PRESS RELEASE
5-11-15
Contact: Mike Singer
760-341-2883, ext. 78107
[email protected]
CSUSB Palm Desert Campus to host annual Memorial Day Observance
PALM DESERT, Calif. – In observance of Memorial Day, the Veterans Success Center at Cal State
San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus will pay tribute to fallen service members on Friday, May
22, on the front patio of the campus’s Palm Desert Health Sciences Building at 3 p.m.
The event will begin with a welcome from the campus’s dean, Sharon Brown-Welty, followed
by a presentation of colors by the Desert Hot Springs High School Marine Corps JROTC.
CSUSB Palm Desert Campus alum and U.S. Navy veteran Jeanne Sinclair will emcee the event.
Military leadership from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms will
provide the keynote address and Moments of Reflection. The flag folding ceremony will be
conducted by the La Quinta High School Air Force JROTC and a 21-gun salute and the playing of
“Taps” will be provided by the American Legion Post 519/Palm Springs. Joel Daniels, a retired
United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant, will play “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes.
Refreshments will be served following the ceremony and tours of the campus’s Veteran’s
Success Center will be offered.
To RSVP to this event, contact Jaime Espinoza at (909) 537-5795 or [email protected].
Parking for the event is complimentary courtesy of the Friends of the Palm Desert Campus.
The CSUSB Palm Desert Campus is located at 37-500 Cook St.
For more information about the CSUSB Veterans Success Center, contact Marci Daniels at (909)
537-5195 or e-mail [email protected].
For more information about the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, contact Mike Singer in the
campus’s Office of Public Affairs at (760) 341-2883, ext. 78107 or e-mail [email protected] or
visit the campus website at www.pdc.csusb.edu.
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