Grand­par­ents Day Com­ing Up

MISHAWAKA—The an­nual Grand­par­ents Day event here at Bethel is fast ap­proach­ing. The ac­tiv­i­ties be­gin at 9 a.m. on Fri­day, March 15. There will be a light break­fast, a sem­i­nar, cam­pus tours and an op­tional class ob­ser­va­tion, among other ac­tiv­i­ties. 

Par­ents can come as well. Tick­ets are $10 per grand­par­ent or par­ent; there is no charge for stu­dents. A light break­fast at 9 a.m. and lunch in the Din­ing Com­mons is in­cluded for the grand­par­ents and par­ents. The reg­is­tra­tion dead­line is March 7; to reg­is­ter, visit bethel­col­lege.edu/​give/​grand­par­ents-day. 

Ac­cord­ing to Amy Lein, the ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant for in­sti­tu­tional ad­vance­ment, Grand­par­ents Day first started in 2016. 

“I think we re­ally just wanted to get par­ents and grand­par­ents in­volved on cam­pus,” said Lein.  

This year, Lein said they are ex­pect­ing about 80 at­ten­dees. In ad­di­tion to sched­uled events, there will also be op­tional ac­tiv­i­ties to par­tic­i­pate in. 

“They’ll have kind of like a free time,” said Lein. “We’ll pro­vide the Bowen Mu­seum tours... or they can go on a cam­pus tour or they can just hang out with their stu­dent.” 

The grand­par­ents also have the op­tional op­por­tu­nity to stay af­ter the 5 p.m. con­clu­sion for the Jazz Cof­fee­house at 8 p.m. that evening.