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SRU Alumni Association
salutes veterans
To mark Veteran’s Day 2004 at Slippery
Rock University, the SRU Alumni
Association hosted a flag raising ceremony
at the Veterans Memorial dedicated last
year outside Russell Wright Alumni House.
The ceremony included a flag raising by
the SRU Army ROTC Honor Guard and
a laying of a wreath at the memorial by
alumni Zane Meixner, ‘49, Brent Johnson,
‘73, and Richard Manning, ‘75.
The circular-brick, three-flag pole
memorial was presented to the university
at last year’s ceremony as a gift from the
alumni classes of 1951, 1952 and 1953.
A show of support for soldiers deployed to Iraq
SRU’s I CARE House helps
local Navy Seabees
Four months after 10 local Navy Reserves
volunteered their time to help remodel SRU’s
I CARE House for children and senior
citizens in New Castle, center employees
and residents met to return the favor.
The Seabees were called to active duty
and left for Iraq and Kuwait this fall.
I CARE volunteers, community residents
and the family of a departing Seabee
assembled “goodbye boxes.” Not the usual
care packages of toiletries and beef jerky but
ones filled with items from home - Eat ‘N
Park cookies, Pittsburgh Steelers paper
plates, local newspapers and pens from SRU.
“They spent 100 man hours here on
April 19,” said Alice Kaiser-Drobney,
director of SRU’s Institute for Community
Service-Learning and Nonprofit Leadership
and the I CARE House. We wanted to send
them off with a goodbye party in box.”
Purple Heart recipient
remains true to SRU
When former SRU student and Army
National Guardsman Larry D. Vogel
returned to Iraq for a second tour of duty
this fall, he traveled with a sign of affection
for the University - videotapes of the team’s
football games.
Athletic Director Paul Lueken provided
tapes of the entire ‘04 season.
“I really enjoy watching football,” said
Vogel, a member of the New Castle-based
28th Battalion of the Army National
Guard. “I was going to school here, so it
was a great opportunity for me to watch a
local team, especially one I like so much.”
Vogel attended SRU in 2003 and plans
to return after the Army to complete a
degree in environmental and safety
management. The national guardsman was
sent to Iraq for his first tour in February,
where he was shot in the hand.
Cyber café comes to Bailey Library
The wife and daughters of departed Navy Seabee Tom
Parson, of Slippery Rock, helped assemble “goodbye
boxes” for 10 activated reservists at SRU’s I Care House in
New Castle. Wife Tina and daughters Hannah (left) and
Abby (in front) worked with volunteers. Parson and the nine
others are part of the 23rd Battalion based in Pittsburgh.
Army National Guardsman Larry D. Vogel (left) picks up
videotapes of SRU football games from Athletic Director
Paul Lueken. Vogel, a former SRU student, took them with
him when he returned to Iraq for a second tour of duty.
@ The Rock is the name for the new cyber café just inside Bailey Library. The café offers coffees and pastries as well as chance to
use the Internet. Housed in what was once a computer lab, the facility offers a relaxed atmosphere for students to mix and mingle.
Plans to offer extended hours at the café are under way. A new computer lab with 35 laptops is also available in the library.
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