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Contact: Mark McGowan, NIU Office of Public Affairs
(815) 753-9472
November 4, 2003
NIU Veterans Club plans
annual Nov. 11 Veterans Day ceremony
DeKalb — Members of the Northern Illinois University community can honor veterans Tuesday, Nov. 11, during the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the flagpole near Lowden Hall.
Scheduled for 11 a.m. – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – the NIU Veterans Club-sponsored event is one of three opportunities to pay tribute to men and women who have served, or are serving, in the military.
Featured speakers are Dr. John Dirk Wassner, a surgeon from Sycamore who recently spent nine months in Afghanistan providing medical care to troops involved in Operation: Enduring Freedom; Lt. Col. Stephen D. Payne, chair of NIU’s Department of Military Science; and Jon Lehuta, faculty adviser to the NIU Veterans Club and a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant.
The NIU ROTC will provide the color guard and honor guard. NIU School of Music student Eric Rauch will play “Taps.”
All are welcome.
“Veterans Day is a very important holiday to a lot of people,” said NIU Veterans Club President Jennifer Webster, a music education major and veteran of the U.S. Army.
“Having served in the military myself, it is very important to me to show respect and gratitude to people who have served our country and people who are serving right now,” Webster added. “I feel proud of veterans, everything they have done and everything they’re doing.”
Veterans and their supporters also will gather at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the northeast corner of First Street and Lincoln Highway for a reading of the names of American service personnel who have died since Sept. 11, 2001.
At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, music fraternity Phi Alpha Mu and the NIU Veterans Club will co-sponsor a Veterans Appreciation Recital in the Recital Hall of the Music Building.
Club members will collect donations for “Dear Soldier” holiday care packages at the door of the concert or in drop-off boxes available Monday, Nov. 10, and Tuesday, Nov. 11, in the Holmes Student Center Bookstore.
Items sought include books, magazines, stamps, powdered Kool-Aid or Gatorade mix, and non-perishable food items. Financial donations also are welcome at the concert or by contacting Webster at (815) 758-2324.
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