The Veterans at Penn Committee invites the Penn community to attend the Veterans Day Flag Raising Ceremony on College Green, Locust Walk on Veterans Day, Friday, November 10. It will start at 9:00 a.m. with Catherine Revak, US Army Veteran and SP2 doctoral student, giving opening remarks. The Presentation of Colors will be by the Penn Navy ROTC Honor Guard and Battalion, who will also lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Karis L. Stephen, a student in Platt Performing Arts, will perform “The Star Spangled Banner” and “America the Beautiful.”  The Rev. Charles Howard, University Chaplain, will give the invocation and Aronda Smith-Benson, an Army veteran and graduate student in SAS, will be the keynote speaker. The Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, VPUL: Veteran Upward Bound Program and the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences are sponsoring this annual event. The rain location is the Franklin Room in Houston Hall. 

For more than two centuries, military veterans have been a part of the Penn community. For a brief history of veterans at Penn, see the Benchmarks article (Almanac November 11, 2014).