Campus news and notes
TheHub 600 jump ropes for Nitschmann and Broughal Middle Schools and Marvine Elementary School 400 grab-and-go bags for children 346 nonslip socks for New Bethany Ministries, KidsPeace, and Comfort Cottage (a safe space where children in foster care meet their parents) 250 greeting cards for foster care children with the Lehigh County Office of Children and Youth Services 168 scarves for the homeless 100 kindness rocks painted with inspirational messages for Comfort Cottage
Planting a Peace Tree
53 units of blood for the Red Cross 27 fleece blankets for the homeless
Heritage Day coincided with the International Day of Peace for which the United Nations declared the theme “The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace.” As a tribute to peace, sustainability (this year’s In Focus topic), and our history of educating Native Americans in their own languages, we planted a white pine—a Native American tree of peace—on South Campus. It was the perfect finale for a most excellent day at Moravian College.
In a cleanup of Monocacy Creek and in service of the Downtown Bethlehem Association, we collected the following: 75 bags of trash 2 tires 1 shopping cart And at the end of the day, 1,300 children benefited from the day’s service. Thank you, students, faculty, and staff. You’ve paid an extraordinary tribute to the heritage of our college.
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Moravian Awarded $1,000 Grant for Garden Project
The year of sustainability—our 2016-17 InFocus theme—is green indeed, receiving a $1,000 grant from Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful to build a native plant meadow that will help manage storm water runoff and expand habitats for pollinators and other wildlife. “This grant allows us to build on the rain garden project, which we started with funds from a Lehigh Valley Community Foundation Grant for conservation landscaping that went to our partner Lehigh Gap Nature Center,” says Diane Husic, dean of the school of natural and health sciences. Faculty and students will develop educational programming to accompany the meadow and existing rain garden.
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Eye opening. Heart warming. Humbling. Fun. Unforgettable. These are just a few of the words used by this year’s 1742 Experience team to describe their week of volunteering. Every year, a group of new freshmen arrive on campus early for the 1742 Experience. Together with upper-class team leaders, they spend a week giving back to the local community. This year’s 1742ers put together their top seven memories and takeaways. You can read their blog— and other student blogs—at Moravian.edu/news/blogs. Moravian Moment The Boards of Trustees of Moravian College for Women and Moravian College for Men vote to approve the legal merger of the two schools. The Northampton County Court makes the merger official on November 2.
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2/23 Medicine Jonas Salk introduces mass inoculation against the polio virus, which in 1952 killed more than 3,000 people and left 21,000 more paralyzed. Within eight years, the number of new polio cases drops below 1,000.
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