Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
Good morning from a very cold and windy Elkins Park! It’s been a busy week around campus. We’ve completed the renovation of W400, the Board Room, which will now serve as both a multi-purpose classroom as well as our Board Room. If you’re on the 4th floor of the west building, check it out.
I am pleased to announce that we have selected a new partner for our dining and catering services for the university. After a lengthy process that concluded with a lunch presentation to student, faculty, administration and staff representatives, we have selected Metz Culinary Management to provide these services. Metz is a family-owned, Pennsylvania-based company that has been providing dining services to higher education, schools, health care and corporate accounts for over 25 years. We are excited to bring them to campus starting February 24th. In addition to the change in service, we are in the planning stages for a complete redesign of our café and the surrounding South wing first floor. As we begin preparing for this transition, I want to take the opportunity to thank Culinart for their many years of service to Salus.
I encourage all of our students to attend the upcoming Career & Resource Fair on Saturday, January 25, from 11am - 2pm in the Hafter Center Gym. The event will include door prizes, free professional headshots, free food, and more. I especially encourage our third-year students, as it will be your last chance to see nearly 40 employers on campus before graduation!
On Monday we will celebrate the extraordinary life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, a civil rights leader who was taken from us much too early in his life, on April 4, 1968. Dr. King’s legacy of non-violence, justice and peace is something everyone should reflect upon today. To honor Dr. King, I wanted to share some quotes with you that I thought might be fitting to what we do at Salus:
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” That too, pertains to all of us, many of whom have come to Salus from very different backgrounds and cultures, but now have all gathered on our wonderful campus to learn to care for others.
Monday’s holiday is the only national holiday designated as a day of service to encourage all Americans to do something to improve their communities as a tribute to Dr. King. This is so very fitting since Dr. King lived his life serving others through his actions and words. So, on Monday, try to do something that benefits others to honor Dr. King’s memory and improve the lives of those around us. As Dr. King said, “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” Let’s try to live that adage in these turbulent of times.
Finally, it looks like it’s going to be a messy weekend, weather wise, so if you’re out and about, please be careful, especially if you’re driving Saturday afternoon into Sunday. Be safe, look out for one another and do something for others in your community on Monday. See you back on campus on Tuesday.
Mike
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