Pascagoula, Miss.

When Art Payne took a week of vacation in February, he didn’t head to the beach. The director of Printing and Graphic Services at Connecticut’s Fairfield University flew down to Pascagoula, Miss., to work with a Habitat for Humanity team rebuilding houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina. “Mississippi really took the brunt of the storm,” he says. “The damage there was quite devastating.” Working 10-hour days, sleeping in a church and eating lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Payne and his crew of 15 rebuilt two homes that Habitat had started before the storm, installing plumbing and wiring, and putting up walls, siding and roofs. They