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The UCSD Staff Association invites staff members and their families to participate in these holiday events on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008:
Get tickets beginning Nov. 24.
UCSD dignitaries serve food and coffee courtesy of UCSD Catering. Breakfast includes 2 pancakes, 2 sausages, eggs, and fruit.
- Date: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
- Time: 6:30 – 9:45 a.m. Specify seating when you buy tickets:
- 1st seating: 6:30 – 8 a.m.
- 2nd seating: 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.
- Location: Price Center West Ballrooms A & B (map)
- Cost: $6 for Staff Association members, $7 for non-members, or $11 for a ticket and Staff Association membership
Complimentary parking will be available from 6–10:30 a.m. in metered and “V” visitor spaces in Gilman Parking Structure (map), levels 1 and 2.
To volunteer on the day of this event, contact the Holiday Breakfast Committee Chair, (858) 534-5064. Staff volunteers are needed.
Breakfast activities include:
- Toy drive
- Photos with Santa Claus
- Information about how to join different staff associations
- Donation collections for needy veterans and families
- Prize drawings (write your name on your ticket to be included in the prize drawing — winners need not be present to win)
- UCSD Impact Award presentation honoring an outstanding employee who has made a positive impact on campus and in our community
- UCSD Staff Association collections:
- Monetary donations to the Bob Gudgeon Memorial Fund for hospitalized children (Bob was the Staff Association's Santa for many years)
- Used eyeglasses and sunglasses for MEDICO, providing free medical, dental, and optometry care in developing countries
- Food drive for the Neighborhood Networks Town and Country Learning Center in San Diego
For tickets (specify seating) and information, contact:
- Kathy Caro, (858) 822-6912 — School of Medicine
- Anna Gandolfi, (858) 534-1447 — Muir College
- Ange Mason, (858) 534-5064 — San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Helen Montgomery, (858) 622-5755 — University Extension
- Jennifer Oh, (858) 534-6632 — Research Affairs
- Jocelyn Pacheco, (858) 534-3993 — Structural Engineering
- Natalie Powell, (858) 534-3090 — Mathematics
- Shirley Strand, (858) 534-6070 — Transportation
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Shop for unique handmade arts and crafts such as jewelry, hand-woven baskets, greeting cards, candles, ornaments, painted art, and more. Your purchases support the UCSD Staff Association Scholarship Program. You could win a door prize!
- Date: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
- Time: 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Location: Price Center East Ballroom (map), next door to the holiday breakfast
UCSD employees with handmade items for sale are eligible to be a staff vendor at this event. Contact the Holiday Craft Fair Committee Chair, (858) 534-5780.
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Donate a new, unwrapped toy during the Holiday Toy Drive, Dec. 1–16, at an on-campus drop-off location.
Your donation will bring joy to the children at:
- UCSD Medical Center Burn Unit
- UCSD Infant Care Center
- Kaiser Permanente Pediatric Unit
- UCSD Mother, Child, and Adolescent Care
- National City Boys and Girls Club
Following the Pancake Breakfast, Staff Association members, A.S. Volunteer Connection students, Santa, and helper elves will deliver donated toys to hospitalized children. Volunteers will take Polaroid keepsake pictures to leave with each child.
Suggestions for new toy donations:
- Infant gifts: developmental toys, rattles, musical toys, mobiles, stuffed toys
- Toddler and preteen gifts: dolls, trucks, crayons, finger paint, markers, coloring books, CDs, Disney movies, Nintendo 64 games, large block Legos, wooden puzzles, board games
- Teen gifts: makeup, nail polish, lotions, sportswear, sports equipment, posters, movies, CD players with AC adapters
Drop off a toy during the Pancake Breakfast in the Price Center Ballroom or at one of the following locations, Dec. 1 – 16:
- AS Soft Reserves (1st floor, Old Student Center)
- AS Volunteer Connection Office (3rd floor, Price Center East)
- EDNA (Price Center East)
- Muir College: Sierra Summit (map)
- Peterson Hall lobby (map)
- Center for Student Involvement (formerly SOLO) office
- University Extension: Student Services Office
- York Hall lobby (map)
- Marshall College: OVT Dining (map)
- Warren College: Earl's Place (map)
- Revelle College: Plaza Cafe (map)
- Eleanor Roosevelt College: Cafe Ventanas (map)
- UCSD Bookstore: 1st floor lobby (map)
- Police Department, Campus Services Complex (map)
- SIO, Building 104
- Supercomputer Center, 1st floor lobby (map)
- Torrey Pines Center South, Room 348 (map)
- UCSD School of Medicine, Dean's Office
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For more information, contact the Holiday Breakfast Committee Chair, (858) 534-5064.
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