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CSU community members gathered Sept. 1 for Fall Reflection, an opportunity to acknowledge the challenges of the recent year. Photo by CSU Photography
‘Grateful:’ President Joyce McConnell opens new semester at Fall Reflection By Anne Manning On a beautiful, warm first day for all attendees, was held in place of September, President Joyce of the traditional Fall Address CSU McConnell offered words of thanks presidents have given on the Oval and optimism at the campuswide over the last two-plus decades. Fall Reflection, held on the Lory In her remarks, McConnell Student Center West Lawn acknowledged the physical and and featuring a picnic and treemental hardships many endured planting. over the last year and a half: As students returned to campus loved ones lost to COVID-19 or full-time after 18 months of an cut down by senseless violence; CSU All Majors Virtual ongoing pandemic, McConnell people across the nation affected invited the Colorado State by pervasive racial22 injustice; September - 23 2021 and University community to join in shared experiences like and 11:30 AM - 3:30 PMproms MT a collective moment of refl ection. commencements taken away from CAREER CENTER The event, which included lunch young people.
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Just like the community rose to the challenge of the catastrophic 1997 flood, the last 18 months brought Rams together in a pandemic response that took strength and courage, McConnell said. To commemorate the moment, honor the past and look to the future with optimism, McConnell invited all those gathered to write
a message on a compostable slip of paper and plant it with a Bosnian pine sapling finding a new home near the gathering site. “My piece of paper says, ‘grateful,’” McConnell said. “You’re here today, an essential part of this resilient, hopeful CSU community,” McConnell said. “And like this tree will be, you are part of the CSU community forever.”