OISPS Thanksgiving Feast

For the second consecutive year, the Office of International Student Programs and Services hosted a Thanksgiving Feast for its students, faculty, staff and special guests. Held in the Mary and John Gray Library on the 8th floor, the buffet meal featured traditional Thanksgiving food - turkey, stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, garden salad, rolls, peach cobbler with ice cream and pumpkin pie - and an opportunity for all of LU's international students to gather together. 

Mustapha Jourdini, director of OISPS, welcomed the students and thanked them for their participation. He also thanked sponsors: the Dean of the College of Engineering, Brian Craig; the Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, Derina Holtzhausen; and the Dean of the Mary and John Gary Library Arne Almquist, as well as his colleagues who planned the event Joshua Kai, Tracy Bourgeois and David Frederick.  

The Vice President for Global Diversity, Inclusion & Intercultural Affairs, John O. Bello-Ogunu offered a greeting to all of the students but said he didn't want to "be the one to stand between them and the food." 

LU's international students, most of whom never heard of Thanksgiving until attending LU, ate heartily. 

The feast program offered this quote from Melody Beattie:
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, stranger into a friend."