The volunteers at Mobile Loaves and Fishes in Austin would probably testify that clean, thick socks are one of the most useful items one can own. We who have access to washers and driers and Target stores seven days a week certainly don't give them much thought. Yet so many people just don't have the simple luxury of one clean pair each day. Several classes chose to focus their service projects around the much overlooked undergarment. Please check them out. Here, MLF director Alan Graham visits a kindergarten classroom at St. Gabriels.