Monday, Sep 15, 2014
All are invited to participate in this long-standing Rider tradition
by Shemiah Dickens
The entire University community is invited to celebrate Rider's annual Cranberry Fest on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Activities begin at 11:30 a.m. on the Campus Mall, and last until 1 p.m. The rain site will be the SRC.
This year’s Cranberry Fest promises even more special festivities in honor of Rider’s 150th anniversary. At noon, a plane will be flying over the campus with a congratulatory banner for 150 years. The Campus Mall will be decorated in Rider colors and Lost in Paris will perform while the students, faculty and staff are invited to enjoy food, mobile zip lining, games and caricatures drawings. Students and the Rider community are invited to enjoy delicious grilled food and a dessert station that includes delicious salted caramel pecan cheesecake- a specialty from New Jersey Housewife Kathy Wakile’s new dessert cookbook. Wakile will be coming to Rider on Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. in the BLC Art Gallery.
An Andrew J. Rider impressionist will be on site to tell the story of the University's history and hand out this year’s Cranberry Fest T-shirts. The university's namesake arrived in Trenton as part owner at the Trenton College of Business in 1866, and this Michigan native also established a 500-acre cranberry farm near Hammonton, N.J., some 50 miles south of Rider’s current campus in Lawrenceville.
Cranberry Fest began in 1979 as a celebration for Andrew J. Rider's contribution to the growth of Rider University, which will officially be 150 years old in 2015.
Be sure to get out there to enjoy the fun and cranberry cuisine! For more information, visit the 150th website at www.rider.edu/150.
