbaugh.

The Purdue crowd was on hand to help out too.

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Bill Ashbaugh tugs mightily at a bough of Norwegian honeysuckle.

Kris Singer wields a mighty set of pruning shears.

Marguerite's titanic struggle with a stubborn vine.

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Our intrepid woodsmen pause to rest and survey their handiwork.

The wood chipper — the end of the trail for our "harvest."

Two t-shirts and the feeling of a job well-done were our rewards.