The class of 2015

On Thursday the freshmen move into the dorms: nearly 800 or so. They will be the class of 2015. I can't believe the summer has gone by this quickly. Oh well, it's the nature of things. We have two sets of brother-sister twins coming here, one pair from England and the other from Nigeria.

TV loves covering the move-in story: lots of pictures of parents and children lugging furniture, TVs, computers, etc. up flights of stairs. Some of the athletic teams are given the day off from practice if they help the families with the moving. La Salle is one of the first colleges in the area to have students move into dorms, so we're lucky on that score. Among the incoming freshmen are several Eagle Scouts, a New Jersey life guard who rescued a drowning swimmer this summer, a student who illustrated a children’s book, a student who was class president for four years at their high school and one who was the MVP in Philadelphia Catholic League for soccer.

BTW, reporters are already working on stories about the "back to school" shopping season. We're hoping that Prof. Swee-Lim Chia of the marketing department can be useful for this (he has in the past).