Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater Rising: On October 7, 2024, Mr. Michael Taylor, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, sent the following message to the BSU Community,
and following his message, please see link to this video:
"On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am proud to share with you Bridgewater Rising: A Decade of Accomplishment. This digital, multimedia report chronicles the last ten years of BSU’s remarkable upward trajectory. The report focuses on our Students, Innovations, Campus, Responsibilities and Success and presents a timeline of achievement.
"Bridgewater Rising is a testament first to the leadership of President Clark, who has articulated and driven a clear, compelling and measurable vision for the university that the Board of Trustees wholeheartedly supports. Most importantly, the report is a testament to you; it reflects your dedication to excellence, unwavering commitment to our students, innovative spirit, and hard work and determination to make BSU the very best it can be.
"Bridgewater Rising reflects on the past and captures our collective strength to chart our own destiny. Bridgewater Rising is your story. It is our story - together."
Homecoming 2024: A Video Celebration
Homecoming 2024 was a grand celebration and BSU's video team created a first -class review which captures all of the color, enthusiasm and fun of the week-long celebration.
You're invited to watch the video by clicking on the link below:
Memory Lane: The Commuter Lounge in 1963
Last week in this space we. published a photo of the Commuter Lounge, the room in the basement of Boyden Hall which - until the Student Union Building opened in 1970 - was the single place on campus where commuting students could have lunch (which they brought from home).
Residence hall students of course had a dining hall for three meals a day, seven days a week, since 1869.
But the commuter lounge was, for commuters, the one place they could go between classes to socialize. And, for many of them - as in the photo above - to smoke cigarettes.
Mrs. Evelyn Delutis, '63, recently shared her memories of that experience:
"The room was always very crowded The people in the photograph look to me like Bob Ward (bottom left- now professor emeritus of his alma mater), Barbara Fernandes (just above Bob at the next table) and Pat Baker (to Barb. Fernandes left). The group at Barbara Fernandes's table were all Elementary Ed. majors," she said.
"The cigarette companies would send people in to put small sample packs of cigarettes on the tables. When you walked in you couldn’t even see across the room because the smoke was so thick."
Dr. Navid Fozi of the Department of Anthropology (photo above) will be the featured speaker at the Wednesday, November 6 luncheon meeting of the university's Retired Faculty Club.
The luncheon will be held in the Heritage Room of the Maxwell Library.
He will speak on the topic of the status of refugees and displaced persons in the Middle East.
Reservations for the luncheon may be made by contacting Ms. Marion Manning in the Office of the President (mmanning@bridgew.edu).
This concludes the October 15, 2024 edition of this web report