The Clarion area community is invited to join the Clarion University community from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 14 in the multi-purpose room of Gemmell Student Complex for Come Together Clarion. The event will feature games and activities by community groups and student organizations on campus, an open mic, family Olympics and Neighborhood Star awards at the end – all for free.
Come Together Clarion is spearheaded by Clarion University junior education major Anna Olszewski, Boonsboro, Md., who participated in the Emerging Leaders course during her freshman year. The course requires students to complete a project that impacts the community. Olszewski was also in an honors course where she and her team worked together to design a project plan that addressed a real need in the area. They designed the project to nurture the relationship between campus and community and create a bond between the groups. Now they are making their idea a reality.
“It helps everyone see each other’s point of view,” Olszewski.
Kelly Ryan, assistant director of Clarion University Center for Leadership and Involvement, advises Emerging Leaders.
“Emerging Leaders is one semester during the first year of school,” Ryan said. “Students have the opportunity to be a mentor, where you come back and work with new students. Mentors, like Anna, come back and do a lesson. They get a chance to talk with new students about ideas and their progress. It’s a pretty nice dialog.”
Olszewski said she hopes Come Together Clarion will become an annual event. She will organize it again before she graduates in 2013.
For more information or to nominate someone for Neighborhood Star award, visit www.clarion.edu/cometogether.
This event is possible because of the hard work, dedication and support of Student Senate, Emerging Leaders, the Honors Program, Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, University Activities Board, the Center for Leadership and Involvement and the Good Neighbor Program.