At a glance
Students had reached out to the Andover Haunted House Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that raises money for a number of local charities, about their interest in assisting with the haunted house.
Every year during October, the Andover Haunted House serves up frights to a multitude of visitors twice a week, utilizing a variety of props and actors scary enough to make your blood turn to ice and your heart palpitate. While the four-floor haunted Victorian mansion at 5 W. Greenwood St. in Andover might be a popular local attraction, what’s perhaps not as well-known is that some of the actors scaring people silly are Alfred State students in the Emerging Pioneer Leadership Program (EPLP).
The EPLP is an exciting program that passionately believes that anyone can be a leader and a positive change in the community. Through this initiative, students engage in interactive workshops, develop meaningful mentor relationships, and get involved in significant community service and engagement opportunities.
Tim Morgan, a digital media and animation major from Huguenot and an EPLP member, said as part of a Gold Level group project, nine students this semester are serving as actors at the Andover Haunted House, which opens at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October. The students had reached out to the Andover Haunted House Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that raises money for a number of local charities, about their interest in assisting with the haunted house.
“I’m not sure how much money we’ve helped them raise, but basically by us acting in the show, we’re helping them by volunteering our time so that they don’t have to pay anybody to work there,” Morgan said.
Around 50 Alfred State students attended a Late Night Alfred trip to the Andover Haunted House on Friday. While the normal cost of admission is $13, students on the Late Night tour only paid $8.
“It was a lot of fun,” Morgan said of the trip. “I really enjoyed that we were able to get students off campus and get them out into the community. I also liked the fact that a lot of students participated in the trip and that the money the students gave is going to charity.”
For more information about the Andover Haunted House, visit www.hauntedandover.com.