Welcome Back: Meet and Greet 2014

Would you like to help be the face for the New Chauncey Neighborhood?  Do you like to meet the new members of the New Chauncey?

Join us August 26th, 6PM at Wang Hall.

Wang Hall MapDon’t worry, the building is actually there.

Neighbors and City officials will meet at Wang Hall to pick up materials to handout for the annual Meet and Greet. From Wang Hall, we will depart and go meet new neighbors in parts of New Chauncey and Northwestern Heights.

If you would like to help, show up a little before 6PM to Wang Hall. Please help spread the word and encourage neighbors to attend.

As always, your efforts are appreciated.

From the Purdue Press Release:

Purdue, West Lafayette to welcome students living off campus

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – For the 15th consecutive year, volunteers from Purdue University and the city of West Lafayette will go around the New Chauncey and Northwestern Heights neighborhoods on Tuesday (Aug. 26) evening to meet students living off campus and welcome them to West Lafayette and Purdue.

In July university President Mitch Daniels appointed Frank Dooley, interim vice provost for undergraduate academic affairs, to serve as chairperson of the Purdue Community Partnership Team.

“Each year, thousands of Purdue students live off-campus and are an integral part of the Purdue and West Lafayette communities,” Dooley said. “We want to welcome our students into their neighborhoods and provide them with resources for living in the community.”

Volunteers will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Wang Hall on Northwestern Avenue. Each volunteer will get a gold Meet and Greet T-shirt, a street map of the near-campus neighborhoods showing student residences, and door hangers with information about Purdue and West Lafayette that they will leave at each residence they visit.

Volunteers will divide into small teams and walk around the neighborhoods to make their visits. Meet and Greet is arranged jointly by the Purdue University and West Lafayette Community Partnership teams.

“The main purpose of the teams is to work together to build on the strong relationship between Purdue and the city of West Lafayette,” said Beverly Shaw, chair of the West Lafayette team and marketing and grants administrator for West Lafayette.

“Those of us already here know that West Lafayette and Purdue are great places to be,” Mayor John Dennis said. “We want to share that sense of pride in our community with students who may be new to West Lafayette.”

Meet and Greet is open to any West Lafayette resident and Purdue community member who wants to volunteer.

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