{"id":57700,"date":"2025-12-10T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:59:10","slug":"staff-senate-christmas-luncheon-an-opportunity-for-gratitude-and-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57700\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Senate Christmas Luncheon an Opportunity for Gratitude and Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Staff Senate greeted more than 270 University employees entering the McIlhenny\u00a0Ballroom of the DeNaples Center on Wednesday, Dec. 10, for the annual Staff Senate Christmas Luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the\u00a0holiday welcome, the\u00a0Staff Senate Social Events Committee\u00a0members collected items for the University&#8217;s Royal Restore Food Pantry. Additionally, they sold raffle tickets for a chance to win themed basket donations created by members of the University community. The raffle and 50\/50 proceeds will benefit the University&#8217;s Domestic Service Trip Program through the Center for Service and Social Justice (CSSJ). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is always a wonderful event. We appreciate everyone\u2019s generosity and contributions,\u201d said Lucia Grissinger, Staff Senate Social Events Committee co-chair.<\/p>\n<p>At the first of two seatings,\u00a0Staff Senate President Kristi Klien offered a welcome and\u00a0Jesuit Center\u00a0Executive Director Tim Dulle shared a blessing focused on gratitude and mindfulness. The second seating began at 1 p.m.; both were free for University of Scranton staff members.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Staff Senate Social Events Committee include:\u00a0<br \/>Lucia Grissinger, co-chair<br \/>Melissa Eckenrode, co-chair<br \/>Shawn Beistline<br \/>Bridget Conlogue<br \/>Kelly Cook<br \/>Jill Eidenberg\u00a0<br \/>Melinda Finnerty<br \/>Autumn Forgione<br \/>Melisa Gallo<br \/>Kristi Klien<br \/>Daniela Teneva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Staff Senate greeted more than 270 University employees entering the McIlhenny\u00a0Ballroom of the DeNaples Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1070,178,180,179,1822,274],"class_list":["post-57700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-holiday","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-staff","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}