What: A celebration completing a year-long fundraising event to help raise awareness and support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through a student-organized celebration event including: a student comedian, hypnotist, band, inflatables, food, arts and crafts, etc.
Who: Over 200 Saint Joseph’s University undergraduates will attend the event.
When: Saturday, March 21
2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where: Saint Joseph’s University’s Maguire Campus, The Sports Complex, Multipurpose Room.
Highlight: The Agnew family (of Newtown Square, Pa.) will speak with gathered students about their personal experience of having a child benefit from treatment at St. Jude’s. This is the first, student-organized event of this magnitude to be held on the University’s recently acquired Maguire campus.
Student Contact: Maureen Saraco ’09 (Hometown: Elkins Park, Pa.)
Executive Director of the event.
Cell: 215-385-1500, e-mail: msaraco@gmail.com
Background: Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851, Saint Joseph's University advances the professional and personal ambitions of men and women by providing a demanding, yet supportive, educational experience. One of only 129 schools with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and AACSB business school accreditation, Saint Joseph's is home to 4,500 full-time undergraduates and 3,200 graduate, part-time and doctoral students. Steeped in the 450-year Jesuit tradition of scholarship and service, Saint Joseph's was named to the 2008 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for General Community Service. The University strives to be recognized as the preeminent Catholic comprehensive university in the Northeast.
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Contact: Carolyn Steigleman, Associate Director of University Communications, csteigle@sju.edu, 610-660-1355
