College of the Desert Holds Veterans Day Celebration

From the College of the Desert:

PALM DESERT, CA—College of the Desert (COD) Student Veterans Organization (SVO) will be holding its 8th Annual COD Veterans Day Ceremony on Thursday, November 10 at 12:30 p.m. It will be in the amphitheater between the Cravens Student Services Center and the Communication building. Everyone is welcome to attend the free event.

The presentation will include the History of Veterans Day and each of the Armed Forces. Service flags of the 5 branches of Service will be on display to honor those who have served in the military.

Participating in the ceremony will be COD’s Student Veterans Organization Co-Advisor and Director of TRiO Veterans Services, Tony Clerc. Clerc is an alumnus of College of the Desert. In 2008, he returned home to share what he had learned during his military service, at college and teaching abroad.

COD has approximately 400 Veterans, Military Reservists, National Guard and veterans’ dependents attending that range in age from their 20’s to their 60’s and beyond!

The BIGHORN Golf Charities Veterans Resource Center was opened in August 2012 as a place for COD’s Student Veterans to obtain information, study, have access to computers & a printer, and a place to meet their fellow Veterans and have a feeling of camaraderie.

COD’s Student Veterans Organization is a proud Chapter of the national Student Veterans of American Organization. COD’s SVO meetings are held in the BIGHORN Golf Club Charities Veterans Resource Center.

For more information please call, Clerc, at 760.674.7805.

About College of the Desert:

Established in 1958, College of the Desert (COD), located in Palm Desert, is an accredited community college serving eastern Riverside County, California. The College leads the region in providing quality, higher education, technical training and lifelong learning opportunities, in response to the dynamic needs of our diverse community. The College serves more than 14,000 credit students and 1,000 non-credit students each year and is the number one source of transfer students to California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus. For more information, visit here.

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