Widener University's PCMA Chapter Spring 2011 Recap

The Widener University Chapter of PCMA had a great year capt off with an exciting spring semester. We hosted and participated in multiple events throughout the semester. We started the spring semester by sending 10 students to the PCMA annual meeting in Las Vegas in early January; these students included our entire executive board and other student members. We had one student that was privileged to go to the annual meeting on an annual meeting scholarship presented by the Greater Philadelphia PCMA chapter.

Following the annual meeting our student chapter began planning our second annual themed dinner. We planned our annual themed dinner around the PCMA annual conference in Las Vegas with this year’s theme being” A Night in Vegas”. We hosted this dinner in the student run J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott dining room in Widener’s School of Hospitality Management building. We hosted this dinner for 75 campus guests.

We also hosted our annual spring community service event. We hosted this event in conjunction with Wideners new student organization the American Hotel and Lodging Association. For this community service event we prepared a meal for the soldiers at the Philadelphia USO.

Towards the end of the semester Widener’s School of Hospitality Management celebrated their 30th anniversary on April 15th. The Widener University PCMA chapter sent select students to this premier event where 150 of the school’s alumni attended.

Looking forward to next year the Widener University PCMA chapter is looking to have another year of success. We are currently holding elections on the fall 2011-spring 2012 Executive board and hope to have a new board elected and installed by the end of the month.

NJAFP Annual Scientific Assembly looking for Volunteers!

There is a great opportunity to work onsite at the upcoming New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly which will be held June 16-19 in Atlantic City, NJ. GPPCMA Board Member Theresa Barrett is looking for two students whose responsibilities would include stuffing meeting bags to monitoring meeting rooms and helping with registration and some of the social activities. Theresa is not able to offer an hourly pay for this, but can cover accommodations and expenses. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to gain some hands on meeting volunteer hours. If interested, please contact Theresa Barrett at theresa@njafp.org as soon as possible.