WCSU student veterans to host benefit for U.S. Military Museum

The Western Connecticut State University Student Veterans Organization (SVO), along with the Justice and Law Society, theSocial Work Club and Agency@Ancell will host the Colonial Canteen at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, March 24, in the Campus Center Ballroom on the university’s Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. The event will include an evening of dinner and dancing set in a post-WWII-era theme to bring students, veterans and the community closer together while raising money in support of U.S. Military Museum in Danbury.

This event is open to the public. Ticket prices include hors d’oeuvres, salad, entrée, dessert and coffee, tea or water. There will be a cash bar featuring popular cocktails from the late 1940s and early 1950s, and a live band. Tickets are $55 for the public, $25 for WCSU faculty and staff, and $15 for WCSU students with ID. Tickets can be purchased at the Campus Center Box Office on the Westside campus. All proceeds will go to the Danbury Military Museum.

SVO President Chris Ethier said, “This event is about more than dinner and dancing; it is about forming and reinforcing relationships between students, veterans, faculty and the community. As veterans, the U.S. Military Museum is important to us because it honors our brothers and sisters who have gone before us by preserving the piece of history we hold dearest.”

For more information about the event or to donate to the Danbury Military Museum, contact Ethier at ethier002@connect.wcsu.edu, or SVO Vice President Daniel Denison at denison005@connect.wcsu.edu.