Volunteer
 Oakwood is always looking for volunteers! Up to date information is posted to the Community Pages Calendar on the website of our local newspaper, the Albany Times Union.Typical activities include:
If you are interested in participating, please call (518) 272-7520 or e-mail Oakwood at oakwood_cemetery@yahoo.com. Work days are always open to the public!
Adopt-a-Plot
Any group, family, or an individual may choose an area of the cemetery and agree to come back two or three times a year to maintain it. The Troy chapter of Telephone Pioneers, retired phone company workers, was the first group to join Oakwood's Adopt-an-Area program, adopting the stones of Jacob D. Vanderheyden and his family.
Students, faculty and alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have worked to honor their founder. The site of Professor Amos Eaton, co-founder of RPI with Stephen Van Rensselaer, was extremely overgrown, but is now clean as a whistle. A bronze plaque now helps passersby learn what an important and extraordinary renaissance man Eaton was.
Likewise, the Geological Society of America (GSA) placed a plaque at the gravesite of RPI Professor Henry B. Nason, co-founder of the GSA, mentor of Thomas C. Chamberlin, and inspirer of Roebling in mineralogy.
Students at Emma Willard School are regular work day participants who rake and cut brush, especially near the grave of Emma Willard.
| 
