Travis Grubbs

Name: Travis Grubbs

By the way, if anyone knows what Drew is doing to me here, please let me know, cause i have no idea. But I have to say, he does look pretty official with that pink stethoscope.

Major: Chemistry

Hometown: Newport News, VA aka Bad News

Service Involvement: William and Mary Medical Relief, volunteer at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, volunteer for Newport News Family Fun and Fitness Fair.

Favorite Book: Well, I’m not a huge reader, but I am starting to read a lot of good books. I would have to say my favorite is Ender’s Game.

The Ramble: I have always been pretty involved with various service projects, and my family has always taught me to help others when they need it most. I feel like this thought stems from the concept of citizenship. Basically, I think that citizenship means that you are a member of a certain community- with that comes the responsibility that you need to help maintain and improve that community. Through citizenship, service follows suit. To make it as simple as possible, service is giving back what you can to the community to make it better than when you started. Overall, there will always be the need for service, because there is always room for improvement. However, I do believe that we can improve more effectively through leading by example. Through each of our efforts we have an impact on people, however few, but if those few more people begin leading by example, then the influence of service spreads. For me, the best feeling in WMMR isn’t necessarily running a clinic or passing out antibiotics to those in need, but the feeling that through our actions, others (maybe members of our group or the people we come in contact with through the clinic) see what we are doing and the flame of service is lit in them. We all have something we can give back to our community, and the sooner we all realize this the greater our society will become.