With only a little more than a year of membership behind them, the University council of the Knights of Columbus recently won a national award for community service at the annual Knights of Columbus College Council Conference.
Christ the King Council 15064 was named the 2010-11 Community Activity Award winner for service to a refugee family. Mark Ebarb, the chancellor of the University’s Knights of Columbus council, attended the national college convention in New Haven, Conn., from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2.
“Our work with a displaced Burmese family won for community efforts,” Ebarb said. “We formed a committee and decided we could host a dinner party to raise money and gave the proceeds toward them.”
The winner in the Community Service program category must display a commitment to the Catholic faith and a desire to share that devotion and dedication with their classmates and the community at large, according to the Knights of Columbus website.
Ebarb said the University council is not the first in the state, but it is the newest in the country, becoming active in the community in the summer of 2010. The council currently has about 50 members and hopes to grow every year.
“It was really cool to represent LSU in that capacity at the conference,” he said. “This is a chance for people to help the community in any way they could possibly imagine. Anyone can help us because this is a service organization for us to help