At the upcoming wine tasting events hosted by the Alumni Club of Atlanta and the Alumni Club of New York, you won’t have to choose.
Sample reds, whites, pinots, zinfandels, chardonnays and bubblies while mingling with alumni and wine experts.
More information is available at myowlspace.com/events.
The carpets are cleaned, the RAs are fully trained and the giant tents are up outside the residence halls. It’s Welcome Week!
The newest Owls begin hauling their gear into the dorms on Thursday while Temple’s more than 200 student organizations set up info booths down Liacouras Walk. Other Welcome Week highlights include the Ultimate Cherry and White Experience and Hypnotist, a concert with Keri Hilson and The Dream and a 100-foot banana split in Mitten Hall.
For those of you who have the dual honor of being both alumni and parents, there’s a special reception in the Alumni Center in Sullivan Hall. Stop by for refreshments and catch up on all the latest alumni happenings.
Follow Welcome Week on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/tuwelcomeweek.
Four years after earning his MBA in international business administration at Temple, Nikoloz Gilauri, SBM ’00, began serving as energy minister for the Republic of Georgia, a position he held for three years before becoming finance minister. In 2009, Gilauri was appointed the nation’s new prime minister.
In 2008, former professional boxer Randall “Tex” Cobb, THM ’08, graduated magna cum laude from Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at age 54. But his college comeback wasn’t the only sign that he was made of the same fighting spirit so prevalent at Temple: During his boxing career, which lasted from 1977 to 1985, he was knocked out only once. Additionally, his infamous defeat in 1982 was declared by Howard Cosell to have been so unfair it spurred the announcer to resign from the sport he’d been covering for much of his sportscasting career.
Hall & Oates aren’t the only well-known duo who met at Temple. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is written and performed by Tim Heidecker, SCT ’98, and Eric Wareheim, SCT ’98, who met at Temple while earning their BAs in film and media arts. Their do-it-yourself brand of skit comedy is part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming, a rotation of edgy, short videos that are shown nightly from 10 p.m. until dawn.
If you’re not the night owl you once were, it also can be viewed on Adult Swim‘s web site.
Except for today…it’s pouring down rain. It’s not stopping the football team, though, who are gearing up for a first-class 2009 season.
Check out the latest training camp video on YouTube.
And don’t forget to come out to Fan Fest at the Linc on Tuesday, Aug. 25 to see this year’s football team, clowns and a petting zoo (how often do you get all three of those in South Philly?).
Getting from one end of campus to the other is a bit tricky these days, with construction down Berks Walk, at the Baptist Temple and pretty much everywhere you turn. We’re getting ready for the start of the school year – just 18 days away.
Perhaps one of the most exciting new additions is the spiffy new awning and menu at Richie’s Deli. Though he’s been serving up hoagies and such since 1969, his spot on Main Campus has a new look. Come check out his digs and reminisce about your favorite food trucks at “A Taste of Temple,” part of this year’s Homecoming and Parents Weekend.
More info is available at myowlspace.com/homecoming.
Senior Scholar registrations are flowing in for the fall semester, making me want to head back to the classroom too. As I’m seeing the classes that alumni are signing up for, I too want to cultivate my green thumb in Fundamentals of Horticulture, find my inner Kate Chopin in The Short Story or figure out why some people are so strange in The Workings of the Mind.
Classes are filling up quickly, so register today (or at least before August 14 when registration closes down.) Check out myowlspace.com/seniorscholars for more information.
Get out your Temple gear. Dig up your tailgate grill. Head to your local craft store for Cherry body paint and hair dye. The first game of Temple’s’ football season is less than one month away.
The Owls will take on the Villanova Wild Kittens in the inaugural mayor’s cup (Nutter’s got to be a Temple fan, right?) at the Linc on September 3.
I’ll be heading down to the game early with Temple Young Alumni for a tailgate just outside the stadium. Bring your own snacks, grills, dogs, beverages and such. Let’s pack the parking lot, and the Linc, with Cherry and White spirit and show those kittens that this is our city.
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