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Mary Beth Zeman, 973-720-2444
zemanm@wpunj.edu


November 14, 2007

 

William Paterson University to Host Tenth Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for Senior Citizens on November 17

More than 150 senior citizens from northern New Jersey are expected to attend William Paterson University's Tenth Annual Senior Citizens Thanksgiving Dinner on Saturday, November 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Brownstone in Paterson.

The event is hosted by the Center for Continuing and Professional Education.  This dinner provides an opportunity for the seniors to celebrate the holiday as a community.

In addition to a traditional turkey dinner, guests will enjoy entertainment by Abracadabra Deejay.  Students from Kirschner’s Dance Studio will perform a Broadway number.  University volunteers, including faculty, staff and students, will assist at the event. Members of the campus community and businesses from the tri-county area have donated gift certificates for the guests.  Free buses will be provided by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Passaic County

Members of the University’s Silver Pioneers Club, as well as local senior citizen community organizations, will be in attendance. The Silver Pioneers Club, for people 65 and older, is designed to offer new skills, opportunities for socializing and lifelong learning through the institution’s Center for Continuing and Professional Education. The group meets once a month on Mondays.

For further information about the dinner, or to join the Silver Pioneers Club, please contact Valerie Marino, Center for Continuing and Professional Education, at 973-720-3804.

William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, offers 32 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs through five colleges: Arts and Communication, the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Health.  Located on 370 hilltop acres in Wayne, the University enrolls nearly 11,000 students.  The institution’s faculty members are highly distinguished and diverse scholars and teachers, many of whom are recipients of prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.



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