IN CLOSING:
The most wonderful time of the year
Photos by Dan Roberts '08
Next to Commencement, one of the most exciting days of the year at Clark is First-Year Move-In Day. This year 568 first-year students and 65 transfer students moved into Wright, Bullock and Sanford halls on Aug. 23.
The campus was teeming with activity as members of the Class of 2010 arrived at their residence halls. Many alumni returned to campus to welcome the new Clarkies and their families to the University, helping to unload cars packed with clothes, sheets and pillows, computers, CD collections, photographs and other accoutrements that make residence-hall rooms feels like home. The smiling faces and helping hands of alumni, staff, resident advisers, peer advisers and orientation volunteers helped ease the anxieties that come with moving to college for the first time—or leaving your son or daughter at college for the first time.
First-Year Move-In Day has become a tradition for alumni and their families, as well as Clark staff, who look forward to the chance to meet new Clark students and welcome them to the Clark community in person, with a smile, a handshake and some help carrying suitcases. Likewise, new students and their families enjoy meeting alumni—those who've lived the Clark experience—as well as the students and staff who are part of the campus community.
And most every Move-In Day volunteer would agree that after a morning of helping to unload cars, nothing beats the pizza lunch back at Alumni House.
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