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Opening days schedule
Fall 2009
Items in blue are open to the entire seminary community.
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 | |
| 9:00-10:45 a.m., 1:00-5:00 |
Bookstore open |
| 8:00 |
Orientation registration |
| 8:30 | Breakfast for new students, faculty and staff (complimentary) hosted by Rebecca Slough, Academic Dean Lambright Center Dining Room |
| 9:00 |
Welcome, introductions, announcements, campus life, Student Handbook |
| 10:45 |
All campus opening worship |
| Noon | Lunch meetings for incoming students (please choose one) |
| Incoming MDiv students hosted by Rebecca Slough and Janeen Bertsche Johnson Lambright Center Room H |
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| Incoming MA students hosted by Ben Ollenburger Lambright Center Room C and D |
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| Dual-degree program students hosted by Ted Koontz and Irene Koop Lambright Center Room E |
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| 12:45-4:30 | Get photo taken for directory Waltner Hall Ad Cabinet Room |
| 1:00-2:00 | Library self-guided tour for incoming students |
| 2:15-3:45 | Library and student services orientation |
| Student services orientation Student health insurance, financial aid, business office, bookstore and registration processes hosted by Bob Rosa Waltner Hall Wadsworth Room |
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| Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner Library |
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| 4:00 | Computer orientation hosted by Brent Graber Waltner Hall Room 116 |
| Tour of Elkhart hosted by Janeen Bertsche Johnson Meet at Waltner Hall mailboxes |
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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 | |
| 8:00-4:30 | Get photo taken for directory Waltner Hall Ad Cabinet Room |
| 9:00-noon, 1:00-5:00 | Bookstore open |
| 8:30 | Academic success at AMBS Waltner Hall Room 116 |
| 11:40 | All-campus introduction to community life Complimentary lunch for all students and employees Lambright Center Dining Room |
| 1:15-2:00 | Library self-guided tour |
| 2:15-3:45 | Library and student services orientation |
| Student services orientation Student health insurance, financial aid, business office, bookstore and registration processes hosted by Bob Rosa Waltner Hall Wadsworth |
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| Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner Library |
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| 4:00 | Computer orientation hosted by Brent Graber Waltner Hall Room 116 |
| Tour of Elkhart hosted by Janeen Bertsche Johnson Meet at Waltner Hall mailboxes |
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| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 | |
| 8:00-3:00 | Get photo taken for directory Waltner Hall Ad Cabinet Room |
| 9:00-noon, 1:00-5:00 | Bookstore open |
| 8:30 | Classes begin |
| Noon | Lunch meeting for students from denominations other than Mennonite hosted by Rebecca Slough Lambright Center Room C and D |
| 1:30-3:00 | Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner |
| 3:15-4:45 | Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner |
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 | |
| 10:00-11:30 | Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner |
| 11:45 | Chapel Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount |
| 12:30 | Lunch meeting for new students in the U.S. on student visas (bring your lunch to the meeting) hosted by Janeen Bertsche Johnson, Irene Koop and Bob Rosa Lambright Center Room C and D |
| 1:30-3:00 | Library orientation hosted by Eileen Saner |
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 | |
| All seminary outing at Camp Friedenswald | |
