The Temple University Chapter has been very busy this semester. From increasing our membership, to fundraising for Seattle and preparing to send off our wonderful advisor, we have had a very successful semester. We started off the semester with five active members, three of which were our officers. We have now grown to an active group of 18! Of those 18, eight will be traveling to Seattle in January.
As far as fundraising for the Annual Meeting, we have held three events this semester. The first event was a garage sale for our advisor as he is getting ready to move across the pond to Scotland in December. In November, a few of our members held a Seattle themed event at Maui Wowi, a smoothie/coffee shop on campus. The event included raffles, games and prizes as well as a donation from Maui Wowi that was dependent upon the sales that the event brought in. The third event was a Holiday Book Sale and Signing with our advisor and professor, Dr. Joe Goldblatt, where the focus was on the 5th edition of his book entitled, “Special Events: The Roots and Wings of Celebration.” This event acted as a farewell event for Dr. Goldblatt and also included a bake sale and silent auction. All three events were very successful.
In Seattle, both our advisor, Dr. Goldblatt and one of our co-presidents, Astrid Schrier, will be receiving awards. Dr. Goldblatt is being honored as the Educator of the Year and Astrid as the Student Planner of the Year.
Three of our members participated in GPPCMA’s Service in Sync day at the Anna M. Sample House in Camden. Our members helped with the assembling and painting of furniture for the new room and with the decorating of the newly renovated space.
We are currently waiting for our Dean to appoint a new advisor for our group for the spring semester, but we are already working on ideas for professional events for the upcoming semester. We hope to team up with other professional organizations in our school such as Temple’s Chapter of the National Society for Minorities in Hospitality and the Sports and Recreation Professional Association.
Astrid Schrier
Co-President
Temple University Chapter
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