Trick-or-Treat in Saint Martin’s Residence Halls
October, 16, 2012
LACEY, WASHINGTON — Trick-or-treaters from the Saint Martin’s and
greater South Sound community are invited to join University
students on Saturday, October 27, from 1-4 p.m. for a
trick-or-treating tour in Saint Martin’s Spangler Residence Hall.
The trick-or-treating tour will begin and conclude in
Spangler Hall lobby (building 15)
at the Saint Martin’s Lacey campus, 5000 Abbey Way SE. Parking will
be available to community guests in the
Spangler
parking lot (Lot I). Signs will direct guests to the event.
Student tour guides will lead children and their families through
the residence halls to trick-or-treat at students’ rooms. In
addition to a variety of sweets and candies for the
trick-or-treaters, hot cocoa and cider will be provided. Costumes
are encouraged.
“This is a wonderful opportunity to bring children to a warm, safe
indoor environment,” says Ella Shepherd, residence director at Saint
Martin’s. “Our students, in true Benedictine hospitality, look
forward to this annual tradition.”
Saint Martin’s University is an independent four-year,
coeducational university located on a 380-acre wooded campus in
Lacey, Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic Order of
Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14 Benedictine colleges and
universities in the United States and Canada, and the only one west
of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University prepares students
for successful lives through its 23 majors and seven graduate
programs spanning the liberal arts, business, education, nursing and
engineering. Saint Martin’s welcomes more than 1,100 undergraduate
students and 375 graduate students from many ethnic and religious
backgrounds to its main campus, and 300 more undergraduate students
to its extension campuses located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and
Centralia College. Visit the Saint Martin’s University website at
www.stmartin.edu.
For additional information:
Ella Shepherd
Residence director
360-438-4546;eshepherd@stmartin.edu
Sarah Holdener
Director of community relations and event management
Office of Marketing and Communications
Saint Martin’s University
360-412-6140;
sholdener@stmartin.edu