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The Foreign Language Department’s
annual holiday Song Day, to be held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, December
7, in Forum I in the Wright Administration Building, will also
function as a fundraiser for tornado victims this year.
“We usually have people bring desserts,” said Leslie Roberts, acting
chair of the Foreign Language Department. “This time I’m asking
everyone to contribute $1 for tornado relief.”
Roberts said she plans to donate the money to Habitat for Humanity’s
Operation Home Again, a program to build homes for tornado victims.
Song Day is a multi-denominational celebration of the holidays.
Roberts will open the program with a traditional Hebrew blessing,
which she will sing while lighting a Menorah. Classes in each of the
five foreign languages at USI – French, German, Spanish, Japanese
and Latin – will perform three traditional holiday songs in their
respective language.
“And then we sing one verse of ‘Silent Night’ in each language, and
sing a verse all together – in English – at the end,” Roberts said.
“I think of it as a prayer for peace to the universe in general –
for a good year for people, and more harmony.”
About 300 people are expected to attend the event. |
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