Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
Well, all the dust has settled from last weekend’s events. As I mentioned in my note to you all on Monday, it was just a fantastic weekend of celebration. We’re now putting our noses back to the grindstone with finals and other end of the year events.
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Ilan Dock, from PCO class of 2021 who won the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) Quiz Bowl last weekend. He will receive a $1,000 travel grant to represent the University’s Pennsylvania College of Optometry and compete in the national Essilor ® Optometry Student Bowl – the largest student event held at the Optometry’s Meeting – in June 2020 in Washington, D.C.
This Friday evening, the Sports Vision Club will host its annual dodge ball tournament – come play dodgeball and relieve finals stress with your fellow students while learning how to protect your eyes playing sports. Prizes and bragging rights will be rewarded to the winning team. Teams will be made up of 6-8 players and it is $5 a player.
On Saturday, Salus will be participating in the Philadelphia Science Festival Carnival on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We will have educational games for the public and information about the University as well as the clinics. This is a great event that we participate in every year and I highly recommend you come check out the Festival. Let’s hope the weather holds!
On a personal note, many of you know I’ve been enrolled in an MBA program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. Well, the end of that is also here as I will be graduating next Thursday! It’s been an unbelievably challenging yet rewarding experience. If you’re wondering if I’m going “to walk”, the answer is yes. It’s been over 40 years since I’ve done that, so I thought it was about time to see what things looked like from another perspective and besides, it will make me much more empathetic for those of you who are about to do the same during our ceremony later this month!
Next week, to help our students get their day kicked off appropriately, we’ll be serving bagels and cream cheese in front of the Learning Resource Center on Monday May 6th and Wednesday May 8th at 8:00 a.m. in honor of finals week!
It’s looking like it’s going to be a rainy weekend. For those who are running the annual Broad Street 10-miler, good luck and be careful. For the rest of you, get out and have some fun of your own! Be safe and look out for one another!
Mike
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