G&G Challenge: Less Than a Month to Go!
With less than a month remaining, the G&G Challenge is at 82.2 percent of goal! If you have already made a gift, THANK YOU! If you haven't, there's still time to help us meet our goal: remember, If 1,350 gifts come in before June 30, 2012, Trustees Tom Guelcher ’62, ’76M and Jim Gehrlein ’72 will give Gannon $50,000. So, spread the word. Tell your GU friends and fans. And most important,
make your gift today to support the challenge. Gannon needs you to be one of the 1,350 to get $50,000 for Gannon!
G&G Challenge details >
I Spy...Golden Knights!
The Golden Knight Quest 2012 is in full swing…have you participated? Whether you received a Knight from a fellow alumnus/alumna, or purchased your own through the Gannon Bookstore, we want to see your pictures and hear their stories! Go online to
www.gannonknightquest.com for all the details, pictures and more. We’ve seen Knight sightings in Pittsburgh, Myrtle Beach, Washington, DC, and even China—where will they wind up next?
Like Gannon Magazine? Then “Like” Us on Facebook
For the past 25 years, Gannon Magazine has delivered University news, alumni updates, personal profiles and entertaining features to your mailbox; now, you can also interact with us via Facebook! Like our page at
www.facebook.com/GannonMagazine and check back often for extended magazine content, breaking Gannon news, University trivia, archive photos, campus events and lots more. You can always read the current (and past) issues online at
www.gannon.edu/magazine.
Discover Italy with Gannon and Villa Alumni
Experience an in-depth tour of all the wonders of St. Peter’s Square. Walk the same paths as Caesar. Visit rarely seen chapels and markets, all while sampling wines, gelato and elegant dinners every day during the inaugural Gannon and Villa Maria alumni travel excursion through Rome, Venice, Florence and the Tuscan Hills. The Alumni Association invites you to travel with fellow alumni to Italy and learn the country’s rich history from your faculty escort, Dr. Michael DeSanctis, professor of fine arts and director of Gannon’s Honors Program.
Trip details >
Alumni Association partners to provide Long-Term Care Planning
Learn how to protect your most important asset--your family--from the comfort of your own home. The Gannon University Alumni Association's Long-Term Care Education and Planning Program is continuing its efforts to build awareness on the need to plan for long-term and extended healthcare by offering informative webinars throughout the month of June. The webinars are scheduled at 7 p.m. (EDST) on four Wednesdays in June: June 6, 13, 20 and 27.
More information >
Send Us Your Hall of Fame Nominations
Nominations for the Gannon Athletics Hall of Fame are now being accepted through Gannon’s athletics website. The deadline for the Class of 2013 nominations is July 31, 2012. Nominations will be accepted online throughout the year, but only nominations received before this date will be considered for the 2013 induction.
Nomination form >
Save these 2012 Dates!
Mark your calendars for the following alumni and family events at Gannon:
- July and August – Shakespeare Summer Nights: The Merchant of Venice (July 26 and 28, Aug. 3) and Othello (July 27, Aug. 2 and 4)
- Sept. 13 – Taylor on Tour in Buffalo, N.Y.
- Sept. 15 – Gannon’s Invitation to Volunteer Everywhere national alumni day of service
- Oct. 19-21 – Alumni Homecoming & Reunion Weekend (coincides with student homecoming weekend)
Living Our Faith
Fresh off a tiring week of taking final examinations, giving presentations and writing papers, more than 20 Gannon students recently traveled to Vanceburg, Ky., and to Washington, DC, to focus on social justice and service. The students and their staff leaders made the trips in accordance with Gannon’s mission of service and volunteerism. Read more about the trips
HERE and check out a photo gallery of students in action
HERE.
Poll Question of the Month
The Golden Knight Quest 2012 kicked off in May, and our adventurous mascots have already racked up more than 8,800 miles total! Click
HERE for all the program details, including biographies of each of the 12 Knights currently making the rounds.
Which traveling Knight is your favorite? Vote now >
Photo of the Month
Alumni, parents and friends of Gannon gathered in the Big Apple on May 22 to meet President Keith Taylor, Ph.D., and hear an update on the University. Dr. Taylor has visited seven cities across the country so far as part of his Taylor on Tour listening events. Have a question about Gannon for Dr. Taylor? Watch for future Taylor on Tour events this fall.
Photo courtesy of Joe Mattis '69