Wilkes University Celebrates Veteran's Day With Events
Wilkes-Barre, PA (11/06/2019) — Wilkes University students, faculty and staff will commemorate Veteran's Day across campus with a variety of events.
- November 7, 4-6 p.m. Henry Student Center first floor lounge, 84 West S. St. Wilkes-Barre: First-year student mentors are hosting a donation drive to prepare baskets and cards for local veterans to be donated to the VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre. Students are invited to join together to assemble the donations.
- November 12, 11 a.m. Veterans Memorial Court, Fenner Quadrangle: The Wilkes Veteran's Council will host a Veteran's Day ceremony. Wilkes interim President Paul S. Adams will speak along with participation by the Airforce ROTC cadets and the playing of taps.
- November 14, 11 a.m. Breiseth Hall, room 106: Lecture, "30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall." Jonathan Kuiken, assistant professor of history, will discuss the importance of the events in Berlin as well as the significance of the revolutionary year 1989 that brought the collapse of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe. Andreea Maierean, assistant professor of political science, will analyze the different patterns of transition and discuss the Romanian Revolution, the only event in the region in which the peaceful demonstrators have been violently suppressed.
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About Wilkes University:
Wilkes University is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, Wilkes is on a mission to create one of the nation's finest doctoral universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small college, open to all who show promise. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 46 majors, Wilkes offers 24 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.
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