Greetings from a chilly Elkins Park!
We have one week of finals behind us with the last week coming up more quickly than many students would like. That said, it’s been fun to see our Learning Resource Center (LRC) serving as the campus hub of activity during these important testing weeks.
In support of our students, my office provided the super-sustenance of bagels and cream cheese for students who made it to the LRC in the morning and our Institutional Advancement team will keep the carb theme going by providing famous Philadelphia pretzels today! We know how excited the Help Desk is about the pretzels, so hopefully, lots of you will share their excitement :-). There are probably more surprises in store for next week as finals week winds down.
There's no better way to de-stress from all these exams than with the help with some furry friends! Today, the LRC will host another pet therapy event to help students de-stress during finals week and the Hafter Center is hosting another Paws & Mats yoga session with kittens from Hart2Heart.
On the clinical front, registration is underway for The Eye Institute's Real World Diabetes Series - a free diabetes education course in partnership with Temple Health. Participants will learn healthy meal planning, how to stay physically active and other important ways to manage their health. The class starts January 10th - so please pass on this information to anyone who may be interested. To register they can call 215.276.6070 or email dmcreynolds@salus.edu.
Finally, today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, without warning and without a declaration of war, killing 2,403 American servicemen and civilians and injuring 1,178 others. The attack sank four U.S. Navy battleships and damaged four others. It also damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, and one mine layer. Aircraft losses included 188 destroyed and 159 damaged. In a speech to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the bombing of Pearl Harbor "a date which will live in infamy." The United States declared war on Japan December 8, 1941. The course of these events transformed the United States into a world power and ultimately defined America’s “Greatest Generation,” those who fought tyranny across the globe and won. Please take a moment to reflect on this and all those freedoms that have not come freely to all of us.
Have a great weekend. Be safe and look out for one another.
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