Veterans Day Ceremony 2017
College of the Desert to Honor Veterans on Nov. 9
PALM DESERT, CA — College of the Desert’s (COD) Student Veterans Organization (SVO)
will host its ninth annual COD Veterans Day Ceremony at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
9.
The public is welcome to attend the free event in the COD amphitheater – located just
beyond the college’s main entrance between the Cravens Student Services Center and
the Communication building.
The presentation will include the History of Veterans Day and each of the Armed Forces.
Service flags of the five branches of service will be on display to honor those who
have served in the military.
Participating in the ceremony will be Tony Clerc, the college’s Student Veterans Organization
Co-Advisor and Director of TRiO Veterans Services. Clerc is an alumnus of College
of the Desert. In 2008, he returned home to share what he had learned during his military
service, at college and teaching abroad.
College of the Desert has about 400 veterans, military reservists, National Guard
and veterans’ dependents whose ages range from their early 20s to 60 and beyond.
The BIGHORN Golf Charities Veterans Resource Center opened in August 2012 for the
college’s student veterans to obtain information, study, access computers and a printer,
and to meet their fellow veterans and have a feeling of camaraderie.
College of the Desert’s Student Veterans Organization is a proud Chapter of the national
Student Veterans of American Organization. The college’s SVO meetings are held in
the BIGHORN Golf Club Charities Veterans Resource Center.
